I am certainly in the camp that this rumor makes little sense. If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.
It's really volume driven. There are more and more search queries so growth should continue on the ad front,
The product rumors are secondary to the positive sentiment among investors heading into the first-quarter results.
We haven't seen much activity on the Internet from the traditional ad agencies. They have had their head stuck in the sand,
There is an increased intensity in the trend towards packet-switched equipment, ... Lucent gets about 50 percent of its revenue from older world technology products, and the growth rates on those products are heading to the lower single digits.
If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.'