Comments on: Sell Skype back to Skype and pay them (again) http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Fri, 25 May 2012 10:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: mutley http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17856 mutley Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:24:34 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17856 The Ebay CEO's comments at the previous 1/4 end meeting and subsequent Investors meeting hung out the Skype for Sale sign. Can they attract bids for the business that approach their own valuation of the business? "Ah well :-( According to the WSJ, the deal’s going nowhere" - Early days - but NZ & JF's court action over IP licensing means they're likely to be the only party interested in bidding until the case is heard - and that will take months if not years to complete. If the court finds in favour of NZ & JF, Skype's 1.7bn valuation in Ebay's book will look woefully optimistic. The Ebay CEO’s comments at the previous 1/4 end meeting and subsequent Investors meeting hung out the Skype for Sale sign.

Can they attract bids for the business that approach their own valuation of the business?

“Ah well :-( According to the WSJ, the deal’s going nowhere” -

Early days – but NZ & JF’s court action over IP licensing means they’re likely to be the only party interested in bidding until the case is heard – and that will take months if not years to complete.

If the court finds in favour of NZ & JF, Skype’s 1.7bn valuation in Ebay’s book will look woefully optimistic.

]]> By: Sue Bailey http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17855 Sue Bailey Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:16:39 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17855 Ah well :-( According to the WSJ, the deal's going nowhere. http://skypejournal.com/2009/04/founders-offer-fell-on-deaf-ears.html Ah well :-( According to the WSJ, the deal’s going nowhere.
http://skypejournal.com/2009/04/founders-offer-fell-on-deaf-ears.html

]]> By: a amiri http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17854 a amiri Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:04:59 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17854 While ebay looses to Amazon, Skype is wining big time in VOIP. Tons of core competencies exist within the ebay group to keep Skype going at steller growth rate (they know how to create "network externalities")...I would find it hard to beleive that eBay would sell Skype...For ebay it will be much easier to win with Skype in VOIP than with ebay against Amazon in e-commerce. While ebay looses to Amazon, Skype is wining big time in VOIP. Tons of core competencies exist within the ebay group to keep Skype going at steller growth rate (they know how to create “network externalities”)…I would find it hard to beleive that eBay would sell Skype…For ebay it will be much easier to win with Skype in VOIP than with ebay against Amazon in e-commerce.

]]> By: Lisa http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17853 Lisa Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:37:00 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17853 @Chris LMAO @Chris

LMAO

]]> By: Chris Dawson http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17852 Chris Dawson Sat, 11 Apr 2009 12:39:26 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17852 I'd love to be a fly on the wall during negotiations: eBay: So you want Skype back NZ & JF: Yes please eBay: Fine, we're incapable of doing anything with it anyway NZ & JF: Great we'll take it eBay: Price is $3.1bn NZ & JF: Little steep isn't it? eBay: It wasn't when you flogged it to us and it's grown since then NZ & JF: We'll pay $1.7bn eBay: Is that all it's really worth? NZ & JF: Well it's what it's on your books for, tell you what, we still have lots of money left from the final payout you gave us, make it $2bn eBay: Sounds like a deal so long as you let us lend you the money to buy it :D Fast forward to 2016 eBay: We've worked out what to do with Skype, can we buy it back again please? NZ & JF: Yeah, $10bn eBay: Bargain! Done! NZ & JF: Snigger in the background at the thought of another writedown I’d love to be a fly on the wall during negotiations:

eBay: So you want Skype back
NZ & JF: Yes please
eBay: Fine, we’re incapable of doing anything with it anyway
NZ & JF: Great we’ll take it
eBay: Price is $3.1bn
NZ & JF: Little steep isn’t it?
eBay: It wasn’t when you flogged it to us and it’s grown since then
NZ & JF: We’ll pay $1.7bn
eBay: Is that all it’s really worth?
NZ & JF: Well it’s what it’s on your books for, tell you what, we still have lots of money left from the final payout you gave us, make it $2bn
eBay: Sounds like a deal so long as you let us lend you the money to buy it :D

Fast forward to 2016
eBay: We’ve worked out what to do with Skype, can we buy it back again please?
NZ & JF: Yeah, $10bn
eBay: Bargain! Done!
NZ & JF: Snigger in the background at the thought of another writedown

]]> By: Eddie (Mr Prune.it) http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17851 Eddie (Mr Prune.it) Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:57:48 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17851 If Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis realy wanted Skype back - they would pay. If I were eBay I would say YES - you can have 90% for US$3 billion, and 1st option to buy the other 10% when we decide to sell it. The $$ value in Skype is not what it makes now, but what it could make in the future with more appropiate owbership. If Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis realy wanted Skype back – they would pay.

If I were eBay I would say YES – you can have 90% for US$3 billion, and 1st option to buy the other 10% when we decide to sell it.

The $$ value in Skype is not what it makes now, but what it could make in the future with more appropiate owbership.

]]> By: Chris Dawson http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17850 Chris Dawson Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:19:29 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17850 #BS I have to agree with you - leave it alone in the corner to carry on growing and turning in results that although smaller in magnitude are significantly BETTER than eBay.com #BS I have to agree with you – leave it alone in the corner to carry on growing and turning in results that although smaller in magnitude are significantly BETTER than eBay.com

]]> By: board_surfer http://tamebay.com/2009/04/sell-skype-back-to-skype-and-pay-them-again.html#comment-17849 board_surfer Sat, 11 Apr 2009 11:07:17 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=6760#comment-17849 sorry but I have trouble getting my head round why ebay would want to sell a $100 million profit company. sorry but I have trouble getting my head round why ebay would want to sell a $100 million profit company.

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