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  • Why 'GooBay' Makes Sense [View article]
    "Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which we'll make searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, we'll put it there). You can describe any item you post with attributes, which will help people find it when they do related searches."
    as per Google

    eBay sellers, at one time, used Google base to direct potential buyers to their items on eBay.
    Now the sellers are using it to lead them away from eBay, and to the many other venues where they have set up shop.
    And it is working very well!

    It was not an attempt to "create an eBay" but it is presently helping to bring eBay to its knees.

    Q4 2008 was a disaster for eBay, but Q1 2009 will be worse.
    Jan 25 08:00 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Why 'GooBay' Makes Sense [View article]
    PS: to Mr Wang,

    Just how much work, and money did you put forth in helping to build eBay?
    Please cast no stones at unhappy past or present eBay sellers!!
    Jan 23 14:38 pm |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Why 'GooBay' Makes Sense [View article]
    Mr Wang,
    You got this part right:
    "(a disgruntled eBay/PayPal user with too much time on their hands and probably with very little, if any, shares of eBay stock owned)"

    Many former "disgruntled sellers" did indeed own eBay stock, at one time.
    Most sold when they saw the writing on the wall showing where eBay was heading.
    Former CEO Meg Whitman did the same, on her way out the door.

    Sorry, but your "cash cow" is running dry.
    I hope you didn't also own Enron shares.
    Jan 23 14:33 pm |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Why 'GooBay' Makes Sense [View article]
    Why buy, when you can create?
    Google could probably just look around their own stockroom, pick out a couple of 'hats on backwards' youngsters, and say to them:

    "Come in here and build us a an auction site, like the old eBay, and keep it simple enough for a caveman to use."
    Keep the fees small, and listen to the customers, the sellers, and cut em loose!

    BINGO!
    No more eBay!!!!
    Jan 23 10:27 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Netflix, Adobe, and Google Rated Among Top Places to Work [View article]
    It looks like eBay's employees are just as unhappy as it's customers, the sellers.

    They do rate J Donahoe, at 20% approval, higher than most sellers would rate the bum.
    Dec 30 14:28 pm |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • What Will Become of eBay? [View article]
    It's common knowledge that smart Generals will listen to the troops.
    They're the ones in the trenches, and know what they need, and how best to fight the war.

    eBay's Generals TELL their troops (sellers) what they need, and what is good for them.
    These paper Generals forget that theirs is an all volunteer army, and most of the 'troops' are going, or plan to go, AWOL!!!
    Dec 22 07:11 am |Rating: +5 0 |Link to Comment
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