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I asked eBay recently why they did not allow Google Checkout. They told me that they had deemed it not safe. Who would you trust more - eBay/Paypal or Google?

Dirty, dirty little Suits.]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:14:18 -0500
I asked eBay recently why they did not allow Google Checkout. They told me that they had deemed it not safe. Who would you trust more - eBay/Paypal or Google?

Dirty, dirty little Suits.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/65640-how-does-the-boycott-impact-ebay?source=feed#comment-118594 118594
eBay must be really desperate. ]]> Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:47:18 -0500
eBay must be really desperate. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/65640-how-does-the-boycott-impact-ebay?source=feed#comment-118386 118386
The sellers have nothing to lose....wherever the sellers go, the buyers will follow....because they have to if they want the item.

Since the opposition is actually cheaper, easier to deal with, and by comparison is actively making sellers welcome as opposed to reviled and discriminated against, sellers actually have something to gain.

The current growth spurt in the oppositions listings is of far more interest than eBay's 'special offer' manipulated defence against falling listings. It represents the beginning of a diaspora of migrating sellers that is unlikely to reverse.

As my name says......gottago........ is my 'fiduciary duty' to my children to escape repression....and it is turning out to be almost as much FUN as eBay used to be 10 years ago.

Remember fun?
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The sellers have nothing to lose....wherever the sellers go, the buyers will follow....because they have to if they want the item.

Since the opposition is actually cheaper, easier to deal with, and by comparison is actively making sellers welcome as opposed to reviled and discriminated against, sellers actually have something to gain.

The current growth spurt in the oppositions listings is of far more interest than eBay's 'special offer' manipulated defence against falling listings. It represents the beginning of a diaspora of migrating sellers that is unlikely to reverse.

As my name says......gottago........ is my 'fiduciary duty' to my children to escape repression....and it is turning out to be almost as much FUN as eBay used to be 10 years ago.

Remember fun?
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re concentration camps in my previous post, I rest my case.

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re concentration camps in my previous post, I rest my case.

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This message from Pierre Omidyar in 1996 is still on the eBay Feedback Forum page.

Not for long presumably.

People who refer to whiny sellers who have had their freedom of speech removed are the same sort of ordinary thoughtless people who allow concentration camps to spring into existence without a murmur.
"eBay has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to squeeze you" is just plain wrong and very silly. The only fiduciary duty which applies to a director of a company is to suppress his own interests and serve only the beneficiary, in this case the company as a whole.
Now that it has been brought up, you have to wonder whether the deliberate action which may result in the partial destruction of the company's true customer base of sellers - the people who actually bring the money to the table in the form of objects - is in fact a breach of fiduciary duty in itself. If his bonus scheme is tied to a formula that will actually benefit from the damage he is doing, then he might end up facing a claim for compensatory damages from aggrieved shareholders, sellers, company employees laid off as part of the cost cutting, and maybe even from buyers.
There are plenty more fish in the sea used to be true until they were overexploited....then that industry imploded spectacularly.
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This message from Pierre Omidyar in 1996 is still on the eBay Feedback Forum page.

Not for long presumably.

People who refer to whiny sellers who have had their freedom of speech removed are the same sort of ordinary thoughtless people who allow concentration camps to spring into existence without a murmur.
"eBay has a fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders to squeeze you" is just plain wrong and very silly. The only fiduciary duty which applies to a director of a company is to suppress his own interests and serve only the beneficiary, in this case the company as a whole.
Now that it has been brought up, you have to wonder whether the deliberate action which may result in the partial destruction of the company's true customer base of sellers - the people who actually bring the money to the table in the form of objects - is in fact a breach of fiduciary duty in itself. If his bonus scheme is tied to a formula that will actually benefit from the damage he is doing, then he might end up facing a claim for compensatory damages from aggrieved shareholders, sellers, company employees laid off as part of the cost cutting, and maybe even from buyers.
There are plenty more fish in the sea used to be true until they were overexploited....then that industry imploded spectacularly.
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