Ebay Live Auctions

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...we need to make sure our resources are aligned with our priorities. In the case of Live Auctions, maintaining and improving this platform falls outside our immediate focus, and will, therefore, be retired at the end of the year.

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Gotta love that inane corp-speak. Wouldn't it be far preferable to define this decision in user-specific terms, which after all inevitably determines the profitability? I can think of a few short, fitting words for Live Auctions myself. More and more, I see ebay's decisions framed in language that may suit their internal structure, but hardly addresses the needs and goals of the end-user, which incidentally is their source of revenue. Thus spake the self-important, slowly dying corporation.

Please pardon my op-ed...as this touches on one of my professional peeves.