Ebay has to constantly keep raising money to satisfy their investors so each year they need to come up with a new gimmick to keep the money flow coming in. Last time it was going with Paypal only, now it is charging on shipping. The problem is that eventually they are going to run out of gimmicks and either the investors will leave (when ebay profits go down), or the sellers will leave (when fees get too high). If I was going to be buying stock in Ebay, I would think very hard about that.
Scott
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