eBay has a university?
October 10th, 2006 gier Posted in Dazed and Confused | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I received an email. It was from eBay.com. I consider it spam, though technically maybe not, since I have an eBay account. Anyhow, the title of the email was: eBay Explained! 2006.
Natch.
The email explained (hah!) that for the first time, the Dean of eBay Education & eBay University Instructor will be in KL on the 12th of November ” to share his knowledge on how you can make your eBay selling, searching and shopping more effective and become successful online buyers and sellers.”
WTF? eBay has a university?
So, I googled for eBay University and the first link is to here. It’s an officially set up thingmy by eBay. So, this begs the questions:
- Why did eBay set up a university?
- What do they teach?
- Can you get degrees from the university?
- Are those degrees ratified locally?
- What sort of job can you get with those degrees?
Okay, once you get to the eBay Uni page, you’ll get your answers to the above questions. Basically it’s all about selling stuff on eBay. Didn’t realise that we needed “university” courses for that. Didn’t realise that you could call that shite university, either.
May 3rd, 2007 at 20:11
hah! i think i came across an article in the papers on this too.. and was actually quite puzzled as to why you need courses on how to sell on eBay?
apparently in good old malaysia, there’s only one ‘qualified’ ebay whatchamacallit… this lady is supposedly the only one that has been certified to teach others on how to sell..
what a load of bull.. ebay malaysia is also full of junk that nobody buys