Ebay/Paypal split off.....

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Turn7

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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...what do we think ?

Good, bad or indifferent ?

andymc

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Why is the question?

Turn7

Original Poster:

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Because Im slightly surprised about it and wondered what other people thought ??


redface I understand the context in your post now, sorry.



Edited by Turn7 on Tuesday 30th September 20:29

steveT350C

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160 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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'Why are they splitting', is the question.

Answer: because two companies that are joined at the hip, when sold, will be worth more than when together.


Edited by steveT350C on Tuesday 30th September 20:11

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 30th September 2014
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steveT350C said:
'Why', is the question!
'Why?', surely?

Perhaps one of them isn't looking at a too bright future?

steveT350C

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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REALIST123 said:
steveT350C said:
'Why', is the question!
'Why?', surely?

Perhaps one of them isn't looking at a too bright future?
Was editing, but I think we agree. smile

davepoth

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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REALIST123 said:
steveT350C said:
'Why', is the question!
'Why?', surely?

Perhaps one of them isn't looking at a too bright future?
And that one is eBay. Crazy to think that eBay bought paypal a few years ago.

Watchman

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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davepoth said:
And that one is eBay.
Why do you think that?

Oakey

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Watchman said:
Why do you think that?
Ebays policy of fking over sellers perhaps?

Watchman

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Do you think Ebay is in decline then? Doesn't look that way to me.

davepoth

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Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Watchman said:
davepoth said:
And that one is eBay.
Why do you think that?
Ebay is a mature (and probably declining) market. The auction stuff peaked a while ago, so their bread and butter is "buy it now" on new things. Problem is that Amazon does that in a much more consumer friendly fashion, and they're losing out.

Paypal on the other hand has an interesting few years ahead of it. Paypal have inked a deal with Samsung (Biggest mobile device company) to allow payments to be processed based on the fingerprint sensor on the phone. That makes Paypal the defacto payment standard for something like 1/3 of the world's mobile phone users. That's Mastercard big.