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Why then would anyone (even eBay) want to promote a technology that is probably going to direct buyers away from their own principal site? Then, we have to assume that this most unscrupulous organization, eBay that is, won’t apply a “Best Match” algorithm to favor themselves, don’t we?

Sounds like another “Skype” purchase to me. Oh, sorry, I forgot, PayPal is going to be eBay’s major growth area in the future. Oh yeah, dream on …

Then, who knows, maybe eBay is going to use some of their overseas stash of cash to fill those rumoured eBay warehouses with Chinese manufactures and start selling their own inventory? If so, methinks the Chief Headless Turkey may have, once again, found another way to continue converting all those past-laid golden eggs to brass …

So what is going on? I think we are observing the most stupid, cruel and inhumane, slow slaughtering of probably the most successful commercial golden-egg laying goose of modern times. Clearly, headless turkeys harbor a great resentment towards such gifted geese …

eBay’s many problems are hardly worth discussing any more. Clearly, the headless turkeys have taken over the eBay farmyard and since the sociopath John Donahoe—whose arrogance is only outweighed by his incompetence—has been given a key to the executive wash room, eBay has, every quarter, relatively speaking, been flushed further and further down the toilet.

eBay’s new US data center, since the dumping of store items into core (aka the eBay April Fools Day Data Centre Massacre), has apparently been effectively crippled, or if it is functioning as planned, it’s a very strange plan. It would appear that, in the US at least, the eBay whale is high and dry on a beach somewhere, has died, and is now stinking.

It has been inferred by a supposedly astute investment advisor that a monkey could run such an organization. My only question then is, how much longer will it be before the eBay Board realizes that they should at least find a monkey that is not already brain dead?

In the meantime, for anyone seriously interested in the incompetence and utter deviousness of eBay’s executive management generally, and in particular eBay’s demonstrable criminal facilitation of the rampant shill bidding fraud being perpetrated on unsuspecting buyers by a great many unscrupulous professional sellers on nominal-start auctions, an introduction thereto (along with some Pay-Pal horror stories thrown in for good measure) can be found at
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23013

Shill Bidding on eBay: Case Study #4
This latest study demonstrates eBay’s utter desperation for revenue and, once again, very effectively, eBay’s effective aiding and abetting of this criminal activity, at
http://forums.auctionbytes.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=23540

eBay/PayPal/Donahoe: Dead Men Walking.
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