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Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
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Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
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10-20-2007, 09:04 AM,
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Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Quote:CEO Meg Whitman told analysts that eBay will see a higher percentage of its Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) in fixed-price format and called it the fastest-growing part of the market. The remarks were made Wednesday during a conference call when analyst Benjamin Schachter of UBS asked if the rising number of fixed-price listings as a percentage of GMV would be problematic given eBay's Store versus Core issues of last summer. Whitman said it's not about the format, it's about finding... full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m10/i19/s01 |
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10-20-2007, 06:03 PM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
:asshat2:
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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10-21-2007, 07:58 PM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Well, I seem to remember many people on the boards trying to tell them that BIN was better last year when the fee increases were announced. Why do such unintuitive people ever make it to the top anyway?
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10-23-2007, 01:06 AM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Quote:Well, I seem to remember many people on the boards trying to tell them that BIN was better last year The launch of eBay Express indicates that eBay itself thought that BIN held more long term promise but eBay's primary concern has always been trying to please Wall Street in the short term. Analysts were worried last Spring/Summer about eBay's CORE and so eBay's response was last Summer's "back to the CORE" marketing push/store fee hikes. The attempt to push buyers and sellers to CORE did please Wall Street (and boosted the stock price) but you can't mandate buyer behavior and so the CORE push ultimately failed.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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10-23-2007, 04:11 AM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=16692.msg65777#msg65777 date=1193101600]
Quote:Well, I seem to remember many people on the boards trying to tell them that BIN was better last year The launch of eBay Express indicates that eBay itself thought that BIN held more long term promise but eBay's primary concern has always been trying to please Wall Street in the short term. Analysts were worried last Spring/Summer about eBay's CORE and so eBay's response was last Summer's "back to the CORE" marketing push/store fee hikes. The attempt to push buyers and sellers to CORE did please Wall Street (and boosted the stock price) but you can't mandate buyer behavior and so the CORE push ultimately failed. [/quote] translation > Meg kissed some major Wall Street ass last year. 
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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10-23-2007, 02:26 PM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Quote:eBay's primary concern has always been trying to please Wall Street in the short term. Er, very "short-sighted".  |
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10-24-2007, 02:02 AM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
[quote author=BellisimaJ. link=topic=16692.msg65787#msg65787 date=1193149604]
Quote:eBay's primary concern has always been trying to please Wall Street in the short term. Er, very "short-sighted". [/quote] Ebay's focus on the short term is great for sellers--NOT! |
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10-24-2007, 03:14 PM,
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Re: Meg Can't Make Up Her Mind: Core is out, Fixed price is in
Anyone with access to the VERY generic stats at medved could see that BIN has outperformed auctions for a very long time. How many YEARS did it take ebay to figure that out? ... and I'm sure they have MUCH better statistics that are known to the public. 
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