Week 12 eBay Listings Down on Holiday Break

As is common every year around the time of the holiday break, week 12 listings suffered a major decline W/W, with core listings down over 33% from last week. Y/Y growth rates remained constant at around 15% for total listings. Analysts now expect a marked rebound in the final week
of the year due to the practice of listing unwanted gifts.

Listings data for this week, according to Merrill Lynch, came in with total listings QTD (to 22 Dec) of 544.4 million (versus 472.4 million QTD in 2005) representing 15.2% Y/Y growth. Corresponding core listings stood at 457.0 million QTD (versus 409.9 million QTD in 2005) representing 11.5% Y/Y growth.