topic Re: ebay revenue down and still falling in 2025 in Seller Central

topic Re: ebay revenue down and still falling in 2025 in Seller Central https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Seller-Central/ebay-revenue-down-and-still-falling-in-2025/m-p/7896231#M747409 <a href="https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/4419283">@johnwash1</a>  that significant drop in 2015 can also be partially explained by the fact that's the year eBay sold GCI (renamed as eBay Enterprise) off at a loss. <A href="https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-completes-sale-of-ebay-enterprise/" target="_blank">https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-completes-sale-of-ebay-enterprise/</A> <A href="https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/15/ebay-enterprise-taker/" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/15/ebay-enterprise-taker/</A> 2015 is also the year PayPal was spun off in the middle of the year, so that revenue was no longer included in eBay's stats for the second half of the year and on into full year 2016 and forward. <A href="https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-board-approves-completion-of-ebay-and-paypal-separation/" target="_blank">https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-inc-board-approves-completion-of-ebay-and-paypal-separation/</A>  And smaller but still noteworthy impact in 2015 was eBay selling their stake in Craigslist as well.<A href="https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-ebay-craigslist-idUSKBN0OZ20E20150619/" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-ebay-craigslist-idUSKBN0OZ20E20150619/</A>  There was also smaller impact to eBay being forced by activist investors to sell off Stub Hub in 2020.<A href="https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-completes-sale-of-stubhub/" target="_blank">https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-completes-sale-of-stubhub/</A>  But overall this shows why it can be difficult to try to make comparisons or analysis from year to year statistics like this - between acquisitions and divestments, the size/scope of the business can change a lot from one year to the next, having outsized impact positive or negative on revenue that doesn't necessarily carry over to something that can be tracked as a consistent trend. Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:44:49 GMT valueaddedresource 2025-07-21T14:44:49Z