Dude, the numbers from the 3rd quarter of 2009 were VERY telling. We are a seeing the grip of fear beginning to ease. The consumer is spending and they are spending everywhere….except eBay.
Do you recall the past? Lets go back to the storied sports history of 1974. A young man named Cassius Clay has changed his name to Muhammad Ali. It is October 30, 1974 and the soon to be crowned "king of all grills", George Forman is whipping Ali’s ass!
However Ali has a strategy, he is using a "rope-a-dope". Ali starts to lie back on the ropes and lets Forman swing with all his might. Foreman landed constant blows to the body, but had trouble landing punches to the head. Foreman began to tire from all the punches he threw at Ali to no apparent effect, and with the punches he was taking from Ali, Foreman was visibly exhausted and starting to stagger by the 5th round. Ali eventually knocked him out in the 8th round.
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Is eBay pulling a rope-a-dope? If they are not pulling punches, then I must say unequivocally, that I believe that the kingdom of eBay is in SERIOUS TROUBLE. While Jeff Bezos is dancing to the bank, is John Donahoe praying to the "goddess Meg" for guidance in these troubling time?
We live in the age of Big Brother! No silly, not the TV show. I am talking about the Orwellian talk coming to life. When I was just a young lad there was a commercial ad run by Apple Computers (yes, they USED to make PC’s LOL). They bought a spot on the Superbowl in 1984 Apple Macintosh PC.
It was THE most talked about commerce that year and launched the phenomenon that is Apple today. This commerce was actually a spoof of the George Orwell novel called 1984.
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Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling elite (‘the Party’) wield total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.
In the society that Orwell describes, everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by telescreens. The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase "Big Brother is watching you", which is the core "truth" of the propaganda system in this state. Big Brother’s physical characteristics are intended to resemble Joseph Stalinalthough in the film his moustache more closely resembles Adolf Hitler’s.
Dude, the numbers from the 3rd quarter of 2009 were VERY telling. We are a seeing the grip of fear beginning to ease. The consumer is spending and they are spending everywhere….except eBay. 
