eBay, Inc. (EBAY)

Amazon will take over and destroy Ebay and Craigslist.

I am not impressed with the growth potential for their business. They have made wrong choices after wrong choices. The vultures are starting to circle, how long before google comes after them? It is aready easier to search ebay through google than through ebay's terrible search.

I'm usually going to be bearish on companies who don't treat their customers well. IMHO, eBay is in this group because I find their policies to be buyer friendly (this is good) at the expense of the sellers (this is bad). It makes me not want to use eBay for listing my things that I want to sell, because I think the seller protection is inadequate, and they're trying to tell me how to run MY business by placing all these rules and stipulations on what methods of payments I can accept or use. I don't support this at all. In addition, they seem to keep listing their fees, which makes it less economical. I only use eBay as a price guide most of the time now. I pick eBay to "Underperform" until they get it right, by treating their paying customers properly.

Ebay has become seriously anti-seller with its increased fees. Their greed will eventually become their downfall, as sellers will flock to more profitable venues such as Craigslist. Even Amazon will one day give it a run for its money. Ebay was once a company i admired and sold on frequently. Not anymore.

Check out their Better Business Rating a big "F" lowest you can get! I have bought and sold items on eBay since 2005 and have a star rating of over 900 with 100% positive feedback. I can tell you they do not care the least about their sellers, only collecting fees. Don't let their new business model "fool" you! Ebay and PayPal have no concern for protecting sellers from fraud. It may work in the short run, in the long run no one will use eBay to give their items away. They have gone backwards in offering a selling platform, not improved it. Don’t even think about investing here!

Ebay is wide open to competitors taking it's business due to poor treatment of it's customers(Ebay Sellers).I predict someone will come along and take that business away.Craigslist is one but that is mostly local.I think there will be a significant competitor,maybe Google, that will be more internet oriented.

Expect profit taking following recent run-up in market.

just an uneducated guess

Amazon is just eating them for lunch in all directions.

Gotta go against the figures; AMZN will continue to chew the e-commerce profits from a fledgling Ebay that's fallen far from its glory days.

The only reason I have Ebay as an underperform is because the S&P 500 now has the room to run in this economy and will obviously outperform EBAY as the economy recovers within the next 1-3 years. I do believe that Ebay will enjoy a 10-15% increase in 2009 thus making this stock just below a market perform

Cash may be King, but Customer Service is a close second as Queen. Ebay may have a big moat for online auctions, but I say moat shmoat if you can’t keep customers satisfied. After calling their customer service line to address a problem, I had the Ebay employee tell how great his experience was using Ebay. Huh? After kicking the issue up to a manager? Yep, still no result. Blockbuster had this same problem with customer service, (charging users unwarranted late fees didn’t help) –thus opening the door for Netflix to spank them down to penny stock status. I had similar experience with MCI which I wrote about on the message boards about a year before they bit the dust. As I did with MCI I am selling my shares and waiting for the next great Ebay rival. Checkmate!

High selling fees, high paypal fees and bipolar changes will only drive away sellers and e-bay is nothing without them. Currently the seller is at the buyer's mercy with ridiculous feedback and paypal policies.

High fees and better choices make ebay a "buy it later" stock

They seem to have killed the golden goose. With times getting hard, people will want to sell their stuff and this means more $$ for ebay. What are they doing wrong? Not sure, but they should have been going up for all of 2008.
They'll have to change upper management before this turns around.

The directors are obsessed with the idea of chasing Amazon. eBay will never be able to compete on that level.

They are about to get taken out by another company.......Their new policies suck as-s. Customer service sucks as-s. Paypal sucks as-s. Sounds like a good opportunity for other auction sites to take over.

This company has no set policies except to close legitimate complaints. I purchas a $300.00 item, never received it, and am out the money. The co. is simply going on with no direction. They are not able to differentiate from a legitimate complaint, but rather to divorce themselves from it. This compay is setting themselves up for failure with no directional criteria. Their attitude is you bought something, now you're on your own. I was warned from a former sellor, that there is no policies that protect, or at least listen to the consumer I believe this company needs to be audited and investigational precedures shou be commenced.

Underperform...too many unhappy sellers....being kicked off and therefore unable to complete the process of shipping to buyers!!!

Buyers contact sellers through personal email striking deals to obtain product delisted. Ebay continues to cut the seller off thus unintentionally slicing the buyer...who now does not obtain items purchased and needs to go through the process to request a refund from Paypal....a process that can take 7 - 14 days....unhappy seller! (mo interest for cash Paypal) Ponzi Scheme!!

Yes....Ebay should outperform based on the economy....people sell items for extra cash...but the frustrating process and lack of communication makes it a nightmare!

If you believe ebay would outperform...why hasn't it? I have left my ebay store, and listings for Amazon...happy camper NOW!!!

But miss my ebay!