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San Jose Kevin's answer to the Forbes poll?
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Yuch. I feel queasy. Did EBay pay for that or what?
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The following is the email I just sent to Mike Tarsala who is identified as the CBS MarketWatch.com writer of this story.
Click on his name at the top of the story if you wish to send him an email.
"If you would read the eBay chat boards you would see there is another side to this story.
The Discuss New Features Board has had a huge number of posts erased by eBay staff in the last two days because they contained complaints.
here.com and AuctionEthics.com are seller chat boards off the eBay site which contain threads about endless unresolved problems with eBay.
Forbes.com runs a monthly poll evaluating the performance of major corp. CEO's.
The small independent eBay sellers are using that poll to show their dissatisfaction.
Whitman was at a 33% approval rating last month and is below 20% this month.
Your story sounds like it came directly from the typewriter/word processor of San Jose Kevin P.
Although you are certainly entitled to your own conclusions I don't believe your work has much integrity unless you have at least considered the alternative factors and information."
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>"Larry would have alienated the community and driven them away," Cook says. "To run EBay, you have to gain the community's love admiration and respect, because they can always start going to the place across the street."<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
ALL RIGHT, where is the place across the street????
If I pledge that I have long lost all love {{shudder}}, admiration and respect for Mystic Meg, will one of you please tell me where this other place is???
Ebay's success is a testament to the market place it tapped into, because it is sure not the quality of management or site that are retaining it's market share.
Uggh, Kevin
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as many venues as I can find to do so, including my own website, and eBay is still the biggest apple in my basket.
There are alternatives, but none the size of eBay.... I love listing on sellyouritem.com because its just so darn easy to do, but the traffic isn't the same as eBay.... Same with Yahoo...
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I list at many different sites : My Ebay Storefront and My Ioffer Storefront
Or perhaps you'd prefer to visit SYI Listings and finally My Website
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Here's 4 of 5 interviews Motley Fool is doing with Meg Whitman this week. I don't think it's going to change anyone's mind. Those that think she's the anti-christ will continue to do so, and those that think she's a very efficient CEO will continue to do so.
Meg Stands by Her Mark 9/15
Google vs. eBay? 9/16
eBay's International Future 9/17
eBay's Tipping Point 9/18
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I've read enough eBay spin over the years to make me dizzy but this made me barf. http://community.here.com/infopop/em...n_rolleyes.gif
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The Motley Fool Interview appears to be quite soft. After confirming that she actually sells on Ebay, I would have liked to have seen a discussion on the listing process and justification that the SYI 2.0 is easier than SYI 1.0, how she finds the site to work on now compared to a few years ago, etc.
Mr John Ford,
I certainly don't see Meg as the anti-Christ, I just see her as a seriously over rated CEO who has either done much to hamper one of the greatest marketplaces of all time, or has allowed this to happen under her management. (...and I shudder when any business suggests that it is "loved" by it's client base in that type of context).
I suppose that the question that needs to be answered in the modern time, is whether an efficient CEO is one who can keep an appropriate spin to keep the stock price high, or one who understands the business properly and is efficiently maintaining the long term health of the business. If it is the former, she is a reasonably efficient CEO, if it is the latter she is seriously overrated as a CEO. I may have the wrong definition for modern business, but I feel that she is seriously over rated. This is not a biassed opinion, it is based on watching what Ebay is doing, how it is undermining productivity and thus undermining the revenue potential, etc. Ebay *should* be a very profitable business, but it *could* be so without damaging and fragmenting the marketplace. I personally feel that it's long term revenue base would be much stronger with management that understood how this market process works and nurtured that instead of reducing user productivity and reducing competitive buying.
Just how I see it, and not suggesting in the least that "anti Christ" comment was aimed at me. I just don't see that those who are critical need to be looked at as having such an extreme view.
Kind Regards, Kevin
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eBay had success with eBay Motors, but really that's just an enhanced category. The retail push flopped. Meg can't take credit for any of it. For her part, she's a talented spin-meister, which eBay loves. But of all the "faces" eBay could pick to represent it, I wouldn't pick hers. The industry is comfortable with her because of her background.
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This tickled me:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>She relented to a customer-driven push for October's $1.5 billion acquisition of PayPal.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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