Another management appointment at eBay

As part of eBay’s far reaching management changes eBay Strategies report Michael Linton (formerly CMO of BestBuy) is coming to eBay to run the non-core parts of eBay: Motors, Stores/Shops, Express and ProStores. Linton will report to Bill Cobb and work with Gary Briggs, senior VP-chief marketing officer. It’s a big step into the auction world and with parts in motors being the fastest growing category on eBay (sell through rate is one per second) a retailers experience makes sense. Express and ProStores could do with a boost, it’s no secret that Express is growing much slower than sellers would like.

Along with the news of Philipp Justus moving to San José to oversee the auction business and the appointment of Dr. Daniel Lee as General Manager for their China Development Center in Shanghai, news of the management changes is slow to be announced. We are still expecting several significant appointments in some of eBay’s fastest growing sectors to be announced in the near future.

As eBay move towards the new year they are realigning their management to focus on driving business forward in 2007. Putting decision making power in the hands of key leaders who align their attention to the buyers or sellers experience of the site can only be a good move and hopefully avoid debacles such as the shop inventory changes made and reversed in 2006.

3 Responses on "Another management appointment at eBay"

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   TameBay : eBay.com gets promotion that’s standard on .co.uk says:

   March 13, 2007 at 6:05 pm

   [...] To be honest I’m gobsmacked! It’s standard in the UK that when you open a shop for the first time you always get a 30 day free trial whether you choose featured or basic, the only time you don’t have a free trial is if you open an anchor shop. eBay know that sellers that open a shop go on to sell more – this shouldn’t be a limited time offer, it should be standard for all sellers on eBay.com just as it is on eBay.co.uk. Cobb and Linton need to get their heads together on this offer and extend it indefinitely! [...]
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   mark pearson says:

   October 23, 2007 at 6:55 pm

   E-bays strategy about letting thieves commit fraud on thier service is not a good one as i will not use their service again. Like most companies that don’t really care about their customers, just the almighty buck, your time will come someday when people learn and become as disgusted as myself!
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   Sue Bailey says:

   October 23, 2007 at 7:51 pm

   Thanks for your comment, Mark. Just to clarify, this site is not owned or operated by eBay.