Tom Austin

A member of the Gartner Blog Network

Archives for August, 2009


GM goes eBay — will transparency, efficiency and professionalism come along for the ride?

by Tom Austin  |  August 11, 2009  |  Comments Off

(These comments are my personal opinion and are not an attempt to depict any Gartner position or consensus.) This is such a positive move if it opens the door to something far more intelligent than the stupid haggling that most auto dealers put people through. With gm.ebay.com, you can make an offer on-line and not [...]

Comments Off

Category: Uncategorized     Tags:

Abhorrent business practices, version 723.1

by Tom Austin  |  August 3, 2009  |  1 Comment

These comments are my personal opinion, of course, and do not represent Gartner’s official position (except we wrote about something related to it years ago…) The Times of London has a story today about a vendor demanding that its customer sign an agreement to not say anything, to anyone, anywhere and anytime about the fact [...]

1 Comment »

Category: Uncategorized     Tags: