John, eBay sellers may not love you, but your mother does.
NY Times article EBay Chief Says Change Isn’t Over publishes some interesting insight into John Donahoe’s work in progress to transform eBay.
This paragraph was interesting:
“In an interview after the quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, Mr. Donahoe, who officially succeeded Meg Whitman in March, said he was not fazed by the attention. “The good news is Meg prepared me well for this,” he said. “I will say at one point in the first quarter I got an e-mail from my mother that said, ‘John, eBay sellers may not love you, but your mother does.’ ””
What was John Donahoe’s motivation to bring up eBay sellers not loving him and a consolation by his mother to the New York Times reporter? This just does not ring like a standard PR serving a CEO would provide to the major media.
So far it appears that not only the eBay sellers but also EBAY investors and some financial analysts are not impressed with the new eBay, but don’t worry John, at least your mother still loves you.