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Q3 2008 Financial Highlights
October 15, 2008
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This presentation contains non-GAAP measures relating to the company's performance. You can find the
reconciliation of those measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measures in the appendix at the end of this
presentation.
This presentation may make forward-looking statements relating to our future performance that are based on
our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties, including those
relating to the company’s ability to grow its businesses, user base and user activity.
Our actual results may differ materially from those discussed in this call for a variety of reasons, including, but
not limited to, the impact of recent global economic events and a potential global economic downturn; foreign-
exchange-rate fluctuations; changes in political, business, and economic conditions; our ability to profitably
expand our business model to new types of merchandise and sellers; the impact and integration of recent and
future acquisitions; our increasing need to grow revenues from existing users in established markets; an
increasingly competitive environment for our businesses; the complexity of managing a growing company with
a broad range of businesses, our need to manage regulatory, tax, IP and litigation risks (including risks
specific to PayPal and the financial industry, and risks specific to Skype’s technology and to the VoiP
industry); and our need to upgrade our technology and customer service infrastructure at reasonable cost
while adding new features and maintaining site stability.
You can find more information about factors that could affect our operating results in our most recent annual
report on our Form 10-K and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q (available at
http://investor.ebay.com). You should not unduly rely on any forward-looking statements, and we assume no
obligation to update them. All information in the presentation is as of October 15, 2008, and we do not intend,
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