Meg's ebay.

[mangeorge]

Meg Whitman says in her commercial that she grew ebay to 15000 enployees. Does she mean employees of ebay, hired and paid by ebay, or does she also count the sellers on ebay.
I don't deal with them, so I know little about their size, but that that sounds like a lot for a company that has no product. No physical product. You know what I mean.
Chevron, the company I work for, has about 64,000 full time employees but they have stuff all over the world, and a lot of product.
This is going to be fun, this election.
Peace,
mangeorge

[Simplicio]

Wikipedia says ebay has 15,500 employees. Apparenlty it only had 30 when she was hired, so her claim is probably true.

[Simplicio]

By comparison, Craigs list has 33 employees, so I guess her political opponents could say she hired 500 people to do the work Craigslist needs 1 person to do

But ebay also owns paypal, several other online shopping type properties, and even the site itself needs a lot more oversite and management then Craigslist in order to settle disputes, collect revenues, etc. Its a pretty big operation, so 15000 doesnt sound wildly implausible to me.

[Chefguy]

Did she also mention that eBay is a pain in the ass to use, and seller-unfriendly and that their fees are too damned high?

[gonzomax]

Meg has to deal with claims she outsourced 40 percent of the Ebay jobs.

[hajario]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

Meg Whitman says in her commercial that she grew ebay to 15000 enployees. Does she mean employees of ebay, hired and paid by ebay, or does she also count the sellers on ebay.

There must be tens of millions of sellers on Ebay.

[mangeorge]

Originally Posted by hajario

There must be tens of millions of sellers on Ebay.

I guess! I just read about ebay on wikipedia (thanks Simplicio. I didn't realize the scope of the company. I do know they have a rep for being anti-gun. I do know that I compared selling prices there to IRL, and didn't see any advantage. But that was years ago. at any rate, it seems that ebay almost built itself. Millions of people went kinda wacko over it.

[Morgenstern]

A quick google returned this on eBay...

Headquarters San Francisco Bay Area
Industry Internet
Type Public Company
Status Operating
Company Size 15,000 employees
2009 Revenue $8,700,000,000
Founded 1995
Website http://www.ebayinc.com

Edit -oops...
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/ebay

[Ferret Herder]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

I guess! I just read about ebay on wikipedia (thanks Simplicio. I didn't realize the scope of the company. I do know they have a rep for being anti-gun.

I think it's more that there are pretty strict regulations and prohibitions around mail-order selling of guns, and not so much a personal opinion of the company.

[China Guy]

Shit, that's only half a million dollars per employee. I wouldnt' vote for her just based on that. That's a pretty crappy ROI for a technology/web company. Shit, that's embarrassing. (And just so people are clear, I am not being facetious).

[mangeorge]

Originally Posted by Ferret Herder

I think it's more that there are pretty strict regulations and prohibitions around mail-order selling of guns, and not so much a personal opinion of the company.

No, it's ebay's own rule. Unless thet've changed, they allow sales of nothing gun related. Rumor was that it qas Meg's own prejudice, but I can't swear to that.
Anyway, here's a supplier's take on shipping. I've purchased a lot of stuff from these guys and ohers.

[mangeorge]

Here's ebay's fierarms policy.
Scroll down a little and click on the blue "firearms" linky.
If you want to pay someone else for a gun on paypal, you need to disguise the transaction, I think.
It's been a while since I've bought anything gun related online. I do like using paypal, though. Many GOs won't even do that.

[Skammer]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

No, it's ebay's own rule. Unless thet've changed, they allow sales of nothing gun related. Rumor was that it qas Meg's own prejudice, but I can't swear to that.

That's not a bug, it's a feature.

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

No, it's ebay's own rule. Unless thet've changed, they allow sales of nothing gun related.

I bought a holster for a pistol on the site a couple of years ago.

[mangeorge]

Originally Posted by carnivorousplant

I bought a holster for a pistol on the site a couple of years ago.

I meant directly gun related. Things that go "bang".
You can read their policy where I linked to.

[DigitalC]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

I meant directly gun related. Things that go "bang".
You can read their policy where I linked to.

Something that goes bang is not "gun related" it's a freaking gun, a holster is gun related. They don't allow the sale of guns, they allow the sale of gun related items like holsters and gun racks.

[mangeorge]

Originally Posted by DigitalC

Something that goes bang is not "gun related" it's a freaking gun, a holster is gun related. They don't allow the sale of guns, they allow the sale of gun related items like holsters and gun racks.

Did you read their policy?
Bullets go bang, not guns.
Do you know what a "winkie" means?

[carnivorousplant]

Originally Posted by mangeorge

Bullets go bang, not guns.
Do you know what a "winkie" means?

So do those little flags.

Winkie is the name of the elephant that killed Joanna Burke in Tennessee.

[Markxxx]

This is the latest info I could find

The 15,471 includes both part time, full time and temporary hires, and includes the eBay, PayPal and Skype.

US employees 9,089
Employees outside U.S. 6,382

Most common salaried job: Software Engineer (Grade 4) $129,099
Most comon hourly job: Contact Agent (level II) $30,212

Source: Money.Com (February 2, 2009)