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Five Things to Know About Amazon's New FBA Workflow
As you most likely know unless you haven't created any Amazon shipments lately, or seen the talk a ...
Thursday March 27, 2014
Is eBay's Hassle-Free Returns Policy Good for Sellers?
In eBay's Seller Standards webinar, which I blogged about yesterday , the issue of eBay's relativ ...
Wednesday March 26, 2014
eBay Seller Standards Webinar: Buyers Expect More
eBay Executives repeatedly emphasized buyers' increasing expectations in the ever-more competi ...
Tuesday March 25, 2014
Parsing a New World of DSRs and Defect Rates
eBay announced on Monday that DSR scores would no longer be anonymous, and from what I've seen s ...
Sunday March 23, 2014
Have You Had Issues with Restricted or Prohibited Items?
Ina ran a story today about how eBay revised its list of Animal, Weapons and Used Clothing Pol ...
Thursday March 20, 2014
Pets vs. Inventory Contest Winner Announced
Last week we ran a contest just for fun, to see if any of you online sellers out there with pets ...
Monday March 17, 2014
eBay vs. Amazon Defect Rate Smackdown
With eBay's Spring Seller Update 2014 springing, it probably hasn't escaped many sellers' noti ...
Thursday March 13, 2014
Contest: Has Your Pet Ever Messed Up Your Inventory?
I thought we could all use a bit of comic relief after a long week of Spring Seller changes, bad w ...
Wednesday March 12, 2014
90-Day Returns, Neutrals, Defect Unknowns Worry Sellers
Sellers are hand-wringing over the latest round of changes to seller performance metrics, and ...
Monday March 10, 2014
What Do You Think of the New eBay Seller Dashboard?
eBay announced there would be a new look to the seller dashboard, and Ina wrote about it in Fe ...
Sunday March 9, 2014
Amazon iOs Seller App Consolidates Sourcing and Listing
So Amazon came out with a Selling App for iOS, and I've taken it for a test scan...or I shou ...
eBay Files Patent Application for Bitcoin Currency Exchanger
I haven't been guest blogging here at Julia's AuctionBytes since I've caught the Bitcoin bug. Howeve ...
Thursday March 6, 2014
Best Offer Default, Moved Threads on Docket in eBay Weekly Chat
I hadn't attended eBay's weekly chat with the staff in a while. But when I learned some of the eBa ...
Monday March 3, 2014
What's the Rudest Behavior You've Seen While Sourcing?
I finally got out to an estate sale this weekend. As usual, the customers there were an interestin ...
Sunday March 2, 2014
Would You Sell Gold Coins Stash on Amazon or eBay?
The news of the couple who found a Gold-Rush-era stash of gold coins which are said to possibly ...