eBay to Try Live Online Auctions... Again

by: Ric

eBay finds it necessary yet again to reverse a John Donahoe decision.

The question is why not address the #1 issue which would be to reverse the decision to hire this incompetent naboob in the first place.

by: Rexford

Someone please play Shirley Bassey's History Repeating.

I guess this is what you do when you run out of ideas.  Thinking Day anyone?

Coming soon--an auction site for Pez dispensers.

by: Philip Cohen

Wot, live auctions, again?

Too funny! Yet another sign of the desperation that must be being felt in the eBay executive suite and board room. Actually, you can smell the decaying flesh from all the way over here in Australia; radical surgery, starting with an immediate Donahoectomy, is the only hope for saving this very unwell patient …

Has Invaluable done their due diligence, or have they been simply absorbing the disingenuous nonsense that constantly suppurates from the eBay Dept of Spin and therefore they have no idea of what a bunch of hopelessly incompetent cowboys they are getting involved with?

And, when is eBay’s sleeping BoD going to wake up and finally accept that the “Pain From Bain”, Johnny Ho, is their real problem? Probably never, while they, and the senior executives—in the form of (unearned) performance bonuses, are the only ones taking home any cash from eBay.

And just what does the "smart money" on Wall Street think about eBay? Well, in August 2007, prior to the GFC, when Johnny Ho was already effectively in control of eBay, the share prices of eBay and Amazon were both ~$40; with eBay recently ~$50 and Amazon ~$288, clearly, Wall Street (still) considers eBay to be a "dog", and Johnny Ho to be a very poor dog handler ...

eBay Inc, where the incompetent mingle with the malevolent and the criminal ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas

by: Mr. Me

eBay is a failed entity , flopping around like a dying fish! No identity nor game plan in sight.

by: moto-science

No hope. Very confused company. As soon they chase off enough Ebay sellers off in August, mark my words :  They will be inviting them back.....Imagine a web site without content.
Already the Ebay catalog shows much less variety.

by: The End

"It was never certain why Donahoe decided to shutter a profitable part of eBay's business..."
Because he was the New Snotty little know-it-all.
Dumb Ass.

by: Puck

Once again:
Back to the future.

by: Mr Mog

moto-science quote Imagine a web site without content.
Ebay - fast becoming a website without content due to running off all their good sellers. Without them the variety that was ebay is gone. No variety, no buyers. Will ebay ever become the place for variety anymore. Or is the damage already done and the steady decline started. Only to gather pace as more sellers go, taking their buyers with them.  

by: Massachusets Howler

We have to ask:
Will these "auctions" get added exposure as they are ENDING, while ours DO NOT.
WHY would an outside company get better EXPOSURE than ebays long-term sellers.

WE HAVE TO KNOW the answers here!

Is this but another seller who's items will be shown AHEAD OF OURS, making our existing auctions EVEN HARDER to find?

I think we all know the answers to these questions- but Ina- PLEASE ASK THEM DIRECTLY.

Looks like YET ANOTHER ROADBLOCK for sellers to me- HOW COME they cannot show MY auctions- I am a 13 year ROCK-SOLID TRS and our family is physically STARVING as our auctions are not being shown.

How about ebay just CARVE UP the few remaining auction buyers and give them away to big sellers- gee, wait- that is just what they are doing!

I want ALL MY FEES BACK for the last 5 years!!

Mass Howler

by: Massachusets Howler

OHHHHH!
Now I SEE.
JD came on and said "more emphasis for AUCTIONS"- so that this NEW COMPANY can get some business- NOT US!
That's the truth. Read between the smoke.
Mass Howler

by: gramophone-georg

eBay will always reverse a decision without blinking an eye if it means a  corporate pal can be brought on board  and small sellers can be hidden from view and decimated at the same time here on the "level playing field".

In eBay speak, that's known as a "win- win".

Wonder what sort of fees they'll be paying and how the new feedback/ defect policies will be applied to the new fair haired child? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

by: Bill

As Curly used to say:
"What a bunch of Maroons"

by: Ming the Merciless

The question must now be asked seriously.

How much secret kickback is Donahoe getting from unknown sources to run a corporation in this otherwise irrational manner?

Just where does The Ho think these bidders are going to come from?

This guy has more than more than one screw loose.

Is this grossly misdirected blowback from the Icahn challenge?
If so, Icahn got it wrong or The Ho still DOESN'T GET IT.

Ebay is adrift in the middle of the a very large ocean with no sane leadership.

Calling Dr. Phil!

by: summer in the city

So perhaps Donahoe's been waking up in a cold sweat night after night, confronted with the specter of Jack Ma standing at the foot of his bed, grinning at him...

by: Damariscotta

Some of the live auction houses, including a major one that I attend, used eBay in the past. Since eBay dropped it, they moved on to other systems (and I certainly like the convenience of not tying up an entire day at the live auction when only interested in a few lots). My question is whether they will see the need to give eBay a cut, when they would be able to do this on their own. In the earlier days, they could hope for participation for eBay's major customer base. Nowadays the sophisticated buyers will find the items from the auction house directly, and the rest of the flea-bayers are probably not worth the effort and expense, especially if they hit their $20 spending limit early in the year.

by: DingDong

eBay to Try Live Online Auctions... Again

I got an new ideal for John D. How about a

"Try DEAD Online Auctions"

by: LinneyPinney

And now they are paying $15.00 for us to refer sellers to the site. This is crazy.  

by: Rexford

I would not refer a seller to eBay for $500.00.

I could not in good conscience do that to someone.

by: Mr. Me

Reminds me of a broken GPS that I just tossed out ....... "RECALCULATING, RECALCULATING, RECALCULATING" ......New COKE ? anyone ?

by: Ric

LinneyPinney observes..."And now they are paying $15.00 for us to refer sellers to the site. This is crazy."

Perhaps if John Donahoe's reign of terror against sellers had not taken place, he would not find himself having to offer a bounty to invigorate the seller base.

To parapharse Slim Pickins... We went to all the trouble of running off all these sellers only to find it necessary to beg them to come back... I am depressed.

One has to wonder if eBay will have sufficiently funded this bounty program, or if sellers will find themselves having to wait for their promised rewards.