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Mainstream Media Misunderstands Job Loss Data

Maybe people are factoring in what the future outlooks appears to be... there's a negative perception there... that's a problem.

You don't need a weathervane to tell which way the wind blows.

Paulson, Bush and the Grifters: The Manufacturing of a Crisis

Nailed it. I saw these s.o.b.'s coming, hell you could smell them a mile away.

Well said and well spoken... erudite and precise.

eBay Sellers Must Learn the Art of 'Hacking' BestMatch

Look, I find I simply am not interested in "gaming" ebay's disrespectful headtrip flavor of the week. Further, I do not wish to associate myself or count myself among the ranks of "gamers"... Deal from the top or deal me out.

Yours is not an exciting revelation... the fact that it needs be addressed is yet another example of the lengths ebay will go to to waste time and call it a site improvement... probably to justify their final value fee hike, excuse me... I mis-spoke -listings fee reduction.

Responding to this blurb is a waste of time. Ebay is diminishing in relevance... exponentially !!!!!!!!! And, they know it too.

Piper: eBay Beginning to Turn Corner

I have to say that by and large investors talk like they are all elitist egg-heads, but all they rely on for their "research" is whatever Forbes or Deutsch or pick-a-broker-any-brok... is putting out and they're being fed a line of "IT" ~~~ may I recommend reading blogs, googling "I quit ebay" or "I hate ebay" or going to medved and tracking ebay's listings and sell through rates... there's an eye-ful for ya. Find out what the hottest auction sites are competing w/ebay and how's their traffic? Gauge it, track it.

No one's going to hand it to you on a silver tray... not Motley Fool, not no one. You consider ebay sellers to be whiners, but, have another think... we've been in the thick of it for years and we've stood a lot, but we have had all we can stands and we can't stands no more. Ebay is fond to show us where the door is, so, guess what? We are running for it.

As for you investors, you too quickly dismiss anything you don't care to see. Not a clever strategy. Here's a freebie... a certain international auction site added more than 400,000 listings to its 550,000 listings in one day... today !! Me thinks trouble's afoot for ebay. You know what else... paypal and ebay know exactly what's going to whom, when, where and how and they are not telling you... Why? Well, the stock would drop -that's why. Balls in your court... who'll be crying next?

eBay Bares Its Ugly New Face

Well written article. ~~ us.ebid.net has grown by more than 100,000 listing since the boycott. I think that speaks volumes. Other sites are also enjoying unprecedented growth. I currently sell on us.ebid.net ~~ It sure is a whole lot of b.s. free in comparison... It's got all the bells and whisles too, and the added bonus of no ridiculous fees for every little thing, no arbitrary rules for every little thing and listings go up right away, and you actually feel respected instead of shoved around all the time.

Ebay may be ivy league, but they must've skipped the lessons in ethics... and while they can count nickels, they -apparently- lack common sense, which can't be taught.

Analysts: eBay's Current Quarter Tracking Well

I think you will notice that the "whiners", as you are wont to call them, have fairly much quieted down. I would think that indicates that they have moved on. The rise in reach and rank for competing sites would lend further credence to this summation... add that to the continual decline of traffic rank for "e" and I wouldn't be too bullish right now. I am counting the days, don't want to wish my life away, but I think somebody's got a commuppance due... it's going to be like Christmas morning and I'm a kid again... Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Score ONE for UnderDog !!

Is Donahoe Trying to Destroy eBay?

Wagglepop... I like it a lot - look and feels like ebay when ebay wasn't the insane emperor it is now. Plus you could knock yourself to pay over $20 a mo. in store and listing fees total. Final value fees are 2.5% which are actually less than paypal's fees for simply transferring funds already sitting in someone's account.

Stop the bleeding. I simply doesn't make economic sense to sell on ebay for too many reasons. They charge extortionary rates and force you to agree to let them secure your failure.

Say what? Someone needs to find out what the real story is here. Is Donahoe crazy like a fox, or just insane?

eBay Bares Its Ugly New Face

If Ebay is cooking their numbers to match the spin that their listings haven't been affected, doesn't it also play that they will have to cook the books? It will be iteresting, to say the least, when the 1st quarter earnings report comes out.

How Does the Boycott Impact eBay?

Are people striking to increase their wealth... or just survive?

All I want to know is -What has happened to morality and social
responsibility? Are the rich so far removed from the average man that they feel an entitlement to lord over the "have-not's" and keep them in humble servitude? We have come a long way to go full circle.

Yes, there are Ebay millionaires, just as there are lotto winners...
few and far between. A more likely Ebayer is a single mother trying
to earn the school lunch money so she can afford some extra time with her kids, or the retiree with no or little pension, a young, hopeful couple trying to save for that ever elusive house, a disabled person, and many, many small business persons -the mom and pops... The people, the reasons, are as vast as America is diverse. One thing they will surely tell you is "It is not easy money."

Shame on those who brag they will capitalize on lower listings to
increase their take. Shame on those who do so quietly. Shame on
those who clamor to invest in a company that will heartlessly stomp out the cries of the very people who brought it to greatness -like so much noise. Lies and deception only thinly veiled... as if not worth the bother, really - packaged as a gift... and you'll take what you get and like it. And then we'll give you some more.

As I write this, politicians talk "big-talk" about universal health
care while Congress is slowly defunding Medicare and US children have the worst quality of life in the developed world.

I leave you with a quote from Bill Moyers:

"The reality of the anonymous, disquieting daily struggle of ordinary
people... searching for dignity and fairness against long odds in a
cruel market world."

"Everywhere you turn you'll find people who believe they have been
written out of the story. Everywhere you turn there's a sense of
insecurity grounded in a gnawing fear that freedom in America has come to mean the freedom of the rich to get richer even as millions of Americans are dumped from the Dream."

Why is the Media Neglecting eBay's StumbleUpon?

I can only speak for myself, but it is associated with ebay and I am distrustful of anything ebay.

How Does the Boycott Impact eBay?

Thank you for your well written, articulate commentary. One thing you missed the ball on though... Ebay is not listening to its power sellers either. In fact 58% of their top 200 sellers will now NOT qualify to be power sellers. As time goes by, the DSR ratings will pare those numbers down as well. The following is an transcript of an interview between Deutsche Securities and the Pres. & V.P. of the Internet Merchant Association that explains, in detail, all the changes, and how these changes are going impact the individual sellers, buyers, ebay and the marketplace as a whole.

imamerchant.org/blog/w...

Thank you.

Bear Ups eBay to 'Outperform', Stock Is Too Cheap

I don't know where you do you research. Here are some facts... Note the surge in September'07 into October. Ebay had a FREE listing sale the month of September... makes sense? That explains why the first couple of weeks in October look good also, ten day listings placed for free on the last day of September would overflow. They've not been able to gain that momentum since. They ran a listing sale in December, but it was not as good as the September sale as it was still expensive for sellers to list items, ergo the lackluster results in stock movement.

I keep reading that investors cringe at the idea of ebay lowering fees, but, this isn't rocket science... they're shooting themselves in the foot by being intractible. Why should it be an obtuse idea that everyone can win on ebay... buyers, sellers, investors and ebay?