Comments on: eBay: Don’t you think it looks and feels tired?

By: Still Bitter After All These Years

Still Bitter After All These Years — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:49:24 +0000

I remember when Turbo Lister was just plain old Mr Lister.

Marnie, the entrepreneurial spirit left before 2002. I’d pin it on the point Jen Mowat left as UK MD, replaced by Doug McCallum. From then on, if you didn’t have a Stanford MBA, there was no chance.

I’m sure you hired some wonderful people to work at eBay, I’m just still bitter after all these years.

Hi Dan! Missed you at the wedding.

By: Rodin

Rodin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:29:35 +0000

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By: eBay: Don’t you think it feels tired? : TameBay : eBay news blog and forum

eBay: Don’t you think it feels tired? : TameBay : eBay news blog and forum — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:58:11 +0000

[...] Sue Bailey And just to round out our “exBayer” day, here’s a post from Dan “Henry” Wilson, one-time eBay UK community manager, who’s been selling off some bits on the site. Dan asks: [...]

By: Marnie de Vanssay

Marnie de Vanssay — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:48:07 +0000

Tired, yes, a heavy machine, yes too, but isn’t this the destiny of all companies when they move away from the entrepreneurial into the corporate? I recruited for ebay from 2002 to 2006, the first two years were exciting, all the people hired were highly creative on top of having a substantial university and business background. Then, the profiles requested moved towards the standardized powerpoint/excel diskjockey and the entrepreneurial spirit was gone, like a balloon without enough helium.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:02:59 +0000

I’m glad it’s not just me thinking buyers are getting more demanding on ebay. Pay at 4pm expecting delivery tomorrow morning by courier – with free P&P of course!

By: caspar

caspar — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:33:44 +0000

The eBay website is a monstrous multi-layered cake, with each layer being a geological remnant of some ill-defined need that a single customer might have had at some point in the past.

Example. the messaging system: it is irretrievably brain-damaged and needs to be put down ASAP.

Ebay continues to enjoy success because of its monopolistic market position and consumer lock in; it stopped innovating years ago.