Ebay hoped to acquire Craigslist

[UsNThem]

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4630e366-e380-11de-8d36-00144feab49a.html

[callmeed]

I'm glad they didn't. Despite CL's shortcomings, it's hard to see eBay making them better in any way.

[neilc]

It's absolutely crazy to me that eBay was able to acquire 28% of Craigslist for $32 million. What a steal. The unnamed CL executive who sold his shares must be kicking himself now!

[stilist]

Seems like a pretty reasonable target. You’re in the online auction business, so why not shift to just being an online market?

[cdr]

Behind a paywall.

Possible to read it by going through Google News ( http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&... ) and clicking the Financial Times link.

[UsNThem → cdr]

thanks cdr ! U need to sigup to read the article.