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Open Source Alternative

anyone know of, or what open source model may break Ebay's monopoly ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.147.3.213 (talk) 14:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Monopoly on what? Even if eBay has a "monopoly", it's not because of their architecture; it's because of their real strong point, marketing. --jpgordon::==( o ) 16:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

searching for things on ebay

why is there no info on ebay search tools, or do we just use google to search for things on ebay these days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.149.0.231 (talk) 11:35, 14 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Why No Mention of e-Bay.com

eBay was originally one of many companies with the a x-bay.com address. We had an account with e-bay.com we were told the new address and all e-bay.net accounts will be ebay.com and that you could keep your old account name or change it. We changed ours as the name we had chosen was not something we expected to keep for decades to come and was not quite PG Rated. I am seriously wondering why this is not mentioned in the article as surely it was not a subject that was taken lightly, the -bay.com was a place of commerce, porn, and other very popular websites. 2602:306:CF5B:6C80:7DFF:2257:B79E:7C63 (talk) 02:25, 16 October 2014 (UTC)Still Doc Ock[reply]

Point us to some reliable sources discussing the phenomenon you describe, and perhaps it can be included in the article. --jpgordon::==( o ) 14:01, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Merger Proposal

I propose merging Criticism of eBay with Ebay to create a more NPOV article. if the article becomes to long we can use topics and content to make subarticles. Bryce Carmony (talk) 11:31, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Logo style

I've again reverted this addition from the lead, since the contributing editor has declined to do it, or discuss. My problems with this addition twofold;

  • time relative expressions are to be avoided. Using the expression "currently" means nothing to the reader because they have no idea when it was written. It also may be read as speculation that there may be future change, again at some unspecified point in time. Essentially the lead loses nothing by removing this word entirely.
  • It is not clear why an old stylisation is of such significance that it needs to be mentioned in the lead sentence. Is it of any real importance? Does it radically affect the reader's understanding of what ebay is presently? I don't think so.

--Escape Orbit (Talk) 16:39, 27 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The IP-only user whose address is currently 174.23.172.2 (talk) says the following:
  • Fine. I'm here. Why is it so "inappropriate" (according to you guys)? It explains that there's the difference between text-only "eBay" and the actual logo that's more like "ebay," but also the distinction between that same lame text-only "eBay" and how it used to be styled, which was "ebaY" until late 2012. I've seen other articles that refer to the stylization in the lead, but I can't remember which ones. Why should it be so... "Hahhh, terrible, HAHH!" just to have that here too? Is it really THAT "terrible" to have those few additional words there? What is the BIG FREAKIN' DEAL?
  • How about Kesha? That mentions a former style in the lead too. If that's okay to have there, then why supposedly "not" (according to you) here?
FYI you can sign your comments automatically by placing ~~~~ at the end of the comment. I'm out for now, but I look forward to the responses from the other users when I return. Thanks everyone for coming and discussing here, should make things much easier. Prodego talk 11:08 pm, Today (UTC−8)
174.23.172.2 (talk) says:
I already KNOW how to sign. That is HOW I did that up there already (except that I just typed "~~~" instead of "~~~~" so that the cluttery date junk wouldn't come into my opening there)!
Kesha's name was written differently in text, but "ebaY" only refers to a logo stylization. That seems beyond the scope of the WP:LEADSENTENCE. AFAIK the company has always been "eBay" or "eBay Inc" in writing. Qzd (talk) 07:43, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

What's the difference? Ebay's name was always "eBay," which is written differently in text than its logo shows too! Kesha's "logo" was "Ke$ha." What's so "terrible" about having the distinctions for ebay? Is your lead really that "sacred"? What about the band "fun."? Why don't we go and remove all the stylization notes from the leads of all of those that have them, especially if they're just former?

And what about X Clan? And why don't THESE two articles need absolute time references either? Should I go look for some more? There are several more examples I can certainly use if these "aren't good enough" for you for some ridiculous reason!

Again, those are stylizations to the name in writing, not only the logo design. WP:REALTIME and WP:LEADSENTENCE are established guidelines, so it's not very productive to argue against them by cherry-picking other articles. The question is: is it appropriate for this article? Qzd (talk) 09:03, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
How do you even know that for sure? Where's your source? And even if so, then what? Minor difference. "Big deal." What's so "hellaciously wrong" with showing the differentiations between them here at the lead of this article too, if it doesn't really add more length than those other mentions do? Why must it be so damned "sacred" to you? 174.23.172.2 (talk) 20:20, 28 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
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