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Quote:Things will get interesting when eBay posts its second-quarter results next week. There are already a few reasons to be worried. CEO Meg Whitman started selling some shares last month. She hadn't unloaded eBay stock in four years. American Technology Research is also projecting a 3% dip in global auction listings on eBay.

Is eBay becoming less relevant? Regardless of what the product-placement pitch in Transformers may have led you to believe, eBay just isn't as iconic as it used to be. Folks are turning to free online classified listings through Craigslist, Facebook, and Google Base.

Why else would eBay have launched its own free listings site -- Kijiji -- earlier this month? Why else would it have slashed its fees this month in a rare summer promotion, when annual fee hikes are the norm? Why else would eBay load up its pages with third-party ads through Google and Yahoo! , which distract potential bidders?...