Tip of the Iceberg

[upgradedendmills]

Today's change in management is great news for me personally. I think the smaller changes over the next few weeks will prove to be even more important. Hopefully this will not disrupt the Holiday selling season. Maybe it would be a good thing if sellers make an effort to support the new guy and see where this goes. Let's all wish him well and hope eBay makes a smooth transition and gets better.

[dtexley3]

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@upgradedendmills wrote:

Today's change in management is great news for me personally. I think the smaller changes over the next few weeks will prove to be even more important. Hopefully this will not disrupt the Holiday selling season. Maybe it would be a good thing if sellers make an effort to support the new guy and see where this goes. Let's all wish him well and hope eBay makes a smooth transition and gets better.

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Don't expect any changes over the next few weeks.  An interim CEO isn't going to do much but stay the course while the selection process plays out.  It will take several weeks to choose one, likely to be chosen right in the middle of the holiday season.

[kathieskorner]

The interim CEO is a member of Wenig's management team and the financial guy to boot.   I'm not overly optomistic that we will be seeing any changes that benefit sellers while he is in charge.  

Whta is needed is an outsider with IT and ecommerce skills who will clean house.  

[upgradedendmills]

I don't know anything about his history but am hoping being a finance guy will let him see sellers as the foundation that they are for eBay and work to help them. Maybe he wants the job permanently and will work to create a powerbase from sellers.  I don't think he would have been chosen if he is a Wenig clone.

[dtexley3]

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@upgradedendmills wrote:

I don't know anything about his history but am hoping being a finance guy will let him see sellers as the foundation that they are for eBay and work to help them. Maybe he wants the job permanently and will work to create a powerbase from sellers.  I don't think he would have been chosen if he is a Wenig clone.

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He can be a Wenig clone as long as he doesn't buck the rest of the board that following the new investors.

[m60driver]

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@upgradedendmills wrote:

I don't know anything about his history but am hoping being a finance guy will let him see sellers as the foundation that they are for eBay and work to help them. Maybe he wants the job permanently and will work to create a powerbase from sellers.  I don't think he would have been chosen if he is a Wenig clone.

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The finance guys care not a whit about the sellers.  They are salivating at the fees for a very small number of people that will be generated by the spinning off of StubHub and other subsidiaries.  Once stripped of its assets then Ebay itself can be sold off for even more fees.  None of this strategic financial stuff takes into consideration the sellers. We are now, and shall always be, the generators of background noise to be ignored.

[gramophone-georg]

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@upgradedendmills wrote:

Today's change in management is great news for me personally. I think the smaller changes over the next few weeks will prove to be even more important. Hopefully this will not disrupt the Holiday selling season. Maybe it would be a good thing if sellers make an effort to support the new guy and see where this goes. Let's all wish him well and hope eBay makes a smooth transition and gets better.

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I see two historical patterns with eBay.

The first is that every CEO is worse for sellers than his predecessor.

The second is that every member of eBay management who gets too serious about "seller protection" gets shown the door abruptly. Rich Matsura, Bob Cupbens, Scott Cutler. Maybe Wenig really was finally getting around to meaning what he'd been saying.

Good luck sellers... my spidey sense says you are going to need it.

[echo_and_zip]

@gramophone-georg 

You forgot Hal Lawton... he cared about Sellers... actually had a Team that would shut down bad buyers, sellers, scammers... Wanted input & followed up... He must've seen the dark cloud coming & the wall that wouldn't budge & split.

[gramophone-georg]

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@echo_and_zip wrote:

@gramophone-georg 

You forgot Hal Lawton... he cared about Sellers... actually had a Team that would shut down bad buyers, sellers, scammers... Wanted input & followed up... He must've seen the dark cloud coming & the wall that wouldn't budge & split.

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You are so right- How could I forget Hal?

[books...forthememories]

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@upgradedendmills wrote:

Today's change in management is great news for me personally. I think the smaller changes over the next few weeks will prove to be even more important. Hopefully this will not disrupt the Holiday selling season. Maybe it would be a good thing if sellers make an effort to support the new guy and see where this goes. Let's all wish him well and hope eBay makes a smooth transition and gets better.

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We can but hope. 

The rot set in with Meg Whitman; when she left, her protege poison pill Donahoe did his best (worst) to ruin the venue--and Wenig continued in his footsteps "Counterfeits are not permitted on ebay!"  But he sent lists of popular ebay merchandise to China so they could flood the site with cheap copies of new "vintage" junk.   And bragged about it.