Ina Steiner EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce.
by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com
Monday June 30, 2014
Survey Says eBay Should Reassure Users Following Hack
It's been over a month since eBay announced criminals compromised its user database, and a survey co ...

Sunday June 29, 2014
Seller Refutes eBay Response to Her Claims on Today Show
A seller who appeared on the Today Show yesterday to report her sales had plummeted after eBay rev ...

Thursday June 26, 2014
How to Get eBay Customer Service to Descore Seller Defects
eBay is imposing a new system for measuring seller performance, and as anyone who follows the compan ...

Wednesday June 25, 2014
Are Online Auctions Really in Decline?
We often receive inquiries from analysts, researchers, and even students about industry issues, and ...

Tuesday June 24, 2014
eBay May Be on Path to Recovery from May Slowdown
It's been a tough spring for eBay between Google's manual action/Panda and revelations about a hacki ...

Saturday June 21, 2014
Should There Be Legal Consequences to Negative Feedback on eBay?
Be careful when posting a negative review about a seller on eBay, warns Australian newspaper the Ag ...

Wednesday June 18, 2014
Amazon Launches Smartphone, a Selling Platform
As expected, Amazon launched a smartphone called Fire at an event in Seattle today featuring CEO Jef ...

eBay Users Report Strange Occurrence of New Account Creation
Users are reporting that someone is creating new eBay accounts using their email addresses. How do ...

Monday June 16, 2014
eBay Is Not Retiring the International Site Visibility Feature
After speculation that eBay might be retiring its International Site Visibility feature, spokesperso ...

Should eBay Launch Premium B2C Marketplace for Branded Goods?
Some online sellers have long believed that eBay should separate its marketplace in order to have di ...

Saturday June 14, 2014
Unintended Consequences of eBay's Seller Defect Rate
eBay is advising buyers to automatically open a dispute resolution case against sellers within 30 da ...

Wednesday June 11, 2014
Meeting eBay CEO John Donahoe at the Internet Retailer Conference
EcommerceBytes Contributing Editor Greg Holden covered today's keynote by eBay CEO John Donahoe ...

Monday June 9, 2014
eBay Loses PayPal President David Marcus to Facebook
eBay is losing the head of PayPal, it announced on Monday. PayPal President David Marcus is leavi ...

Sunday June 8, 2014
Is eBay Testing a New Search Feature?
eBay could be about to change one of the ways shoppers find items on its site. An eBay seller spotte ...

Wednesday June 4, 2014
eBay Sellers Learn, Don't Take Free Resources for Granted
eBay sellers who are fans of Toolhaus.org, a free tool that helps evaluate both buyers and sellers b ...

Sunday June 1, 2014
New eBay Vulnerability Exposed Sensitive User Data
eBay's Director of Community inadvertently exposed sensitive seller data on his profile page witho ...