Comments on: eBay’s Skype Conundrum

By: Confirmed: eBay Sells Skype In Deal Valuing It At $2.75 Billion | Codedstyle

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:56:32 +0000

[...] out its founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis back in 2005. Since then, eBay has written down nearly a billion dollars of the deal value after realizing the supposed synergies weren’t going to pan out as planned. [...]

By: Confirmed: eBay Sells Skype In Deal Valuing It At $2.75 Billion

Confirmed: eBay Sells Skype In Deal Valuing It At $2.75 Billion — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:34:54 +0000

By: eBay Starts Stripping Skype from Its Services | Genuine Forex Trading

eBay Starts Stripping Skype from Its Services | Genuine Forex Trading — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:06:24 +0000

[...] the past we’ve written about eBay’s Skype conundrum, or the trouble the former has had to successfully integrate the latter’s communication [...]

By: eBay Starts Stripping Skype Voice And Chat Buttons From Auction Listings

eBay Starts Stripping Skype Voice And Chat Buttons From Auction Listings — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:19:02 +0000

[...] the past we’ve written about eBay’s Skype conundrum, or the trouble the former has had to successfully integrate the latter’s communication [...]

By: Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To IPO Skype In 2010

Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To IPO Skype In 2010 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:41:20 +0000

[...] we reported earlier, eBay has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products (which CEO John Donahoe admits in a quote from the press [...]

By: Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To Spin Off Skype, IPO For 2010

Breaking: eBay Announces Plans To Spin Off Skype, IPO For 2010 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:58:54 +0000

[...] we reported earlier, eBay has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom in [...]

By: Relazione: Fondatori desidera acquistare Skype da eBay Indietro « Web Design Roma News

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:39:44 +0000

[...] ha avuto difficoltà a trovare il modo di utilizzare Skype in tutta la sua altri prodotti. Skype di eBay rimosso [...]

By: Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay @ Technology Tricks

Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay @ Technology Tricks — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:00:25 +0000

[...] has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas [...]

By: Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay | Webtrendblog.com

Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay | Webtrendblog.com — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:33:44 +0000

[...] has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas [...]

By: Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay

Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:59:15 +0000

[...] has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas [...]

By: Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay | CHARGED's Digital Lifestyle at Work or Play

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 02:15:28 +0000

[...] has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas [...]

By: Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay

Report: Founders Want To Buy Skype Back From EBay — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:34:32 +0000

[...] has been having trouble finding ways of using Skype across its other products. . eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO [...]

By: The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » Rumor: eBay to Sell Skype to Google?

The Praized Blog » Blog Archive » Rumor: eBay to Sell Skype to Google? — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:21:28 +0000

[...] acquired in late 2005 for $3.1 billion, has been a financial albatross around Ebay’s neck. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas [...]

By: Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent

Google/Skype Acquisition or Partnership Imminent — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:25:07 +0000

[...] acquired in late 2005 for $3.1 billion, has been a financial albatross around Ebay’s neck. eBay removed Skype co-founder and CEO [...]

By: What Was Skype’s Shortfall?

What Was Skype’s Shortfall? — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:44:54 +0000

[...] in regards to growing its number of active users, revenues, and gross profits. Obviously, Skype is not a good fit for eBay. But what exactly were those goals? After all, Skype’s revenues grew 96 percent in [...]

By: User

User — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:30:20 +0000

What about rapleaf.com for seller reputations?

By: Justyn Butler

Justyn Butler — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:40:44 +0000

“But Skype has yet to be implemented on eBay itself (someone please correct me if I’m wrong).”

Speaking of eBay UK at least, sellers have been able to add a button saying “chat” (text) or call (voice) for a while now.

See here:
http://pages.eb...t/skype-ov.html

To me it seems like a natural progression to have this feature available, although most sellers (myself included) don’t use it because it is far more time-consuming than using email.

By: Aniq Rahman

Aniq Rahman — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:48:52 +0000

Another reason why you can’t rush to implement voice into transaction deals is that you want such things to be documented and to ensure fairness to people. Skype would only be useful to eBay auctions in asking sellers questions – but most serious sellers can be contacted via phone or email very easily…

I think that Skype’s network should be independent of eBay (or about 99% so)… Most people don’t know that eBay and Skype are one – most people don’t care.

By: Aniq Rahman

Aniq Rahman — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:39:57 +0000

If eBay was smart about it – they would build a Skype application on something platform agnostic like Adobe FLEX (i.e. similar to what TokBox.com is currently doing). They have the marketing and the user base already. If people had a choice of app or website or both, it would be an incredible social revolution on the internet because of the sheer international force that shapes Skype.

I personally love Skype and use it more than any other client (sans GChat maybe). It’s just a really clean and simple client for OS X and does everything so well. Kudos to the Skype UI team.

By: KUTO

KUTO — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:13:26 +0000

Auction sellers have a button where people can contact them right away through skype to chat about the product … it’s been there for a while now.

By: amador

amador — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:17:13 +0000

many of the places i travel there is wifi EVERYWHERE. A little skype phone would be awesome if you could just roll up somewhere, place a call, and somehow skype bills you.

It’s not the perfect solution for everybody, but when you consider there are some places in SAN JOSE !!! where high speed internet is still not available it looks pretty good.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:40:08 +0000

eBay never took it seriously, that is the problem, as soon as it bought it, skype should have been plastered EVERYWHERE in eBay… why it wasn’t is beyond me.

Jon

By: David Tan

David Tan — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:19:10 +0000

Think of it: who doesn’t want something as good as ebay + payapl + sykpe as a whole deal. I agree with Meg that “the cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake”

Come on, it wasn’t even close to be considered as a mistake!

By: jerry

jerry — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:58:47 +0000

if you look at the sum total of Skype’s contribution since acquisition, it came to around $400 million. I think that is pretty good story, which bulk of the analysts are missing. It is not a loss making unit, but having $100 million per quarter business is a pretty good deal.

By: Fake 'Fake "Fake Michael Arrington"'

Fake 'Fake "Fake Michael Arrington"' — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 23:40:05 +0000

I agree with the last guy. See, you don’t know who I am.. i may really be the same guy!