Henry says that maybe eBay will buy Fed Ex and Verizon, so it can add a “Mail Me” and a “Call Me” (perhaps Al Green could be their marketing spokesman) to the “Skype Me” buttons on its auctions.
Henry likes Skype fine, but says correctly that a Yahoo purchase would have created greater synergy. Amen. I love eBay, but I haven’t the foggiest idea why it bought Skype- other than the old bubble inflating standby. Because it could.
I actually installed Skype for the first time ever last week. And I have to admit it’s pretty cool. But I can’t conceive a situation in which I would want to “Skype” a buyer or seller of an auction. In fact, I would probably consider it an intrusion if I got “Skyped” by someone based on an eBay auction.
Sometimes the strategic plans of internet companies are a lot like the movie Momento. They start at what should be the end and then make things needlessly complicated after that.
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