Short post today as I am on BlackBerry only and headed to Hacking Education. I just have a simple question - where is eBay? This crisis ought to be fantastic for eBay as folks are looking to unload stuff they don’t need and buy things for cheap at auction. Instead the WSJ today has one article about women selling their old clothes out of their closets and another about Amazon opening a game trading business. No mention of eBay in either article as even being a possible alternative (Craigslist mentioned in the article on clothes). Or take the ongoing coverage of the auto industry. Cars are piling up unsold not by the hundreds but by the thousands. Again no mention of eBay. They should be all over this, helping move cars through auctions before they rot into the ground. If they can’t get their marketplace strategy right, at a minimum eBay should be doing a much better job at PR.

Short post today as I am on BlackBerry only and headed to Hacking Education. I just have a simple question - where is eBay? This crisis ought to be fantastic for eBay as folks are looking to unload stuff they don’t need and buy things for cheap at auction. Instead the WSJ today has one article about women selling their old clothes out of their closets and another about Amazon opening a game trading business. No mention of eBay in either article as even being a possible alternative (Craigslist mentioned in the article on clothes). Or take the ongoing coverage of the auto industry. Cars are piling up unsold not by the hundreds but by the thousands. Again no mention of eBay. They should be all over this, helping move cars through auctions before they rot into the ground. If they can’t get their marketplace strategy right, at a minimum eBay should be doing a much better job at PR.