Australia has long been eBay’s test bed for major changes to the platform.
eBay tries things out there to see how they work and how loud members howl before rolling them out in the US. Here is an interesting email I received from one of my readers.
Hi Skip
Just on the odd chance another Aussie fan of yours [...]

Rumors are rife on the internet that Yahoo is about to make an all stock offer for eBay.
There have also been rumors that Microsoft was interested in eBay.  There was some truth to that. I do know someone who told me Microsoft was taking a serious look at eBay, but they have now take a [...]