It's your own business you're shafting…

There have been a lot of complaints recently from sellers that eBay’s third party advertising plastered all over the site is undermining our sales. But it seems that eBay’s advertising aspirations go further than this: they’re quite happy to undermine their own businesses too 😉 viz. this advert for “the internet phone service for small businesses”:

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Surely some mistake? – the internet phone service for small businesses is Skype.

Thanks to Dan for the screen shot.

4 Responses

  1. When will the Amazon ads start appearing? 🙂

    Want this item by Thursday? Then click here and select Express Delivery…

  2. 😳 eBay is run by idiots. Not really much more one can say and we knew that already, right?

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