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EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce. by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com |
Seller Quits eBay after Returns Avalanche
A longtime seller and reader of EcommerceBytes is quitting eBay over a run-in with an abusive buyer ...
Tuesday October 28, 2014
eBay Spells Out How They've Protected Sellers
eBay is sending emails to sellers thanking them for the service they provide to buyers and spelling ...
Monday October 27, 2014
eBay Reverses Policy on Extended Holiday Returns
Is it too much to expect online sellers to offer a 3-month return policy during the holidays? Appare ...
Thursday October 23, 2014
With Slowing Sales Growth, Should eBay Be Raising Fees?
eBay announced a fee increase in a surprise announcement on Thursday. eBay will raise fees for high ...
Amazon Grows Third Quarter Sales 20 Percent in 2014
Amazon's conference call with analysts is at 5:00 pm EST today, here is the company's press re ...
Wednesday October 22, 2014
Who Is eBay's Target Customer?
eBay is giving a lot of thought to who exactly is its target customer. With such a broad marketplace ...
Monday October 20, 2014
eBay Board Member Resigns, But Questions Remain
Marc Andreessen has decided to resign from eBay's Board just over a week after a Bloomberg anchor a ...
Sunday October 19, 2014
Can Consumer Sellers Help eBay Revive Auctions?
Auctions are down on eBay despite the company's best efforts to keep them at a zero growth rate. And ...
Wednesday October 15, 2014
eBay Grows Marketplace GMV only 7 Percent in US in Third Quarter
eBay's conference call with analysts is at 5:00 pm EST today, here is the company's press releas ...
Tuesday October 14, 2014
Three Missing eBay Features - Where Did They Go?
Aaaaaand they're gone. eBay sellers are wondering what happened to some popular features they had re ...
Monday October 13, 2014
Etsy Search Results: Uber Domination or Not?
Just as merchants study their standings in Google and Bing search, sellers attempt to measure th ...
Friday October 10, 2014
Breaking News: Another eBay Outage Hits the Site
eBay is experiencing another outage, according to EcommerceBytes readers and reports from around the ...
Thursday October 9, 2014
What Do Sellers Think of eBay's New TV Ad?
eBay is running a new television ad as part of its new global brand campaign that kicks off on Mond ...
Wednesday October 8, 2014
eBay Apologizes over Changes to Markdown Manager
eBay said it is reversing an unpopular (and unannounced) change it had made last week to the Mark ...
Tuesday October 7, 2014
UK Press Are Covering eBay User Issues
News sites in the UK seem to be doing much more reporting on eBay issues that impact buyers and sel ...
Saturday October 4, 2014
Griff Says Sellers Confused over Tracking and eBay Defects
eBay Seller Advocate Jim Griffith ("Griff") took to Facebook to clear up what he said was some ...
Wednesday October 1, 2014
Speculation that eBay CEO Fumble Led to PayPal Breakup
A fumble by eBay CEO John Donahoe may be the cause of the eBay-PayPal breakup, according to specula ...