Comments on: TameBay Morsels for 27th May 2009 http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html eBay & ecommerce made easy Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:38:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lino http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html#comment-47911 Lino Fri, 29 May 2009 08:37:58 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=7206#comment-47911 A guy in our office sold a pair of concert tickets on eBay last week for over £200. He's had an eBay and Paypal account for 4 years, but doesn't use it often. When the buyer paid by Paypal, Paypal sent an email saying he should post the tickets but that they were holding the money, his money, for 21 days. He now doesn't ever want to use Paypal again. A guy in our office sold a pair of concert tickets on eBay last week for over £200. He’s had an eBay and Paypal account for 4 years, but doesn’t use it often. When the buyer paid by Paypal, Paypal sent an email saying he should post the tickets but that they were holding the money, his money, for 21 days.

He now doesn’t ever want to use Paypal again.

]]> By: Bunchy http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html#comment-47910 Bunchy Thu, 28 May 2009 21:32:41 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=7206#comment-47910 why PayPal isn’t more popular. Because I am forced into using it. Because on occasion I have been shafted by their policies helped along by an out-of-date system and a work-force so inept it defies belief. Those are just 2 reasons off the top of my head. I can't speak for everyone, but I am quite sure I am not alone in my reasoning. why PayPal isn’t more popular.

Because I am forced into using it.

Because on occasion I have been shafted by their policies helped along by an out-of-date system and a work-force so inept it defies belief.

Those are just 2 reasons off the top of my head. I can’t speak for everyone, but I am quite sure I am not alone in my reasoning.

]]> By: whirly http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html#comment-47906 whirly Thu, 28 May 2009 08:19:49 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=7206#comment-47906 #2 :lol: it made me cringe also. #2 :lol: it made me cringe also.

]]> By: Lino http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html#comment-47905 Lino Thu, 28 May 2009 07:35:03 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=7206#comment-47905 Fred Wilson thinks paying with Paypal is "an awesome experience" This guy should get out more. Fred Wilson thinks paying with Paypal is “an awesome experience”

This guy should get out more.

]]> By: EventHorizon1984 http://tamebay.com/2009/05/tamebay-morsels-for-27th-may-2009.html#comment-47904 EventHorizon1984 Thu, 28 May 2009 02:56:53 +0000 http://www.tamebay.com/?p=7206#comment-47904 > why PayPal isn't more popular PayPal's growth is tied to eBay's fortunes (or misfortunes). Until there's a separation of these siamese twins, or eBay shrivels up into an appendage of PayPal, people shouldn't expect titanic changes in market share. Let's do some 'sums' shall we? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090311_318128.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis March 12, 2009 "Donahoe pointed out that e-commerce is just 6% of real-world retail." eBay being a slice of that 6%. I take the following statistics with a Utah salt mine. http://news.ebay.com/fastfacts_paypal.cfm "PayPal's Total Payment Volume in 2008 represented nearly 9 percent of global e-commerce and 15 percent of US e-commerce." That's 91% of the planet NOT using PayPal, and 85% of us Yanks using something other than PayPal. For e-commerce. Soooo (insert Bill Cobb sound byte here) world wide PayPal's "real-world retail" popularity is 9% of that 6%. Or maybe John Donahoe meant the U.S., making it 15% of 6%. Either way that's rather small. And unpopular. "It's not the size of your planet, it's how you use it!" Emperor Todd Spengo, Mom and Dad Save The World (1992) > why PayPal isn’t more popular

PayPal’s growth is tied to eBay’s fortunes (or misfortunes). Until there’s a separation of these siamese twins, or eBay shrivels up into an appendage of PayPal, people shouldn’t expect titanic changes in market share.

Let’s do some ’sums’ shall we?

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc20090311_318128.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis
March 12, 2009
“Donahoe pointed out that e-commerce is just 6% of real-world retail.”

eBay being a slice of that 6%.

I take the following statistics with a Utah salt mine.

http://news.ebay.com/fastfacts_paypal.cfm
“PayPal’s Total Payment Volume in 2008 represented nearly 9 percent of global e-commerce and 15 percent of US e-commerce.”

That’s 91% of the planet NOT using PayPal, and 85% of us Yanks using something other than PayPal. For e-commerce.

Soooo (insert Bill Cobb sound byte here) world wide PayPal’s “real-world retail” popularity is 9% of that 6%. Or maybe John Donahoe meant the U.S., making it 15% of 6%.

Either way that’s rather small. And unpopular.

“It’s not the size of your planet, it’s how you use it!”
Emperor Todd Spengo, Mom and Dad Save The World (1992)

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