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  • Paypal Holds Sellers' Funds Hostage [View article]
    My Question is this...
    How low will Donahoe let this stock sink before he does something? Talk is cheap actions speak comes to mind. Is he that ignorant that he can't see that his new policies are not working? What will it take? A few more lousy quarters? eBay down to $5.00 a share?

    A good CEO will listen to his bread and butter sellers! When they are gone they are gone! Goodbye eBay!
    eBay was $41.00 dollars last year, this year eBay is $13.00 dollars. In 12 months we have sunk down to nothing! Donahoe blames it on everything except his dumb lame new policies!

    I am a stock holder and as a stockholder watching my money go down the drain I feel like Donahoe is not right for this job! I say kick his butt out and quick!

    Sellers and buyers want their old eBay back! We need a new CEO who will give them what they want before eBay becomes History!
    Nov 10 13:11 pm |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
  • What Are Analysts Saying About eBay's Analyst Day? [View article]
    Ebay needs to change their name and define what in the hell they really stand for these days! eBay is now going into the liquidation business. They are plugging Skype and Paypal as their real money makers! eBay themselves don't even know what in the hell they are doing besides buying up a bunch of companies that have nothing to do with Auctions. eBay has ruined eBay. Their stock should be worth $100.00 a share instead of $10.00 bucks and sinking. Amazon is king because they have a positive direction. eBay does not! eBay now states that they do not sell retail. We are not a retailer they stated! We sell liquidated items cheap! Lol. That crap should make them lots of money down the road! Clothes that are 20 years old, out of style, being liquidated for the 15th time, yeah right! Stupid fools!
    Mar 12 18:28 pm |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • eBay to Hold Analyst/Investor Day: Ten Questions to Ask Them [View article]
    As a totally frustrated and disgusted shareholder of eBay I truly hope that at this meeting on March 11 eBay will have seen their error ways. Competing with Amazon is futile. Amazon is the clear winner in retail business online. eBay cannot hope to compete in retail with a name like "eBay Auctions! eBay sellers were Ma and Pa operators that could not sell in high volume on Amazon and therefore sold on ebay. Millions and millions of these small sellers sit by the wayside! Amazon stock is $65.00 respectfully, versus eBay stock of $10.00 that is currently sinking fast. If I were Donahoe I would read the writing on the wall!
    Mar 06 11:12 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Suggestions for eBay 2.0 [View article]
    Great Article! However, eBay has not listened to anyone within the past 5 years, nor will they listen to anyone now. eBay stock holders like me are forced to watch this stock tank into oblivion and there is nothing we can do. There can only be one winner! And clearly the winner is Amazon! eBay blew it! eBay Auction is no more! eBay will be lucky if their stock is worth $5.00 by years end!
    Feb 24 14:42 pm |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • What Will Become of eBay? [View article]
    I just want to say that Amazon and their sellers are not as reliable as people believe them to be! Certainly not more so than eBay.
    Amazon and eBay do not own any merchandise. They are venue sellers! Amazon will warehouse seller merchandise for a fee. However, Less and less Amazon sellers are sending their merchandise to their warehouses. They are following in the steps of eBay sellers.
    I ordered two Areogrow units on December 12 ---December 20 they sent me one unit, yet billed me for both. I called Amazon. A woman in India resdponded! I could not understand one word she said other than; call Seller...Call Seller...Amazon can do nothing...you must call seller!
    I have tried to call the seller... I have emailed the seller...no answer.
    I will now call my credit card company and get the other $124.00 charge removed.
    All eBay haters please stop hailing Amazon as a better place to buy! Amazon has the same sellers as eBay. Amazon has the same problems eBay has....Sellers are jumping ship! They are not making any money.
    Dec 22 11:21 am |Rating: +2 -4 |Link to Comment
  • Opportunity to Make a Profit on eBay [View article]
    eBay needs to put their money where their mouth is! Pay stockholders a dividend! A dividend to stock holders for waiting to see where this company is headed! Better to pay a dividend and watch the stock go up. Going the other way will be a big price to pay. Why buy back stock at $13.00 that soon will be worthless and in the single digits? Is that not losing money? How much money has eBay already lost on stock buy backs? Paying a dividend makes more sense to me. Mutual funds love stocks that pay a dividend! Enough said!
    Nov 28 13:05 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay's Donahoe Has Crow for Thanksgiving [View article]
    I for one am happy that eBay is actively buying back their stock to keep it from sinking to single digits. However, as a shareholder I would rather they reward me with a decent dividend while I wait for the stock to go up.

    I too agree with most on the board that Donahoe has to go! eBay under his leadership has taken a wrong turn. eBay stock has tumbled to a new low. eBay stock without paying a dividend to shareholders may never recover! It might even go lower.
    Nov 28 12:52 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay: Triple Whammy Weighs on Stock Price [View article]
    Jeetil Patel from Deutch Bank downgrading eBay to a $19.00 target price is certainly not a very good sign. He must know something that the rest of us don't know as yet!

    As a stock holder of eBay I would truly like to see this company succeed! However, every time I read something negative about this company my stomach starts to turn!

    One minute eBay is doing fine and gets upgraded by some crafty analyst and the next minute eBay gets downgraded.

    eBay needs to think seriously about their shareholders and do the right thing! The last three years have been dismal for eBay. Stock price down 41%. I don't know what Donahoe is doing but he sure as hell is not helping eBay or it's stock price.

    Any idiot company CEO can piss away shareholders monies! It does not take a bright person to squander shareholders monies and drive a company into the ground!

    ebay dropping down to $19.00 per share is unthinkable!
    Donahoe needs to unload Skype! Pay his shareholders dividends, and redo all of eBay!

    He needs to get his head out of his you know what! Shareholders don't want to hear a bunch of BS... they want to see profits!





    Sep 06 19:09 pm |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay: Out with the New, In with the Old [View article]
    Ten years ago eBay auctions had very little competition. They were King of auctions! This is 2009 and things look quite different today. Amazon.com who is ( retail) and Overstock.com (overstock) are already deeply entrenched on the internet with millions of followers. Now here comes eBay in 2009 with a bright new idea and states that they are no longer an auction site per-say, and that they are not a retail site period, but they are in fact an overstock site of new and used goods! Meaning ( junk) Companies that now sell on eBay will buy pallets full of Junk that didn't sell in stores in the first place and sell that junk to eBay customers? Lol. Excuse me for laughing, but I think those tactics have all been tried before. Most buyers of truckloads of overstock merchandise go bankrupt! eBay is run by a ship of fools! Stockholders need to fire Donahoe and the whole rotten bunch before they bankrupt eBay stockholders and eBay! PS...I just bought some Mascara on eBay! It was so dried out it must be 10 years old! Wasted my money! No doubt it was sold by one of eBay's overstock-liquidation companies selling on eBay! lol. I should send it to Donahoe, lol. Let his wife use it, lol.
    Mar 19 12:12 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Was eBay's BillMeLater Acquisition A Huge Blunder? [View article]
    Credit card companies only have themselves to blame for their demise!
    On the other hand I would never pay a bank 19 percent for anything! I would rather do without!
    Bill Me Later is for people buying on the come so to speak. Buying on next months pay-check. Very risky. Default will likely exceed 50 percent. eBay is not the smartest kid on the block as we all know,lol. I think an idiot runs that company. However, if 50 percent do pay a 19 percent fee, that fee might help cover some of the 50 percent who will not pay.
    Time will tell. America is changing. Principles no longer apply. It's grab what you can and run!
    Nov 25 13:29 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay Q3: What it Means for Sellers [View article]


    Fire Donahoe!

    Fire Donahoe !

    Fire Donahoe!

    Ps. Start paying shareholders a dividend!
    Change feedback-unfair!
    Bring back all small sellers!

    eBay was unique! eBay was the biggest Auction/ Fleamarket/ Garage sale in the world!

    Bring back old eBay for Christmas!
    Oct 20 13:14 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay: Triple Whammy Weighs on Stock Price [View article]
    Thanks to the few who suggested I sell my eBay shares now :) Selling now would cost me dearly however. Maybe eBay dropping down to $19.00- $10.00 might actually benefit me in some small way:) I could buy more shares to average down my share price. Should eBay rise again in the future I could at least recoup my initial money invested.

    However, all that said, I would still like for eBay to succeed! Who knows what will happen with this stock in two to three years?
    If enough people complain maybe eBay will once again be a great place to buy and sell.

    In the meantime, may a million fleas infest the armpits of Donahoe, all eBay board members, and Meg Whitman who jumped from her burning ship with Billions of dollars.
    Sep 08 12:49 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay Caps Shipping Rates: What Is the CEO Thinking? [View article]
    eBay is a dirty word!
    I ordered a 3 CD Deluxe Astrology set for a friend of mine on eBay for 8.95 plus 4.95 shipping. Total cost to me was $14.90 with Buy-Now!

    When the box arrived it only had one CD inside. I contacted the seller several times and received no response! Finally I asked Pay-Pal for a refund and filed a dispute! The seller never responded to the dispute! Pay-Pal has now informed me that I may receive some of my money back...but I have to send the box back first! They want proof of me shipping this product back to a seller who does not even bother to respond! Shipping will cost me around $3.20 with insurance and proof. Cost to me would now be around$18.10.

    To make matters even worse, a wholesale company I sometimes buy from sent me their specials for sale!
    My 3 CD Deluxe Astrology box was available for 99 cents! lol

    If I give this dead beat seller a negative he will just give me a negative in retaliation! He is a big seller...70, 896 sales....I am a buyer, lol....and I will get a negative!

    Ebay needs to hang it up. Their goose is cooked! I will never buy from eBay again.
    Sep 05 16:54 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • eBay: Out with the New, In with the Old [View article]
    eBay's first obligation is to their stockholders! People and or companies that bought their stock! Ebay is using stockholder monies and not paying anything back! They bicker with their sellers back and forth while their stock holders sit on the side-lines! Obama said it best yesterday. Get back to basics! Honor your stockholders! they invested into your company...without them you would have nothing. No company period! Start paying a dividend to your stockholders! eBay has cash stashed overseas! Time to clean up American companies and their crooked ways! John Donahoe needs to apologize to his stockholders who have lost their asses with his company in the last five years, and then stick a blade through his gut in a Japanese honorable fashion like our congress suggested AIG's big wheels do. He has brought disgrace to his stockholders and eBay. Go John!
    Mar 20 12:20 pm |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment
  • eBay: Out with the New, In with the Old [View article]
    Follow up!
    A bad CEO can make bad decisions for his company as wittnessed by AIG, Bank America, etc. AIG CEO is being drilled on capitol hill right now although the previous CEO made all the bad decisions that caused the companies demise. He testified that they were all being threatened by hanging with a piano wire. Congress suggested they take the Japanese route! Apologize to your stockholders, and then stick a knife through your gut! Donahoe is one of those CEO's who is not capable to run ebay effectively! I suggest he take the Japanese route, suggested by congress! A companies abligation is to their shareholders! And he has failed miserably!
    Mar 19 12:41 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
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