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You probably know this longstanding Internet company as an e-commerce pioneer - but most likely view it as one whose high-growth years are in the past.

But tech guru Michael A. Robinson sees this company as the tech sector's top possible turnaround play - a transformation he says that will turn it into a mobile-commerce stock that every investor will want to own.

I'm talking about Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY).

Michael is a recent addition to the Money Map Press team - which means I can now access his insights for Private Briefing. He's an author and former journalist (like me) who's built himself into one of the top tech experts and futurists in the field.

That's not hyperbole. His Radical Technology Profits advisory service celebrated its one-month anniversary last week and he just closed out his first trade with a 132.9% gain.

The fact that he notched an options-magnitude profit on a stock ... in only a month ... is impressive enough - but to do so against such a lousy market backdrop makes this a pretty remarkable trade.

I've been spending a lot of time with Michael of late, just chatting to get to know him a bit more and to get some ideas for all of you. Earlier this week, he made a comment that so intrigued me that it became a conversation unto itself.

Let me share some of that conversation so that you can see how this guy thinks.

We were talking about tech-stock profit opportunities when Michael told me: "You know, Bill, I wouldn't count eBay out as a big-cap turnaround play. The company generates enormous amounts of cash ... something like $1.3 billion in free-cash flow (FCF) ... and it has some $3.8 billion in cash on hand with a 19% return on equity."

At the very least, Michael said that eBay shares represent "a more stable, long-term approach to the market."

But there's also an intriguing potential catalyst at work here.

"While most investors would view this as a somewhat unexciting company, the fact is that eBay has strong growth in Europe because of the downturn there.

"Furthermore, it just launched PayPal as a point-of-sale (POS) alternative," Michael told me. "Just a small fraction of the POS market could be worth several hundred million three years from today. eBay is working with VeriFone Systems Inc. (NYSE: PAY) on this, uniting eBay withthe world's largest maker of credit-card terminals."

So what makes eBay a "turnaround" candidate?