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meg whitman leaving ebay in march

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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    She ruined the company.

    Now, she bails with HUGE-Millions.

    SHORT the dog back to <$15.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    said some guy was taking over that was already there,didnt catch name on news,just the meg leaving part
  • SDavidSDavid Posts: 1,584 ✭✭
    There's also supposedly an announcement coming regarding an increase for FVF and a decrease in listing fees for some or all categories. On the UK site, they raised the FVF to 9% for all sales in the Media category. I hope they leave the FVF for sports memorabilia alone.

    The funny part is when they raised store fees last year they said it was part of an effort to get back to the true auction listings. Now they're apparently going to another fee structure that will have the opposite effect. Talk about a lack of direction.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    they are good at screwing thing up realy nice for us the past 3-4 yearsimage they take something simple and make it 10 times as hard, now that an upgrade image
  • zippyzippy Posts: 399
    She suks & ebay is worse than when she took over
    glad I don't own any stock in this loser

  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Thats ok, wait until google announces and auction service that you can use their checkout with. So long eBay.
  • SDavidSDavid Posts: 1,584 ✭✭
    Well, maybe not. Looks like some of the earlier reports I read may have been wrong and ebay may be lowering all its fees. Anyway, we should know pretty soon.

    ebay lowering fees
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    I've got to disagree with the comments that Meg Whitman ruined eBay. Say what you will about the company and its fees and all the negative changes they have made, we all use eBay and it's made things very easy for us as collectors. When Whitman started with eBay there were maybe a couple dozen employees and now it's an international company with a market cap of $39 billion. That hardly sounds like ruining a company to me. The Skype decision was a costly mistake though.
  • jrinckjrinck Posts: 1,321 ✭✭


    << <i>Thats ok, wait until google announces and auction service that you can use their checkout with. So long eBay. >>



    I'd give Google a shot. Ebay may rule supreme right now, but if a big name company with a desire to do it right wants to come in and compete, I'll be happy to give them a chance.
  • TheVonTheVon Posts: 2,725 ✭
    Google better do it right and flood the market with advertising because eBay has the critical mass. I don't mean to imply even for a second that Yahoo! is as well run as Google, but how many of you logged much time on the Yahoo! auction pages? That was a complete failure.
  • AllenAllen Posts: 7,165 ✭✭✭
    Yahoo auctions had been around since before ebay went big time. They actually used to be pretty decent. If they had promoted it they could have made something of it. They let it get overrun with scams there at the end and I don't think they even policed it.
  • earlycalguyearlycalguy Posts: 1,247 ✭✭


    << <i>I've got to disagree with the comments that Meg Whitman ruined eBay. Say what you will about the company and its fees and all the negative changes they have made, we all use eBay and it's made things very easy for us as collectors. When Whitman started with eBay there were maybe a couple dozen employees and now it's an international company with a market cap of $39 billion. That hardly sounds like ruining a company to me. The Skype decision was a costly mistake though. >>




    Very true. Meg grew the company tremedously. She's the most powerful woman CEO out there. The woman CEO at HP lasted maybe a year and left in a scandal.
  • LeiascardsLeiascards Posts: 3,233
    Ebay and Google recently signed a joint marketing deal. Google has apparently given up the auction idea. They are making more money off Ebay through Adwords.
  • rube26105rube26105 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭
    <<The Skype decision was a costly mistake though. >>


    what is that anyways?ive seen it on my pages,just never wanted to touch it,figured id get charged triple overtime or somethingimage
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    all the changes they have made in the past few years have cluttered the process, made things harder to list, harder to search, harder to use (in my opinion, though I believe i'm in the majority) Good riddance Meg, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

    "they raised the FVF to 9% for all sales in the Media category"

    are you Fawkin kiddin me?? 9%? what is this a Heritage auction??
  • GuruGuru Posts: 3,127
    I don't image Meg Whitman!
  • BamBamBamBam Posts: 31
    Say what you want, BUT Meg made the Stockholders ecstatic over her/eBay's performance, and she led the way in destroying most of her direct online competition. Never forget about 8/9 years ago hearing/listening to eBayer after aBayer saying how she was ruining the company, and the stock was going to tank. I listened to these knuckleheads, that was the bad/awful part.
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