Hal Lawton leaving Ebay - Read all about it

[dutchman48]

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-announces-changes-to-its-regional-leadership-team/

[dutchman48]

Latest update

President of Macy's

http://investors.macysinc.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84477&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2294900

[momcqueen]

Every new boss has a different sense of where a company should be headed, and change for the sake of change is unproductive. 

[rose-dee]

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@mjwl2006 wrote:

[...] and change for the sake of change is unproductive. 

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Sometimes, especially in the past 4 or 5 years, it seems that's all eBay is good at.  It's almost become a corporate policy (of course they never appear to appreciate the "unproductive" part). 

[rose-dee]

Incidentally, "Stub Hub", mentioned in the announcement, caught my attention.  This is owned by eBay, and now represents something like 20% of its income, if I recall correctly from the latest eBay financial statements.  

That's a big chunk of its overall business (especially since the divorce from Paypal), and no doubt more lucrative because less actual hands-on management is involved than in running online selling venues like eBay.com.  

[rose-dee]

Something else that caught my attention, which could impact a lot of current eBay sellers (and makers/sellers of craft-type, OOAK and collectible goods). 

https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-partners-with-mall-for-africa-to-bring-african-handmade-go...

The extremely low wages and other massively low inputs on these sorts of items will mean low prices indeed, I imagine even lower than Chinese goods (which don't have the same hand-made, artisan-type appeal).  If this programme is really successful, it may ultimately swamp the North American handmade market.  Bye-bye craftspeople.  

[rose-dee]

Huh.  This is already set up as a storefront on eBay.  Very interesting, eBay using a store as a portal to a whole new e-commerce branch.  Prices aren't actually cheap for a lot of the stuff I can see, but a lot of it doesn't look hand-made either.  Maybe "sweatshop factory made by hand" is more like it?  Amazing what you can find snooping around eBay. 

http://stores.ebay.com/mallforafrica/Accessories-/_i.html?_fsub=11730445015&_sid=1609009235&_trksid=...

[femmefan1946]

Chinese manufacturers have been moving production to Africa for some years as Chinese labour becomes more expensive.

https://www.ft.com/content/947ea960-38b2-11e7-821a-6027b8a20f23

[momcqueen]

Mall For Africa is also explained on the ecommercebytes blog today along with this http://www.ecommercebytes.com/2017/08/22/new-head-ebay-marketplaces-sends-message-ebay-sellers/

[dutchman48]

More light reading from Ecommercebytes

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blog/blog.pl?/pl/2017/8/1503367987.html

[momcqueen]

Funny, these were announcements on ebay all along. http://announcements.ebay.ca

[dutchman48]

I am lost as to the relevance of this?

[momcqueen]

I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying information about the person replacing Hal Lawton is irrelevant?

[dutchman48]

it is in my very first post in the article so wondered why it was repeated after my last post from Ecommercebytes?

[momcqueen]

I was sharing that it's on eBay Canada Announcements as opposed to merely eBay.com. Is that somehow a violation of Community Board usage guidelines?