To Overthrow Market Leaders
All the buzz lately has been about the Yahoo-Microsoft talks, which apparently aren’t going to happen now. Whatever – their alliance still won’t topple Google. Toppling Google would be like toppling eBay. There’s only 1 company that can topple eBay, and that’s…. eBay.
I’ve been reading about eBay’s new seller fees and how big-time sellers are all upset over it. There’s even this video on YouTube:
Could eBay’s recent changes be the beginning of the end to eBay? Is this the opportunity the competition is looking for?
I’m joining in on the eBay strike – I will not browse, bid, buy or sell on eBay February 18th through the 25th (while I’m in Disney
).



Beating Google - Nagel Family Website (March 10, 2008, 5:27 pm).
[...] As I said earlier, some companies cannot be beaten by anyone but themselves. I used eBay as the example, but this was reaffirmed recently by Silicon Alley Insider: Don’t you know you can’t beat Google — it can only beat itself [...]