Talk:EBay

Ebay as a Swiss Registered Company

Just wondering whether Ebay should be described as a American Company registered in Switzerland as per the footer of official emails from Ebay i.e. eBay International AG Helvetiastrasse 15/17 - P.O. Box 133, 3000 Bern 6, Switzerland ? 203.22.239.98 (talk) 09:38, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

prohibited items

Is there a reason that the prohibited items are listed in the article? It seems out of place? It mention rather odd things for a website article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.137.177.20 (talk) 09:44, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Profit / Loss

This may be related to what someone was talking about vandalism, but it appears as if someone swapped the profit/loss widget in the reporting column. I am pretty sure that I am reading the source correctly, in that they gained $1.8B in 2010, not lost it.

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ebay/1136100493x0x435896/9bd99676-b782-4784-87de-2899abe14a6d/eBay_Q42010EarningsRelease_Draft011911_FINAL.pdf

I am going to go ahead and change it, but please let me know if I am reading this wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Electrostatic1 (talk • contribs) 00:46, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

Further reading section

I'm a bit concerned by the apparent random selection in the section. There are now on the order of 2000 books with "eBay" in the title; what's so special and important about these? In what way is, say, eBay for Dummies more worthy of inclusion than any of the other "how to" books? Is this list really necessary at all? --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 19:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Good question. It looks like the only reason this section is here is simply because it's always been here. The roots of it lie in the third edit on the article in 2002, at a point where the article wasn't very good at all. But there is no obvious reason why any of these books merit a mention over any others, particularly the "how to" ones. If any of them contain anything really uniquely notable they can be used as cites. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 22:18, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Michael Dean Johnson

I have removed Michael Dean Johnson as a founder of eBay. I am not able to find any information on who this person is other than random websites claiming that he is an eBay founder. There is no information on how he was involved, just that he was. Also, none of the websites were any that I would call credible if writing a research paper. Finally, every credible source I can find only mentions Pierre Omidyar. Kaid (talk) 08:39, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

any mention of bidding strategies?

I was surprised to see no mention in this article of the practice of bid sniping. Should there be? —Steve Summit (talk) 02:12, 2 January 2012 (UTC)

Request Semi-Protection

This page is about a website and also a great company.So, I request a semi-protection for this article. Rsamahamed 15:09, 28 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rsamahamed (talk • contribs)

WP:RFPP is where you request page protection. But there are a lot of eyeballs on this article; has there been specific vandalism that's prompted this request? --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 16:49, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

No mention of MercadoLibre.com

It seems like MercadoLibre.com should be mentioned here. eBay is already mentioned in the ML.com article. http://investor.ebay.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=60309 brianfreud 23:30, 19 April 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brianfreud (talk • contribs)

Feedback

There's hardly anything written about the feedback system even though it's a significant part of the eBay paradigm. There's a mention of changes, or how things differ from the "overall feedback" but nothing that describes what the "overall feedback" system is.

The whole notion of the feedback system was an essential distinguishing feature of eBay, since a person selling stroller in Peoria to a buyer in Oshkosh needed to know whether to send out the stroller first, or whether the buyer should send a check first. That was especially true before PayPal.

There's also no mention of the shift from the feedback based model to the prepaid/PayPal based model. Although PayPal is not an absolute requirement, there was a back door change to the overall policies when sellers were asked to specify when they are going to ship with respect to when (meaning how long after) they receive payment. Thus its purpose changed to one of a merchant rating system. Hagrinas (talk) 19:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Feedback Ratings

The feedback ratings are no longer anonymous. I have an eBay account and I can see who has left me feedback. --InformationContributor11 (talk) 22:14, 16 November 2012 (UTC)

Books

I've removed the "Further Reading" section on the article. I was unclear what the books listed have to merit having a plug for them on the article. Particularly when many of them appeared to be guides on how to run businesses on eBay, rather than being about eBay itself. If anyone has reasons why these books should be here, happy to hear them. --Escape Orbit ^(Talk) 20:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)