> New eBay fees - the devil's in the details - almost a 200% increase in
> FVF for $25-$500 range
> January 29, 2:25 PM

> Auctions and Antiques ExaminerWalt AuctionWally

> The Devil is in the details with new eBay fees.  They may be
> beneficial to some, and not for others.

> On Wednesday I reported on the new eBay fee structure that was just
> announced. In the article, I stated that I thought the fee changes
> would likely bring a lot of fresh product to the eBay auction market-
> place. I felt the free listing fee would send a signal that eBay was
> ready to up it's auction game a bit. But not being the number cruncher
> that many are, and knowing these things can be complicated,  I held
> off a bit in order to see, "how it all may work out."

> Unfortunately the way it will work out for many eBay auction sellers,
> is about a 200% increase in for FVF in the $25-$550 range. Here's why:

> The old eBay final value auction fee chart shows:

> The final value fee for items from .01 to $25.00 was 8.75%, over
> $25.00 is 3.5%.  The final value fee for a $100 item according to the
> old fee structure is: $6.44

> Fees beginning on March 30,2010

> The new fee structure for auction item final value fees is 9% accross
> the board, with a $50 cap, so the final value fee for a $100.00 item
> is $9.00. That's about a 50% increase in fees. Ebay may argue that
> there is a $50 cap so if your item reaches $550 or more, you pay no
> more than $50. But how many people sell items over $550?

> At the other end of the scale, if your item sells for under $25.00 you
> pay a flat rate of 9%  which is an increase of only .25% but how many
> people sell in that range?

> The fact is, that for a large amount of eBay auction sellers, most
> perhaps, for the meat of your item's value, (between $25 and $500)
> you'll be paying almost 200% more in FVF.

> If in fact this structure stays, I don't think it will encourage those
> with quality items to sell via auction on eBay, to the contrary.

> Original here:http://www.examiner.com/x-312-Auctions-and-Antiques-Examiner~y2010m1d...

>  January 29, 2010 4:00 AM PST
> Is eBay facing seller revolt?
> by Caroline McCarthy

> eBay's latest move, some of the auction site's devotees say, is
> straight out of the Ministry of Truth's playbook.

> The company made an announcement on Tuesday announcement about
> lowering the listing fees for items--even though, in many cases, final
> value fees will be raised. The company's discussion forums simmered
> with outrage over the executive decision, and frustration over the
> lack of other options for auction-style e-commerce.

> "What a joke," commented one person on the eBay Seller Central forum,
> asking for advice about transferring the items from an eBay "store" to
> another auction site. Another suggested putting together an April
> Fool's Day protest.

> eBay representatives say that these opinions come from the minority.
> "A lot of the sellers that we're talking to are very, very happy with
> these changes," said Todd Lutwak, eBay's senior director of seller
> experience. He said it gives a better array of options for different
> kinds of sellers. "What we've done with these price changes is, we've
> segmented the seller population and then we've provided those segments
> with what we feel are better options to meet their needs."

> Here's the math: Individual eBay items with a starting price of 99
> cents or less no longer have a listing fee, and if they don't sell,
> the seller pays nothing; but if they do sell, the final value fee is 9
> percent with a maximum of $50. Previously, it had been 8.75 percent
> for the first $25, and 3.75 percent after that. For more serious eBay
> sellers who purchase subscriptions to run "stores," final value fees
> have been altered so that they start at a lower threshold, but in some
> cases can ultimately get higher. eBay piloted these changes in some
> European markets starting in 2008 (with success, representatives say),
> and later added some U.S.-based beta testers whom it's showcased in a
> new promotional site explaining it all, called "The Best Place To
> Sell."

> "People who have store subscriptions, who sell thousands of items a
> month, are being advantaged," explained Alan Lewis, who worked at eBay
> as a product manager for five years and now serves as the platform
> manager for Auctiva, a site that makes tools for eBay sellers. "(This)
> continues the direction that they've been going for the past couple
> years, which is catering more and more to large sellers...It's
> something that makes sense for eBay. They just have to deal with the
> consequences. If they are bringing on larger sellers, there will be
> consequences for smaller sellers."

> An eBay pundit who goes by the handle "AuctionWally" wrote a blog post
> in which he speculated that the fee changes "will benefit the savvy
> consumer of collectibles, antique and unique items as this plan brings
> a lot more product to the marketplace with low starting bids," and
> that "this stuff can be more like reading tea leaves than a flow
> chart, but it looks pretty good from an auction seller's perspective,
> and just as nice for most store sellers." Still, many of Wally's own
> commenters disagreed with him--some with extremely strong language.

> Granted, when a company makes a product change announcement, it's the
> ticked-off ones who are the most vocal. But those dissatisfied sellers
> sure want to be heard.

> "The lower announced listing fee decreases are absurdly trivial to the
> extreme, and will cause eBay to become more cluttered than ever with
> overpriced, worthless stuff that people will put purely on speculation
> that some fool will bite," an Alexandria, Virginia-based antiques
> dealer related to CNET in an e-mail. "I have been selling on eBay
> since 1997 and I know eBay like the back of my hand. It is a true love-
> hate relationship."

> Any community site--particularly one where members may be making a
> profit by participating in that community--is sure to experience some
> dissent when changes are made. For eBay, however, the uproar from some
> sellers about this week's fee changes was more vociferous than usual.
> It amounted to Orwellian doublespeak, some claimed; and the "Best
> Place To Sell" microsite was little more than propaganda.

> "Maybe eBay thinks a simple and transparent 'spin' that they are
> trying to offer will work--dropping their listing fees, which are
> small, and then upping the final sale fees from 3.5 percent to 9
> percent--and just slip by all their sellers," said Northville, Mich.-
> based eBay seller Bill Wever, who says he has used the site for over a
> decade and owned eBay stock since its initial public offering in 1998,
> in an e-mail to CNET.

> "After reading (this week's) announcement, I will be expanding my
> presence on other sites and will be significantly reducing my presence
> on eBay," another seller e-mailed to CNET on the same day the fee
> changes were announced. "It never ceases to amaze me that eBay
> management seems to dismiss or disregard how constant change
> negatively affects their fee-paying sellers. Last year, there were two
> major change announcements. This year there will be three."

> At the center of the mayhem, really, is a problem that eBay has had a
> rough time with in recent years: It obviously wants to make a profit.
> That profit comes from commission fees, and those commission fees are
> biggest coming from the sales of relatively expensive goods by well-
> established sellers--many of whom pay a subscription to operate
> "stores." Hiking up listing fees has had a noticeable impact on eBay's
> quarterly earnings in the past.

> "All the things that they've done in the past couple years have been
> to bring more large sellers onto the site and bring them the economic
> incentives to do so, and they really haven't done anything for small
> sellers," said Alan Lewis of Auctiva, which targets smaller-scale
> sellers.

> And eBay has been feeling the pressure for years. It made some
> arguably poor acquisition choices in the past half-decade that
> ultimately resulted in the selling off of properties like Skype and
> StumbleUpon, all of which dealt a blow to shareholder confidence.
> Plus, online auctions are no longer the hub of deals that they used to
> be: An increasingly diverse cornucopia of e-commerce innovations has
> emerged in recent years, from handmade-goods emporium Etsy to fire-
> sale deal-a-day outlets like Woot and Gilt.

> But the flip side of this is that eBay still has a lock on auctions.
> It smoked out much of its would-be competition years ago, and many of
> its sellers deal in niches that are better off operating as auctions
> rather than flat-fee sales that could be handled over Amazon or
> Craigslist. eBay can make many of these controversial descisions and
> rest assured that it still owns the market.

> "All of us have been hoping for someone else, perhaps Google or
> Amazon, to step in and provide true competition, but that has not
> happened," said the antiques dealer from Alexandria. "It would require
> a huge investment to do a proper worldwide advertising campaign to get
> something going."

> eBay admits that the most recent changes will make the auction process
> more expensive for some sellers, but stands by its decision.

> "There are cases in which this new fee structure is actually more
> expensive than what they were paying before," admitted eBay's Lutwak,
> "but the fact is, what (the sellers) asked us for is they want the
> lower risk associated with lower fees on the front end, and that they
> were willing to pay the final fees."

> eBay hopes to extend an olive branch in the form of new buyer-
> protection coverage that it says will make buyers more comfortable
> spending money on eBay, particularly in large amounts--and that
> sellers will make more money as a result. "Coupling these two messages
> not only shows that we're making some adjustments to the fee structure
> but that we're also making major investments as a company to ensure
> that our customers are coming back more," said Kellie Cobaugh, manager
> of the buyer protection program.

> eBay, after all, has seen this sort of mutiny before. Two years ago,
> after eBay raised seller fees and chose to prohibit sellers from

> Is this a sign of internal dissension over eBay's failure to grow
> while Amazon explodes?

> Link;http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100201-716081.html?mod=WSJ_Deal...

>     * FEBRUARY 1, 2010, 5:17 P.M. ET

> EBay Director To Step Down At April Annual Meeting

>    DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

> EBay Inc. (EBAY) director Philippe Bourguignon plans to step down as a
> member of the ecommerce company's board of directors, eBay said in a
> regulatory filing Monday.

> The San Jose, Calif., company said Bourguignon decision not to stand
> for re-election at the company's April annual meeting was based solely
> on personal and time considerations and didn't involve any
> disagreement with the company's management or 12-member board.

> Bourguignon has served as a director since 1999. He is also vice
> chairman of Revolution Resorts, and previously served as chairman of
> media communications and market research group Aegis Media France. He
> has also served in executive and board positions at the World Economic
> Forum, Club Mediterranee SA (CU.FR) and Walt Disney Co. (DIS).

> The company wasn't immediately available for comment. Shares in eBay
> closed up 0.7% at $23.17.

> They've chased away so many customers (buyers and sellers alike) and
> here they are yet again, disguising a fee increase within a
> 'restructuring'.  But this time around there is relatively little
> seller outrage.  Could this be because so many customers have already
> fled to greener pastures?  Core business is down, WAY down.  There's a
> reason they call it the core- because that's what the company was
> built on.  And everybody knows what happens when the core of anything
> dissolves...the rest implodes.  It's only a matter of time now.

> The EBAY forecast is sideways short term.
> source:  http://fixmystocks.com

> The EBAY stock price forecast is down long term.
> source:  http://fixmystocks.com

> In its current 10K filed with the SEC this week, eBay discusses the
> impact of its campaign of changes to the Marketplaces unit:

> "We have announced changes to our Marketplaces business intended to
> drive more sales and improve seller efficiency. Some of the changes
> that we have announced to date have been controversial with, and led
> to dissatisfaction among, our sellers, and additional changes that we
> announce in the future may also be negatively received by some of our
> sellers. Given the number of recent changes that we have made to our
> policies and pricing, it may take our sellers some time to fully
> assess and adjust to these changes, and sellers may elect to reduce
> volume while making such assessments and adjustments or in response to
> these changes. If any of these changes cause sellers to move their
> business (in whole or in part) away from our websites or otherwise
> fail to improve gross merchandise volume or the number of successful
> listings, our operating results and profitability will be harmed."

> eBay also said changes to its dispute resolution process in which it
> generally reimburses buyers for the full amount of an item's purchase
> price and shipping costs could increase its costs and loss rate.

> "We expect that our costs associated with resolutions will increase as
> we make these changes to our resolutions policies and process. These
> changes, together with any further changes that we may make to our
> resolutions process in the future, may be negatively received by, and
> lead to dissatisfaction on the part of, our sellers. These changes may
> also result in an increase in buyer fraud and associated transaction
> losses. In addition, eBay does not have the same rights of recoupment
> against sellers as PayPal, which may result in higher costs to operate
> the program."

> See the full article here:  http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y10/m02/i18/s02

> Lawsuit Could Prompt Changes At EBay's Bill Me Later

>    By Scott Morrison
>    Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

> SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)--A lawsuit alleging that eBay Inc.'s (EBAY)
> Bill Me Later unit engages in usurious behavior could require the
> ecommerce giant to alter operations, cut some fees and pay substantial
> damages that would adversely affect business, the company said
> Wednesday.

> The lawsuit filed last month alleges that Bill Me Later violates
> California consumer-protection laws by charging inflated annual
> interest rates and exorbitant late fees. California law requires
> nonbanks to cap interest at 10%, but Bill Me Later's fees can push
> rates above 100%, claims the lawsuit, which seeks class action status.

> The San Jose, Calif.-based Internet giant said in its 10-K regulatory
> filing on Wednesday that it believes the allegations are without merit
> and that it would defend vigorously, but the company added "this area
> of law is uncertain" and cautioned it would "likely affect our
> business" if the claim was successful.

> The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
> California, argues that Bill Me Later's agreement with CIT Group Inc.
> (CIT) to provide banking services does not exempt it from California
> laws because the eBay unit is making the decisions whether to grant
> consumers' loan requests and is funding those loans.

> The lawsuit alleges there are numerous instances in which eBay
> executives and official documents have referred to the company's own
> ability to approve credit and manage risk. "Bill Me Later, not CIT, is
> making the decisions whether to grant consumers' loan requests, and
> funding those loans," said Steve Berman, managing partner of Hagens
> Berman Sobol Shapiro, which filed the suit on behalf plaintiff Kyle
> Sawyer, a Torrance, Calif., Bill Me Later customer.

> Ebay representatives were not immediately available for comment
> Wednesday, but the company said in its filing that Bill Me Later must
> rely on CIT to extend credit to customers because Bill Me Later is
> neither a chartered financial institution nor is it licensed to make
> loans in any state. The filing said that while CIT funds the consumer
> loan at the point of sale, Bill Me Later subsequently purchases "the
> receivable related to the consumer loan extended by CIT Bank" and is
> responsible for all servicing functions related to the account.

> Ebay acquired Bill Me Later, which provides consumers instant credit
> for online purchases, for $945 million in 2008, and the service is
> currently available through more than 1,000 online stores, catalogs
> and travel partners.

> The lawsuit seeks to prevent defendants Bill Me Later and eBay from
> enjoining in unfair competition in California, as well as unspecified
> monetary and punitive damages.

> Original here:http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100217-718929.html?mod=WSJ_late...

> The EBAY forecast is sideways short term.
> source:  http://fixmystocks.com

> Is this a sign of internal dissension over eBay's failure to grow
> while Amazon explodes?

> Link;http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100201-716081.html?mod=WSJ_Deal...

>     * FEBRUARY 1, 2010, 5:17 P.M. ET

> EBay Director To Step Down At April Annual Meeting

>    DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

> EBay Inc. (EBAY) director Philippe Bourguignon plans to step down as a
> member of the ecommerce company's board of directors, eBay said in a
> regulatory filing Monday.

> The San Jose, Calif., company said Bourguignon decision not to stand
> for re-election at the company's April annual meeting was based solely
> on personal and time considerations and didn't involve any
> disagreement with the company's management or 12-member board.

> Bourguignon has served as a director since 1999. He is also vice
> chairman of Revolution Resorts, and previously served as chairman of
> media communications and market research group Aegis Media France. He
> has also served in executive and board positions at the World Economic
> Forum, Club Mediterranee SA (CU.FR) and Walt Disney Co. (DIS).

> The company wasn't immediately available for comment. Shares in eBay
> closed up 0.7% at $23.17.

>  January 29, 2010 4:00 AM PST
> Is eBay facing seller revolt?
> by Caroline McCarthy

> eBay's latest move, some of the auction site's devotees say, is
> straight out of the Ministry of Truth's playbook.

> The company made an announcement on Tuesday announcement about
> lowering the listing fees for items--even though, in many cases, final
> value fees will be raised. The company's discussion forums simmered
> with outrage over the executive decision, and frustration over the
> lack of other options for auction-style e-commerce.

> "What a joke," commented one person on the eBay Seller Central forum,
> asking for advice about transferring the items from an eBay "store" to
> another auction site. Another suggested putting together an April
> Fool's Day protest.

> eBay representatives say that these opinions come from the minority.
> "A lot of the sellers that we're talking to are very, very happy with
> these changes," said Todd Lutwak, eBay's senior director of seller
> experience. He said it gives a better array of options for different
> kinds of sellers. "What we've done with these price changes is, we've
> segmented the seller population and then we've provided those segments
> with what we feel are better options to meet their needs."

> Here's the math: Individual eBay items with a starting price of 99
> cents or less no longer have a listing fee, and if they don't sell,
> the seller pays nothing; but if they do sell, the final value fee is 9
> percent with a maximum of $50. Previously, it had been 8.75 percent
> for the first $25, and 3.75 percent after that. For more serious eBay
> sellers who purchase subscriptions to run "stores," final value fees
> have been altered so that they start at a lower threshold, but in some
> cases can ultimately get higher. eBay piloted these changes in some
> European markets starting in 2008 (with success, representatives say),
> and later added some U.S.-based beta testers whom it's showcased in a
> new promotional site explaining it all, called "The Best Place To
> Sell."

> "People who have store subscriptions, who sell thousands of items a
> month, are being advantaged," explained Alan Lewis, who worked at eBay
> as a product manager for five years and now serves as the platform
> manager for Auctiva, a site that makes tools for eBay sellers. "(This)
> continues the direction that they've been going for the past couple
> years, which is catering more and more to large sellers...It's
> something that makes sense for eBay. They just have to deal with the
> consequences. If they are bringing on larger sellers, there will be
> consequences for smaller sellers."

> An eBay pundit who goes by the handle "AuctionWally" wrote a blog post
> in which he speculated that the fee changes "will benefit the savvy
> consumer of collectibles, antique and unique items as this plan brings
> a lot more product to the marketplace with low starting bids," and
> that "this stuff can be more like reading tea leaves than a flow
> chart, but it looks pretty good from an auction seller's perspective,
> and just as nice for most store sellers." Still, many of Wally's own
> commenters disagreed with him--some with extremely strong language.

> Granted, when a company makes a product change announcement, it's the
> ticked-off ones who are the most vocal. But those dissatisfied sellers
> sure want to be heard.

> "The lower announced listing fee decreases are absurdly trivial to the
> extreme, and will cause eBay to become more cluttered than ever with
> overpriced, worthless stuff that people will put purely on speculation
> that some fool will bite," an Alexandria, Virginia-based antiques
> dealer related to CNET in an e-mail. "I have been selling on eBay
> since 1997 and I know eBay like the back of my hand. It is a true love-
> hate relationship."

> Any community site--particularly one where members may be making a
> profit by participating in that community--is sure to experience some
> dissent when changes are made. For eBay, however, the uproar from some
> sellers about this week's fee changes was more vociferous than usual.
> It amounted to Orwellian doublespeak, some claimed; and the "Best
> Place To Sell" microsite was little more than propaganda.

> "Maybe eBay thinks a simple and transparent 'spin' that they are
> trying to offer will work--dropping their listing fees, which are
> small, and then upping the final sale fees from 3.5 percent to 9
> percent--and just slip by all their sellers," said Northville, Mich.-
> based eBay seller Bill Wever, who says he has used the site for over a
> decade and owned eBay stock since its initial public offering in 1998,
> in an e-mail to CNET.

> "After reading (this week's) announcement, I will be expanding my
> presence on other sites and will be significantly reducing my presence
> on eBay," another seller e-mailed to CNET on the same day the fee
> changes were announced. "It never ceases to amaze me that eBay
> management seems to dismiss or disregard how constant change
> negatively affects their fee-paying sellers. Last year, there were two
> major change announcements. This year there will be three."

> At the center of the mayhem, really, is a problem that eBay has had a
> rough time with in recent years: It obviously wants to make a profit.
> That profit comes from commission fees, and those commission fees are
> biggest coming from the sales of relatively expensive goods by well-
> established sellers--many of whom pay a subscription to operate
> "stores." Hiking up listing fees has had a noticeable impact on eBay's
> quarterly earnings in the past.

> "All the things that they've done in the past couple years have been
> to bring more large sellers onto the site and bring them the economic
> incentives to do so, and they really haven't done anything for small
> sellers," said Alan Lewis of Auctiva, which targets smaller-scale
> sellers.

> And eBay has been feeling the pressure for years. It made some
> arguably poor acquisition choices in the past half-decade that
> ultimately resulted in the selling off of properties like Skype and
> StumbleUpon, all of which dealt a blow to shareholder confidence.
> Plus, online auctions are no longer the hub of deals that they used to
> be: An increasingly diverse cornucopia of e-commerce innovations has
> emerged in recent years, from handmade-goods emporium Etsy to fire-
> sale deal-a-day outlets like Woot and Gilt.

> But the flip side of this is that eBay still has a lock on auctions.
> It smoked out much of its would-be competition years ago, and many of
> its sellers deal in niches that are better off operating as auctions
> rather than flat-fee sales that could be handled over Amazon or
> Craigslist. eBay can make many of these controversial descisions and
> rest assured that it still owns the market.

> "All of us have been hoping for someone else, perhaps Google or
> Amazon, to step in and provide true competition, but that has not
> happened," said the antiques dealer from Alexandria. "It would require
> a huge investment to do a proper worldwide advertising campaign to get
> something going."

> eBay admits that the most recent changes will make the auction process
> more expensive for some sellers, but stands by its decision.

> "There are cases in which this new fee structure is actually more
> expensive than what they were paying before," admitted eBay's Lutwak,
> "but the fact is, what (the sellers) asked us for is they want the
> lower risk associated with lower fees on the front end, and that they
> were willing to pay the final fees."

> eBay hopes to extend an olive branch in the form of new buyer-
> protection coverage that it says will make buyers more comfortable
> spending money on eBay, particularly in large amounts--and that
> sellers will make more money as a result. "Coupling these two messages
> not only shows that we're making some adjustments to the fee structure
> but that we're also making major investments as a company to ensure
> that our customers are coming back more," said Kellie Cobaugh, manager
> of the buyer protection program.

> eBay, after all, has seen this sort of mutiny before. Two years ago,
> after eBay raised seller fees and chose to prohibit sellers from
> leaving feedback about buyers, sellers organized a weeklong boycott.
> The company ultimately weathered the

> http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBidItems&userid=pmolis&comp...

> Current and recent auctions bid on by EBAY-BACKED SHILL-BID ID
> pmolis( 1071)
> Member since: Jul-31-04 in France
> All Feedback - 8,118 Feedback received
> Feedback left for others - 8,338 Feedback left WITH A FEEDBACK SCORE
> OF JUST 1071 <---- HUGE FLAG!

> OF SPECIAL NOTE IS THAT THIS SHILL-BID ID IS BIDDING ON EBAY ID
> jayandmarie ( 870565)
> Member since: Jan-02-99 in United States
> All Feedback - 1,888,154 Feedback received
> 1,964,721 Feedback left WITH A FEEDBACK SCORE OF JUST 870565 <---
> FLAG!

> AS AN EXAMPLE, SEE Item number:150410047069, LOOK AT Bid History OF
> THIS PARTICULAR AUCTION, CLICK ON THE o***m (WHICH IS pmolis ID) AND
> LOOK AT THE Bid History: Details FOR BIDDER o***m WHICH IS pmolis
> ID... THIS IS WHAT EBAY-BACKED SHILL-BIDDING LOOKS LIKE!
> ID 9***t IS NOT SO INNOCENT HERE EITHER!  HE IS OBVIOUSLY SHILL-
> BIDDING ON SELLER 1 (jayandmarie - Bid activity (%) with this seller:
> 76% ) AND SELLERS 2 AND 3, AS WELL!

> FROM pmolis' BUYING HISTORY, IT IS CLEAR TO SEE THAT EBAY-BACKED SHILL-
> BID ID pmolis IS ALSO A SHILL-BID ID FOR:
> amoeba-outlet ( 150392), amoebablowout ( 96030), recordrow-blowout
> ( 65044), nours77 ( 1699), fclna ( 602), AND diskodisko( 1255) <---
> WHO JUST CHANGED HIS ID ON Feb-10-10 TO TRY TO AVOID DETECTION FOR
> SHILL-BIDDING!

> I BELIEVE EBAY TO BE USING ID pmolis (FRANCE) TO SHILL-BID/CONDUCT
> FEEDBACK MANIPULATION/LISTINGS PADDING FOR PURPOSES OF STOCK
> MANIPULATION AND HAS BEEN DOING SO SINCE 1994!

> On Feb 9, 8:36 am, ascender555 <tnt...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> > They've chased away so many customers (buyers and sellers alike) and
> > here they are yet again, disguising a fee increase within a
> > 'restructuring'.  But this time around there is relatively little
> > seller outrage.  Could this be because so many customers have already
> > fled to greener pastures?  Core business is down, WAY down.  There's a
> > reason they call it the core- because that's what the company was
> > built on.  And everybody knows what happens when the core of anything
> > dissolves...the rest implodes.  It's only a matter of time now.

> Maybe because revenue is NOT up 25% this year? And was NOT up 25% last
> year either in their core business?

> On Jan 14, 12:49 pm, Kishore <kishor...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Why ebay got stuck $23 per/share all times ? This quarter results
> > would be really awesome for ebay, Revenue has been generated 25% more
> > last year.

> > Some one suggest me, why this share is not moving up ?- Hide quoted text -

> - Show quoted text -

>  ON TUESDAY, AN EBAY (ticker: EBAY) director sold one of the few
> things you can't sell on eBay's own auction listings: stock.

> Dawn Lepore, the chief executive and chairman of Drugstore.com (DSCM),
> sold 94,611 shares of eBay on Tuesday for $2.3 million, or about
> $24.20 per share on average. Lepore acquired those shares after
> exercising options that were set to expire in May (and some that she
> had exercised last month that were set to expire within days).

> http://online.barrons.com/article/SB126463545757636279.html?mod=rss_b...