Comments on: Will ebay Wreck StumbleUpon?

By: affiliate truth

affiliate truth — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:03:19 +0000

I have a horrible feeling this is just the first of a number of these sorts of acquisitions that we will be hearing about.

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:35:06 +0000

Very sad news. Once Ebay starts to make their imprint on SU I will stop using it and remove my profile. Hopefully someone else will see the need for a SU type system as it is now and create it so we can just move on over and let ebay have at the old one. You know it is going to be crap once EBAY start making thier changes. I actually am going to remove all my preference right now as I don’t want ebay knowing … and I will just use the search function if I want to search. I am going to miss SU … so sad.

By: BANKIM

BANKIM — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:54:42 +0000

I am also one of the dedicated stumbler .My love for stumbleupon is immensely deep and believe me when I heard the shocking news about
stumbleupon being sold to Ebay I could not believe it..Here in India there
is a say” one rotten mango spoils the entire heap of mangoes in a basket”
A sudden futured demise of stumbleupon is very much regretted..Every stumbler has worked hard on building their blogs and cuddled them like their
first child..How we are going to bear the sudden demise…

By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:03:58 +0000

Thanks to all of you Stumblers for this very cool dialog!
Marty

By: stalain2

stalain2 — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 02:23:31 +0000

I agree with you Alicia…
be patient and wait some weeks…
since then, continu to use SU

By: Jac

Jac — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:42:07 +0000

If Ebay takes SU over, I think I may look for an alternative social bookmarking service. I’ve used Stumble pretty much from the day it was born. I have a feeling if Ebay takes it over, all it will show is ebay auctions and paypal crap.

By: GCL

GCL — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:08:33 +0000

It’s only part of the story. A strange marriage
this is. I would have even preferred that
Yahoo! who at least is a search engine,
maybe not quite as specialized as SU
was. But at least I can see the affinity.
But then, I don’t own StumbleUpon or have
any shares in the stock, so I can’t begin
to scratch the surface as to just what
they were thinking. I don’t even know if
they gave any thought at all to what
their loyal and supporting SU members
care about. Will it have direct impact
upon all the hard work that Stumblers
have put into their sites? I guess not.
And that’s disappointing. Money talks,
I guess. And a lot of money talks even
louder. Pity. They say it won’t impact
StumbleUpon and it will be business
as usual. I have my doubts. The crocodiles
eat the alligators, the allligators eat whatever
comes along. And they are a sneaky lot.
Stumblers are leaving and that is a reality
and the risk one takes. But then, when
one has over two million Stumblers, why
bother caring? There are plenty more to
come along. It’s business and business has
a voracious appetite. It’s called capitalism.
Would I refuse seventy-five million? Knowing
me as I do. I would. I don’t need 75million
to make me happy. But I know a lot of people
who have even more and they are not happy
folks. The more money you have, the more
you want, the more headaches, the more
worries, the more of everything and none of
it that enviable. Been there, seen that, done
that. The grass is never greener on the
other side. However, I can nothing more
than wish them all the best of luck!

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By: Marty Weintraub

Marty Weintraub — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:45:42 +0000

I wonder if they’ll let us park RVs in the parking lot…

By: ihavewebfeet

ihavewebfeet — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:42:40 +0000

I feel like the employee of a longtime mom and pop store that just learned a Wal-Mart StupidCenter is opening up across the street…