e-Walmart

Ebay cornering all markets around. :glugglug

Also, don't forget the free publicity they're getting in every major newspaper in the world and every TV news program.

LOL, how ironic CNN talking about it on TV as I'm typing this.

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At least they can't touch my market for a long time :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I'm telling you, the next big thing will be e-Bay-powered "p2p housing", allowing people to sublet or swap their apts.

i.e. A guy from Paris comes to Florida, stays by you, while you visit Paris and crash at his place. Very big thing soon.

And with eBay's feedback feature they already have an established method to determine reliability of people.

Whoa, damn good idea there!!

Yep :glugglug The guy from Craigslist is going to introduce it soon :) (hint hint)

Your cat is gorgeous.



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Craigslist does this all the time.

This is something that will only work when integrated into a powerhouse such as eBay, as you'll be running into many risks involved in this type of operation (i.e. how do you know the guy from Paris is not a terrorist?). eBay's Feedback system along with PayPal history will allow them to better screen the users.

Wait and see :) Remember who told you first, huh? :glugglug

Thanks :glugglug

Same thing happened with men.com and look at it now. :1orglaugh

What's the deal with men.com? I guess I missed it a while back.

AskMen.com is cool. Never heard of them.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I don't have 10,000 articles written yet though.

Give me a couple years will ya.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yup im sure you hit the nail on the head with this one.

Craigs and Ebay and Rent.com its got to be a huge % of there plan to turn rent.com into a 100m+ a year company.


I dont have or claim to have any experience or knowlege on how massive corporations are run and why they do things. However it is EXTREMELY funny to me to see people post about how they got ripped off.
:)

Ain't gonna be easy. When it comes to this stuff people will go to where the content is... even if they have to type 3 more characters for the domain :) But hey, I know how it's like to have everyone else say "it won't work" :) so goodluck anyway!

Ripped off?

How ebay over paid for the domain,site and business

I'll tell you one thing I never realized how sensitive writers are about their work.

If you say one thing about editing parts of something they've written they really get wigged out.

:1orglaugh

No one can estimate that. I have yet to see official numbers for Rent.com as far as registered members, partners, etc. are concerned.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yeah, I can see why. I used to write myself LONG (LONG) time ago. AskMen have shit loads of content man. Just copy & paste :winkwink:

You'll be able to get those when they release their quarterly financials.

I couldn't believe InterActiveCorp listed Match.com's subscriber base in their quarterlies, but it was. 997,000 paying members subscribed. Do the math on that load at $24.95 each a month. :Graucho

IACI rocks :)

They overpaid for the domain :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Diller's the exit strategy. Mark my words. I'll post it here on GFY when it happens one day.

:Graucho

I love reading annual reports. I have at least 10 in the bathroom at any given time. I'm reading eBay's these days. Interesting facts about the PayPal operation (fraud, etc.)

How much? When?

I'm getting sick of this stock lately. Nothing interesting going on. They have very nice "internet properties" tho. Hopefully 2005 will bring them back to the mid 30s.

I was being sarcastic..

is there a site that tell us the annual reports of these major companies?

Now I'm interested to know how much they paid :) GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGLE

I'm sure you can get those online (or maybe not). I just like to call IR and get them in the mail.

They paid $50M for Match.com.

Match.com was sold for $8 million in 1997 to Cendant, a Connecticut consumer services company. (A year and a half later, Cendant sold it to Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch for $50 million.) All Kremen got was $50,000 and a lifetime account on the site - his login is "The Founder."

http://www.corante.com/dating/archiv...ney.php?page=2

Who cares what they paid? It could have been $15 or 1.5m. It is a combination of a stong domain, a strong business and some strong people that make a multi milliion dollars corp..

This is the post that got me started on all this tonight.


"Originally posted by RocHard
Power of domains my ass. Domains are worthless. It doesn't matter if the domain is rent.com or urent.com or erent.com - they are domain names, plain and simple.

Ebay just paid $415 million for a company that brings in $40 million a year. Sounds like bad business to me.

And we wonder why the dot com bubble burst. "

But it was already an established property