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Should eBay Go Retail?

Scot said:

I'm a numbers guy so the fact that eBay is finally growing suggests that the strategy is working

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Can you please elaborate on the growth part! What did I miss?

Last time I checked, eBay had FOUR quarters of decline and the FIFTH is coming soon.

eBay is dying a slow and agonizing death .. and to tell you the truth “I’m loving it”

My heart still goes out to the sellers who are suffering and have nowhere else to go!

Get rid of the DEVIL J.D., Norrington and the fat useless and liar “Griff” NOW!

Can eBay Reduce GM's Inventory?

Read the horror stories about buying or selling on eBay! Start here on their own boards:
forums.ebay.com/catego...

and here:

blog.auctionbytes.com/...

eBay used to be a great place until the IDIOT CEO took it over almost 2 years ago.

Thanks to the IDIOT, eBay now is a big TRASH can!

Buy it at your own risk!

Is Apple Going to Compete with PayPal?

Google, Apple or whoever. It really doesn’t matter who, as long as there will be someone to bring that beast (eBay corp.) to their knees!

The devil J.D. continues to abuse Ebay sellers, counting on PayPal to make up for the lost revenue.
We have left eBay months ago and eliminated PayPal from all our websites.


Speak up and fight back! EBay corporation should be investigated:


1. US Department of Justice (DoJ)
Anti Trust Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: [e-mail]

How to submit a complaint:

www.usdoj.gov/atr/cont...


2. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580

Mission: The Federal Trade Commission is the nation's consumer protection agency. The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection works For The Consumer to prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace.

The Bureau:

--Enhances consumer confidence by enforcing federal laws that protect consumers

--Empowers consumers with free information to help them exercise their rights and spot and avoid fraud and deception

--Wants to hear from consumers who want to get information or file a complaint about fraud or identity theft

To report a company for a pattern and practice of suspected fraud:

1-877-382-4357 1-877-382-4357

CAUTION: The FTC doe NOT resolve individual consumer complaints. Please confine your remarks whether verbal or written to ebay/PayPal policies you believe are illegal.

Online fraud complaint form:

www.ftccomplaintassist.../

3. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Complaint Center
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549-0213

www.sec.gov/divisions/...

Above link includes information about insider trading and sending tips and complaints.

1. Insider trading: www.sec.gov/divisions/...
2. Tips and Complaints: www.sec.gov/complaint....

Online complaint forms: www.sec.gov/complaint/...

Hypthetically, if I were filing an SEC complaint, I'd strongly consider:

--False or misleading statements about a company (including false or misleading SEC reports or financial statements)

5. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Chairman
House Energy and Commerce Committee
2204 Rayburn
House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Telephone [phone] [phone]
Fax [phone]

LOS ANGELES OFFICE
8436 West Third Street, Ste 600
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Telephone [phone] [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Fax [phone]

waxman.house.gov/

6. Attorney General’s Office
California Department of Justice
Attn: Consumer Protection Division
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
[phone] [phone]

ag.ca.gov/contact/comp...;B
R>
7. Attorney General's Office
2115 State Capitol
Lincoln, NE 68509

Consumer Protection Division: 800) 727-6432

Online complaint form:

www.ago.ne.gov/consume...
tm

Specific consumer complaints to the Attorney Generals against ebay/PayPal should be directed to the California and Nebraska Attorney general's Office Divison of Consumer complaints. Complaints could include PayPal holds on seller funds, ebay billing issues, PayPal confiscation of seller property, etc. PayPal complaints should be directed to both attorney generals' office, and ebay complaints shoul.d be sent to California.

General comments:

-- Emails and phone calls are fine, but SNAIL MAIL has more impact. PLEASE send all complaints with regular USPS mail.

-- When filing and mailing WRITTEN complaints, spring for an extra envelope and stamp and send a copy to the San Jose Better Bureau. Little will come of it, BUT ebay MUST file a written response.

-- Rep. Waxman has the ability to hold public hearings on the conduct of a business or industry. He has the power to subpoena executives past and present, past and present rank and file employees, and records. Consider the possibilities :-)

8. San Jose Better Business Bureau
1112 S. Bascom Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: [phone] [phone]

9. Ebay operates in all 50 states. Therefore sending copies of complaints or filing directly with your state's attorney general's office will make a difference if they receive enough complaints. Your can find your attorney general and consumer protection
information by using a search engine using these keywords (Your state) Attorney General Consumer Protection.

Please post this information on every relevant website and blog -- especially TV news, newspaper, financial, and business media blogs and websites. This information should be posted in hundreds of location on a daily basis for maximum and persistent exposure.

Remember that certain corporations hire people to disrupt blogs and that includes spamming them to bury unwelcome messages.


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Credit: The above compiled information originally posted online by: Ming the Merciless

eBay to Identify Top Sellers with a Badge

Starting in October, Top-rated sellers will get the new Top-rated seller badge displayed prominently on their item and other profile pages.
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Hey JD, take that badge and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine and don’t forget to pass it on to your fat useless Griff!

Who cares about a stupid badge coming from the DEVIL.

We saw the light few months ago and worked very hard in establishing our own websites. The money we used to spend on fees we now spend on advertising and it has paid off. We have eliminated PayPal from all our websites and we urge everyone out there to hurt them where it counts. If you have your own website or sell on other venues, just get your own merchant account or use google checkout beside checks, money orders, etc. AVOID USING PAYPAL, where you have control.

Though we have moved on, I will not rest until I see the DEVIL JD behind bars for what he has done to many sellers and how he hurt them in their livelihood.

What he is doing can’t be legal and this must catch up to him sooner or later (hopefully sooner than later of course)

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Ming the Merciless very useful information below:


1. US Department of Justice (DoJ)
Anti Trust Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: [e-mail]

How to submit a complaint:

www.usdoj.gov/atr/cont...


2. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580

Mission: The Federal Trade Commission is the nation's consumer protection agency. The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection works For The Consumer to prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace.

The Bureau:

--Enhances consumer confidence by enforcing federal laws that protect consumers

--Empowers consumers with free information to help them exercise their rights and spot and avoid fraud and deception

--Wants to hear from consumers who want to get information or file a complaint about fraud or identity theft

To report a company for a pattern and practice of suspected fraud:

1-877-382-4357 1-877-382-4357 1-877-382-4357 1-877-382-4357

CAUTION: The FTC doe NOT resolve individual consumer complaints. Please confine your remarks whether verbal or written to ebay/PayPal policies you believe are illegal.

Online fraud complaint form:

www.ftccomplaintassist.../

3. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Complaint Center
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549-0213

www.sec.gov/divisions/...

Above link includes information about insider trading and sending tips and complaints.

1. Insider trading: www.sec.gov/divisions/...
2. Tips and Complaints: www.sec.gov/complaint....

Online complaint forms: www.sec.gov/complaint/...

Hypthetically, if I were filing an SEC complaint, I'd strongly consider:

--False or misleading statements about a company (including false or misleading SEC reports or financial statements)

5. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Chairman
House Energy and Commerce Committee
2204 Rayburn
House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Telephone [phone] [phone] [phone] [phone]
Fax [phone]

LOS ANGELES OFFICE
8436 West Third Street, Ste 600
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Telephone [phone] [phone] 1 [phone] 1 [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Fax [phone]

waxman.house.gov/

6. Attorney General’s Office
California Department of Justice
Attn: Consumer Protection Division
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
[phone] [phone] [phone] [phone]

ag.ca.gov/contact/comp...
7. Attorney General's Office
2115 State Capitol
Lincoln, NE 68509

Consumer Protection Division: 800) 727-6432

Online complaint form:

www.ago.ne.gov/consume...

tm

Specific consumer complaints to the Attorney Generals against ebay/PayPal should be directed to the California and Nebraska Attorney general's Office Divison of Consumer complaints. Complaints could include PayPal holds on seller funds, ebay billing issues, PayPal confiscation of seller property, etc. PayPal complaints should be directed to both attorney generals' office, and ebay complaints shoul.d be sent to California.

General comments:

-- Emails and phone calls are fine, but SNAIL MAIL has more impact. PLEASE send all complaints with regular USPS mail.

-- When filing and mailing WRITTEN complaints, spring for an extra envelope and stamp and send a copy to the San Jose Better Bureau. Little will come of it, BUT ebay MUST file a written response.

-- Rep. Waxman has the ability to hold public hearings on the conduct of a business or industry. He has the power to subpoena executives past and present, past and present rank and file employees, and records. Consider the possibilities :-)

8. San Jose Better Business Bureau
1112 S. Bascom Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: [phone] [phone] [phone] [phone]

9. Ebay operates in all 50 states. Therefore sending copies of complaints or filing directly with your state's attorney general's office will make a difference if they receive enough complaints. Your can find your attorney general and consumer protection
information by using a search engine using these keywords (Your state) Attorney General Consumer Protection.

Please post this information on every relevant website and blog -- especially TV news, newspaper, financial, and business media blogs and websites. This information should be posted in hundreds of location on a daily basis for maximum and persistent exposure.
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Speak up and fight back where you can

eBay Is Finally Stabilizing

Speak up and fight back! EBay corporation should be investigated:


1. US Department of Justice (DoJ)
Anti Trust Division
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530
E-mail: [e-mail]

How to submit a complaint:

www.usdoj.gov/atr/cont...


2. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Consumer Response Center
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20580

Mission: The Federal Trade Commission is the nation's consumer protection agency. The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection works For The Consumer to prevent fraud, deception, and unfair business practices in the marketplace.

The Bureau:

--Enhances consumer confidence by enforcing federal laws that protect consumers

--Empowers consumers with free information to help them exercise their rights and spot and avoid fraud and deception

--Wants to hear from consumers who want to get information or file a complaint about fraud or identity theft

To report a company for a pattern and practice of suspected fraud:

1-877-382-4357 1-877-382-4357

CAUTION: The FTC doe NOT resolve individual consumer complaints. Please confine your remarks whether verbal or written to ebay/PayPal policies you believe are illegal.

Online fraud complaint form:

www.ftccomplaintassist.../

3. Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC Complaint Center
100 F Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20549-0213

www.sec.gov/divisions/...

Above link includes information about insider trading and sending tips and complaints.

1. Insider trading: www.sec.gov/divisions/...
2. Tips and Complaints: www.sec.gov/complaint....

Online complaint forms: www.sec.gov/complaint/...

Hypthetically, if I were filing an SEC complaint, I'd strongly consider:

--False or misleading statements about a company (including false or misleading SEC reports or financial statements)

5. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Chairman
House Energy and Commerce Committee
2204 Rayburn
House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Telephone [phone] [phone]
Fax [phone]

LOS ANGELES OFFICE
8436 West Third Street, Ste 600
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Telephone [phone] [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Telephone [phone]
Fax [phone]

waxman.house.gov/

6. Attorney General’s Office
California Department of Justice
Attn: Consumer Protection Division
P.O. Box 944255
Sacramento, CA 94244-2550
[phone] [phone]

ag.ca.gov/contact/comp...;B
R>
7. Attorney General's Office
2115 State Capitol
Lincoln, NE 68509

Consumer Protection Division: 800) 727-6432

Online complaint form:

www.ago.ne.gov/consume...
tm

Specific consumer complaints to the Attorney Generals against ebay/PayPal should be directed to the California and Nebraska Attorney general's Office Divison of Consumer complaints. Complaints could include PayPal holds on seller funds, ebay billing issues, PayPal confiscation of seller property, etc. PayPal complaints should be directed to both attorney generals' office, and ebay complaints shoul.d be sent to California.

General comments:

-- Emails and phone calls are fine, but SNAIL MAIL has more impact. PLEASE send all complaints with regular USPS mail.

-- When filing and mailing WRITTEN complaints, spring for an extra envelope and stamp and send a copy to the San Jose Better Bureau. Little will come of it, BUT ebay MUST file a written response.

-- Rep. Waxman has the ability to hold public hearings on the conduct of a business or industry. He has the power to subpoena executives past and present, past and present rank and file employees, and records. Consider the possibilities :-)

8. San Jose Better Business Bureau
1112 S. Bascom Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
Phone: [phone] [phone]

9. Ebay operates in all 50 states. Therefore sending copies of complaints or filing directly with your state's attorney general's office will make a difference if they receive enough complaints. Your can find your attorney general and consumer protection
information by using a search engine using these keywords (Your state) Attorney General Consumer Protection.

Please post this information on every relevant website and blog -- especially TV news, newspaper, financial, and business media blogs and websites. This information should be posted in hundreds of location on a daily basis for maximum and persistent exposure.

E-tailers Show Mixed Earnings Reports

Hellooooooooooooooooo anybody home??

How can you (the author of this article) go to sleep at night?

You are deceiving the public, by making such statements:

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Internet auction giant Ebay also bested its expectations for its first quarter. The company announced a little over $2 billion in revenue and earned $.39 per share during its first quarter. Along with stability in its basic business of connecting online buyers and sellers through an internet marketplace, company CEO John Donahoe said continued success in PayPal makes Ebay a well-balanced operation.
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Ebay Page views down by 25%

blog.auctionbytes.com/...


Core business revenue is down by 18%

TWO quarters in a row
EBay core is accounted for 50% of Paypal revenue


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This article goes on to say:

Certainly, these three leading players in the e-tailing sector demonstrate the strong growth in internet business and e-commerce
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Growth!!!!!!! eBay has a decline after a decline after a decline and you are calling it growth????

Do you have any conscience at all?

eBay's Earnings a Successful Bid for Market Leadership

eBay +++

Amazon delivered, delivered, delivered!

www.cnbc.com/id/303743...


Amazon working under the same economic conditions as eBay .. aren’t they????

eBay can keep their Chinese crap, counterfeits and their idiot CEO and they will continue to see a decline after a decline after a decline ……………..

Numbers do not lie!!!!

25% page view decline
18% decline in core business revenue

SECOND quarter in a row!

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eBay trolls will continue to defend a failing venue, while the smart investor will see the truth!

eBay's Earnings a Successful Bid for Market Leadership

eBay +++

economic conditions my ass!!!!! EBay marketplace should be thriving in these economic conditions.

Do your own homework and listen to the sellers who made eBay and now left in droves. The decline in page views and revenue is nothing short of proving what is happening.

This is the second quarter in a row!!!!

Who are you trying to fool, Ebay troll??

Dumb and Dumber should be your middle name!!!!

eBay's Earnings a Successful Bid for Market Leadership

I am in total shock … Where is the integrity and honesty??

Page views down by 25%

blog.auctionbytes.com/...

Core business revenue is down by 18%

EBay core is accounted for 50% of Paypal revenue

And you guys are saying it is a success????

Can J.D. the “devil” be such a master in blinding you all?????

Sales Tax for E-tailers?

EBay's problem is not Sales Tax, but the DEVIL J.D.

Remember this one in 2008

www.youtube.com/watch?...


The devil got to go NOW!!!!

eBay to Hold Analyst/Investor Day: Ten Questions to Ask Them

Correction:

Stock price March 08 = $10.46 (soon to be a single digit)

should be

Stock price March 09 = $10.46 (soon to be a single digit)

eBay to Hold Analyst/Investor Day: Ten Questions to Ask Them

What the “DEVIL” J.D. did to EBay since he took over last year is simply criminal, in my opinion.
As an x-powerseller, we are doing great without EBay selling our products through our own websites and other platforms including Amazon.

But, what about all the other sellers, this imbecile put out of business, almost overnight!
The ones, who depended on EBay to put food on the table, buy their medicine or pay their bills and don’t know how to do anything else but to “EBAY”.
EBay was a way of life for so many and the only thing they knew for years!

Read EBay boards or other blogs around the internet to find out how these sellers are hurting, all because of this “DEVIL’s” insane policies. Many heartbreaking stories.

Even, let’s say if this “DEVIL” thinks in his sick mind that he is doing all of this for the good of the company, wouldn’t a sane person take a note of all that’s been happening, think again and correct his mistakes?

Stock price April 08 = $32.43
Stock price March 08 = $10.46 (soon to be a single digit)

Last quarter 08 = disaster

Sellers are leaving in droves taking their customers (buyers) with them
Diamond sellers selling toilet paper and the likes without even paying any fees to EBay!
EBay is now infested with Chinese garbage.
EBay is the place to be for all scam buyers who can easily keep the item and be refunded by Paypal, negging the seller and destroying his/her DSR just for the fun of it.

And the list goes on and on …..

“EBAY” brand has been now tarnished forever.

The “Worst” Match technology is FRAUD, once again in my opinion! Sellers are paying fees for their products to be seen, not to be hidden! Yet EBay is happy to take the fees without providing the service!

How can people like this CEO, go to sleep at night is simply beyond me!

Fire J.D. the “DEVIL” Now and send him back to business school!

Three Stocks with a Margin of Safety

The author wrote the following about EBay:

No matter what happens with the stock price, the underlying reality is that these are real businesses, in the real world, with real assets and real business operations that continue to earn real profits. As a shareholder, those assets and profits are mine.
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Real Profits!!!! Wake up and smell the coffee! In case you didn’t hear it yet, Ebay’s last quarter was a lousy one and it will continue to get worse.

Here are some links related to EBay’s last quarter earnings:

finance.yahoo.com/news...
EBay Posts Its First Quarterly Sales Decline


www.marketwatch.com/ne...
EBay earnings slide as auction growth declines


www.businessweek.com/t...
EBay Sales: Going, Going...

www.fool.com/investing...
More Bad News for eBay

EBay is going down and down and down, where it belongs! No two ways about it. So, stop the used car salesman pitch and short this sucker!

FIRE John Donahoe “THE DEVIL” NOW!

eBay Listens to Customers, Retires Old Search Engine

At least eBay’s management is for once admitting that they are listening to users.
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Listening?!?! John Donahoe is deaf, blind and STUPID!
Who are those users they have been listening too? EBay management should leave their imaginary friends (users) alone, come down from Lala Land and listen to the REAL users!
Buyers and sellers alike have been saying it over and over again … “Best Match” sucks!

This Senior Director of “FINDING” should go and find a way out of this mess!

Fire the DEVIL “J.D.” and send him back to business school!

www.amazon.com/s/qid=1...

Amazon vs. eBay: Follow Up Q&A

Q: What 'counts' in eBay's active user base? How about Amazon's?

A: This question was spurred by the datapoints that eBay's active user base grew 4% vs. Amazon's 10%. Here's my understanding of these metrics. eBay's active user base counts anyone who bid, bought or sold in the last 365 days.

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Just a reminder, that even that 4% growth might not be accurate in a sense.

Simply most sellers now have 3-4 accounts to combat the STUPID DSR effect!

In the old days, a seller would have one account listing hundreds/thousands of listing.

But now they have 2-3 and even 4 accounts, listing just fewer on each one. Just in case they get the boots on one account, they would have the others as a reserve to continue selling.

Does that mean EBay REALLY had a 4% growth????

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FIRE JD THE DEVIL NOW and send him back to business school!!!!!

www.amazon.com/Mousepa...