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Has eBay stopped bidding on auctions?

August 21st, 2007

Techcrunch recently reported that eBay lost $1bn of market cap. Combining this with reports from some sellers that “eBay is broken“, it is clear that it’s time to take a closer look at just what is happening with eBay.
Firstly, some facts sourced from eBay’s quarterly reports:

eBay’s subscriber activity rate has declined from 41% in Q1 2005 [...]