eBay Live Shares Global Effect
Attendees at eBay’s fifth annual user conference in Las Vegas this month had plenty of news thrown their way. eBay turned “Web 2.0″ by adding blogs and wiki to the site. Skype was hyped. And eBay vowed to begin enforcing its policy against excessive shipping charges.
You can read about these announcements in this AuctionBytes Newsflash article about the keynote address, (http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y06/m06/i14/s01), and you can watch the keynote address on AuctionBytes.TV (http://digbig.com/4kpeb).
Several things stood out for me at this year’s conference, the first being the added layers of management at eBay.com and how corporate it has become. At the PayPal Panel, for example, attendees had to endure a 40-minute PowerPoint presentation before the floor was given over to questions from the audience.
Second and more surprising was that eBay acknowledged the challenges of global trading. eBay has been expanding internationally for years and is a major worldwide brand. But the challenges of being a global trading platform are becoming apparent.
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