eBay has a market cap of $72 Billion
 

mother of christ.

Yahoo: $50 Billion
Google has a market cap of $45 Billion


Boeing: 45 Billion
alcoa: 29 Billion
general motors: 22 Billion
ford: 25 Billion

there's still gold in them 'thar hills.

Thats crazy.. I cant see Ebay having a greater market cap then Ford and GM combined.

it's amazing how much of their revenue come from simply issuing stock options to their employees.

lots of stupid people, eh?
wait, the bubble will burst.
those prices are inflated by people "chasing" the stock.

dunno man. people have been calling for the demise of ebay for a few years now. TheStreet used to hammer this stock. but the shareholders keep approving this practice of issuing tons of options. so much of their revenue comes from this. at least it used to. then again, how many of ebay's shareholders know how to read a 10Q. how many of them have heard of a 10Q. maybe i'm underestimating the shareholder base. i wouldn't hold this piece of shit, though.

Short it!!

i wouldn't short ebay with YOUR money.

eBay will eventually become the largest company in the world.

walmart

do / never / test

By what standard? Revenue? Number of employees? Market cap?

Woah ... 72 billions ... WTF

Thats fucking amazing.......

But when u think that PayPal has 50mil users that must make them one of the largest financial orgs in the west

Is PayPal even profitable though?

amazing. There are some dot coms having success !

As crazy as it sounds, I have a sure fire idea to unseat them from #1. :Graucho

you're going to need a lot of money to implement it and market it whatever it is. ebay has really cornered this market.

I don't think so..

GM is larger than that.

So is Ford.

Your numbers are off by a couple hundred billion.

They dont do anything, have a trillion users, make a fortune, and competition has a huge hill to climb because everyone wants to use the biggest auction house so their shit gets seen by the most people.


It has a better nut-hold on the market than any other company you listed.

I agree... but the low-six-figure money required is nothing compared to the revenue potential for that industry (see thread topic).

Lots have tried.. including Yahoo.. but none have come close to making it. :2 cents:

All it proves is that the information market place is huge and the thirst to acquire things and information is far from dry.

"Ya can have all the things in the world but you can never have enough information."

- Alienq 2005

both yahoo and amazon tried to compete and failed. there's only room for one big exchange like this in my opinion. they have not only hit critical mass of sellers/buyers, but the name eBay is part of the lexicon now like Google. Joe six pack now uses the word 'ebay' as a verb. "i'll ebay it". that's really powerful. same with google.

unless you're going to go after a targeted niche, i don't think anyone is going to unseat ebay for a while at least.

I read that eBay failed in Japan because Yahoo kicked their ass there

He quoted market capitalization, not revenue

That is crazy, mainstream rules baby!

i think that's true in Taiwan and China too.