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 morgantown
  		posted on February 1, 2001 07:18:51 PM new
This may come across as one silly thread.

But instead of building a new site to compete with eBay, how much would it cost to buy enough stock to make a difference in the eBay organization?

Posters here state that they would be willing to put up $1000 toward a new site. Perhaps a pool to buy eBay stock?

I have not clue about this stuff; and, as aforementioned, it might be foolish! I'm curious though...

MTown
 
 amy
  		posted on February 1, 2001 07:47:07 PM new
Once you buy enough stock to have any influence in how ebay is run you may find you don't want to do anything that may adversely affect the bottom line

 
 stockticker
  		posted on February 1, 2001 07:54:42 PM new

This reminds me of the thread started less than a month ago in the Yahoo forum.

http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=6&id=11981&thread=11978


 
 morgantown
  		posted on February 1, 2001 08:03:02 PM new
Laugh! StockTicker, I looked at that thread. Way WAY OuT.

Curious, what is the eBay equation - like you posted about Yahoo?

Mtown

 
 amalgamated2000
  		posted on February 2, 2001 08:01:18 AM new

Sure. With the suggested co-op dues of $100, we would only need about 300 million people to get together - slightly more than the entire population of the U.S.
 
 stockticker
  		posted on February 2, 2001 08:20:57 AM new

EBay:

Shares outstanding (Oct. 23): 268,897,000

Market price today: $46

Cost to acquire 51% control: $6.3 billion

 
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