eBay not bullish about business for the coming year - Computerworld_3477

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The risks also affect payment transaction service PayPal, which is owned by eBay. A large percentage of PayPal transactions originate on the eBay platform,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and declines in growth rates in its Marketplaces business will also adversely affect PayPal's growth rate,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, eBay said.
The auction company also acknowledged that recent changes to its href="You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login">fee structure and feedback policy, such as eBay's decision not to allow sellers to leave negative feedback for buyers,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, could have a detrimental effect on its business.
The listing or sale by its users of pirated or counterfeit items could also harm its business, the company said.

"[The] growth of listings, active users and GMV on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login platform in those countries has slowed,You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login," the company said in the filing. GMV is short for "gross merchandise volume," the total value of goods and services sold on eBay sites. EBay gets a piece of the action in the form of transaction fees. If the total value of goods and services sold declines, eBay loses money.
Not only will consumers spend less in each of its three major markets, but overall growth in the e-commerce market is expected to continue to decline, eBay said.

In its annual shareholder filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday, eBay cited a number of risks to its business that are a sign of "changing customer demands."
                                                                                                                                                                                  
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Some of the factors that could affect its operating results include its ability to retain active users and attract new ones, and to encourage existing users to list items for sale, purchase items through its Web sites or use its payment service.


Computerworld - Online auction company eBay Inc. warned in its annual report that it faces risks that could hurt its business operations in the coming year.
EBay said it faces such challenges in the U.S., the U.K. and Germany, its largest markets.




EBay said its continued profitability and growth will depend, in part, on its ability to attract new users; keep existing users active and increase their activity levels; react to changing customer demands; develop new services; and develop new sources of revenue from its existing services. In addition, eBay said it has to effectively manage the costs of its business, including employee costs, customer support, user protection programs and product development.

"We have received in the past, and we anticipate receiving in the future, communications alleging that certain items listed or sold through our service by our users infringe third-party copyrights, trademarks and trade names, or other intellectual property rights," eBay said. "Although we have sought to work actively with the owners of intellectual property rights to eliminate listings offering infringing items on our Web sites, some rights owners have expressed the view that our efforts are insufficient."
"If these changes cause sellers to move their business away from our sites or otherwise fail to improve gross merchandise volume or the number of successful listings, our operating results and profitability will be harmed," the report stated.