eBay and Johnny Ho—the facts ...

Notwithstanding that the eBay Dept of Spin has previously claimed a “400% increase” in eBay’s stock price from its ~$10 low during the 2008–2012 global recession, the fact is, in August 2007, immediately prior to the beginning of the GFC, when the "Pain From Bain"—John Joseph Donahoe II (aka Johnny Ho)—now entering the eighth year of his planned “three-year turnaround” of eBay, was already effectively in control of eBay, the share prices of both eBay and Amazon were ~$40. With eBay recently less than $50 and Amazon greater than $300, clearly, the “smart money” on Wall Street recognises eBay Inc. to be a "dog", and Johnny Ho to be a very poor dog handler.

The reality is, Johnny Ho’s delusion of turning eBay, from being the “flea market” that made it the great marketplace that it used to be, into an up-market online “Westfield Mall”, has been a utter failure—talk about killing the goose that was laying the golden eggs—well done, Johnny Ho …

Relatively speaking, eBay’s “long” stockholders have been going backwards ever since this arrogant, cretinous, narcissistic, sociopath took the helm. The stockholders have had not one penny in cash dividends in compensation for the lack of any real capital improvement in their investment; Johnny Ho and his personally-selected gang of fellow keystone kops are the only ones that have taken any cash out of eBay, in the form of performance bonus shares—if only there had been any performance …

Had Pierre Omidyar in August 2007—before he allowed the control of eBay to pass to the destructive Johnny Ho—traded in the ~108 million eBay shares that he still holds for shares in Amazon, instead of his current ~$6 billion, his worth would now have been ~$32 billion! Now that, surely, is something for all of eBay's long-suffering shareholders, and its shills, to think about, is it not? ...

And then there is the clunky "PreyPal" ...
http://www.ecommercebytes.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?25316-Retail-Payments-The-Reality&p=169363#post169363

The eBay executive suite—where the incompetent mingle with the disingenuous, the malevolent and the outright criminal, and the just plain stupid ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas