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Want same-day delivery on an eBay (EBAY) purchase? It's now possible for San Franciscans placing...

  • Sunday, August 5, 2012, 7:55 PM ET
    Want same-day delivery on an eBay (EBAY) purchase? It's now possible for San Franciscans placing $25+ orders with certain local stores, courtesy of the eBay Now iOS app. Presumably, more cities and platforms will be added in time. eBay's move is aimed not only at Amazon (AMZN), which has said same-day isn't economical "on a broad scale," but at Groupon (GRPN), which wants to evolve into a soup-to-nuts local commerce partner. Shopkick may also be a target. A $5/item delivery fee applies to each purchase.
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  • Hard to see how ebay competes with GRPN, which may or may not still be in biz in a couple years...
    5 Aug 2012, 08:31 PM Reply Like
  • In my opinion, eBay (and AMZN) have a lot of room to grow. Also, PayPal could become the first self-sufficient financial ecosystem, not relying on MA, V, Discover and AXP to fund transactions. I think eBay offers a great service.

    Disclosure: I do not own any shares of EBAY but do plan on buying within the next 72 hours.
    5 Aug 2012, 08:32 PM Reply Like
  • "PayPal could become the first self-sufficient financial ecosystem, not relying on MA, V, Discover and AXP to fund transactions. I think eBay offers a great service."—LOL

    Wot, another low-feedback eBay shill ... dream on ...

    For anyone that wants an understanding of just how utterly corrupt eBay is, an updated summary of the eBay / eDropOff / commercial shill bidding ring matter.

    “Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5”
    http://bit.ly/N1nTlc

    “When Do We Start Calling eBay A [Failed] Payments Company?”
    http://bit.ly/KCQt78

    And, some comment on PayPal’s off-eBay products: "The New Way To Pay In-Store" (at Home Depot), PayPal Here, SmartPay, PayPal Digital Wallet, PayPal Debit MasterCard, PayPal Local and Watch With eBay ...
    http://bit.ly/MqwRY0

    eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking
    5 Aug 2012, 08:47 PM Reply Like
  • Doubt it. More and more people are having trouble with preypal, and using a credit card from MA/V/AXP linked to your preypal account is one more layer to protect yourself from their shenanigans.

    I wouldn't give EBAY/preypal access to my bank account if my life depended on it. I don't sell on EBAY and the purchases I make will only come via my credit card attached to my preypal account.
    5 Aug 2012, 10:54 PM Reply Like
  • Groupon ... LOL
    5 Aug 2012, 08:49 PM Reply Like
  • Pill Conehead : Grow up....Get a life.... Your redundant comments

    still show your grade school mentality... Could be a common trait

    in Australia....BLAH BLAH BLAH
    5 Aug 2012, 09:30 PM Reply Like
  • Wot, you still hanging about, eBay shill? And this is this the best retort the eBay Dept of Spin has been able to supply you with?

    Gee, the headless turkeys, running around in circles, bumping into each other, in the eBay executive suite must really be worried about this eDropOff matter if they keep sending such pathetic eBay shills as you into bat ... Still, I do appreciate the attention as it undoubtedly will whet the interest of other readers as to why you are so concerned. And the reason for that concern?

    A summary of the demonstrable ongoing criminal activities of eBay, the greatest calculated and knowing facilitator of wire fraud that the world is ever likely to know ...

    “Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5”
    http://bit.ly/N1nTlc

    eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking
    5 Aug 2012, 11:14 PM Reply Like
  • Pill Head : You must have fallen off your ostrich while drinking and

    smoking whatever swill and bad weed you grow. I guess you really

    are a total waste of my time and everyone else's... The proof is in

    the mindless dribble you always refer to...Perhaps that is the only

    thought still left in your totally ,broken and baked brain...Not really

    sure if it's your brain or the Ostrich's.....Maybe a Kangaroo could

    knock some sense into you....But I really doubt that...

    Have a nice life in the Mental ward.
    6 Aug 2012, 01:05 AM Reply Like
  • Well, eBay shill, are your ramblings the only plan that the eBay Dept of Spin can come up with to keep this matter from coming to the attention of the appropriate authorities? What a strange plan. Anyway, do keep up your personal attacks as, by my peculiar form of logic, your pathetic attacks are bringing attention to the matter. Who knows, maybe there is a US Attorney investor that reads this site …

    Regardless, do keep it up, eBay shill; I’m happy to keep responding with a link to that article that apparently concerns you so …

    A summary of the demonstrable ongoing criminal activities of eBay, the greatest calculated and knowing facilitator of wire fraud that the world is ever likely to know ...

    “Shill Bidding Fraud on eBay Auctions: Case Study #5”
    http://bit.ly/N1nTlc

    eBay / PayPal / Donahoe: Dead Men Walking
    6 Aug 2012, 01:20 AM Reply Like
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