3 Reasons to Buy eBay Today

• Report this Comment On December 11, 2008, at 5:22 PM, Patricia013 wrote:

  "eBay's huge customer base is a strong competitive advantage, helping the business overcome tough market swings and even poor business decisions. The company is still projected to grow significantly, with a long-term growth estimate of 13.8%. Many CAPS members are willing to overlook gaffes that have angered some of the site's highest revenue-generating sellers.

  eBay's huge customer base is a strong competitive advantage, helping the business overcome tough market swings and even poor business decisions. The company is still projected to grow significantly, with a long-term growth estimate of 13.8%. Many CAPS members are willing to overlook gaffes that have angered some of the site's highest revenue-generating sellers."

  This is about as intelligent as the thinking of a box of rocks! No matter how many times longtime ebay sellers tell you the place is headed downhill because its woefully mismanaged - the more you say buy buy buy! Well, go ahead and BUY and I'll be here a year from now to say "I told you so!"

• Report this Comment On December 11, 2008, at 10:28 PM, ebaysucks wrote:

  Ebay is slowly choking their own business. They are demanding that sellers use paypal, which will increase their cash flow, but also increase the sales amount a seller needs in order to break even. Sellers will sell less, and now when you have an issue with ebay, your half, ebay, and paypal account gets closed. I recently lost all three of my accounts despite a 100% positive approval rating and hundreds of transactions, i.e. lower revenue for all three companies... While my accounts mean nothing to them, multiply my accounts by hundreds getting cancelled a day.

• Report this Comment On December 11, 2008, at 11:14 PM, DLweld wrote:

  Well, as a long-time Ebayer I've certainly lost faith in it - as a seller it's getting harder to put stuff up for sale, and the way the feedback works - every transaction is a risk-the-business one for the seller. As a buyer, I've seen items I'm interested in drop (in my standard search) from 250 to about 100 to browse. I guess if ebay gives up on the one thing that set it apart in the e-commerce world (its weird and wonderful auctions that got the clicks and the eyeballs) it's going to be a big adjustment - I see little point in selling there now and the stuff to buy - well, mostly like stuff you can get at WalMArt - too bad, it was great and interesting while it lasted.

• Report this Comment On December 12, 2008, at 3:26 AM, JAlanWatson wrote:

  Skype has nothing even remotely close to "370 million users", that is pure propaganda put out by the Skype marketing department and mindlessly parroted by every Skype employee and the majority of the press. Try to pin Skype down on how many of those are "real, active" user accounts, how many are abandoned or inactive, how many are spammers and pornographers who infest the Skype space now, and you will get a lot of double-talk or an immediate attempt to change the subject.

  If you are making investment decisions based on unsubstantiated propaganda like this, then you are in very serious trouble.

• Report this Comment On December 12, 2008, at 10:21 AM, rogandantiques wrote:

  No point in bashing Ebay, they are doing a good job of that themselves. I'll tell you this- Ebay will be good if you are a competent day-trader, but in long term growth you can forget it.

  In a year Ebay will be gone and so will Paypal for that matter, both are glitch ridden companies run by nitwits who will retire in Tahiti with YOUR money. If you think bailing out Wall Street hotshots with golden parachutes is distasteful, wait til you see what investing in Ebay will get you!

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