President Meg Whitman: Is Ex-eBay CEO a Good Choice As McCain VP?

Mr B,

Completely agree with your * paragraph.

While I think she would strengthen the GOP ticket, I fail to see her adding much to the country.

Government is a very different ballgame than corporate valley life and the stakes are significantly higher.

You have to be kidding me. They are that desperate to try to get Hillary supporters?

McCain is 76 and could kick the bucket - how is she qualified to run the country?

Pathetic. And oh btw, I'm a McCain supporter. Or I am for now...not sure how much longer I can hang on.

Very good post Henry. Very objective analysis which is refreshing to hear in a society with far too many stubborn and inflexible opinions. I am an independent thinker that knows solutions will never happen w/o discussing accountability and seeing things through an independent ( free from party bias) lense. Independents also see the logic much more frequently.

hmmm. I don't think so.

Mr.Jones asks: "Ms Whitman, please give us your position on Iraq. How do we solve the territory disputes within the country?"

Ms. Whitman: "Mr. Jones, thank you so much for the opportunity. Yes, I think the best course of action is to have all parties open up an eBay account and put the territories in question into the auction process"

You guys with party bias just don't get it. Over 2 TRILLION in defense spending can't be accounted for and guess what?
You don't get any of the slush fund. ( you aren't in the club and they don't give a **** about you)

The defense contractors sure want you too remain fooled.
Pentagon can't find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on 'national defense'

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/why-we-love-americas-outrageous/story.aspx?guid=%7B0D31C880-32CD-4BA1-8133-329EA57CB069%7D

Why the press bites on these false leads (Colin Powell, etc.) is amazing. It's just the RNC saying, we'll we considered a woman, we considered a black guy, but...

McCain needs to pick someone who could be president and who has more policy experience than Barack. He needs to say, both halves of the ticket are better choices than Obama. My money's on Huckabee or Charlie Crist.

It's a good pick since they're both gross.

www.ShawnDrewry.com


ebay and microsoft are always doing big things

Ask Ebay sellers if they'd like to see her as president or they'd like to see her run out of town on a rail and her sidekick John Donahoe with her....guess which answer you're gonna get???

I started a guide to the dark horse candidates. Without even a sip of alcohol, promise!

http://www.guidespot.com/guides/john_mccains_running_mate

Meg needs to be rewarded for her service to the party with an ambassadorship someplace she can do no damage. Some place clean, secure and neutral (which is not a negative any more). Sweden and Singapore come to mind.

Visualizing Meg as vice president to a 76 year old short fuse maverick with a shaky grasp of economics who wants to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq 100 years, no, I would move to far northern central Canada.

I hate to say this but she has certainly done a lot more in her career than Barack Obama has done in his.

stupidest thing i've read all week, bar none

Where did he come up with her? Possibly found her when he was searching for a Pez dispenser?

Ronald Regan anyone?

Dick Cheney ran a FORTUNE 500 COMPANY.

She got her ass kicked in japan. She got pimped slapped in china.Ebay has been a total failure in southeast asia. Google has all but killed Ebay on her watch. She left Ebay because she saw the writing on the wall.

Most importantly, she's a woman. She'll attract alot of Hillary votes- who voted for her 80% on her being a woman

I like when these debates break out. No one can ever name a single thing that Obama has done that qualifies him to be president. Instead, we get inane attacks against weird (and random) players like Dick Cheney.

As for Obama, just about everyone in the world, except for George Bush, has been saying for years that we should send more troops to Afghanistan so it's hardly worth mentioning that Obama thinks it's a good idea.

We elect presidents because they've been great in their lives. Obama has been ambitious, but great? Nah.

With that type of money, perhaps fixing the horse teeth would be in order. Anyone else thinks she looks like Kathy Bates from Misery?

Dick Cheney has absolutely nothing to do with Obama's stark lack of qualifications and is hardly worth defending. I keep coming back to the same question: Can anyone name something that Barack Obama has done that qualifies him to be president?

I'm not talking solely about experience, I am talking about accomplishment. What has Barack Obama accomplished that qualifies him to be president? Trotting out a bunch of losers from past administrations and passing that off as an argument is weak.

GW has been terrible, but that has nothing to do with Obama. GW is terrible and Obama is unaccomplished. I stipulate to both being true.

Well since we live in a Corporatacracy, then yeah! She'd be a great pick! Because that's what I want, the mentality and mindset of CEO's running this country. How can we make the rich richer? - Cynicism.

^geewhiz;
Yes indeed, he won the nomination from the party. History (and a shallow understanding of constitutional law) should tell you that is enough. The last person won with arguably similar credentials in the positive column and arguably worse credentials in the negative column.

My point is that your point is irrelevant. Accomplishments and experience, while worthy attributes, haven't equated to success as we've painfully seen (if it were that easy, AOL/TWX would be a $100 stock!). I submit that as a leader, communication and the ability to motivate the masses is a much more useful skill. Those that believe the president sits in a vacuum and makes great decisions on his/her own needs to get a sanity check. Any smart leader surrounds themselves with smart technicians and together, they figure out the right path. It is then up to the leader to mobilize the rest of the country to execute. To date, I'm less then impressed with McCain's attack ads (blaming him for the rising price of gas??).. Challenging him about his foreign experience and when he goes abroad and kicks butt, criticizing him for being too much of a celebrity. Such low brow tactics, while expected, is embarrassing...

If you want his resume, read wikipedia.

@Hahateme

Exactly, and I'll add Abraham Lincoln, what were his "qualifications" before becoming president? Answer:Irrelevant. A candidate doesn't have to pass an arbitrarily determined achievement test to be a great president. Lincoln shows that you can have amazing judgment and skill as president without having what geewiz keeps calling "qualifications".

@geewiz
What qualifications did GB II have that you probably voted for him twice in the last 8 years? The fact he was helped into Yale? Or better yet helped into business? Please let us know what outstanding bootstrapped achievement of his convinced you that he should be voted for the first time and then astoundingly, after sending us into a disastrously executed war on false pretenses, re-elected?? You did vote for him twice didn't you??? It amazes me that many of the folks that voted for this chimp in office to this day find it so hard to admit their culpability in our current problems by simply admitting those were mistakes. This shows a dangerous arrogance and ignorance that has unfortunately taken a strangle hold to just about half the populace, but some have seen the light so thankfully...that strangle hold breaks this November.

Liar.geewhiz you know you voted for GWB. Geewhiz you will vote for Barry Bonds to enter the hall of fame. He has the HGH "Qualifications".

Sorry for being intellectually condistent and for not attacking you personally but I never voted for GWB because I didn't agree with many of his policies.

Still waiting for the list of Obama qualifications OR you can continue to fire off personal attacks --- either way it's fun.

Aunt Meg can play with Putins dog.

@GeeWhiz - If you didn't vote for GW (wink, wink) and McCain voted with GW 95% of the time, why would you vote for McCain?

Per factcheck.org

Q:

Is it true John McCain voted with George Bush 95 percent of the time?

A:

Yes, it's true, according to Congressional Quarterly's assessment of McCain's voting record.

The thing that seems to have escaped a lot of people is the fact that much of the intelligence that was used for the Iraq war was gathered by Bill Clinton and Al Gore's administration. Gore publicly berated G.H.W. Bush (1st Bush) for not doing anything about Iraq prior to 1992. This was when Mr. Gore was on the ticket for the V.P. Then after his administration failed to do anything about what he had stated during the election and with all the intelligence that had been gathered, he blames G.W. Bush for doing something. I would have thought that at some point he could have picked a stance. Now you have Obama saying that if he had of been a U.S. Senator at the time he wouldn't have voted for the Iraq war. Well who cares you weren't a senator then. He has yet to admit that he was wrong about the surge in Iraq and he never will. He has a half brother in living in Kenya who is poor and sleeps on the street. He doesn't help him, why should he help America? Look at his qualification and experience; he was wrong about the surge, he was a member of a church that hates America, he doesn't put his hand over his heart for the playing of the National Anthem, oh yeah he is experienced at learning how to not love his country but he sure does love him self. He is not the man for America and he never will be.

GeeWhiz - "Sorry for being intellectually condistent (sic) and for not attacking you personally but I never voted for GWB because I didn't agree with many of his policies. "

Me - McCain voted with GW 95% of the time.

GeeWhiz - I will vote for McCain because I respect John McCain more than I respect Barack Obama. Translated: I don't like McCain's policies but will vote for him anyways.

Me - huh?

Dirty Hankie:

First, why aren't you disclosing in this article that you own ebay stock? It's on your bio. I couldn't really understand the snark about Meg Whitman until I checked. Ohhh, you're a disgruntled investor.....(though not as disgruntled as those who bought the stocks you touted in 2000...)

Secondly, admit it. To you, Whitman and Yahoo look irresponsible because they didn't squeeze enough blood from their turnips. Damn Silicon Valley laziness. Damn the community-building, damn the network effect. They're a bunch of damn dot-com moonies. It'd be better if they were all run out of town and Murdoch came in. Pfft.

Finally, why are you doing a piece about McCain when the rest of Silicon Alley (which you purport to cover) are rightly critiquing the Obama news? Seriously, even conservative tech commenters see McCain as a ghoul. It's not worth covering this guy. But either someone's paying you off, or more likely, they don't even need to. Your reference seems less Silicon Alley and more Kennebunkport.

Let's call the rag Silicon Alley Docksider...

And yeah, you are the Poor Man's David Brooks. it's too bad the Wall St Journal won't touch you.

Meg Whitman will be a great VP candidate. The part that is missed by this article as well as the comments is that it can be claimed that under her watch Ebay empowered millions of small, mom-n-pop, garage based businesses. Its not the stock price of ebay, market capitalization of ebay, or the number of employees of ebay that is the big selling point; it is the fact that ebay enabled the establishment of millions of small businesses that sold stuff through ebay. In this hard economic times that will resonate with many voters. A VP candidate who directly empowered the establishment of millions of small businesses will be a huge plus to the McCain ticket.

Hehe, love the right-wing troll. Yes, the only question is whether Obama has enough achievement and experience.

Not that you should compare the two candidate's strengths and weaknesses. Not that you should vote for the one with better policies.

Only whether they have accomplished something. Oh and apparently only if one of them has accomplished something I find to be significant. Like maybe discovering fusion power or something. The other candidate is the default candidate. Why can't all you Obama lovers understand that? its quite simple.

All I ever hear when I ask this simple question is completely unrelated complaints about GWB, the neo-cons, and all the other people who have taken our country from global leader to global embarrassment. Why would that have ANYTHING to do with Obama's lack of achievements in his career? Any of you people take introduction to logic?

To be frank, I am voting for McCain, even though I didn't ever vote for GWB. Not of course because of policy considerations, as their policies are almost identical, but because I admire him so much more than W.

You see, when I look at Obama I just see no accomplishments, nor do I see enough experience. But when I look at McCain, I see a winner! Why, you might ask? Why would thirty years on the DC gravy train give me that impression?

Why, because McCain is my hero! He married money! Do you know how hard it is to do that? W just got born into money, and that's easy.

McCain: American Hero

Now to all of you Obama lovers, I just got one thing to say: Get off my damn lawn!

`If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament and judgment to serve as the next commander-in- chief, that's a debate I am ready to have,'' Obama said, highlighting his own early opposition to the war in Iraq. ``John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.'


stubborn is just what I said yesterday

And oh yeah...

Biden will eat her up and spit her out. Maybe Meg should dial in to the VP debate over Skype so she can be fed answers like W was.

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Things go from bad to worse since John Donahoe has become CEO, no one is happy, I am at the top of that list and the list is very long.

I want to make it clear, I am a wholesaler and not a writer or a stock expert, but I have a first hand inside look having been a powerseller for over 10 years, 1.7 million per year sales and account for $156,000 paid to e bay per year for seller fees, this is the bases in which e bay shows profit or loss in a great way, this does not account for paypal fees charged, seller manager pro, e bay stores. E bay was a beautiful place before it has crashed and failed not only its buyers, but its sellers. This, although it would seem, at the moment, can be seen by the stock prices offered currently.

E bay has spoken, treated us with disrespect, no conformity in answers received from e bay or policy's, put sellers of 10 years who set our business to service the e bay market in a bad financial strain because of an aggressive unfair policy (which e bay keeps it sellers in the dark how to quantitative it), sellers have listed and regrettably moving on to something else. These are resourceful business people who will do well marketing for another company. It should be noted that these sellers are also buyers and I personally buy a few thousand on e bay per year, they will not see another dollar from me.

Anyone considering investing or putting time into future sales may want to take a look at the aggressive policy’s they have put in place (There are little to no direct policy as there has been for the last 10 years) it is now “at there discretion” rather than a written or qualitative policy in many cases. This is making the company policy as un uniform as it has ever been. Even when the rules were written for all to see, there were interpretation issues, however, now it is just up to the person answering the phone or sending the e mail and no room for improvement or debate to better or change. Although communication has always been an issue for E bays customers as well as sellers on message boards complain how hard it is to get in touch with them and when you do no one on the other end seems to be empowered to help or care to do little more than quote out of the corporate handbook offered in form letters and help pages. If you are as lucky as us to have been a powerseller, you can call and sometimes have your call returned within 3-4 business days and hope to be available at the time the call is returned, you can ask the same question to 10 different e bay “officials” and get 10 different answers that do not relate to one another. This is not a speculation, this is based on personal experience as well as discussions with other large sellers. They have turned a blind eye to its sellers and buyers alike. I wouldn't be leaving if there was any good reason to stay.

I admit, service needed to be better, customer service is something that all should be striving to improve, there is a way to do that without destroying the e bay fabric that has worked so well in the past. I have a business to run, so there is not enough time to go into all details of in site, there are many dissatisfied sellers (who drive e bays profit) and dissatisfied buyers (who drive the sellers profit) and it does not take a NBA to fugue out the future.

E bay has done a poor job or emplaning the new changes to its buyers, sellers only after a few months of effect, some loosing there e bay business because of improper, unmonitored data, is still learning and it seems no one knows the answers even at the top account managers level. Its buyers do not realize that the DSR DETAILED SELLER RATING, the 5 stars under the feedback rating is not based on a 100 point scale like every other system in the free world. For example, from 1 to 5, 1 is poor, 3 is average and 5 is excellent. With e bay, 4,5 is average and 5 is good, I am glad they didn't have my math teachers in Collage. So many times buyers rate a 3 when they don't realize they are giving the seller a unacceptable rating that could potentially suspend his/her account from e bay as so many has been suspended in the last 3 months because of improper data that has been now used as the bible of e bay to rate seller performance. It should also be noted that a flaw in the data of the 5 star DSR is that if a customer is happy, they fell that leaving positive feedback served its purpose and they have caused a positive vote to the seller, e bay has not educated the buyer, so they do not leave a star rating at all, and are not required to and a large % do not, but leave a positive feedback as it is not required. But the buyer who is mad and is leaving hasty feedback will be more than motivated to leave a 1 or 2 for all stars. For this reason, good sellers offering great service and products are being suspended from e bay by record numbers, this cuts the life cord of the seller as well as e bay.

Ebay has ruined their market flair for both buyers and sellers. Too many restricting rule changes, increased charges, paypal demands, seller ratings. This has ultimately destroyed their bottom line.
I was talking to another large seller, he said something that is funny but true, he said "e bay is the only company I know to date that has actually implemented the policy of THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORAL HAS IMPROVED"

Ebay is definitely a stock headed down down down. The Wall Street analyst’s who cover Ebay need to find out what is really going on because the sellers who actually use ebay have been seeing it for the past several years as seen by past message/blogs. Anytime a company treats their customers with little or no concern, it’s not a good sign for the future.

There are alternatives to ebay and they are getting stronger everyday while e bay lets it strong sellers go who offer products that drive customers to the site. Many of them showing up to other sites and, yes, drawing e bay customers to competitors site.

CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said he could not get behind the company, and that someone should buy the company "and put them out of their misery." That is a big statement in and of itself, however, that with all the negativity on message boards from its sellers and buyers in the past few months should have already grabbed someone's attention at e bay it would seem and some favorable policy changes would have followed already, this didn't come and could come too little too late.

It has been pointed out that CNBC analyst Jim Cramer said to buy, buy, buy at one time, the people who listened did well at that time. He has good in site to this company it would seem. Now I think this Caramer is a voice to listen to as he has made it clear that there is problems now, not anything that large sellers have not already foreseen for the last year.
http://www.marketintelligencecenter.com/articles/649789

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ebay-buyers-concerned-re-feedback-changes

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/new-feedback-policy-unfair-for-sellers

Articles from bias 3rd party's are now starting to surface all over the Internet community, although limited to in site, show they know of seller dissatisfaction:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/95329-ebay-is-a-losing-bid-barron-s



It is speculated that the Standard & Poors rating will be updating soon, because of e bays unpresidented fast and agressive changes made in the last couple of months have not given any room for changes of amindments of ratings yet, but I will asure you they are coming the changes were simply done so fast and agressive that ratings have not had time to catch up. It would be advisable to keep a close eye on this in a few months when agressive policy changes reach the rating level.

I have a dedicated special interest and hope they turn themselves around, but it is going to take some quick and correct policy change to undo what has been done in what would be considered by many as "the most aggressive change e bay has ever done" it is costing sellers there business, although it is realized that a very few had to go, they are taking the good sellers, some of them my competitors out in the process. Not that I am sad to see some of my competitors go, it is still sad to know that these people have sold on e bay for 5-10 years, know they have adjusted themselves to e bay, the kind of inventory, business plan, warehousing and equipment and 100's of thousands in inventory stuck in the warehouse they cannot sell, all of this done to a veteran of e bay because of policy changes made/implemented over just a few months.
Overall fees have been raised twice this year, significantly. STR is dropping like a rock. The Best Match search is fatally flawed and $035 listings are not going to fix that. Buyers can't find anything. Sellers can't sell and are being abused both by eBay with the hateful DSR system, and by bottom feeding scammer/buyers, because there is NO seller protection. There is also NO customer service. Sellers of the unique items that made eBay famous (and who paid listing fees) are leaving in droves, while eBay brokers deals with corporate sellers of new stuff you can get anywhere who don't pay listing fees. And their buyers are following them. Watch the Q3 figures.

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