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PayPal Outage Brings Payments to a Standstill
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eBay Plays Diminishing Role in PayPal's Future
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Tuesday October 26, 2010
Facebook to Integrate PayPal's New Digital Goods Service
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PayPal Unveils Micropayments and Mobile Solutions at DevCon
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Sunday October 24, 2010
eBay Changes Ask-Seller Feature, Seller Concerns over Standards
I've received some interesting emails from sellers over the weekend concerning the effect of recent ...
Thursday October 21, 2010
eBay Launches New Hub for Reporting Bad Buyers
Last month, eBay told sellers it would be launching a new way to report bad buyers. eBay said the ne ...
Amazon.com Third-Quarter Sales Up 39 Percent
Amazon.com announced third-quarter earnings for 2010 today, its conference call with analysts is a ...
Wednesday October 20, 2010
eBay Announces Third Quarter 2010 Earnings
eBay's conference call with analysts is scheduled for 5:00 pm Eastern today (October 20, 2010). Here ...
Tuesday October 19, 2010
eBay Update: Q3 Earnings and New Dupes Policy
Never a dull moment covering eBay - the company will announce third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, a ...
Monday October 18, 2010
Etsy's Anti-Coral Blog Post Provokes Sellers
Etsy sellers were upset after the company published a post in its Storque blog advising shoppers not ...
Saturday October 16, 2010
eBay Opens Disputes against Sellers Giving Partial Refunds
eBay sellers are reporting that when they proactively issue partial refunds to buyers for shipping f ...
Thursday October 14, 2010
Craigslist Adds Pierre Omidyar as Defendant in eBay Lawsuit
Craigslist filed an amended complaint on Tuesday in which it added Pierre Omidyar and former eBay ex ...
Could eBay Acquire Yahoo's Stake in Alibaba?
As we noted in AuctionBytes Newsflash this morning, the Wall Street Journal reports that AOL is co ...
Wednesday October 13, 2010
Bonanza Changes the Game with New Specialty Fashion Site
Bonanza (formerly Bonanzle) created a marketplace based on the philosophy of "Find everything ...
Tuesday October 12, 2010
You're Not Crazy - eBay Shipping-Flip Caused by Bug
eBay did not intentionally change the order of shipping options on the invoices sent to buyers (call ...
Monday October 11, 2010
Facebook Needs a Shopping Search Engine
Facebook shopping has come along way since it opened its platform in 2007. Sellers can use Payv ...
Thursday October 7, 2010
No Store? What's Holding You Back?
I was doing a little database housekeeping on the EveryPlaceISell.com Merchant Directory today, an ...
Tuesday October 5, 2010
eBay Influences Listing Behavior with Selective Promotions
Like many things on eBay these days, including its new fee structure, promotions have become more di ...
eBay Experiencing Tracking and Shipping Errors
eBay sellers are reporting that after they print shipping labels, the items are not registering as s ...
Monday October 4, 2010
Homepage Letter from eBay CEO Kicks off Holiday Marketing
eBay took an unusual step on Monday when it posted a letter from CEO John Donahoe on its homepa ...
eBay Sellers Test New Dupes-Policy Compliance Tool
Sellers worried about whether their listings comply with a just-announced eBay policy are starting t ...