We are excited about eBay's long-term vision, ... We intend to accomplish our long-term revenue objectives while maintaining profitability as a cornerstone of our strategy.
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We are extremely pleased that Bill is joining eBay's board, ... He leads one of the best-known and most respected global brands, and his management expertise will be a welcome addition to an unparalleled board of directors.
By working with Microsoft's cutting-edge technology, we will significantly strengthen eBay's marketplace and our community's ability to trade seamlessly at any time from anywhere on the planet.
Since eBay's argument requires overruling long-established legal precedent, we look forward to the consideration of the Supreme Court in this matter,
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.
In the last quarter, which is typically one of our seasonally slower growth quarters, eBay added a record 2.9 million new registered users to our community ... no metric demonstrates eBay's success better than our current annualized run-rate of 5.4 billion in gross merchandise sales,
The 100 million investment is aimed at generating eBay's long-term revenue growth. We're not interested in just being No. 1 in China but the No. 1 player in ecommerce,
The third quarter was another very strong quarter of accomplishments and financial results. We are extremely pleased with eBay's current market position and momentum, in terms of user growth, activities and profit.
The bottom line is whether we will be able to obtain a permanent injunction on eBay's 'Buy-It-Now' operations or whether the court will force a compulsory license.
As long as eBay continues its current policy on non-disclosure of these metrics, we think investors will be very cautious as to their expectations of eBay's success in China, which would weigh on the stock,
We remain enthusiastic about eBay's business model and market leadership position.
While eBay's TV strategy attempts to persuade more people to buy on the site, it also hopes to shift the perception the public has of the online auctioneer. As it moves well beyond collectibles, eBay wants to remind potential customers that they can also purchase mass-market items like cars and computers on the site. We get defined by the weird stuff, ... You're shifting a perception that people already have, which is better than having no perception at all.
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.