On the New Coke comment, like I said, I wasn’t really critiquing your analogy as much as reminiscing about the discussions we had internally around the New Coke analogy. Memory lane & all that.

Take care,
Adam

Yes, the SeekingAlpha platform can drive considerable traffic because it gets distributed to most of the major stock/finance sites with the symbols all pulled out and referenced. There is a tradeoff though, because they ‘recreate’ your blog and thus you don’t get the traffic directly, so if your ‘model’ depends on direct traffic it’s not the best for you. However if your goal is exposure, and getting out in the conversation, it is a total win.

Couple of more points:
* Yes, I think eBay needs folks like you back badly.
* I was saying that the ebay of today is like new coke. I think you guys with EE did do the right thing and did not build a new coke, you built a coke zero, but in that case were burdened by the auction affinity with the eBay brand. That’s why I picked shopping.com as the fp brand in my ‘solve’.

Thanks for the feedback,

Scot