eBay to finally allow sellers to advertise their Skype ID’s
Auctionbytes is reporting that eBay will finally allow sellers to advertise their Skype ID’s inside their auctions, so that potential customers can call up and harass them. 
Although when I checked my eBay Germany account just now, the Skype option was all greyed out. It seems that internet advances take a long time to come across the Atlantic Ocean!
Saying that though, I’m not sure if I would want to openly encourage potential eBay customers to Skype me. I seem to be meeting a lot of idiots on eBay these days, the kind that threaten a negative feedback because I dared to charge them for an envelope. Do I really want them phoning me up too? I’ll have to seriously consider that one. With emails, I can be diplomatic in my language. Over the phone, I may not be so restrained.
The big question though is why eBay has taken so long to allow sellers to advertise their Skype ID’s, given that eBay owns Skype. They paid an absurd amount of money to own the internet phone company and then basically forgot about them. From a business point of view, it made no sense. Did they suddenly look through the business accounts one day and say “wait a moment! This Skype company…..we own it right?”
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