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PayPal Continues to Be eBay’s Crown Jewel

Please God, let them spin off paypal and then ebay won't be worth a hill of beans. Donahoe is dumb enough to do that!

PayPal Continues to Be eBay’s Crown Jewel

You can use Moneybookers and Bidmate? I think, two services no one has ever heard of and one of which was never used outside of Australia until recently. They added those to remove the "monopoly" issue. You can accept checks and money orders, you just can't tell anyone that you do (?). But apparently they monitor your paypal to sales ratio and if you take too many "non approved" payments, ie. checks & money orders, you can be banned from using the site. So basically, Paypal is the only game in town if you buy & sell on ebay.


On Oct 23 09:02 AM a. palmer jr. wrote:

> PayPal is successful in part because it was more or less forced on
> the people of eBay. I'm not sure whether it is now the only payment
> option or they want you to think it is. I'm sure that if another
> option was available people would go for it rather than Pay Pal.

Half of ‘09 Holiday Shoppers to Buy Gifts on Web

Yep, I'll buy online alright. From Amazon!

eBay: Growth at the Right Bid

I won't buy ebay stock because I don't shop much on ebay, not like I used to. Why? Because I can't find what I want on ebay. The unique, the one of a kind, the out of print book, I shop on Amazon, Etsy or other alternative sites. Instead of screwing with ebay's convoluted search, I use Google to find exactly what I want, or if I want to browse cool things, there is Bonanzle, Etsy or dozens of great independent sites, to look for high quality, well priced items, whether it's glass, jewelry or anything else my heart desires, I detest slogging through pages of the same junk, Chinese made fake jewelry, dozens of duplicate items, and that's if the pages load or the descriptions and pictures show up! Ebay has improved itself into irrelevance for me. If I want the same Ipod, Cole Haan shoes or Gymboree clothes, I can go to the store and get it. And usually I can get it cheaper somewhere else. What ever it is I want, I can't find "it" on ebay anymore. And if I do, my computer times out before the descriptionless page loads!

eBay Rolls Out More of the 'Top Rated Sellers' Program in Search - Sellers Aren't Happy

Since the top rated seller badges have been rolled out, that little bit of code has apparently FARP'd up the system to the point that pages load like molasses, they break, descriptions are missing, photos are gone and so many other complaints from the Technical & Seller Central boards.
forums.ebay.com/db2/to...
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GM: Are eBay and a $4,000 Car Enough to Turn Things Around?

I'm not buying a government motors car. Ever. And I'm sure as heck not buying it on ebay!

The Lunacy of Cash for Clunkers

How much did this thing cost per car if we're already out of money? obviously more than $4500.00 per car. And those 1980-2000 model cars could have been donated to any number of charities, instead of being killed. A horrible, horrible waste.

Ford to Report Big Sales Increase: Does It Matter?

Wasn't the Cash for Clunkers a Billion dollars? And they've extended the program? How the heck are they out of money? I thought all they were giving out was $4500.00 per car? Did they sell a half a billion cars? No? Ok, so where'd the money go?

Mid-Cycle Meltdown: Weekly Jobless Claims Show Continued Weakness

My husband works for a company that insures credit card balances (the credit shield you can add on to your CC balance every month). He used to go home early when the phones weren't busy. In the past 3 weeks, he says they have been slammed with calls and they're talking about having them work later if need be. That tell me that more people have lost their jobs recently , they are now to the point that they need their credit card insurance to kick in, and they had a balance worth insuring and the desire to keep their credit from being ruined, ie. they are middle to upper middle class. And in the last 3 weeks they have had a significant impact on the number of calls to credit card insurance companies.

Google Must Be 'Terrified' Right Now

I tried Bing. I couldn't find what I wanted, & went scurrying back to Google. Truthfully, the commercials are stupid, searching with Google doesn't return random things you're not looking for. That's what ebay's search is for!

Sentiment Positive Ahead of eBay Earnings

If I could ever figure out how to do TaoBoa, or get it in English I would so be there! That is the most fun looking site, it's like an online asian supermarket. Just the colors make me giddy and want to shop, and I can't even read what I might be buying...


On Jul 22 01:33 AM o.c.d.collectibles wrote:

> Let us not forget that TaoBao (online auctions) has completely blown
> ebay off the map in China. It won't be long, news travels fast to
> the states. TaoBao is working on ways to adapt to English speaking
> countries..as we speak!!LOL!!

Sentiment Positive Ahead of eBay Earnings

Ebay used to be filled with one of a kind items and great deals, a giant online yard sale where you could score a great deal.

But with raised fees, new rules, sellers leaving and the huge influx of chinese made junk jewelry, "as seen on Tv" merch and 100's if not 1000's of the exact same overstock item that no one would buy when it was marked down at the big box retailer, ebay has lost it's shine.

I no longer shop there because I rarely find whatever IT is I want. Ebay has successfully improved themselves to death. They're not a flea market, they're boring, sanitized for our protection.

Ebay is the internet equivalent of cream cheese and mayo on white with the crusts cut off. Yawn!

Goldman Sachs Crushes Earnings Estimates

So they're gonna pay all that TARP money back pronto, right?

Can I have a huge infusion of TARP money so I can go from bankrupt to kickin it in record time? I'm just saying...

Why Leave Microsoft for eBay?

So he worked on Bing and now he works for ebay? Bing shows less stuff than Google. Search on ebay only shows you about half the stuff available.
So...we'll see even less stuff when searching on ebay if this analogy is correct.

Great, just what we need, to only see a quarter of what's listed!

eBay Search: There's a New Sheriff in Town

But why does the new sheriff look like Legolas in 30 years?

Srsly, he worked on Bing, which shows you less stuff than Google. Don't we already have a problem with half the stuff not showing up in search, so we hire someone who built a search engine to show fewer results? I'm confused and probably need a lie down, but I think I want more items, not less when I search. Just a though.