Archive for April, 2006

Bill Cobb, President, eBay North America:

I’m pleased to announce that eBay Express is now available as a preview site at www.ebayexpress.com. As you know from reading my message in January, eBay Express offers a completely new buying experience for eBay inventory. You’ll notice right away that eBay Express has a unique feel to [...]

Bid in Oxfam’s Exclusive Auction for the East Africa Food Crisis

Keira Knightley was the star of the red carpet at the Oscars in a deep-claret taffeta silk gown designed by Vera Wang. She has now very generously offered this custom made dress to Oxfam to auction, with all proceeds going to support Oxfam’s [...]

e-commerce:
There’s a popular saying that goes “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This applies to business, war and cheesy reality TV show contestants. It now applies to eBay. A Wall Street Journal article today revealed the auction behemoth is getting more and more nervous over Google’s foray into the e-commerce sphere. How nervous? [...]

PS3news:
Remember the stories about how hard it was to find an Xbox 360 in the early days? Oddly enough, Microsoft’s next-gen console couldn’t be found in local stores, and yet there were excesses on eBay, selling for much more than the retail price. How could such a thing happen?
Easy.
Some devious retailers were simply hoarding their [...]

Bloomberg:
Shares of eBay, the world’s largest auctioneer, fell Thursday the most in more than a year after the company gave a disappointing outlook for 2006, signaling that growth may be slowing.
Profit may be 7 cents less than Wall Street expectations, eBay said Wednesday after U.S. markets closed. Annual sales may rise to $5.9 billion, said [...]

SFGate:

EBay has little hope of capturing a bigger share of the Chinese online auction market despite bankrolling a major expansion there, according to the company’s chief Chinese rival.
Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba.com, China’s leading Internet marketplace, said that early mistakes by eBay have made it difficult for the company to gain traction in [...]

webpronews:
Although revenue increased by 35 percent compared to the same quarter last year, net income for eBay moved down by three percent as stock-based compensation expenses impacted the bottom line.
EBay has not accounted for stock options before in its financial numbers. By treating the $58.3 million of stock-based compensation as an expense, net income for [...]

One Day At A Time:
It has come to my attention that ebay no longer allows the sale of Teacher’s Edition Textbooks. The claim I’ve been hearing through the message boards is that non-teachers, namely students, are buying the answer keys for their own use.
So what? If it is a college student, that person is an [...]

Variety.com:
EBay is finally ready for primetime.
After years of trying to break into television, the Internet auction giant is working with ABC and Tom Mazza’s Madison Road Prods. on a feel-good reality show dubbed “Make It Happen.” Alphabet wouldn’t confirm anything, but casting has already begun and the show could be on the air as early [...]

MicYahBay?
Wall Street Journal via John Battelle:
EBay Inc. is talking to both Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to determine whether one of them might be a worthy ally against a common threat: Google Inc.
After years of working closely with the search giant, eBay last year became alarmed as Google started assaulting its turf in multiple ways. [...]