posted on February 8, 2001 02:32:17 PM
QD: Perhaps Ebay is the one that will end up with Yapoo or some sort of partnership with Disney.
Ollie Stone Scenario #1: Dis & Ebay execs get drunk together and plot world conquest.
Decide buying Yapoo is way to start. Yapoo agrees as they hadn't figured out how to screw themselves up yet and wasn't that Barry Diller fella an old bud of Michael Eisner?
Yapoo decides to emulate ebay by bringing their customer satisfaction ratings to a point that would make any ebay seller feel at home.
Price drops. Meanwhile Dis drops it's Go to thing that even Dis employees wouldn't use. Spikes up Dis stock price.
Ebay beats up their seller base. Appeals the to the robber baron mentality of most stock folks and because there's nowhere else to go the sellers grumble, do nothing. Epay's stock spikes up.
Yapooo grinds itself to near death and Epay and Dis pick up the dead corpse by swapping 8 shares of stock and a night with a $20.00 hooker to koogle or whatever his name is.
Just my thought. I needed a break from all this silly co-op posting!
Imagine, sellers actually working together to help themselves survive! Silly me, what was I thinking??
posted on February 8, 2001 05:22:39 PM
Yahoo is near bottom market value wise. If Disney buys them, they will have a first rate portal, a third-rate auction site that they can rebuild or bury altogether, and a lock on a huge base of email users. I love Yahoo email, but if Disney buys them, I will ditch them altogether. Disney has turned into the lowest common denominator media dumpster on the planet...
posted on February 8, 2001 08:00:56 PM
Yahoo has a market cap of about $20 billion. That's a tough pill to swallow, even for Mother Disney. Especially since Disney just canned its internet business unit, it seems very unlikely that it would then turn around and buy yahoo.
Yahoo is always being rumoured to be bought by someone. It hasn't happened yet and I don't foresee it happening unless the stock REALLY tanks (<$10/share). (I also don't foresee that happening.)
posted on February 8, 2001 08:10:04 PM
Oh double crust...all my email accounts...
It has a huge userbase.
I went throught the Xoom-NBCi changeover and lost a wad of stored files.