(B)(N) EBAY eBay Incorporated

Why, it’s elementary, prima donna.

Drama. Yet another investor wants to “maximize shareholder value” and thinks (as it were) that Tweets will help do it as showing our poker hand might help our bluff (Carl Icahn Verified account @Carl C Icahn Chairman of Icahn Enterprises L.P.; etc., etc. Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity).

But we would think that celebrity investor Tweets might be construed (or confounded) as “investment advice” and not just prattle to many not so endowed. And it’s elementary that a spinning body spins faster if the arms are pulled in so we need to attend to our stop/loss position (Reuters, January 22, 2014, Icahn wants eBay to spin off Paypal; eBay balks).

EBAY has been in the Perpetual Bond™ since much lower prices of $35 to $40 two years ago and our estimate of the downside due to the demonstrated volatility is minus ($2.50) per share in the next quarter so that we would expect it to trade from the current $55 to between $52 and $58 absent further surprise.

Exhibit 1: (B)(N) EBAY eBay Incorporated – Risk Price Chart

(B)(N) EBAY eBay Incorporated

EBay Incorporated is a commerce platform and payments provider. It enables commerce through three reportable segments: Marketplaces, Payments and GSI.

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From the Company: eBay Incorporated provides online platforms, tools, and services to help individuals and merchants in online and mobile commerce and payments in the United States and internationally. Its Marketplaces segment operates ecommerce platform eBay.com; vertical shopping sites, such as StubHub, Fashion, Motors, and Half.com; and classifieds Websites, including Den Blå Avis, BilBasen, Gumtree, Kijiji, LoQUo, Marktplaats.nl, mobile.de, Alamaula, eBay Anuncios, eBay Kleinanzeigen, and eBay Annunci, as well as provides advertising services. This segment also provides RedLaser to facilitate mobile commerce; Milo to enable search for goods at local retailers; WHI to offer an ecatalog of motor parts and accessories; and Hunch to improve search and merchandising based on customers’ needs and tastes. The company’s Payments segment offers payment and settlement services for consumers and merchants on and off eBay Websites and other merchant Websites. This segment operates PayPal, which enables individuals and businesses to send and receive payments online and through mobile devices; Bill Me Later that enables the United States merchants to offer, the United States consumers to obtain, credit at the point of sale for ecommerce and mobile transactions; Zong, which allows users with mobile phones to purchase digital goods and have the transactions charged to their phone bill; and BillSAFE that enables customers pay for purchases upon receipt of an invoice. Its GSI segment offers an ecommerce services suite for enterprise clients that operate in general merchandise categories, including apparel, sporting goods, toys and baby, health and beauty, and home; and marketing services comprising digital agency, enterprise email marketing, mobile advertising, affiliate marketing, online advertisement retargeting, and in-depth analytics services. The company also operates an open platform for merchants and developers. eBay Inc. was founded in 1995, has 30,000 emplyees and is headquartered in San Jose, California

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