Sunday, December 04, 2005

Big eBay Users Shun Skype

Looks like eBay chief Meg Whitman has plenty of selling to do herself.


Russell Shaw points to a story in TheStreet.com that claims that “Big eBay users shun Skype”.

The original article quotes the executive director of a group of high-volume eBay sellers as saying that "Skype doesn't give me a capability that I already don't have." Apparently this based on informal conversation with members. Of course it is not clear why they should feel this way.

The story doesn’t give enough supporting evidence for their claim. Nonetheless, I feel that eBay sellers can use third party VoIP tools as well instead of Skype. So I feel Skype is not going to change much the landscape for eBay.

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