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This expectation of perpetual rapid growth across the board is bonkers. Are there any online auction sites that approach eBay's popularity? Are there that many new people who want to sell stuff online for eBay to serve? What's it going to take for the market to start accepting a large company with a healthy revenue stream as "big enough"?

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They should never have gone public in the first place.

I think they could expand by taking over Craigslist's marketshare. In some areas, Craigslist is super popular, in others it's virtually nonexistent. If they can find a way to connect local sellers with local buyers and make money doing it, they could make a killing.

That's only in US. ebay classifieds is massive everywhere else out of US.

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