February 14, 2007.........Final Verdict: eBay China is a failure

eBay's Tom Online Deal: Timely Lessons for Global Online Company Managers

Here's the bottom line. eBay's venture through EachNet, for Chinese auction services, was a miserable failure largely by failing to understand the local market. eBay made similar mistakes in launching Paypal services in China. From our own original research into Skype growth, there is no evidence to suggest that the eBay venture into voIP is keeping up with Chinese internet growth or with other regions. Year to date, the growth of concurrent users in Asia is actually negative, while growth in the Americas continues to surge.