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**amy** · 03-17-2006, 03:53 PM,

Quote:EBay Inc.'s top executive for North America on Tuesday said he's confident the company can continue to grow "at a very healthy rate" in the U.S. and around the world.

Bill Cobb, eBay's North America president, said that growth in U.S. global merchandise volume, or GMV, in the fourth-quarter slowed owing to the performance of the eBay Motors business. Speaking at a J.P. Morgan Internet conference in New York, he said that hefty incentives from auto makers "cleaned out the market" in the fourth quarter, and that eBay's core growth rate would have been in line with the general ecommerce growth rate during the period had it not been for that. ...

full article: http://www.smartmoney.com/bn/ON/index.cf...00462-1017

rejoicemusic · 03-17-2006, 05:23 PM,

Anyone watch the documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"? Just saw it the other day, and it was hard NOT to have thoughts of eBay running my mind while watching it.

Anita · 03-18-2006, 01:06 AM,

Funny how a person can read one article stating the eBay Motors carries the entire site and then read one stating how it sucks.

Either way, eBay has been getting MASACURED on the news and in the newspapers here a lot lately. :'(