Jessy S.

2008: The Year eBay Lost Its Mojo

This is in response to proBuyer who is dumb as a rock.

Site Growth:
Sorry, but I don't think eBay is growing at all. True their listings are up, but almost 40% of that belongs to buy.com. Also, a lot of the listings are Fixed Price, 30 Day listings and that has to make up at least 60% of the eBay Listings.

Privacy:
Read the current eBay user agreement. There you will find that eBay is letting all its companies use information that belongs to the seller to undermine them while using the buyer's information to market their good name.

Competition:
Another reader pointed out that eBay fell to #2 in Nielsen Net Ratings compared to November 2007. What was the name of that competitor? Amazon.com.

Technology:
Yes you pointed out that eBay had won an award, but they do give awards to high school students as well. The site works about as well as a cattle trying to escape a slaugterhouse on its own. I try to keep everything as default as possible because it works. As of the end of April 2009, nothing will work including default search which is currently "Worst" Match. Also as of the end of April 2009, eBay will end up with the Jim Rome award for fixing things that were just fine.

Dinah, Great site and I will link to you whenever an idiot at blogging stocks makes a post about eBay.