Lorrie Norrington, President, eBay Marketplace Operations announced today that eBay Live! in Chicago this year, will be the last one until 2010. She said management wants to get more up close and personal with the eBay community.
To quote her exactly:
In 2009 we are focusing our energy on smaller venues to facilitate more face-to-face interactions with our customers and community. While I can’t yet name all of the places we’ll be visiting in 2009, I can say that we intend to spend more quality time with more of you in 2009 than we have in recent memory. So while eBay Live! will not be held in 2009, we will be back with eBay Live! on August 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center.
Okay, I'm going out on a limb here and predicting this will be the last eBay Live! - and although there may be another event called eBay Live! this will be the last one in it's current form. With every other thing changing about eBay, it doesn't make sense they would have an event:
- for sellers
- for "flea market" people
- for people who like crazy outfits and collect pins
I think the days of the homey, aw-shucks eBay seller are over. Any thoughts?
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Don’t forget to tell everybody you’ll be speaking at the next RocketPlace conference! http://www.RocketPlace.com Registration open very soon. :)
Steve,
Laurie and her team of eBay Execs were “up close and personal” at the recent eCommerce Summit sponsored by ECMTA & PESA.
Attending eBay LIVE helps many Consignment Pals, including Education Specialists, get psyched for the upcoming year, network like crazy, and learn a thing or two.
We’re going to miss LIVE.
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