eBay’s Same-Day Delivery Experiment is Essentially Dead

eBay won't say it outright, so I'll say it for the company: its same-day delivery experiment is pretty much dead. On yesterday's earnings call with analysts, eBay's CEO John Donahoe was asked for an update on the eBay Now service, which lets shoppers order goods from local big-box stores via an app and get the goods delivered to them that very day. "There's an enormous amount of money that's going to be spent in same-day delivery, and I don't think that's going to be … that's not essential to our core, target consumer," Donahoe said.