Ebay Quotations

It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.

History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.

In February of 1996, about six months after I created eBay, I started receiving a spate of complaints. Everyone was complaining about each other. I felt very much like I was a parent who had to adjudicate the brothers beating each other up.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

eBay's business is based on enabling someone to do business with another person, and to do that, they first have to develop some measure of trust, either in the other person or the system.

I'm not saying the whole world will work this way, but with Airbnb, people are sleeping in other people's homes and other people's beds. So there's a level of trust necessary to participate that's different from an eBay or Facebook.

EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn't thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.

I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen.

My assistant says I'm an eBay auction waiting to happen. I have a very large collection of T-shirts... about 4,000 now. Maybe I'll pillage it someday. I have resisted the offers to do a line of T-shirts.

I love my kids, they are amazing children, but they drive me bananas sometimes. And sometimes, I want to sell them on eBay... but I'm not going to.

Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce

In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.

You look at the tremendous success of Facebook. To my mind there is not a lot of commerce going on in these social networking sites. eBay is a community anchored in commerce. It is a commerce site that built a community around it. What has not been proven is if the reverse can happen and people will go to community sites to do commerce.

I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

The thing that people seem to miss about not just Google, but also our competitors, Yahoo, eBay and so forth, is that there's an awful lot of communities that have never been served by traditional media.

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

The idea that Google, Yahoo, and eBay are getting a free ride is absolutely unfair criticism. We have to build out our own infrastructure. And we have to inter-connect to the public Internet.

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

What we're seeing now with eBay is an end to the monopoly. The company faces a serious challenge over the next 10 years.

With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.

As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

The federal government... announced a plan to spend, like, a trillion of taxpayer dollars to buy out bad mortgages and debt. Wall Street was surprisingly enthusiastic about the plan to save their (butts) with other peoples' money. It was either that, or Sarah Palin's idea to sell it all on eBay.

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

The fact that no one has really challenged eBay is a reflection of its market strength but also the fact that it scores well on customer satisfaction.

I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.

Anything that's signed by me on EBay is a forgery and not authentic.

We are taking this subset of eBay and marketing it in new ways to both existing eBay buyers and new audiences.

We're excited by the level of innovation and ingenuity that all of the entrants demonstrated. The eBay Developer Challenge 2006 winners offer buyers and sellers the ability to access the eBay marketplace from wherever they might be, extending the eBay platform in ways previously unimagined. They are all great examples of how innovative developers and affiliates can create viable businesses using eBay Web Services while taking the eBay user experience to a whole new level.

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Much to everyone's surprise, eBay seems to have had a much better quarter across several crossover categories.

Much like eBay and other sites, this move provides a platform for everyday users to participate in utilizing the Internet in a commercial way while providing a service to the community at-large. Under this new structure, Expert and Elite rank users will enjoy a high level of control over the sponsored links being presented on their user pages, including their content, appearance, quantity, promotion, even their costs to advertisers.

Maybe what eBay does is so part and parcel that you can't tie it into the traditional world.

One of the benefits of eBay Express to sellers is added exposure at no added cost or no added work.

Now, there's no such thing as a Video iPod. The new model is simply called the iPod; its thicker, videoless predecessors have gone off to the great eBay in the sky. All the debate about 'Will anyone buy a video iPod?' is suddenly moot, because the new model is the same excellent music player plus video.

Obviously eBay will be one of the people we'll be looking to do that with.

Philanthropy is entertainment with a purpose. For the consumer, giving online is all about emotion -- they expect to feel as good or better than when they go to eBay or Amazon. That means the non-profit's site needs to offer engaging stories, compelling artwork, and powerful viral marketing tools.

I would be really surprised if eBay is ultimately held liable for misrepresented items on its site.

I have close to 300 pairs of shoes. I'm fortunate enough to be in a position to get any shoes I want. So I have a pretty nice collection. It's pretty valuable. It's funny when sometimes I buy a pair of shoes and I look on eBay and it's already selling for $500. I just wanted to buy those shoes to wear them!

I am certainly in the camp that this rumor makes little sense. If eBay were to make this sort of move it would basically be admitting that 'our core market is decelerating.

I bought some Bradbury borders on eBay, didn't use them all, put what I had left back on eBay and got more for it than I paid,

But it's one of the most exclusive in terms of the audience that will be holding it in their hands, and it will have a life long after the event. We've been told that these become collectibles and that some of them will be stolen and that they'll wind up being sold on eBay (the online auction site).

Because of the Internet, anyone can be a parts dealer. You've got all kinds of people on eBay selling parts. If it wasn't for the Internet we would be a dying breed. It's because of the Internet that it's coming back, and people have a source for parts.

If I need to buy anything, I look on eBay first.

Furthermore, eBay -- which has held up relatively well versus other leading Internet companies -- has little valuation support.

I don't think anybody is concerned that eBay is going to fall apart. But there could be a lack of buyers if interest rates keep going up and consumers are more concerned about credit card debt.

If the court finds in Tiffany's favor, this would set a precedent and would place additional pressure on eBay to ascertain the provenance of goods sold.

Today, it can be summed up with GM, eBay and metals and mining stocks. It's all related to earnings, and it's a mixed bag.

We think eBay may have revised its processes enough to minimize its liability. However, at minimum, eBay would be liable for the original $25 million.

What you can see is someone who, at least within the eBay universe, was acting as a good eBay citizen, until all of a sudden there was a period of 48 hours of bad feedback.

Hit television show American Idol is the perfect example of this. Thousands of hopefuls sing their heart out (sometimes very badly) for a shot at the brass ring of fame. Now, it looks like all you have to do is log on to eBay and make a bid.

Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer or somebody, or to put it on eBay or whatever,

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

It gives eBay a new resource to leverage in search marketing efforts.

It governs the types of payments services that sellers can market in their listings. Of course, due to the nature of eBay being a marketplace, we can't monitor or control how buyers and sellers actually complete payments and transactions.

It is important to recognize that sales on eBay are different from traditional auctions.

It is important to keep in mind that typically eBay's initial next year's guidance is extremely conservative. In fact, over the past 4 years, eBay has outperformed its original next year's revenue and earnings-per-share guidance by 13% and 23%, respectively.

I will not sell my kidney on eBay

It is a violation of our prohibited services policy which includes no virtual relationships. We have the policy in place to protect our community members. EBay strives to have a clean and transparent marketplace.

Is eBay diverting from its core business? ... Nothing could be further from the truth.

Is Amazon truly the best online buying experience? Absolutely not. Is eBay the best platform for auction? Probably not. Are dating sites like match.com really a reflection of the way people date? Probably not.

Our rating on this share is a buy. And again that is really a function of the fact that I believe eBay is one of the few Internet and e-tailing sites out there that is really poised for dramatic growth for the long term.

People naturally gravitate towards eBay because it's the largest marketplace. We're the original. We've been around the longest and so far, we've been able to hold our own.

Longer-term, the pillars of the Internet, companies like eBay and Yahoo! will continue to outperform,

Most eBay sellers, until there's another channel that has significant volume, will stay. They may grumble and complain about fee increases but eBay is in the driver's seat,

We provide the eBay international community with a highly effective and aesthetically pleasing platform for cross-selling to their target market.

We expect Amazon, eBay and Expedia to continue to invest in technology and content in 2006 -- which could pose a near-term risk to 2006 street margin expectations.

We have a great number of people who play by the rules and demonstrate a high level of respect for their fellow eBay users. But you will find from time to time, people who step outside of the rules.

We have had some discussions with staff at the Justice Department regarding eBay and the online trading business generally. We believe the contact with DOJ may have been prompted by auction listing aggregators, such as Bidder's Edge...our dispute with Bidder's Edge fundamentally is a commercial one that concerns eBay's right to prevent unauthorized trespassing into its computer system, can use eBay content in a manner which confuses and misleads eBay users.

We have worked diligently with eBay to support eBay Express and are happy to announce support of this new way to shop on eBay. Offering new e-commerce opportunities like eBay Express to our customers is very important and turning eBay Express into another successful channel is a top priority.

Today, to compete anywhere, you have to be everywhere. Wal-Mart and Target have joined Amazon and eBay as the most heavily trafficked e-commerce Web sites, and chain retailers account for about 40% of online sales, compared to just over 25% for pure-play Internet retailers.

We generate higher selling prices on eBay because of our experience with merchandising.

The quarterly results showed signs that the eBay platform is aging.

Well, eBay is growing at a phenomenal rate right now. This is a company, even though they are considered one of the bellwethers now because of their size, the revenue base is still relatively small, and they have a lot of momentum in their traffic and transactions.

We don't have a playbook. I found that if you have playbooks, they end up on eBay and everywhere else.

We have made extensive efforts to reach out to eBay users,

We believe eBay continues to represent the best business model within the internet sector, as it remains relatively insulated from the heightened competition within e-commerce.

We've been working cooperatively with eBay. I think the story is that we're trying to target the people who misuse eBay; we're not targeting eBay itself.

What if there was an eBay of enterprise applications? What if there was an iTunes music store of enterprise applications? We call that the AppExchange,

What if there was an eBay of applications, where companies could buy and sell software, running on our platform? ... What if there was an iTunes Music Store of online applications?

We call on eBay to do what's right for this phase of China's e-commerce development and make your services free for buyers and sellers in China,

We built eBay Express because we wanted to appeal to the convenience-oriented buyers.

We've been seeing examples of eBay members arranging local meet-ups in their areas; and since there is crossover, we thought it was an interesting company, so we chose to make an investment.

We've worked with the New York Attorney General's office to provide them with information on people that were breaking their state laws as well as to make adjustments to how we message what our policy is to eBay users,

We've work diligently with our online sales channel partners to make sure we support new opportunities out of the gate. Our customers count on us for their success and we take that responsibility extremely seriously and therefore make sure we are diligently on top of any new ecommerce opportunities like eBay Express.

We have been living in a disposable culture for a long time now, almost by default rather than by design, because it was too difficult to go to things like car boot sales or we weren't in the vicinity of them. Ebay makes all of that easy.

We will continue to devote the best technical and service resources of Sun Microsystems to ensure the level of service the eBay community demands,

This should remove a major barrier for any software developers who are interested in innovating and growing businesses on the eBay Platform, but are unsure about the costs. This change will allow developers to explore new business models as they create solutions to enhance the experience of buyers and sellers on eBay.

There are lots of eBay account information and names and addresses of the people owning those accounts. Names, passwords, all matched up.