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We had reported last month that eBay is serious about selling away StumbleUpon but it appears Deutsche Bank (the bank assigned to look for the correct deal) is having trouble finding a buyer. The reason being that eBay is bent upon selling StumbleUpon for not a penny less than $75 million; the same amount it had bought StumbleUpon last year.

There has been a decay in StumbleUpon’s traffic owing largely to the fact that most of the users make use of the toolbar and occasionally visit the site.

That is very true, but StumbleUpon did generate immense traffic earlier on and recently it has come up with a new feature that allows users to directly stumble from a website without any need to download a toolbar. This definitely sounds of a big boost to its traffic, but what’s more important is will eBay be able to get the proposed value it plans to sell the site recommendation engine for? Time will tell whether it becomes a reality or if eBay has to settle down for something less.