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Burbank Sportscards to Launch 30 Million Listings to eBay
Burbank Sportscards has 884,862 listings on eBay and plans to launch its entire 30 million-car ...
Monday September 29, 2008
eBay Google Ads - Seasonal Strategy or Algorithm Fix?
AuctionBytes recently noticed what appeared to be a decline in eBay's "natural search" r ...
Sunday September 28, 2008
eBay Offers 1-Pence Listings in the UK
For those UK merchants willing to pay £349.99/month in Stores (Shops) fees, insertion fees for ...
Saturday September 27, 2008
eBay Seller Says Search Standing Incorrectly Lowered
A reader says her Search Standing metric in the eBay Seller Dashboard has been lowered incorrectl ...
Wednesday September 24, 2008
eBay and Amazon.com Not Faring Well on Google?
Late last week I noticed Google was not bringing back eBay items on the first page of search res ...
eBay Admits to Buyer Confusion over Offsite Advertising
After years of seller complaints over ads served up by Google, Yahoo and Shopping.com at the ...
eBay Resurrects Keyword Ad Program for Sellers
eBay is resurrecting its keyword advertising program that it had dropped 2 years ago. eBay AdC ...
Tuesday September 23, 2008
AuctionBytes Glitch Report for September 23, 2008
eBay Discussion Boards Down This Morning. eBay discussion boards went down this morning, eBay ...
Monday September 22, 2008
eBay Takes Advertising to a Whole New Level
eBay is placing advertising on the View Item pages of seller listings. The ads are ...
Sunday September 21, 2008
Bidding for Politics. Will She or Won't She?
Meg Whitman appears to be awaiting divine guidance concerning her possible future run for governo ...
Saturday September 20, 2008
eBay Glitch Affects Exposure in Search
If you listed or revised items on eBay between the morning of September 17 and 6:30pm PT on Sept ...
Friday September 19, 2008
Expect Questions at Today's eBay Town Hall Meeting
When eBay rolls out changes, such as the new format that rolled out this week, my email inbox ...
Tuesday September 16, 2008
eBay's New Fixed-Price Format
The new 35-cent, 30-day Fixed-Price format went live to eBay.com at midnight last night. ...
Sunday September 14, 2008
Possible Layoffs at eBay, Golden Parachutes for Execs
Barrons cites a Wedge Partners report that "the company's business is "deteriorating" a ...
Thursday September 11, 2008
USPS May Introduce New Flat Rate Box
Sun Kim, owner of TekGems , wrote in with a tip about a new flat-rate box from the USPS. Sun m ...
Wednesday September 10, 2008
eBay Best Match Glitch Results in Worst Match
Reports are coming in from readers that Best Match search results are showing in reverse order. ...
eBay's Non-Denial Denial
By chance, I happened to catch one of my favorite movies of all time on television the othe ...
Tuesday September 9, 2008
Brick-and-Mortars Fight Against Online Discounting
Internet Retailer has an interesting article about online sellers and the issue of manufac ...
Saturday September 6, 2008
eBay's Operation Catalog Flies Under the Radar
eBay announced a Diamond-level PowerSeller tier in June, and as I blogged in mid- ...
Wednesday September 3, 2008
Layoffs at eBay Vendor ChannelAdvisor
ChannelAdvisor laid off four Vice Presidents last month, and there are reports that there we ...
Ex-CEO of eBay Readies to Speak to Republicans
eBay Director and former CEO Meg Whitman has been seen with eBay Public Relations expert Henry ...