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When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to overcome, the parallels with eBay are across the board. It's community management. It's making sure the marketplace is in balance - the right amount of buyers and sellers.

We welcome her and the eBay team to China, and with this Yahoo! deal, we decided to give them a nice big welcome gift,

Yes, there are opportunities to make money. But there are also opportunities to lose money. If the supply on eBay exceeds the demand, you may find yourself with an Xbox when you didn't want an Xbox.

The real vote if you're really concerned about fraud, the place to look to see that it is a small part is the fact that you have so many people who have converted their small businesses on line. They're not going to do that and they're not going to stay on eBay if it isn't the healthiest and safest environment to be trading in.

This was a particularly strong quarter for eBay across all parts of its business,

Today, most of us think about eBay as an auction site, but a third of the items that transact on eBay are actually fixed price.

You had good earnings out of Pfizer, good earnings out of Merrill Lynch , several dividend increases and eBay shares that have performed better than expected. It's creating a transitory early rally as it's still too early to say whether it will hold.

What this shows is if you are going to try and break the law by selling pirated DVDs, eBay is probably not the place to do it because you are probably going to get caught and we'll help catch you.

We continue to view eBay as a core Internet holding. However, we are still struggling to find a meaningful near-term catalyst and believe that the company is entering a more mature phase of its growth cycle that could limit potential upside in future quarters.

We continue to turn to eBay because their open approach creates an environment of support for independent developers who are tapping into the platform. In addition to providing business opportunities and a playground for innovation, eBay is a great mentor for developers.

This site is much more on a collision path with other online retailers. I would also say that the traditional site has been very focused on the sellers, but now eBay is saying that it has enough supply and it's going after the demand side of the equation.

Vintage rock T-shirts are the best. I have about 50 or 60, most bought on eBay for a few pounds. You can always tell which ones are genuine because there'll be lots of pictures showing you the holes.

Today's ruling does nothing that affects the validity or infringement of the patents in suit. By admitting to the infringement in their Supreme Court petition, eBay abandoned any pretense of innocence.

We are very pleased with our second-quarter results. Everyday the eBay marketplace becomes indispensable to more people and small businesses around the world.

Between me and A.J. , we felt that our fans deserved something better than some half-assed VHS-video someone shot years ago with a lame angle or focus, and has nothing but a snow-covered screen. I see shit like that on eBay all the time, and fans deserve something better.

Everybody has treasures in their attic, their basement, their garage, that they're willing to let go for a lot less than maybe what they're worth. And someone out there on ebay is looking for those items.

Every day millions of buyers and sellers come together on eBay and define what's truly hot. eBay Pulse is real-world information that's updated daily, so it's incredibly useful for someone looking for both buyers and sellers.

Even if having integrated voice communication between buyers and sellers is a good thing, I'm not certain that eBay would need to acquire the capability.

There's no question that seasonal trends are becoming more pronounced as eBay becomes more mainstream,

I sold my first painting on eBay for $4.75, ... On eBay, you don't have to have a lot of money to own original artwork. There are bidders who will get onto the site and bid on every single painting I put up. And sometimes the result is the joy of the lower-end buyer, folks who are thrilled when no one outbids them. They tell me they can't believe they've got a painting they wanted.

The way eBay has developed and has grown is by giving the tools to individuals to list the items they wish to sell. It's up to the eBay community to decide whether there is any advantage to listing items of this nature.

These results demonstrate that our continued focus on expanding the eBay marketplace is accelerating the company's growth around the world.

Quite frankly, you look at the numbers, and you realize there has to be something more for eBay to buy into. There's significant risk because the cash is not there now.

People have actually placed a bid on behalf of somebody else. The person selling the item is bidding on it. We've talked to these folks and we've come away really convinced they were doing it for a friend or family member that didn't have an eBay account. Also, people have done it because they are attempting to drive up the price on their own item.

After returning from our trip to China, we think that eBay will need to continue to invest in 2006, potentially pushing off any rebound in near-term margins,

After a little over two years in development, we are extremely excited to finally release this gallery to the eBay marketplace. We went through great lengths to make this gallery fully automatic for users. Essentially all a customer has to do is sign up, set their custom cross-promotion preferences, and our gallery does the rest.

Auctionshark.com has recently begun a trial of meta-auctions, ... Should these types of services gain momentum, they could increase the competition to eBay (or at least potentially increase marketing costs.)

As long as eBay continues its current policy on non-disclosure of these metrics, we think investors will be very cautious as to their expectations of eBay's success in China, which would weigh on the stock,

That's how I clean up here. You get the good with the bad. I have to get rid of everything so I put things together so if people want some of it, and then some just ends up in the dump or it ends up on eBay a lot of the time.

This is going to make it hard for eBay to win in Asia. It totally reshapes the landscape for auctions in Asia.

This is really probably the knockout blow for eBay in China.

This isn't new. We announced a Safe Payments Policy back in October 2005, and began implementing it in January 2006. It governs the types of payments services that sellers can market in their listings. Of course, due to the nature of eBay being a marketplace, we can't monitor or control how buyers and sellers actually complete payments and transactions.

This is a mistake. eBay bad and robotic, Craig's List human and good. And now on the way to selling out.

They scan it for $20 or $30 at most and on eBay get $175, $165, something like that.

Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source for the secondary market of those products. Google is the authority for information about facts, but they're relatively undifferentiated.

Amazon and eBay have long been the top e-commerce sites in the minds of many consumers.

This past quarter, we continued our efforts to bring a wider audience to eBay through a variety of marketing endeavors including online and traditional advertising, grassroots marketing, public relations and strong word of mouth referrals.

At a point when many other e-commerce companies are struggling to reach breakeven, eBay has demonstrated that it has a materially different and better model, which is driving exceptional growth both in sales and earnings.

It's a reverse bid, similar to how eBay works, ... Consumers set the terms. In other words, they say,'You pay me X amount a call, call me these number of times, for these products.'

It's a big deal wherever this card is sold. I was thinking how could I leverage the publicity value of this card. I thought it would be really something if I approached eBay with this idea.

it never occurred to me that anyone would buy into the notion that Mr. Bush and his supporters would actually do something about poverty and racism. Someone who believed that could probably be persuaded to make a bid on eBay to buy the Brooklyn Bridge.

It's a group buying experience that leverages the eBay effect, ... Once people buy things they generate a lot of traffic. They tend to keep coming back and that's a lot of additional page views for advertising purposes.

I told the guys to get a haircut and put it on eBay -- there might be some money from it. People are so stupid now, they buy stuff that's stupid.

It's one thing if you're face to face with someone, but if you're jumping on eBay trying to get a last-minute lift ticket, you're probably going to be the victim of a scam.

EBay was given no mercy after hours. Followers were very dismayed by the guidance and that clearly was no help for the rest of technology.

eBay started with a core focus on the collector. At the time of its S-1, six or seven percent of its total sales were Beanie Babies.

Ebay put out good numbers. Wall Street had already priced in a possible miss or even lower guidance going forward but that did not happen. Ebay in fact moderately raised expectations. So that's a good thing.

eBay obviously saw the cost of fighting a lawsuit better than the cost of paying the licensing fees.

EBay is well out of its comfort zone on this one.

Ebay is really fighting for China but there are two entrenched players there already. So eBay had to invest more in China to compete more aggressively for market share.

eBay is a very unique company that created an entirely new market that allows people to do something they couldn't do before, ... I think that's the fundamental strength of the company.

EBay is a valued partner and we look forward to a long, successful relationship.

EBay is a significant enabler of economic opportunity in Europe.

EBay is a huge problem for a lot of us brand holders. It's also any auction sites. eBay at least is working with us to close these sites down.

EBay is a huge problem for a lot of us brand holders.

eBay is a company that understands network effects better than any other, ... Its core business, as well as (online payment system) Pay Pal, have been created and have succeeded by this network effect ? as more users come in, the marketplace grows in value.

EBay has allowed everyone to become a scalper. Any eBay customer can go out and buy four tickets and auction off two. You'd be a schmuck not to do it.

EBay has allowed everyone to become a scalper, ... Any eBay customer can go out and buy four tickets and auction off two. You'd be a schmuck not to do it.

Ebay gets 3.5 million listings daily. So there's no way to accurately capture what percentage of those listings represent unwanted holiday gifts.

EBay Express could open up eBay to a whole new audience it hasn't reached before.

eBay commends the Patent Office for its willingness to reexamine this patent and is impressed with the thorough analysis contained in this second office action.

EBay came out with good numbers, but the outlook for the fourth quarter and next year wasn't so good, ... We're probably looking at a lower open, with a mixed trading session, as people respond to individual earnings and keep an eye on the price of oil.

EBay at least is working with us to close these sites down.

Still, a lot of people don't take eBay seriously ... We have an artist friend who was at a Los Angeles seminar on marketing art and he was told, 'If you want to be taken seriously, get off eBay.' He then told them that he'd made $150,000 in art on eBay last year. He was immediately told, 'Keep doing what you're doing.'

It's an area of opportunity for the company, ... The buying that is being transacted on eBay is now so large that we have the mass to go to UPS or Fedex and try to get a deal that would be beneficial to our community.

They've made good strides but haven't fully monetized other opportunities. The nature of a marketplace is that once you have a critical mass, it tends to stick, and there's not a lot that can unseat it. But that's not to say that eBay doesn't have significant challenges ahead.

They've made good strides but haven't fully monetized other opportunities, ... The nature of a marketplace is that once you have a critical mass, it tends to stick, and there's not a lot that can unseat it. But that's not to say that eBay doesn't have significant challenges ahead.

Not just do they look like they could be sisters, but they feel like they could be sisters. We've encouraged them to spend time together. Most of the time, I think they search on eBay and do shopping and discuss things that have no meaning to me whatsoever.

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

The issue is that eBay has lost some momentum,

The FBI is investigating...It's very clear to us that eBay is not the subject of the investigation. They're looking at the practice of an individual. We have cooperated and we will continue to cooperate with the FBI.

I'm based in galleries in part because if you call what I do postmodernism, nobody on eBay is searching for that, ... eBay does well for traditional work and people who collect it.

I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

In the first quarter of 2000, eBay achieved unprecedented financial and operational success. The company is firing on all cylinders as it expands to become a truly global trading platform.

I just really love my fake sisters, Mandy and Piper. We've had a really wonderful time. We talk about our eBay purchases.

Investors are treating eBay as the safest stock in the Internet, ... The good news for eBay is they have a defensible monopoly and it's hard to crack that.

Investors see EBay going outside of its core business here. What does that mean about its core business?

In 166,000 auctions and $25 million worth of property we've sold on eBay we've never had a stolen item because any crook with brains in his head isn't going to take stuff to someone who photographs them and puts them on public display.

I have voluntarily cancelled the EBay auction upon receiving word from one of Jennifer's representatives that she didn't want me conducting the auction,

I have voluntarily canceled the eBay auction upon receiving word from one of Jennifer's representatives that she didn't want me conducting the auction. I have nothing but fond memories of Jennifer as a friend and only wish her well.

Clearly these three companies are becoming increasingly competitive vis-a-vis EBay, and the thought is maybe EBay would want to respond with a defensive move.

Clearly, when she began selling these on eBay to us, she knew it was illegal.

Clearly we are getting closer to the day when we'll be able to value eBay on traditional price/earnings metrics and although we would not argue that eBay is cheap based on our full-year 2001 EPS estimates of 40 cents a share, we do believe that eBay appears exceedingly inexpensive based on our full-year 2002 EPS estimate of 78 cents a share.

but I think eBay and even Amazon have reached pretty high valuations that can't be supported even with their growth rate.

What's an eBay?" "A mythical place of great magical power." - Jace Wayland and Clary Fray (City of Bones)

I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

I could see Amazon and eBay merging. Amazon operates in a huge market, but it's got lower margin revenue. eBay has higher margin revenues, but the secondhand and small-business markets will always be limited relative to the size of the retail market. Combine the two, though, and that could be a very powerful entity.

If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.'

If eBay wants to get a hold of you, it will pop up when you sign in there.

If eBay really wanted some VoIP technology it could have bought it cheaper or built it itself, ... If it is not paying for VoIP technology what is it paying for? The brand and the number of registered users.

Cartridges can sometimes be left in unmarked boxes on a loading dock next to somebody's eBay package. Often the most important data goes through the least sophisticated processes.

For the first couple of weeks of January, we have seen very strong activity across the eBay properties.

I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.

Don't touch any of my weapons without my permission." "Well, there goes my plan for selling them all on eBay," Clary muttered. "Selling them on what?" Clary smiled blandly at him. "A mythical place of great magical power.

When you're paid $29 for something and 30 or 40 years later you're seeing it on eBay with pages going for $199 or more, it's like, "Dammit!"

I was collecting Barbies. I know... embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I've collected two things.

Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.

What makes eBay successful.. the real value and the real power at eBay is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

By building a simple system, with just a few guiding principles, eBay was open to organic growth.