News - eBay lures big retailers for Amazon war by proxy

[HEXUS]

Also trials same-day delivery for San Franciscans.

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[dcwt2010]

I'm pretty sure Microsoft paid more than 8.5 million dollars....

[Saracen]

Also, looking at the latest Neilsen US figures, it can be seen that, on average, users spend a lot more time browsing eBay than Amazon on their smartphones; 1hr 4 minutes compared to 18 minutes respectively.

Perhaps because it takes them 3 or 4 times as long to find what they're looking for on eBay, compared to Amazon.

It certainly takes me a lot longer on eBay ..... to whittle out the item you're after from the deluge of dross that gets served up with it.

[MonkFish]

Lets just hope that eBay dont forget how they got popular in the first place, and junk the little guy. Oh too late extortionate fees and basically no seller protection has seen to that.

[tickleonthetum]

We never have and never will use Ebay or PayPal, not enough protection such as you get with a regular Credit Card transaction or from a regular bank...

[OilSheikh]

Hope they fail. Rips us off big time.