The reality is, once PayPal departs, the eBay marketplace will continue on its journey down the toilet. Anyone that thinks that anyone in the current eBay executive management team has any capacity to bring the eBay marketplace back from the brink is utterly delusional …

Notwithstanding that the eBay Dept of Spin once proclaimed a “400% increase” in eBay’s stock price, from its low of ~$10 in March 2009 during the 2008–2012 global recession to ~$50 (in September 2012), 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 (and final) 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 great effort eBay has recently managed to reach a high of $63 but Amazon is currently $430. What does this tell us? Clearly, that the “smart money” on Wall Street recognises eBay Inc. to be a "dog", and the cretinous Johnny Ho to be a very poor dog handler.

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