Investors are trying to assess whether management is being conservative in their guidance or if there are elements of the business which may not be performing as well as investors have anticipated.
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I thought we hung in there for a while. The game we're used to is not as quick. It's not as fast up and down the floor. We played for about 25 minutes and then we just couldn't keep up anymore.
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There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.
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