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[mandy]

Auctionbytes on eBay's Town Hall Meeting:

eBay will begin adding Half.com listings to eBay search results. eBay had acquired Half in 2000 and had planned to integrate Half.com into eBay. In 2004, it reversed its decision to close the Half.com site and has begun including links to Half in media categories on eBay. Beginning in early 2007, eBay will add all Half.com listings to eBay search results.

ALL Half.com listings=millions of items

eBay Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Gary Briggs announced the new campaign and Half.com changes during the eBay Town Hall event on Friday presided over by President of eBay North America Bill Cobb...

There were several questions from members about whether eBay's running of paid-search ads from Yahoo on eBay search results would take buyers off of eBay. Bill Cobb said, "We've studied cannibalization, it's a small test, but we haven't seen cannibalization." He also said that in addition to testing Yahoo ads on null search results, eBay was also testing the approach in some other places at a very low level...

full article: http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m10/i02/s03

[BellisimaJ.]

Nice title, Mandy.

[xppman]

eBay will begin adding Half.com listings to eBay search results.

Seems to me this indicates that they NEED additional listings to fill the
void of all the Stores they destroyed.  :

Side Note: Pom Pom Tom is a voices member?
Why am I not surprised.

[cranky_hippie]

Side Note: Pom Pom Tom is a voices member?

A Voice and a Hall of Famer who clearly has too much invested in Ebay to do anything BUT cheer.

[amy]

Beginning in early 2007, eBay will add all Half.com listings to eBay search results.

Can you guess what the next announcement from eBay concerning Half will be? 
(Hint: PayPal has never been an accepted form of payment on Half...)

Seems to me this indicates that they NEED additional listings to fill the
void of all the Stores they destroyed.

I think the number of listings on Half is significantly more than the number of Store listings they lost.  The real reason for the inclusion of Half listings on the main site probably starts with a P...

Pom Pom Tom is a voices member?

Winner of the Community Service Hall of Fame Award at eBay Live 2004

[cranky_hippie]

The real reason for the inclusion of Half listings on the main site probably starts with a P...

And, no doubt, The Cobb will say "We are doing this at the request of the Community. Members have clamored for Paypal payments for some time. We listened and are now doing as they asked." In other words, "If you don't like it, tough. It's YOUR fault, not ours."

[amy]

Somebody's fees will change when Half is included in the main search.  Either eBay will move Half to a monthly subscription plan like Amazon or they'll lower core listing fees for media items like they did in Germany where media listing fees were lowered to 1 euro cent. 

[xppman]

Maybe they should just change the name from eBay to workshalfthetime.com?

At least that way the can shake the BAD REP
brand name of eBay they created.  ;D

Another note about Pom Pom Tom
His husband obviously supports him so he has no worries
if he is upside down and has pom poms stick out his orifices.  ;D

[BellisimaJ.]

tmfvideo wrote at 9:53 am, October 2nd, 2006
yawn... I'm not a member of voices? Boink is Bell!!

Pom Pom Tom thinks I'm Boinktard. Must have been the "tsk, tsk".


http://www.ebaymatchups.com/matchup/view...wners_5187

[BellisimaJ.]

tmfvideo wrote at 10:00 am, October 2nd, 2006
Yes it is, it's my tool... was it ever yours?

boinktard wrote at 10:20 am, October 2nd, 2006
Tom, your tool (eBay) needs some work! Have you ever sat down to figure out how much you're making per hour selling on eBay?

Bolding is mine.


Edited to fix the quote thingys