Article on eBay Price Increase

<<It looks as though it might work for foreign coins but I don't see a section for domestic United States.

catman>>

Click on Home at the top of the listings and from the home page you'll find it seperates into US and World catagories Curently there are 11 world coins listed and 134 US Coins.

 

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Thanks Condor. I found it and will go through it later.

catman

 

I, for one, will not be moving any of my buying or selling away from Ebay. If you don't like the new fees, you just won't get my business; doesn't bother me.

 

That's a good thing dthigpen. People should decide what's best for them. That's what establishes a market and an industry.

catman

 

FWIW:

http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05012006.htm

The Motley Fool Take

By Jeff Hwang
January 20, 2005

When you always outperform, investors always expect you to outperform. And when you disappoint, investors are going to be extra disappointed.

After the bell yesterday, eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) reported fourth-quarter earnings and came up a tad short of expectations. The online auction giant saw fourth-quarter revenues jump a healthy 44% to $935.8 million, driving net income growth of 44% to $205.4 million, or $0.30 per share. On a pro forma basis, the company earned $0.33 per share -- a penny short of the analyst estimate.

The company's outlook was also light. eBay forecast first-quarter earnings before items of $0.34 to $0.35 per share on revenues of $1.01 billion to $1.03 billion, well short of the analyst estimate for earnings of $0.40 per share on $1.05 billion in revenues. The company also said that it expected fiscal 2005 earnings of $1.48 to $1.52 per share on revenues of $4.25 billion to $4.35 billion. That, too, is short of the analyst estimate of $1.61 in earnings for the year on $4.37 billion in revenues.

As a result, eBay shares traded down nearly 18% to around $85 a share in today's trading.

Though the numbers didn't quite make expectations, the business is still growing rapidly. eBay's international business led the way, with net transaction revenues surging 64% to $344.3 million -- almost matching the $362.7 million in net transaction revenues the company recorded in the U.S. Meanwhile, the PayPal payments business posted net transaction revenue growth of 53% to $200.2 million.

Total gross merchandise volume (GMV), the value of the items successfully traded on eBay, rose 39% to $9.8 billion during the quarter. eBay Motors, by far eBay's largest trading category (as we discussed a couple of months ago in "Investing in Car Culture"), continued to outpace overall growth, with annualized GMV climbing 48% to $11.1 billion.

At 60 times 2005 earnings, eBay's stock still carries a premium valuation. That said, there isn't much wrong with the actual business. Last week, the company announced a hike in its listing fees (see "eBay, Hike, and Other 4-Letter Words"), hoping to capitalize on its network advantage over auction competitors such as Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN), and upstart Overstock.com (Nasdaq: OSTK).

Yesterday, eBay also announced a two-for-one stock split, payable Feb. 16.

 

Roger I understand--since I am not a self-typo-type promoter, and since I donot have a coin store or business. Does that mean I can post any webpage I want? And thanks for the clarification gdjmsp--the last thing I wanna do is get kicked or banned from this better wonderful forum Altho, I do beleive there is a conflict, when we post our own listings on ebay does not that break rules??

 

Excellent you have been most helpful--and of course I will comply