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eBay Watch: True P/E Ratio, Listings Update, Business/Casual Seller Mix

The listing numbers havbe been manipulated in so many different ways it is unreal. Perhaps the Morgan Chase analysits (and all teh others) should visit the ebay forums, particularly Seller Cenral to find out all the ways they have actually been caught doing this, and that, like an iceburg, can only be the tip of reality.

However, it does make sense that in recession all big business will try to cut costs, thereby increaing bottom line, wherever possible, and that would include ebay listings. The theory of mom/pop sellers of small to medium size increasing their listings also holds true as the revenue is a contribution to houshold economics. However ebay has adopted the very opposite to conventional thinking and economics and is by all manner of methods seemingly deliberately driving away the very people who would have been a vital part of it's income during a time of recession, thus establishing that ebay itself will also be negatively impacted by the recession.