Wake-Up!

eBay's Weakening Bid

@Shawn Ward who states:

"60m people visiting eBay every month - sellers do not want to give up that base."

60m people visiting eBay every month does NOT translate into conversions. What it means is "window shopping" and price comparisons.

I think your being bias to the number of people visiting eBay each month as well.

Here's eBay's reach as of November 19th according to Alexa.com:

Yesterday 1 wk. Avg. 3 mos. Avg. 3 mos. Change
21.04% 1.995% 172.1359598% down 18%

3 months change

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18% ???

The number of unique pages viewed per user per day for this site is down 2% over a 3 month period as well.

The old eBay would have bustling with holiday shoppers in September, regardless of market trends. Not anymore.

I'm afraid eBay has hit a main artery, and in turn, (out of necessity to save money), has given the average buyer the means and the will to shop elsewhere. Please try to remember, a large portion of eBay's sales came from it's sellers, who were also buyers. When they screwed the sellers, they screwed themselves. Greed will always blind you to the obvious.

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My opinion of course :)