It is unfortunate that eBay stores continue to close.
We were actually discussing our kiosks with one of the largest chains that is in trouble in order to help their franchisees regain profitability. We offered to set their stores up as GP kiosk locations but when two CEO's get together and one of them is in a failing position it can rapidly turn into a battle of the egos.
We wanted was to bring our system to his struggling franchisees in order to save their businesses but I can only guess he saw it as a slap in the face that he couldn't save them himself so he refused to offer the save to his franchisees and talks just broke down.
While the eBay ideas was a good concept, I don't think anyone actually ran the numbers neccesary to be profitable prior to selling franchises. We actually looked atthe possibility of franchsing an ebay model alonside GP but when we did the calculations we decided it was fairer to add it to our existing service line up.
Our GP franchisees offer ebay on the side to help boost their shipping volume and have great success, but trying to cover $10k a month in overhead purely selling ebay, I always saw as a difficult proposition.