Probably eBay would be happiest if they could turn the clock back to 2003/2004 when everything was hunky-dory in eBay’s world.

As announced over the weekend, eBay has jettisoned StumbleUpon, wants to get rid of Skype and instead invest in GMarket in Korea.

Nobody mistrusts the user driven Web now more than eBay. Assuming that, these moves are not at all surprising.

However eBay is not interested in going back to their roots. Because instead of many small buyers and sellers, eBay would rather focus on the heavyweights (“Diamondsellers”) who would offer fixed price deals and overstock items.

eBay will be publicizing its quarterly figures in the next few weeks. The newest changes analysed here.

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Originally posted in German by Jochen Krisch, adapted for excitingcommerce.com by Jason Soo.