Who knows what Xoom is really worth? But with eBay's (soon to be PayPal's) cretinous Johnny Ho no doubt having a finger in this deal we are entitled to suspect that the deal may be being facilitated by "grease" that will lubricate the pockets of all the decision makers involved in setting up this deal ...

"Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce …"—Thomas Jefferson.

Demonstrably, that principle applies in spades to both eBay and PayPal … http://bit.ly/1nSA1Zl

And, not even the criminal code gets in the way of commerce at eBay Inc. … http://bit.ly/11F2eas

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