Ebay takes over Dutch site for 225m euro
 

Damn, Ebay took over www.marktplaats.nl a dutch type of ebay site for 225 million euros. Thats some mad cash!

Lets hope they don't fuck it up as I always loved that site.

too bad it wasnt thehun.net

nah thehun refused my offer last week

Nice payday

Its not really a lot of money - They will no doubt recoup that in a matter of months.

Besides Ebay is just the biggest 'Jumble Sale' in the world this section makes me laugh my head off every time:

http://search.ebay.co.uk/VHS_W0QQsoloctogZ9

You have to be stir crazy to sit ansd list things you wanna sell for 50p! -

Also E Bay dont support adult so there is not a hope I will support/use their services :ak47: :ak47:

maybe it aint much maybe it is, fact is that they will probably fuck it up and change the current idea of the site.

its Bullshit marktplaats.nl is not sold

oh ok, guess the news is lying again huh

nah the news NEVER lies

get real

You are scuch a big boy, your mom must be proud of you :thumbsup

if you cant win get personal ! good choice

oh ok I am so sorry.

Ok so how can you back up that ebay didn't take over marktplaats?

It is simple to shout things withou backing it up you know :thumbsup

From 0 to 225 Million Euro in 5 years.

Niiiiiiiiiice!

only an idiot believes that , if it was sold it was not sold for that amount , its called marketing hype:2 cents:

so you are telling it might be sold? Few posts above you just said it wasn't, so what is it?

What reason do you have to believe that it wasn't sold?

November 10, 2004
eBay Acquires Dutch Company Marktplaats.nl

http://investor.ebay.com/releases.cfm?Year=2004

I typed a bit too fast , I wanted to post it was never sold for that amount :)

You should both have placed a URL with any information about it ;)

But to help your argument out of the world, check this Dutch link:

http://www.nu.nl/news.jsp?n=439550&c=57

Peace :thumbsup

That's a shitload of money. To much if you ask me, they will probably buy speurders.nl next

...and you know this because?

ah ok, now that makes more sense

I know ... I only stated it was never sold for that amount ..


ask yourself one question

"Does Ebay have anything to gain by claiming it was sold for such a high amount?"


my guess would be HELL YEAH


this is the internet hypes like this can be very profitable ...

I expect new internet users to believe this crap , but people who post here should know better ......

I know :thumbsup

That's a lot of $$$$

Do you know what a shareholder lawsuit is?

eBay has MUCH more to lose than they would gain by putting out false and misleading information like this.

This thread has made it very obvious that you are the idiot.

winner~!

From time to time it's nice to reconfirm the validity of my sig.

No it's not true. Listen to Fake Nick. He was there when all contracts were signed:1orglaugh


Serious tho, I hope they keep it like it is. Okay they can ad paypal butons, but ebay.nl sucks. But time will tell

Andre

it's not just only marktplaats.nl
marktplaats.nl is the company name

also these sites are sold
http://www.intoko.de/
http://www.intoko.es/
http://www.intoko.com.tr/
http://www.intoko.ca/

They never really fucked up PayPal's site, everything still remained the same idea and layout basically, except for eBay using PayPal to run their payment processing monopoly.

Not even the customer service changed. I don't understand why you have to fax eBay a screenshot of a PayPal payment when you should be able to just give them the transaction ID for them to call the PayPal department with.

If they invested 1 million of that small percentage of capital they used to buy neverheardof.nl and invested it in a better customer service team to actually take calls and reply to emails in a person to person point of view instead of a robot or copy and paste point of view, eBay will remain the top auction site of all time forever. I predict that will come out within the next 10 years that will give eBay some real competition.

Well considering that http://www.marktplaats.nl/ displays "een eBay onderneming" on their heading (which I assume means an eBay company", this information must be true. 225 Million EURO is pocket change for eBay

I may be wrong but Marktplaats.nl is already 10 times bigger than ebay in the netherlands. Fact is the site is a succes just because of its simplictity and surferfriendlyness at this point.

No doubt it is pocket change for ebay though

misleading information / glitch


not a huge difference

I never heard of Marktplaats.nl until now. I sell a bit of products on eBay that have a few Netherlands customers. I am not sure if its better to list on eBay or on this Marktplaats.nl site. I am thinking people from the Netherlands can get a better price buying and importing products eBay USA than from Marktplaats.nl. (Products for resale mostly)


I wonder when eBay is going to boot yahoo auctions off the Japanese market or buy them out.

You are the one with the misleading information :1orglaugh

I think people buy more on marktplaats than on ebay. Besides that as you might have noticed marktplaats is in dutch witch gives the dutch visitors a better feeling about it all then when they look at ebay.com. I also think dutch people are a bit affraid to order/buy something outside the netherlands.
On marktplaats they have the idea that when they get fucked they can always go to the cops or something as it is all a local thing ;)

Some ppl are... Oh well

You are nothing but a pair of bouncing boobs.

Some nice monbey for sure but they will earn it very soon:winkwink:

and it is illegal to lie about the price... what about the dutch irs... trust me they better have used the correct price in the press releases!