EBAY - eBay Inc - Page 10

check out this swing trade, down 4% during the day, up 8% after report

revenue up 16% in Q4

i should have went calls i kind of expected this jump. in the fcx thread i was talking about how stocks had ran up to their earnings then sold off where as ebay was down and not running up today. i thought if it beat ebay would jump. well sure enough. oh well cant play every thing. sometimes i find my self playing too many things and thats why i avoided grabing it

PayPal in talks with Alibaba unit
By Scott Morrison

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- EBay Inc.'s /quotes/comstock/15*!ebay/quotes/nls/ebay (EBAY 25.97, +0.53, +2.08%) PayPal unit is in talks to add its online-payment system as an option on Alibaba.com Ltd's (1688.HK) new AliExpress international marketplace, according to people familiar with the situation.

An agreement between the two companies would help expand PayPal's presence in China, as well as smooth Alibaba's entry into international markets, such as the U.S.

"The money will flow from the U.S. to China through PayPal," said one industry insider familiar with the situation. It was unclear how close the two sides were to completing an agreement, the people said. An Alibaba spokeswoman said the two companies have exchanged ideas over the last year but haven't reached any agreement regarding AliExpress. She declined to comment on speculation about future product plans. PayPal declined to comment for this article.

Any deal would come more than three years after parent Alibaba Group thwarted eBay's ambitions in China, ultimately forcing the San Jose, Calif.-based company to withdraw.

Alibaba.com last year launched AliExpress, a wholesale marketplace where retailers around the world can source electronic products, automotive parts, clothing and other unbranded merchandise from suppliers in China and Taiwan. The AliExpress Web site boasts that it is a "one-stop shop" offering wholesale prices, secure payments and full delivery tracking.

But the default payment option on AliExpress is Alipay.com, the parent company's online payment platform. While Alipay is the leading online payment platform in China, it remains largely unknown in many international markets, including the U.S.

The industry source said Alibaba.com, the Hong Kong-listed unit of China-based Alibaba Group, has recognized that Alipay's low international brand awareness is an impediment to the company's efforts to push into new markets.

"Merchants in the U.S. aren't comfortable with Alipay. They want PayPal," the industry insider said.

The deal could be a big boost for PayPal, which has emerged as a key growth driver for eBay as the ecommerce giant attempts to turn around its struggling marketplaces business.

PayPal had about 375,000 active accounts in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and they accounted for total payment volume of nearly $1.3 billion in 2009, a 12% increase over the prior year. A company spokeswoman said the lion's share of that amount was cross-border trade--helping Chinese merchants receive payments from foreign buyers--the same type of trade targeted by AliExpress.

EBay has had a difficult ride in China. After buying Shanghai-based Eachnet in 2003, former Chief Executive Meg Whitman boasted that she wanted to make China eBay's biggest market. But missteps and stiff competition from Alibaba's Taobao consumer auction Web site quickly squashed those aspirations, and eBay all but threw in the towel by the end of 2006.
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link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/pay...nit-2010-03-13

tanking hard after hour

eBay needs to die.

Not until i make a profit from it :-) just bought it for bounce play :-)

Indeed, I want people to make money. It's just that they let their service (auction) evolve from people selling stuff out of their attics to other people (e.g. one man's junk is another man's treasure) to the site being inundated with dealers and their ...it's like it's no longer for the people, it's for businesses. Not that I have anything against businesses, but that's why they should create their own website, and not infiltrate what should have been user-generated content. Often times, you have to scroll through literally hundreds of items being sold by businesses to come across a private individual.

Craigslist is becoming the same way. And it could get worse, since you do not have to pay a fee to advertise.

Seriously, I actually liked their "Buy it now" Option. I used it for my company so i don't have to wait until the auction. The Price is usually fairly reasonable too because most stuff you can't find it from anywhere else.

as a buyer, i love ebay. as seller, its too takes too much patience and work just to be able to make the few bucks after all the fees.

I can't stand Ebay's fees, way too high! But you cannot beat the exposure of selling your wares on the worlds biggest auction site.

From my experiences as a seller I thought it's okay because I was often able to sell stuff I couldn't imagine getting a decent amount of money anywhere else for. Albeit the process of listing something is very tedious. As a buyer I find most things to not really be worth it, unless it's a hard to find item that I can't find anywhere else but eBay. But for most items after I pay the usually ridiculously high shipping rate that the seller charges my savings are minimal and I still have to wait 2-4 weeks for my item to arrive.

I haven't used eBay in probably almost 2 years now. I'm all eBay and kijiji these days.

doesnt ebay also own kijiji?

some stores are hit and miss on ebay. Some stuff I get from china in 3-4 days, some things take 2 weeks. Some stuff I buy in the US takes 1.5-2wks to get some take 3 days. If people selling stuff on ebay would just ship things next day fed-ex or usps than ebay would get a better rating, but its the asshats that wait 4days for paypal funds to clear and enter their bank account to ship stuff that ruin ebays name.

lol, nice, analyst on cnbc recommend investors to buy ebay back at 16

ironic thing is, my uncle whos in the senior management at ebay was granted shares in the mids 2009, not sure if its preferred shares or if there's any restrictions on that regarding vesting or selling, but that was at $16 as well.

that would suck and would be a major ripoff if he's still forced to hold the shares cuz' his work had tripled ever since then. The company fired 2 other senior staff and kept my uncle on board but added extra work for him and the only compensation for him is merely those puny shares

EBAY comes in at 40c vs 38c estimate, the stock is still below the open, but clawing its way higher.

Nothing has held up after numbers so far this earnings season, even the almighty AAPL gave up gains today.

Investors will be watching shares of eBay today (NASDAQ:EBAY) after the company announced that its president of the Marketplaces division, Lorrie Norrington, will be leaving the company for personal reasons. In addition to announcing this management change, the company said it sees Q3 results to be near the high end of guidance. eBay reports earnings no October 20.

Stock still down. I don't see any reason this wouldn't come back.

http://chart.ly/jpya9om

is it just me or does this look like pretty good right now?

If it bounces off the trendline and breaks out of the possible H&S pattern then i think it looks great