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Wal-Mart vs. eBay: Which is a Safer Stock to Own?

Yo, Ebay++++,

Thank-you for recognizing my linguistic skills. I do hope you view it as a bit more impressive when I tell you that I don't utilize spellcheck because I find it lacking.

I do believe that it is important to invest the time into doing something well because first impressions do count and are what you will be judged by.When someone doesn't want to waste time to do something properly I find myself questioning the possibilities that slop work is the norm.

I also find it interesting that you feel that you were being discussed. I mentioned no names.

Quality and the time spent to achieve it does ensure that mistakes are dealt with in a timely manner. It may take additional time to achieve but long term has little to fear from the levels unwilling to waste time. Ultimately, people willing to expend the energy needed to do something correctly put less effort into achieving success.

After we have taken the additional time in creating a flawless foundation, we can rest and wait. The slop work produced by people unwilling to waste time will inevitably begin to show the flaws and mistakes. At this juncture, quality will be able to kick ass, exerting very little additional effort.

Wal-Mart vs. eBay: Which is a Safer Stock to Own?

The responses to this particular article were an interesting read.The article based the analyzations on interpreting numbers; the commentary generated by the above could be studied based upon grammer and clues towards the vocabulary levels of the responders.

Do the apparent differences in language skills provide clues into the intelectual and reasoning capabilites of the previous writers?

I find it very intrigueing that the pro Ebay people are working within a grammer school level of writing skills. Is this indicative of inteligence levels?

There are a multitude of analytical start points. Numbers are not the only means of measurement.

I never sold on Ebay, nor do I own any of their stock. I buy very rarely now because I feel that there is an overall degradation within the quality levels of the merchandise being offered.

It is true that Ebay does not have the liability of maintaining inventory, but when the onus of maintaining "the best deals" is placed upon the site's sellers it seems inevitable that maintaining best deal status in an ever competitive marketplace will prove to be problematic in the term for the independant sellers in the long term. There are limits to becoming "lean". If long term balance is not maintained, if fair does not enter into equations,if continual contraversy crops up with each minor shift in a business model, how am I too judge merit? How am I expected to judge in a favorable manner?

There are numerous ways to legally distribute a company's assets within a set of books. Quarter to quarter seems to me to be an extremelly shortsighted approach. The lack of proud long term game plans being announced publicly also gives me cause for concern.

Why is there no dividend offered to the shareholders? This is also a indicator of a company's merit when choosing a stock. Other indicators include buying and selling habits of a company's top tier. Meg sold a sizable portion of Ebay shares very close to her departure from a company she had run for 10 years. Why?

I find that there are too many areas that bear closer examination before I would feel comfortable jumping on the pro Ebay bandwagon. I had considered selling on the site and unfortunately was unable to judge them worthy in ways that are indicative of a well run business.

There are too many ifs that go unanswered for me to feel comfortable with the overall worthiness of Ebay.