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No Traffic?? eBay commits Suicide. ebay Pulls All Google Advertising.
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000510819&tstart=0&mod=1181794228538
gone2deriver (0 ) Jun-13-07 12:58 PDT
ebay has really done it now. In it's childish tiff with Google over checkout, ebay pulls all Google Adwords ads!
Yes this is true, they are no longer buying the complete dictionary at Google. From Ina:
We reported early this morning that eBay and Google are duking it out over eBay continuing to ban Google Checkout. Today, reporter Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service) confirmed the report from ComparsionEngines.com that eBay has pulled its paid-search ads from Google in the US: "Durzy said the decision to "reallocate" the Google ad budget elsewhere isn't tied to the Checkout protest party, but he acknowledged that the Google event hasn't gone down well inside of eBay."
Hani Durzy is of course referring to the Google "Let Freedom Ring" party in Boston on Thursday evening.
We'll keep you posted live from Boston! Hopefully no one will be swimming in the harbor.
link:
http://blog.auctionbytes.com/cgi-bin/blog/blog.pl
Yes we can now confirm the theory. Idiots are running ebay!
gone2deriver (0 ) Jun-13-07 13:22 PDT 1 of
Scott Wingo's take ebay is stupid:
http://ebaystrategies.blogs.com/
gone2deriver (0 ) Jun-13-07 13:39 PDT 2 of
From Firemeg:
http://www.firemeg.com/2007/06/official-google-checkout-blog-let.html
sandrarn83 (2678 
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View Listings | Jun-13-07 14:50 PDT 3 of
Today, reporter Juan Carlos Perez (IDG News Service) confirmed " gonetoderiver Stay tuned for tomorrow's edition by Juan. I think you will find something very familiar in it.
bangkokbint (450 ) Jun-13-07 20:11 PDT 4 of
Oh yay! Everybody, support Google where you can. I'm off to do a bunch of searches and click on some ads 
rockinghorsegirl4now (2310 ) View Listings |
Jun-13-07 20:25 PDT 5 of
Last year at Ebay Live the rival Chinese auction service (I forget the name) offered free lunches to Live Attendees, plus some free gifts in competition with Ebay. Many attendees were carrying around their orange tote bags all over Ebay Live. And one competing service (maybe the same one) had limo rides to a big bash with food one day. Evidently they weren't big enough to bother Meg & Bill.
It's so silly for Ebay to get hot & bothered by google since google has no auction service and is not really a competitor. Google Checkout might make a dent into Paypal's profits but Ebay could become more competitive to handle that. Ebay just doesn't want to lose a penny.
faeries_finest (771 ) Jun-13-07 20:31 PDT 6 of
I hope while people are clicking on ads to help Google they remember that other businesses are paying for those clicks.
Faerie
rockinghorsegirl4now (2310 ) View Listings |
Jun-13-07 20:44 PDT 7 of
You know, for Ebay to abandon its sellers by not advertising is showing us poor faith. Why do we lose buyers and lose advertising to punish Google? Since Google also owns YouTube, I imagine that advertising is out also.
Ebay mostly depends on sellers to advertise themselves in blogs, reviews, MySpace, YouTube, Squiddoo, paid Google ads, store malls, etc. And if we don't, we just don't have any sales.
pepins4b8e (8 ) Jun-13-07 20:45 PDT 8 of
I can find better causes that supporting the poor billionaires of Google. eBay has its fault but I still find no better place. Even the anti-eBay boardies spend all their time here 
rockinghorsegirl4now (2310 ) View Listings |
Jun-13-07 20:57 PDT 9 of
One billionaire is like any other, and we support Meg plenty. And she probably isn't the only billionaire at Ebay.
joint_runner (Private ) Jun-13-07 21:02 PDT 10 of
Even the anti-eBay boardies spend all their time here
First and foremost that's because as someone said on another thread, "It's like watching a train wreck". Secondly, now that we don't have to spend our days and nights revising auctions because eBay made a change for the sake of change we actually have time to watch the train wreck.
As transparent as eBay itself.
sandrarn83 (2678 ) View Listings | Jun-13-07 21:08 PDT 11 of
pepins4b8e I watched a video about Google employees. Do you realize they LOVE to go to work? Google is probably everyone's dream employer.
You can take your pet to work. You can take your laundry to work. You can either do your laundry at work free or you can have the free dry cleaning service do it for you. They have free gourmet food. All meals are free. Want to learn a different language? Fine you can learn it in on the job. If it's one they don't have just notify Human Resources. They'll find a teacher. Need a break from your crazy day? Then go play the free pinball machines and arcade games or go out side on the basketball court and shoot some hoops. They have full gyms. OMG when I watched this video I realized I wanted to go to work for Google.
Do you think these poor Ebay Live Helpless reps get perks like these Google people? As one Google employee said "If you haev to work for a living this is the place to do it." I have never been so impressed with an employer as I was Google.
kias (70 ) Jun-13-07 21:10 PDT 12 of
OMG - I wanna work there not here
homedecorstudios (10 ) Jun-13-07 21:14 PDT 13 of
I read google gets 3000 job applications a day.
They are can spend 25% of their time on their own projects. Also the entire googlplex is wired so you work inside, outside, wherever.
pepins4b8e (8 ) Jun-13-07 22:54 PDT 14
sandra, if you work or worked for a large corporation, you should know such work conditions don't last. The best thing that can happen to a company is hardship. Take IBM for example, they got so fat and happy, eager and aggressive competition attacked them on all sides; so bad that in the early 90's they cut employee count in half and the Walton family (yes, Wal-Mart) had an offer to buy 51% of the share, becoming the controlling body.
IBM turned around and hired a CEO from the outside (against their culture) and re-shaped everything. Today, IBM don't even make PCs, they are a services business.
Anyway, my point is that Google is about to get attacked on all sides, and I'm not even referring to eBay. The works conditions indicate very fat profit; I hope they enjoy it while it lasts and don't become complacent. There are some hardships that even money don't solve. Watch what Google is up against in about 3 years.
I'm not anti-Google...They don't create bad nor good emotions in me. Just a search engine to me. I make money on eBay, not Google, therefore I care more about eBay.
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