eBay to divorce Skype on Wall St

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richard

a bollox idea is still a bollox idea #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 08:41 GMT

even if you throw hundreds of millions of dollars at it!

George

Hate to say I told you so... #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 08:41 GMT

...but how do you make money from something free? Adverts aren't enough, and then if you ask someone to pay then kind of defeats the object!

Still somebody visionary may come along with a good idea.

Anonymous Coward

It was the result of Blue Sky 'thinking' #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 08:41 GMT

As an occasional eBay user, I thought it was a really dumb idea to propose sellers could have a Skype link on their items so potential buyers could talk to them about it.

I get enough time wasters via email when selling, so to have them phone you too!

Definitely was a decision not clouded by thought.

Anonymous Coward

Amazon? #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 08:42 GMT

-- Whitman is now campaigning to become governor of California based on her "solid" achievements as a business chief whilst running Amazon. --

Hm... methinks Jeff Bezos would have a slight disagreement with that statement...

Paris, because she could probably run eBay better...

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WARNING: lame joke #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 09:14 GMT

Probbly should just put Skype on ebay to get shot of it -

hahahahahahahaha

Not as funny as those schmucks buying it in the first place ...

Joe K

Hilarious numbers there #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 09:54 GMT

Exactly how many arses were those ridiculous figures pulled out of?

Michael Fremlins

The National Security Agency? #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 09:54 GMT

Wasn't it reported that the US NSA were prepared to spend "billions" for a Skype-tapping system? Why not buy the company, like Victor Kiam? Anonymously, of course...

Sam Liddicott

telecoms? #

Posted Wednesday 15th April 2009 12:29 GMT

How did they expect to be an internet telecoms provider with their secret proprietary protocols?

It sort of spoils interoperability.

Only lately have they got wise to this problem and started to work towards interoperating with SIP and asterisk, and no doubt then only to help oil the sale.

Mad Hacker