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Etsy Is Determined to Become a More Social Marketplace
Etsy has been rolling out a rash of changes to become a more "social" marketplace, a direction found ...
Sunday February 27, 2011
eBay Adds New Features to Search with Help of Bing's Burina
eBay is testing new search-engine features thanks to Natalia Burina, former Program Manager of M ...
Thursday February 24, 2011
Is Facebook an Untapped Resource for Online Sellers?
Last week we polled our readers on Facebook about whether they sell items on the social networking s ...
Is eBay Planning New Returns Policy?
Could eBay be planning a new returns policy? Currently the policy requires all sellers on eBay to ...
Tuesday February 22, 2011
eBay Ramps up Shopping Basket in UK, Cart Also Expected in US
eBay UK has been testing a shopping cart (called shopping basket there) to a small number of u ...
Monday February 21, 2011
eBay Sellers Report Gallery Photos Fail to Display
Online sellers are reporting problems with gallery photos in their eBay listings. A reader said he h ...
Sunday February 20, 2011
eBay Diverts Traffic to Other Sellers' Listings
While browsing an eBay seller's Storefront on her Facebook page, I clicked on her eBay listings for ...
Wednesday February 16, 2011
Regretsy Video Mocks Etsy
I haven't seen many parody videos that take aim at ecommerce sites the way this one from Regre ...
Monday February 14, 2011
What eBay's Investment in Magento Means
eBay revealed last week it had acquired a 49% share of Magento, an open-source ecommerce software ...
Wednesday February 9, 2011
AuctionBytes Coverage of eBay Analyst Day
Welcome to AuctionBytes coverage of eBay Analyst Day , which begins on Thursday morning (February 1 ...
Tuesday February 8, 2011
One Year Later: How Have eBay Changes Impacted You?
It's been almost one year since eBay.com placed, in effect, "Stores in Core," and made radical chang ...
Sunday February 6, 2011
eBay Users, Leave Home without It
If you plan on operating your eBay business when outside the country on business or pleasure, beware ...
Thursday February 3, 2011
eBay Sellers Better Clean up their Photos
How good are your product photos? On eBay, they better be good - it could help your search ran ...
Tuesday February 1, 2011
Sellers Choice - Rate the Top Online Payments Services
How would you rate PayPal's seller fee structure on a scale of one to ten? How would you rate Google ...