@retroman303 wrote:

They know best - after all, if they didn't, how could they have achieved the positions they have?


I can only think there were either no better candidates for the ebay management roles or there were serious deficiencies in the recruitment process. Someone needs to run a proper drains up on what's gone wrong with ebay uk in the past year (or two, that period of truly free selling was also nuts) to learn the right lessons.

 

The investor Terry Smith famously said he likes to own companies whose business models are so simple they can be run by idiots because, eventually, they all are.