{"id":380,"date":"2005-09-02T13:09:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T17:09:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:45","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:45","slug":"ebay_s_legacy_at_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2005\/09\/02\/ebay_s_legacy_at_10\/","title":{"rendered":"eBay&#8217;s Legacy at 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/techrepublic.com.com\/2100-3513_11-5845839.html\">TechRepublic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first thing any visitor to Robert McKeown&#8217;s home notices is the toy collection.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage Barbies dominate one wall of the living room, with several rows of dolls showing her evolution from the mid-1960s. Action figures from the &#8217;60s television show &#8220;Man From UNCLE&#8221; stare patronizingly at the suburban icon. A Shadow Crime Fighter Detection Belt, a relic of an old radio mystery show, offers clues to &#8220;the evil in men&#8217;s hearts&#8221; from a shelf nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Close to 3,000 more pieces crowd McKeown&#8217;s house. Many were bought on eBay, where he has been a regular since two weeks after the auction site launched. He and his wife, Deeann Little, who together run a business licensing and distributing independent films on DVD, have spent tens of thousands of dollars online and thousands more reselling goods.<br \/>\neBay<\/p>\n<p>And yet, over a dinner in a Chinese restaurant in the suburbs near his home, the lanky, 39-year-old McKeown described decidedly mixed feelings about the auction giant&#8217;s legacy as it nears its 10th anniversary this Labor Day. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechRepublic: The first thing any visitor to Robert McKeown&#8217;s home notices is the toy collection. Vintage Barbies dominate one wall of the living room, with several rows of dolls showing her evolution from the mid-1960s. Action figures from the &#8217;60s television show &#8220;Man From UNCLE&#8221; stare patronizingly at the suburban icon. A Shadow Crime &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}