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Analyst on eBay Sellers: Let Them Eat Cake
A statement that could only be compared to that from the famously out-of-touch Empress Marie An ...
eBay Fee Calculator Now Live
The changes to eBay's fee structure are complex and I received a number of spreadsheets from s ...
Doing eBay (Seller) Math to Compute Discount Benefits
I spoke to eBay PowerSeller Steve Grossberg last night. Steve heads the non-profit trade associ ...
Wednesday January 30, 2008
eBay PowerSeller Foiled in Merging IDs
An eBay PowerSeller reports that eBay is no longer merging User IDs. "I expect more people to w ...
eBay Sellers Make Their Voices Heard on Upcoming Changes
Well we asked for your opinion about the eBay changes announced on Tuesday, and you responded ...
Tuesday January 29, 2008
eBay Increases Fees Overall
While wire services are lighting up with news that eBay has lowered insertion fees, the truth ...
Upcoming Changes to Feedback on eBay
Feedback on eBay certainly has taken a few left turns since Pierre's initial concept that allowed ...
EBay Lowers Fees, Changes Feedback and Gives Seller Discounts
Looks like there will be a mixed bag in the announcements at this morning's Ecommerce Forum. Along ...
Monday January 28, 2008
Links to eBay's Ecommerce Forum Webcasts
Big announcements are coming out of tomorrow's Ecommerce Forum event, a gathering of eBay top ...
eBay's China Syndrome
eBay has always been very good at laying out vision statements. Rather than trying to explain the ...
Thursday January 24, 2008
Meg Whitman, from eBay CEO to Governor?
The LA Times reports that outgoing eBay CEO Meg Whitman is considering a run for governo ...
Wednesday January 23, 2008
eBay Pricing Announcement Comes Next Week
eBay will announce a restructuring of its pricing next week, according to the company's financi ...
Tuesday January 22, 2008
Possible New eBay CEO Behind Yahoo, Google Ads
The Wall Street Journal 's Mylene Mangalindan is out with another article on eBay - thi ...
eBay CEO Meg Whitman to Retire Says WSJ
When the venerable Wall Street Journal writes something that other outlets have been reportin ...
Monday January 21, 2008
eBay Problems with PayPal Shipping Labels
There have been issues affecting eBay sellers' ability to print labels through PayPal. I receiv ...
Friday January 18, 2008
USPS Announces Bigger Flat-Rate PM Box
The U.S. Postal Service announced a new, larger Priority Mail Flat-Rate Box that can be used fo ...
eBay Hong Kong Calls Zero-Feedback Seller 'Most Outstanding'
A seller sent us a link to a list of eBay Hong Kong Award Winners for Most Outstandin ...
Half.com Requires Delivery Confirmation Number
A Half.com seller writes that using the email service when getting an order, sellers are now r ...
Wednesday January 16, 2008
Intermittent Problem Leaving eBay Feedback?
A seller writes that one of her buyers tried leaving her feedback but was unable to because eBay' ...
Tuesday January 15, 2008
eBay Having a Bad Glitch Day
While you or I might have bad hair days, eBay has bad glitch days, and today was one such day. ...
Monday January 14, 2008
eBay Uses Feedback to Influence Search Results
Someone said there is a new disclaimer when sellers list their item through the SYI (Sell Your It ...
Amazon Stories Highlight Etail Shipping Challenges
A New York Times reporter and a ZDNet UK reporter failed to receive expensive consumer electron ...
Saturday January 12, 2008
Former eBay Search Guru Now at Cuill
Search-engine guru Louis Monier made a stir when he left eBay for Google in June 2005 in what ...
Thursday January 10, 2008
Overstock's Patrick Byrne Is Happy with Auction Experiment
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne congratulated the Overstock Auctions community, writing ...
Can Online Sellers Conquer the 4-Hour Workweek?
I've been reading the best-selling book by Timothy Ferriss, "The 4-Hour Workweek." So far it's ...
Wednesday January 9, 2008
eBay Testing Best Match as Default Search Order?
Comments welcome on whether you are seeing a change in the default search order when you do searc ...
Monday January 7, 2008
LiveAuctioneers Sees Growth in eBay Live Auctions
On April 1, LiveAuctioneers will launch a web-based inventory management system (as oppo ...
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Does eBay's New DSR Feedback System Work?
eBay will soon begin using DSRs to determine how sellers are ranked in search results and will ...