Update: Why Did eBay Buy Skype?

In one of my most popular posts I speculated why eBay bought Skype for such an outlandish amount. One of the reasons I came up with was to help allow buyers to talk to sellers.

However Techdirt have just reported that the executive director of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, a group that apparently represents the top sellers on the site, says that most of the group’s members have no interest in Skype, and prefer to discuss auction results via email as they’ve always done. I have to admit that as a buyer this is how I would prefer to talk to a seller as well.

It’s been 2 months now and yet a good reason for eBay’s purchase still hasn’t materialised.

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