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Auctionbytes-NewsFlash, Number 222 - December 16, 2001 - ISSN 1539-5065      | Next Story

Is eBay Too Big for Its Britches?
By Ina Steiner
AuctionBytes.com
December 16, 2001
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Jay Sinha, an assistant marketing professor at Temple University, thinks eBay's rapid expansion and move into B2B (business-to-business) will hurt it. Its core customers "are turned off by too much commercialism," said Sinha, quoted yesterday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/12/16/business/EBAY SIDE16.htm SIDE16.htm
The Inquirer ran another article about eBay yesterday:
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/12/16/business/EBAY 16.htm 16.htm


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