The WSJ and NYT yesterday both ran fairly negative articles on eBay.

Two things struck me about these articles:

1) Both lacked any real hard data and relied on the opinions of a very small sample size. When I worked at eBay, I was continually frustrated by negative articles based on little data. Even though I no longer work at eBay, I couldn't help feel irritated by these articles since they didn't seem to cover any new ground (full disclosure: I still own eBay stock so any article that impacts eBay's share price generally bothers me).

2) I found it very odd that both articles literally hit the same day. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it feels like these stories were planted.