So as a buyer or seller, I see the friends in common on each listing / transaction.

The signal of mutual friends could be a major influencer for close tie transactions. Right now, it’s implicit.

Two questions for Mr Donahoe.

1) How much of the ‘growth’ in mobile sales has been at the expense of traditional shopping via the internet. In other words, does this ‘growth’ represent an actual increase in sales, or have sales declined with non mobile transactions?

2) In April and in July, eBay started imposing final value fees on shipping in a further attempt to manipulate sellers into offering merchandise with “free shipping”. Since free shipping amounts to little more than sellers including the cost of shipping into the selling price, how does eBay reconcile the higher selling prices when discussing growth? Now that so many more sellers are offering “free shipping” the increased selling prices do not reflect actual sales growth as eBay claims, but simply a shift in accounting practices where shipping is now counted as part of the selling price.

I am curious as to the isolation of ebay from the Social eco-system. How long (if at all) before we see some integration with social networks since that is where everyone seems to be right now and being able to post things on Facebook (and not just a link to Ebay listing) could really go places.

Thanks!

I ask for this reason: I sold a laptop on eBay. After 3 months, the user who purchased it, filed a chargeback on his credit card for the purchase. It was an extremely time consuming process to try and figure out what exactly was going on.

Eventually, the user sent the laptop back – half mangled. The point is, the chargeback was placed outside the time limit of both eBay and Paypal’s “complaint timeframe.” Also, it was sold “as is” with no returns. I was told the credit card companies have higher legal authority than Pay”Pal”. I haven’t sold anything on eBay since (a year and a half).