Shelly

eCommerce Stock Pair Trade: Amazon vs. eBay

You are talking about one category, and it is a category that eBay trails in. What is the STR for buy as a whole?

This will put a lot of real paying eBay sellers out of business and then eBay will have nothing to fund the welfare program they instituted for these big box companies. That is when eBay will crash. Losing eBay sellers means losing the buying aspect of the seller him/herself and the buyers that are loyalty to the people they purchased product from. The decline in the variety of product (whether removed from the site or buried behind the free loaders) will cause a decrease in traffic and eBay's revenue from ads will decrease relatively and that goes the same for eBay's PayPal ruling e-commerce scheme also.

The most disturbingly sad reality is most sellers have no idea the massive amount of changes that have taken place and their significance and will be sideswiped and driven out of business as quickly as eBay's ban on electronic downloads hit. eBay really is being ran by a depraved sadistic management team- it is appalling.

eCommerce Stock Pair Trade: Amazon vs. eBay

"I do believe that downtrend is over and Ebay is now a good value stock for short term investment."

You believe this because of what?? I believe the downtrend is only about to free fall from an enormous cliff with JD's new recruitment of big box retailers they are moving in in October - who just like Buy.com will be enjoying the welfare paid for by real eBay sellers- eBay ride and get top placement because they don't have to preform to the new "DSR- whipping board". So the sellers who really have the variety are going to be swamped out by big box companies taking a free ride off the backs of the seller's they are literally stepping on. I don't even know how many of us will make it to November let alone to 2009. Does that mean the big box companies convert better? Nope! it means the buyer never bought because the couldn't find the items they wanted to buy.

Look at Buy.com - the STR is like 2% - 2% - what is the STR for a random 800,000 listings? I don't know I'm asking, but I'll bet it is a hell of a lot higher than 2%. Why don't you do some research and let us know. It's a good idea to research before you start making suggestions to people on where to put their money. Seriously that is just gross negligence to be so lazy and to tell people they can believe because you believe that eBay's downward trend is over- shameful really