Google tries to hijack eBay sellers
p2pnet.net news:- When Google tried to hijack some of eBay’s most lucrative money spinners, eBay wasn’t amused.
Thousands of the latter’s largest sellers geared up for the annual eBay convention and party in Boston, this week. So Google figured it’d be a good idea to invite them to its own party, says CNET News.
And it wouldn’t be just any party. It would promote Google Checkout, “a payment system that competes with the eBay-owned PayPal and which eBay has banned from its auctions” and which, according to CNET, eBay doesn’t allow sellers to use because the service is “unproven”.
Myseriously, eBay, one of Google’s largest advertisers, yanked its spots from Google US.
Cowed by the threat of losing large lumps of eBay income in the future, Google cancelled the party.
According to Tom Oliveri, a Google product marketing manager quoted by the Financial Times, “We at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the Ebay Live conference. Ebay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity.”
“When we heard of their plans to have their party and the way they were marketing it, we were disappointed,” the Los Angeles Times has eBay spokesman Hani Durzy saying. “We felt that wasn’t an appropriate way for one partner to act toward another.”
Durzy, “wouldn’t say whether the decision to shift ad dollars away” from Google was related to the party, “stating only that EBay often ‘experiments’ with its ad spending to gauge its effectiveness in drawing traffic to its site,” adds the story.
Also See:
CNET News – Google cancels rain on eBay’s parade, June 13, 2007
Financial Times – EBay reduces ad spending on Google, June 14, 2007
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