eBay Briefing Riles Outside Traders

Updated from 2:34 p.m. EST

The morning after investors drove eBay's(EBAY Quote) stock down 19% in one of the darkest days in the stock's history, eBay spoke back to investors.

Or rather, it spoke back to some of them.

At 10 a.m. EST, the online auction pioneer made its CEO Meg Whitman and its CFO Rajiv Dutta available on a one-hour conference call organized by Goldman Sachs and hosted by its e-commerce analyst Anthony Noto. eBay later posted a phone number on its Web site allowing the public to listen to a recording of the call, but outsiders couldn't submit any questions. ...