eBay Eyes Southeast Asia for Growth

[mandy]

Sam McDonagh, director of eBay Southeast Asia, told ZDNet Asia in an interview: "We're very optimistic about the growth of the market, and it is not just Singapore but the Southeast Asia region."

eBay currently operates three full-fledged sites, where members can buy and sell online, in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, as well as what it calls "promotional sites" which have no trading functions in emerging markets like Vietnam...

Even though using mobile devices to conduct e-commerce is still at the "early stages in Asia or other parts of the world", McDonagh said "mobile is very important to eBay in the near and medium term"...

full article: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/internet/0...908,00.htm

[bargainbloodhound]

Meg must be a glutton for punishment...i.e. she must enjoy failure.  Based on eBay's dismal performance in the rest of Asia I think I would exit the region rather than expand to additional markets.