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Earnings Administrator |
posted 01-26-2000 11:36 AM
 
eBay (EBAY): $0.04 reported, $0.02 expected, $0.02 same quarter last year. |
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scripter |
posted 01-21-2000 02:02 PM
Just found a good article summarizing the fights between eBay and the aggregators (AuctionWatch, Auction Rover, Bidder's Edge): http://www.upside.com/Richard_Brandt/38879f9d0_yahoo.html |
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trentr |
posted 01-20-2000 11:03 AM
smario, Apparently there is an easy way to verify bidders. At least its easy enough that Millionarie.com is doing it. This is for very big bidders though, and may not be good for the in-between bids which many people still would want verified. http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/cth159.htm |
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charlie1 |
posted 01-18-2000 05:05 PM
Apparently AuctionWatch has gotten around eBay's block and is now showing eBay listings along with other major auction players. Its about time for another ebay fiasco... and this sounds like a good opportunity for them to blow it on the PR side. |
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InvestorGuide Weekly Administrator |
posted 01-17-2000 01:20 PM
CNN goes behind the scenes at eBay. http://cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/01/13/ebay.whitman.idg/index.html |
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InvestorGuide Daily Administrator |
posted 01-12-2000 06:33 PM
e-Stamp will pay eBay an undisclosed sum for encouraging its customers to use e-Stamp's online postage service. http://www.cnnfn.com/news/technology/newsbytes/142002.html |
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smario |
posted 01-07-2000 09:25 AM
For the big ticket and high-end items, eBay should require a credit card number on file. That way, once you bid, your price would be on hold on your credit card. If you are the winner, the bid would go through on your statement. This way, it would also prevent sellers from bidding themselves, as eBay would be able to check credit activity. I don't know if this kind of credit disclosure between eBay and the credit card companies is legal, but it would work. |
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mrcool |
posted 01-06-2000 02:43 PM
There's not that much they can do, short of getting a signed, irreversible bid and doing a credit check on the bidder. While it does look bad for eBay when the big-ticket items get fake bids, I imagine that eBay also benefits by fake bidders driving up prices for real bidders... so it wouldn't surprise me if they decide that it's in their best interest to do nothing. |
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trentr |
posted 01-06-2000 12:02 PM
It turns out the reported sale of year2000.com for $10 million on eBay was based on a fake bid. When are they going to do something about these fake bids and make people accountable? Here's an article about it http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article/0,1087,3_275701,00.html |
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happyguy |
posted 12-28-1999 03:30 PM
it probably wouldn't cannibalize any of priceline's current service, but that's exactly the problem with it in my opinion. They aren't going to be getting any cross-buying between their services. No one decides they are going to purchase a airplane ticket from priceline and that they also want a flamingo lampshade from priceline's yard sale site. There just isn't any synergy at all. I think eBay has nothing to worry about. |
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Mayor of Investorville Administrator |
posted 12-27-1999 03:18 PM
The most recent eBay post was made today by gatsby. "JHirsch, to me Priceline's model sounds just like an eBay model to begin with. The only difference to date was that you weren't bidding against someone - you name a price and either the product/service is available at that price or not, and you are bound if it is. In the new model, i'm guessing, you will still be bound, but you will be bidding agains others for a known available product/service. The uncertainty is taken out - and unless Priceline has some kind of unique addition to the model, it looks like it could be exactly like eBay's. I wonder, though, if it would cannibalize Priceline's current services???" |
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Mayor of Investorville Administrator |
posted 12-27-1999 03:14 PM
eBay is the world's largest and most popular person-to-person trading community on the Internet, based on the number of items listed, number of unique eBay users and minutes of usage per month. eBay pioneered online person-to-person trading by developing a Web-based community in which buyers and sellers are brought together in an efficient and entertaining auction format to buy and sell personal items. The eBay service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest and all eBay users to browse through listed items in a fully-automated, topically-arranged, intuitive and easy-to-use online service that is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Company believes that this critical mass of buyers, sellers and items listed for sale creates a cycle that helps eBay continue to grow its user base. Sellers are attracted to eBay as a result of the large number of potential buyers, and buyers in turn are attracted to eBay by the broad selection of goods listed on eBay. eBay provides buyers and sellers a place to socialize, to discuss topics of common interest and, ultimately, to conduct business in a compelling trading environment, thus fostering a large and growing commerce-oriented online community. (source: annual report) Earlier discussion about this company can be found in the Archives at http://www.investorville.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000039.html . |
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