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eBay Might Sell Skype and PayPal?!
 

Read this on Digg. I hope this day will come... but I doubt they will sell PayPal, Skype maybe.

FT.com - Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary

Digg - eBay Will Sell Skype

Skype was a huge mistake for EBAY...
 

because people don't want to do face to face customer service, which is what EBAY originally thought.

I think most people do their EBAYing in their PJs, not in a suit and tie. LOL.

They will never sell Paypal. That is the real money maker and manipulation tool.

I thought I read something about Google going to buy skype. That was a couple weeks ago, I'm not sure if its going through or not.

Shoot, there were rumors about Google buying EBAY...
 

why would they? They have everything they need to make an EBAY.

Within a year or two, they will have GBAY. But they are taking the slow path, which is smart because dealing with all the fraud and other nonsense is expensive.

The primary thing they need to restore is safe listing with anonymity. People that auction items aren't Walmart. They want their privacy. It was what, at one time, made EBAY great.

All GBAY has to do is come up with a way to guarantee safe buyer/seller exchange (not easy at all), proper feedback (again hard) and anonymous transfer of goods. And they have a HUGE WINNER!!!

Oh Happy Days then if this happens.

http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/01/googleskype

Doncha worry that all these sights that claim to protect us...
 

are among the prime sights with an incentive to infect us?

I don't like the idea that some company can scan my computer too easily. Once they are on my machine, they can send data out from my machine.

It is why I NEVER allow Active X Controls to be downloaded. But even Java Applets can get you to a degree.

So much spying is going on. I hate worrying about it. But EBAY and Paypal alerted us to it big time.

even if they did sell skype, it doesnt make much difference to me.

i wudnt buy paypal, my highest offer is 99 cents
not a penny more, if they sell it no one is going to use it to accept payments on ebay, people only do right now because they have to, and for obvious reasons like protection etc. blah blah blah.

id rather buy western union, $22 is the average charge for a transfer. what a ripppp

lol i agree with jscan

I'd like to own them both...
 

shoot. I hate Paypal, and I might change the way it was managed, but it is worth billions. And to date, it is the ONLY growth vehicle for EBAY.

Paypal is what continually beats expectations. That is why they are forcing it down our throats now.

But that only works so long...

does anyone know when google is planing to launch their auction website?

btw when google does launch its website and they will, everyone will forget about ebay.

its only a matter of time and ebay knows it, thats why there going so hard to get every penny in their pockets as possible.

I think they are at least a year or two away. It is hard to get it down so people will trust your site.

Google Base is the platform. Google is the search engine. Google Checkout is the Paypal.

All you need is an auction front end and Google Engineers could come up with that in a week-end.

But they are still learning the customer support and fraud issues involved. And the fact that the initial people they draw will be those that cannot get on EBAY anymore.

I will tell you one thing. If GBAY does arrive and proves a success. I will be the absolute best doobee on their site I can be no matter what they request I do. I think many feel the same way.

The hope is they will be better. But I am not so sure.

wow, it will take them 1-2 more years?
they said they plan on releasing a auction website 3 years ago

patience is what we need, the chronicles we should count our pennies and make a bid on western union. lolssss

well i hope they launch it soon, i just cant wait
=)

Oh comeon, I don't believe they will sell paypal. After all the years promoting it as part of eBay, and now making it compulsory in several countries, they won't sell up.

As for skype, I don't use it, so couldn't give a dam really.

im really surprised that skype's revenue is so high.

It is surprising about skype's revenue. Their services sux. And after I found out that ebay
was their guardian, I disposed of their services quickly.

i remember a LONG TIME AGO when ebay was a respectable name.

GreenBean, yeah I wonder how many people quit skype because ebay bought them.

I did. I'm using Gizmo Project now... not as good as skype but international calls are 0.003 cheaper.. :|

ebay should behead Meg Whitman for helping them lose $1.7 BILLON dollars by buyin skype. Yet she just resigns lol.

I actually heard paypal loses money. That is why they freeze accounts for no reason sometimes just to earn interest.

Where did you guys hear that google is going to start an auction site? Personally I don't think it will be a good business move for google. Hell why don't they just buy ebay like they bought youtube.

i HAVE CONFIDENTIAL IN FORMATION

ebay, could make soo much more money, if they just open their eyes and start treating their customers as humans and not retards.

There is confidential information that Google has an operative deep in Ebay who is obtaining all the info EB has on US (and other suspendeds) so that they can keep us off GoogleBay from the beginning. Also that one of the EB spies here on the forum secretly reports to Google.

thats crazy, were did you get that from?

Oh Sure
 

Hilarious. It is not confidential now. Do I sense ATF here or DEA? Away to check with my operatives in the CIA. ROFL.;)

lol, that is incorrect info.
did you forget google and ebay hate each other, info. = money

why would either help the other one out when both companys want to make as much money as possible?

Umm smoke more weed? Not impossible, but improbable. I'd crap a brick if google really makes an auction site. Just because google made it doesnt mean it will kill ebay. I mean look at google video. They made that to kill youtube. But it sucked so they just bought youtube.

Hey, maybe if google auction sucked they'll just be like screw it, lets buy ebay. lollllllllllll

word, if they bought ebay, they would def. change alot of the rules and what not, but i rather google start from scratch with no records of anything.

nO REALLY. mY EX-BROTHER IN LAW WHEN TO cia TRAINING - BUT DID'T LAST. Now he does industrial espionage for Google undercover in eBay. Do you doubt that?

its highly unlikely, atleast thats what i think

why would google want anything to do with ebay and samething the other way around?

they are both 2 huge companies that are competing against eachother, why they would team up now beats me.

Thing is, I would respect GBAY or any other operator to the max
 

Shoot I even respected EBAY up until they suspended me indefinitely, for, get this, accepting Google Checkout.

It would be stupid to try to keep people alienated by EBAY off of GBAY if it came to being.

That is another flea.

I am feeling the itch folks. Fleas. Darned fleas.

If EB sold PP because of low profitability, they might well do so under terms which continue the cooperation they now have.