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7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count.
Let’s see what the count is Feb 22. It’s flat for both Jan and Feb versus last year, up until this little manipulation. Interesting that ebaY didn’t think their valued community was worth a FLD in Dec, but only a Dime day for FPL, but when wagglepop was supposed to open, suddenly ebaYers deserved a nickel day on auctions and FPL both. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks
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At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here!
If you like big numbers, check out their capitalization/dividend number sometime. They did actually declare a dividend of $50,000. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks
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There is more money to be made buying/selling Ebay stock then being an Ebay seller. Sales & profits continue to rise and they are expanding worldwide.
That’s the whole point. You can make more selling your stock options than doing anything that would require making an intelligent decision in running the company. Watch what happens after the split as it becomes more affordable for the average investor.
What a bunch of BS. You can buy stock for ten bucks, so what are you saying? That the "average investor" can’t afford to make a $80 investment, but might be able to swing $45? — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks
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I worked for years as a broker for Prudential. When I see posts like yours, I see someone who really shouldn’t be investing in individual stocks. You have no idea what you’re doing. Buy a nice low cost index fund like Vanguard.
Thank you. It’s nice to see someone with information come in and counter the BS every now and then. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks
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I did extremely well on the upside with Yahoo.
Even blind pigs find truffles. Couldn’t get into Google early enough
Why not? It wasn’t like they didn’t let anyone know to buy. but Ebay has the strongest business model right now on the internet and has for years. With expansion it can only grow. Look outside the USA and Ebay is catching on in the last 4 years worldwide. In the antique market on the last trip to London that was all people were talking about and just about every show i go to around here in the Midwest. Watch what happens to the stock and look back in August 2005 to see what was made off the stock.
And what exactly is their "business" model? Sell advertising space that costs almost nothing in as many places as people are willing to pay over the market prices for it, instead of a webpage? Buy up profitable competitors who are operating for free like rent.com and cragslist.org and milking their users, too? Thirty years ago, some entremanure discovered that the profit in newspapers wasn’t in paying a huge staff of reporters and photographers to gather information and try to sell papers for enough to cover all that overhead. It’s in selling advertising even if it means giving the paper away. All ebaY did was charge the same bunch of people for the same bunch of ads and give the result away free. The only difference is they can control it enough to get a commission on sales, and it costs a lot less to push around electrons than it does tons of newsprint. That’s all ebaY is. The weekly advertiser, updated on demand electronically. This was predicted probably about a quarter century ago, along with newspapers where the latest headline could be changed between copies as they were running on the press. — Outgoing mail is certified bollocks
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At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here! If you like big numbers, check out their capitalization/dividend number sometime. They did actually declare a dividend of $50,000.
One time? On the common shares? Why bother? A
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I did extremely well on the upside with Yahoo.
Good for you. A lot of people did well with Yahoo. Couldn’t get into Google early enough but Ebay has the strongest business model right now on the internet and has for years. With expansion it can only grow.
It needs to grow. In fact, it needs to quadruple profits without the stock budging an inch just to get back to any semblance of a reasonable P/E. Tulips! Get yer tulips here!
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Watch what the stock does after the split.<
I am willing to bet the "house" that any one who holds stock in ebay IMMEDIATELY after the split and BEFORE they sell any, they will have TWICE (x2) as many as BEFORE the split.
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Watch what the stock does after the split.< I am willing to bet the "house" that any one who holds stock in ebay IMMEDIATELY after the split and BEFORE they sell any, they will have TWICE (x2) as many as BEFORE the split.
That I agreee with you on that! I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
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[snip] – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb 15, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Bidville, Inc. (BVLE), a rapidly growing online auction company and an alternative to eBay (EBAY), has announced today that it has seen significant growth and activity on its site and is benefiting from recent fee increases reported by eBay. Bidville does not charge listing fees and its final success fees are competitively lower than other auction sites. Bidville has realized notable growth particularly throughout the last year in the areas of registered users, increasing over 1,000% to almost one million members. In addition, items listed daily on the website have increased over 170% to approximately three million items.
This press release seems to have quite an effect on the stock! BVLE.OB is down forty-nine cents a share so far today (a third of its value) to a-buck-one a share … I’d hate to see what happens if they announce *bad* news … — P. O. Box 32541 website: http://www.kenbarr.com San Jose, CA 95152 (souvenir cards, MPC, Hickey Bros tokens) 408-272-3247 Next show: Cupertino Coin Club 02/20 (no table) ADVANCED NOTICE: ANA World’s Fair of Money, San Francisco, CA 7/27-31/2005
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There is more money to be made buying/selling Ebay stock then being an Ebay seller. Sales & profits continue to rise and they are expanding worldwide. Watch what happens after the split as it becomes more affordable for the average investor.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – 7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter. It would be hard for me to care less than I do now about what eBay’s stock does or does not do. At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here!
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – There is more money to be made buying/selling Ebay stock then being an Ebay seller. Sales & profits continue to rise and they are expanding worldwide. Watch what happens after the split as it becomes more affordable for the average investor. 7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter. It would be hard for me to care less than I do now about what eBay’s stock does or does not do. At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here!
First off you have no true understanding of what a stock split does. Other then make it more affordable for some people to purchase the stock. Here is the downside of what a split does as well. When P/E’s go out of hand, investors sell. Stock price declines. When EPS is lower, investors sell. Stock price declines. Institutions now have larger blocks of stock number wise so when they move it pushes down the stock price. Rarely do they rebuy into a split. Some stocks after a spilt or huge drop will get what is called "a dead cat" bounce, it often pops the stock up briefly until the fundamentals get ironed back out. Then the stock returns to it normal trading range or just below the stock split price adjustment. I predicted openly in this group that EBay stock would stay within a narrow range over the next few weeks or months. Even willing to bet Rita on it. Well take a long hard look at EBay I said it would bounce within a 5 dollar price per share. It has been doing exactly that. It did dip lower then the drop off price of 84 and change. It is still within the range I said it would be in almost a month ago. As of this afternoon it has just returned above the 85 dollar per share range. Since the split announcement the stock has been just about unchanged from that date. Which is still way off from it’s 52 week high of 118.42. My point is stock splits allow some investors to move into it, but also entices others who own it in blocks now to move out of the stock. Often to very little effect to the split price either way.
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I did extremely well on the upside with Yahoo. Couldn’t get into Google early enough but Ebay has the strongest business model right now on the internet and has for years. With expansion it can only grow. Look outside the USA and Ebay is catching on in the last 4 years worldwide. In the antique market on the last trip to London that was all people were talking about and just about every show i go to around here in the Midwest. Watch what happens to the stock and look back in August 2005 to see what was made off the stock.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I have a few friends who worked for AOL for 15 years and recently 1 of them just got layed off. When he was there with AOL, the stock split 7 times he said and he made quite a nice chunk of change. Ebay people are looking for the same thing. Once it splits and is at $40 something many people will buy into for all of the positive press it has gotten and being more affordable than like google is. I would rather own Ebay with it chances than Microsoft at the same. I worked for years as a broker for Prudential. When I see posts like yours, I see someone who really shouldn’t be investing in individual stocks. You have no idea what you’re doing. Buy a nice low cost index fund like Vanguard.
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I did extremely well on the upside with Yahoo. Couldn’t get into Google early enough but Ebay has the strongest business model right now on the internet and has for years. With expansion it can only grow. Look outside the USA and Ebay is catching on in the last 4 years worldwide. In the antique market on the last trip to London that was all people were talking about and just about every show i go to around here in the Midwest. Watch what happens to the stock and look back in August 2005 to see what was made off the stock.
The best advice one can give you is do a lot of research and go with your gut or do the exact opposite of your broker’s recommendation. If you start listening to all these "brokers" and "experts" you are guaranteed to lose your shirt. The only one getting rich will surely be the broker, not you. As for eBay, I sold 75% of mine at the beginning of the year with hopes of it taking a massive dip and buying back in and watching the stock come back up in a week or two. I was wrong about it coming back quickly and have yet to buy back in. I don’t feel the split will have any effects either way. So, at this point I’m not sure if I’ll let the other 25% ride a while or just dump it and totally get out. Either way I’m not losing anything. I’m just going to keep my eye on it and see how things go after the 18th. Right now my gut is telling me to hold tight for a while and not get excited either way. Good luck. Rita
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. CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb 15, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Bidville, Inc. (BVLE), a rapidly growing online auction company and an alternative to eBay (EBAY), has announced today that it has seen significant growth and activity on its site and is benefiting from recent fee increases reported by eBay. Bidville does not charge listing fees and its final success fees are competitively lower than other auction sites. Bidville has realized notable growth particularly throughout the last year in the areas of registered users, increasing over 1,000% to almost one million members. In addition, items listed daily on the website have increased over 170% to approximately three million items.
Are they out of Clearwater? I wonder if it’s connected to Scientology? A
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I have a few friends who worked for AOL for 15 years and recently 1 of them just got layed off. When he was there with AOL, the stock split 7 times he said and he made quite a nice chunk of change. Ebay people are looking for the same thing. Once it splits and is at $40 something many people will buy into for all of the positive press it has gotten and being more affordable than like google is. I would rather own Ebay with it chances than Microsoft at the same.
In the 1990’s perhaps.. that might have been a good idea, but no longer with techincal selling and trigger program points. Those days are gone for now. IPO wise Google is the top prize and just got released to be traded in major shares. What happened to them ? Price per share dropped. Why .. profit taking. Positive press for Ebay? What was that? Pissed off sellers? Entry into the chinese unknown market place. Arrest of the Ebay India head guru fro pornography charges. Quarterly profits down.. share prices slashed to 12 month lows.. wait there is a silver lining. .. oh nevermind it was just the glare on my screen. CLEARWATER, Fla., Feb 15, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Bidville, Inc. (BVLE), a rapidly growing online auction company and an alternative to eBay (EBAY), has announced today that it has seen significant growth and activity on its site and is benefiting from recent fee increases reported by eBay. Bidville does not charge listing fees and its final success fees are competitively lower than other auction sites. Bidville has realized notable growth particularly throughout the last year in the areas of registered users, increasing over 1,000% to almost one million members. In addition, items listed daily on the website have increased over 170% to approximately three million items. SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec 21, 2004 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Baazee.com, eBay’s (EBAY) wholly owned subsidiary in India, is an online marketplace which brings buyers and sellers together. In late November a Baazee.com user attempted to sell a controversial pornographic video clip on the Baazee site. The video clip itself was not shown on the site; the seller offered to email the clip to buyers directly. The listing violated Baazee.com’s policies and user agreement and was removed from the site once it was discovered. … SAN FRANCISCO & SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan 13, 2005 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Kurant, a leading provider of e-business software for small and medium-sized businesses (www.kurant.com), and eBay, the World’s Online Marketplace (EBAY)(www.ebay.com), today announced that they have signed an agreement whereby eBay will acquire Kurant’s technology assets, primarily advanced software relating to online stores. Was supposed to be a stock swap deal. Ebay stock dropped so much it required them to pay cash out for the company. Yes all good press for Ebay.. ha ha ha ha I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you? http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html
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I have a few friends who worked for AOL for 15 years and recently 1 of them just got layed off. When he was there with AOL, the stock split 7 times he said and he made quite a nice chunk of change. Ebay people are looking for the same thing. Once it splits and is at $40 something many people will buy into for all of the positive press it has gotten and being more affordable than like google is. I would rather own Ebay with it chances than Microsoft at the same.
I worked for years as a broker for Prudential. When I see posts like yours, I see someone who really shouldn’t be investing in individual stocks. You have no idea what you’re doing. Buy a nice low cost index fund like Vanguard.
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I have a few friends who worked for AOL for 15 years and recently 1 of them just got layed off. When he was there with AOL, the stock split 7 times he said and he made quite a nice chunk of change. Ebay people are looking for the same thing. Once it splits and is at $40 something many people will buy into for all of the positive press it has gotten and being more affordable than like google is. I would rather own Ebay with it chances than Microsoft at the same.
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – There is more money to be made buying/selling Ebay stock then being an Ebay seller. Sales & profits continue to rise and they are expanding worldwide. Watch what happens after the split as it becomes more affordable for the average investor. 7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter. It would be hard for me to care less than I do now about what eBay’s stock does or does not do. At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here! First off you have no true understanding of what a stock split does. Other then make it more affordable for some people to purchase the stock. Here is the downside of what a split does as well. When P/E’s go out of hand, investors sell. Stock price declines. When EPS is lower, investors sell. Stock price declines. Institutions now have larger blocks of stock number wise so when they move it pushes down the stock price. Rarely do they rebuy into a split. Some stocks after a spilt or huge drop will get what is called "a dead cat" bounce, it often pops the stock up briefly until the fundamentals get ironed back out. Then the stock returns to it normal trading range or just below the stock split price adjustment. I predicted openly in this group that EBay stock would stay within a narrow range over the next few weeks or months. Even willing to bet Rita on it. Well take a long hard look at EBay I said it would bounce within a 5 dollar price per share. It has been doing exactly that. It did dip lower then the drop off price of 84 and change. It is still within the range I said it would be in almost a month ago. As of this afternoon it has just returned above the 85 dollar per share range. Since the split announcement the stock has been just about unchanged from that date. Which is still way off from it’s 52 week high of 118.42. My point is stock splits allow some investors to move into it, but also entices others who own it in blocks now to move out of the stock. Often to very little effect to the split price either way.
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7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter.
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Watch what the stock does after the split.
I’ll willing to bet Loren’s virginity that its price drops by 50%.
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"I’ll willing to bet Loren’s virginity that its price drops by 50%" Who ever Loren is, I will bet that the amount of shares held by EACH ACCOUNT will double! H, who has "stocked up" at 79 and may another share or 2 after the split.
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7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter.
Sure it will still mean something.. less income from listings and still some people will not list then anyways. Can’t discount the ill feelings across the board either.
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7 million extra listings for the gap fill! Not bad since this is the all time high daily listing count. So if there is a boycott loss at even 10%, it won’t mean anything now. Watch what the stock does after the split and then after numbers come in for this quarter.
It would be hard for me to care less than I do now about what eBay’s stock does or does not do. At a 79+ P/E ratio, it’s in nosebleed territory and to buy at that P/E is a fools game. I guess the folks that got burned chasing after stocks in the late 90’s just because "They’re going up!" have not learned their lesson. Tulips! Get yer tulip bulbs here!
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Watch what the stock does after the split. I’ll willing to bet Loren’s virginity that its price drops by 50%.
I’m hoping eBay stock price drops by 50%…I need some action. Standing-in-the-hammock-barking-at-the-moon-ankle-breaking action. Loren
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