How much longer can the stock of eBay increase when we are seeing 12% decreasing of sellers

[ceat4614]

I'm starting to wonder how much longer we can see they 12% decrease each year of sellers and still see the price of eBay stock maintain its value. Once Wall Street realizes that these are artificial increases caused by the seller percentages being manipulated by upper management of CEO, I believe we will start to see a collapse in the eBay structure and its price forms. Eventually it will become too expensive for many individuals, even myself, to sell on eBay. After many outcries I see no reply from any management, instead I have only seen callousness and our emails never answered. I am listing this discussion here so that I may also show a copy of it on the stock discussion groups.

It is the only way to prevent eBay from being destroyed by its current management. I am myself now we're not only be considering leaving eBay as my selling platform but also, I will now start selling my eBay stock. 

Hopefully someone will wake up and bring a end to this nonsense that is currently happening to this once fine company.

[jman0312]

They weren't complaining, they are wondering why this company's management is making the decisions they do. Sellers aren't interested in seeing the word "complainers" when they ask for help/input in this forum.

[mam98031]

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@iamalwaysright wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

I actually don't care about the decrease of sellers, I care about the decrease in buyers.

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I care about the decrease in sellers. Right now, the higher the decrease the better.

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What IS cause for concern is the decreasing number of BUYERS !!!!!

[meme6253]

I kept hearing about layoffs, But I actually didn't know you could layoff buyers!!

[mam98031]

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@meme6253 wrote:

I kept hearing about layoffs, But I actually didn't know you could layoff buyers!!

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Not a joke.  About 400-500 people recently lost their jobs with Ebay.

[femmefan1946]

The number of sellers is much less important than the number of buyers.

When  buyers leave or do not shop here, sales drop.

When sellers leave those left get more sales.

At least in principle.

[inhawaii]

I'm a ebay seller.

I don't look at, keep track of or care what ebay stock is doing.

[retro_entertainment_collectibles]

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@ceat4614 wrote:

I'm starting to wonder how much longer we can see they 12% decrease each year of sellers and still see the price of eBay stock maintain its value. Once Wall Street realizes that these are artificial increases caused by the seller percentages being manipulated by upper management of CEO, I believe we will start to see a collapse in the eBay structure and its price forms. Eventually it will become too expensive for many individuals, even myself, to sell on eBay. After many outcries I see no reply from any management, instead I have only seen callousness and our emails never answered. I am listing this discussion here so that I may also show a copy of it on the stock discussion groups.

It is the only way to prevent eBay from being destroyed by its current management. I am myself now we're not only be considering leaving eBay as my selling platform but also, I will now start selling my eBay stock. 

Hopefully someone will wake up and bring a end to this nonsense that is currently happening to this once fine company.

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You're completely missing where pressures are coming from.

This "Once fine company" is still a fine company but they need react to what's coming and what's coming is similar to whats coming for Social media which means forums, blogs, chat rooms the works as well as online gaming.  The Internet is going to grow up, like it or not at this point as eBay can no more control what buyers nor seller engage in than Twitter can control what users say or do.  That's the beef.

[chapeau-noir]

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@iamalwaysright wrote:

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@chapeau-noir wrote:

I actually don't care about the decrease of sellers, I care about the decrease in buyers.

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I care about the decrease in sellers. Right now, the higher the decrease the better.

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That right there! 😁

[stainlessenginecovers]

With a 1500% increase in sellers the past 10 years, they can afford to:

Drop 50% of them and there will STILL be 40,000 pair of size 7 black women shoes to choose from and ebay will STILL make the same money; since a buyer is a buyer is $$ in the kitty.

Besides that, PLS, PLA, Vault, Fee increase, PLS increase, Authentication etc etc only makes eBay more money.

More Money = decent stocks. Since stock market is down about 10% from 2 years ago, staying 'Flat' during this time is just peachy. 

[mam98031]

There is another side to that.  The costs that went up over the past decade for Ebay.  They certainly are not the same today as they were 10 years ago.

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@mam98031 wrote:

There is another side to that.  The costs that went up over the past decade for Ebay.  They certainly are not the same today as they were 10 years ago.

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True that...

[yuzuha]

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@iamalwaysright wrote:

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I care about the decrease in sellers. Right now, the higher the decrease the better.

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Agreed. We would all benefit from losing the "yard sale" sellers who are selling their items at such rock-bottom prices that they're only making $1-2 in profit per item or even selling at a loss. All those sellers do is drag the market down for everyone else.

[strugglinlikeyou]

Sellers that only make a buck or two on sales won't be here for long. 

[dbfolks166mt]

     You need to understand what drives stock prices and it is not the number of sellers or even the number of buyers although they are minor factors. What appeals to shareholder and drives the stock price is profit and in eBay's case, dividend payments. Take a comprehensive look at eBay's quarterly and annual reports and you note that they are doing a pretty good job of maintaining their profit margin balancing revenues and expenses and they are still paying dividends every quarter. 

[nichtr_78]

Stock buy backs and leverage