In reply to Jason Thuli.

Good luck with that sell ...

Notwithstanding the constant stream of delusional and disingenuous nonsense that flows from eBay/PayPal, the share prices of these two clunky operators demonstrate the reality ...

Aug 2007: (pre John Donahoe) AMZN ~$40; EBAY ~$40;
Jul 2015 (pre eBay-PayPal split): AMZN ~$480; EBAY ~$66;
Jul 2015 (post-split): AMZN ~$530; EBAY ~$28; PYPL ~$37;
Currently: AMZN ~$584; EBAY ~$23; PYPL ~$36—LOL
eBay is effectively going backwards, at a rate of knots ...

Regardless of the "spin-off" of PayPal from eBay, eBay and "PreyPal" remain joined at the hip, and anyone that thinks otherwise is uninformed; and, thanks to a continuation of most of the imbecilic policies introduced over the eight year reign (2007–2015) of the "Pain from Bain", John Joseph Donahoe II, the eBay marketplace is continuing on its slow journey down the toilet; nevertheless, during Johnny Ho's occupation of the eBay corner office, this cretin and his gang of hand-picked Keystone Kops still managed to obtain for themselves massive, unearned, "performance" bonuses—while the company's shareholders received not a penny ...

PayPal is a clunky, non-deposit insured, virtually non-regulated, "pretend" bank; a payments intermediary that, in the main, rides on the back of the world's banks' existing payments systems with no formal agreement with those banks other than PayPal's operating of a credit card merchant account facility with, and the making of direct debits on users' bank accounts via, their own "real" bank. Even more perilous (for PayPal's shareholders), the great majority of PayPal's business still originates from its (still) effectively mandated place on the eBay marketplace, so it logically follows that—with the cretinous Johnny Ho-Ho-Ho now sitting at the head of the PayPal boardroom table—"PreyPal" will be accompanying eBay on its journey to the sewage farm.

The reality is, PayPal's parasitic, intermediary, payments operation has little long-term future, outside of the likes of the atrophying eBay marketplace, now that professional online/mobile payments offerings from MasterCard ("MasterPass") and Visa ("Visa Checkout") are available to any professional online merchant that has (or can obtain) a credit card merchant account with a real bank. And, with respect particularly to "mobile" payments, notwithstanding Apple Pay's disappointing initial showing, methinks Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay, "MasterPass", and "Visa Checkout", that is, those operators that have formal relationships with the retail banks and MasterCard/Visa, will soon enough cut off the flow of oxygen to a great deal of the clunky "PreyPal" operations—LOL ...

eBay is likely the most unscrupulous commercial entity operating on this planet; but, have no fear, eBay is an equal opportunity fraudster—demonstrably—they will knowingly aid and abet the defrauding of buyers by unscrupulous eBay merchants who bid on their own auctions, and of honest sellers by unscrupulous buyers—as long as there is a financial benefit in such fraud for eBay; and if anyone thinks that the clunky "PreyPal" is any more scrupulous, given their equally poor customer service and lack of any effective mediation of transaction disputes (sans a hard-wired bias towards the buyers/payer that they necessarily now have to pander to), good luck to all you small online merchants who are using "PreyPal" ...

Pierre Omidyar can now only dream about how much more fabulously wealthier he might have been had he not given the cretinous Johnny Ho the key to the eBay corner office; yet, incomprehensibly, he has allowed this headless turkey to now occupy the seat at the head of the boardroom table at "PreyPal."—LOL!

In desperation, eBay recently invited consumers to auction their unwanted Xmas gifts on eBay. And, if you didn't know what your unwanted gift may be worth, eBay's advice was to start the auction at 99c and watch the fun—as your item likely sold for 99c—always presuming you weren't bidding on the auction yourself (and assuming that you or anyone else was able to find the listing in a search), in which case you would likely finish up buying it yourself; but that's OK with eBay too; they don't mind whether the sale is real or faux, as long as they get their final valuation fee ...

The eBay executive suite—where the incompetent mingle with the disingenuous, the unscrupulous, the malevolent and the outright criminal, and the just plain stupid …

The ugly reality of eBay’s calculated, demonstrable, facilitation of endemic shill bidding fraud on consumers on its auctions marketplace ... http://bit.ly/11F2eas