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 into 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 fact is, relatively speaking, eBay’s “long” stockholders have been going backwards ever since the arrogant, cretinous, narcissistic, sociopathic Johnny Ho took the helm. Never even a penny in cash dividend in compensation for the lack of capital gain for stockholders; 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 just the ~108 million eBay shares that he still holds today 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 (including Carl Icahn), and shills, to think about, is it not? ...