I feel it is safe to say the Boycott is having an impact.

I say this because of a few factors. This is my opinion in broad and general terms, based upon my general observations. I have not the time nor interest in crunching all the numbers. Someone else out there somewhere can do all that.

Let us first have a look at the character of the curve of the charts at Medved
The sell-through charts at Medved show less than 50% STR across all 3 metrics too. For whatever reason, all I get at the moment for August 2008 is a broken image though.

Note that this is a fresh screencapture below, taken on the morning of August 10 2008, yet the image only shows data through the 5th. The daily charts all seem 'broken' since that day as well. Your mileage may vary.

Don't forget to checkout that 'special text' which was added on 06-23-2008 while you are there.

 

Followed by some pie charts from the quantcast.com site. Now, the rest of the figures over there not withstanding, what we see here is telling, because we can see that only 10% of the users compose (at this time) 61% of the site traffic

 

Now on to this curiosity... I see that our friends at BUY have now over 800 Thousand listings on ebay. (up from around 522K at the time I made this video, on +/- August 2nd 2008.) Wow!

Others, else where have crunched various numbers for BUY and found that their sell-through rate is as low as 2-5%/month on over 1 million items listed, without me going to specifically look it up. Folks more interested in that aspect should visit sellerdome.com, or look around, as others are on the case and posting the facts here and there.

One last peculiarity I do notice with regards to this BUY situation is that if you try to look at their completed items you get a "functionality not available" message. Hilarious! I suppose that must be a leftover 'glitch' from that embarrassing 'padded listings' blunder of late February-early March 2008.

screencap shows 813,432 items listed for seller BUY, on August 10, 2008. (time and date are at the bottom of image - 480 wide click to enlarge)

All this while news reports from the finance world show that institutional holders are bailing as well. (Keep in mind, I do not claim to be any financial whiz, nor do I have any interest in that aspect, other than to show the general flavor of things.)

For those of you with more interest in such matters, here are some links. Knock yourselves out.

The MMFAIS page for ebay Inc

Holdings Summary  (EBAY INC, EBAY) - CNBC.com

But to really get a picture of the mood of the mind of ebay users, one might consider visiting their community forums.

We must keep in mind the strong possibility that the 'community' over there, does have "fake persuaders" and/or shills, astroturfers etc., helping keep at least some of the comments and sentiments on a positive note, as well as to 'steer the conversations' and so on. (That practice is, and I state this in/as fact, an internet industry standard practice)

I would not be surprised to learn that such persons' "duties" did not end at the eb forums (snicker) I am scarcely alone in that opinion. We have seen blatant examples of corporate shilling and/or badgering of bloggers for example. There is no reason to presume is is not much more widespread.

Also we must bear in mind that censorship and obfuscation of subject matters and postings unflattering to eb are occurring regularly. This is evidenced by a quick visit to the very last pages of, for instance, the Seller Central Forum, and the Feedback Forum (both of which seem to be shrinking)

That is all really nothing though in comparison with page 1 of the PayPal forum.

There are some long-standing site access issues, and some very suspicious 'glitches' going on. Constantly for months now.

I wonder why? LOL

ZOMG!!! I have a hunch that site is in much greater trouble than anyone is really aware.

Yet.

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