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The Numbers Don't Lie. eBay Losing Collectibles Listings
Some sellers may still be holding out hope for a U.S. holiday listing promotion from eBay. If ...
eBay's Bill Me Later Loses Amazon Business
Amazon.com abruptly announced this afternoon it would no longer accept Bill Me Later (BML) as a paym ...
Monday December 29, 2008
eBay Surveys Sellers on Customer Communication Issues
eBay may be considering whether to add CRM features to its My Messages feature to facilitate commu ...
Ecommerce-Journal.com Steals eBay Interview of Jeff Jordan
I rarely, if ever, use this blog as a soapbox for a personal vent, but when I ran across a cas ...
Sunday December 28, 2008
What Would eBay Be Like if Jeff Jordan Were CEO?
Many had believed Jeff Jordan would take over from Meg Whitman as eBay's President and CEO, but Jeff ...
Saturday December 27, 2008
eBay's John Donahoe on 'Naughty CEO' List
eBay CEO John Donahoe made GlassDoor.com's list of the top ten "naughty" CEOs. GlassDoor.com launche ...
Friday December 26, 2008
eBay UK Promo, Amazon Trumpets Holiday Sales
eBay UK is holding a 5p insertion-fee sale for auction-style listings this weekend. From December ...
Saturday December 20, 2008
What's Ahead for eBay, Ecommerce in 2009
The editorial in Sunday's AuctionBytes-Update newsletter contains some predictions for what's ahea ...
Scarlett Johansson eBay Auction:Looks Like a Booger but It's Snot
The headlines go something like this: "Scarlett fever spreads through eBay tissue," "Scarlett ...
Friday December 19, 2008
eBay Has Fun with PowerSeller 'PolarSeller' Snowmen
eBay sent an email to PowerSellers wishing them happy holidays, thanking them for doing business wit ...
Thursday December 18, 2008
Amway Does PayPal (Etsy Does too)
PayPal is officially mainstream. The company announced that Amway reps and their customers may now u ...
Wednesday December 17, 2008
Neutrals as Negs in eBay Stores Newsletters
A seller reports that when eBay Store owners send email newsletters to customers, the feedback dis ...
Tuesday December 16, 2008
Survey: Multi-Channel Selling Behavior
We are conducting a survey of AuctionBytes and EcommerceBytes readers and EveryPlaceISell.com ...
Amazon.com Beats eBay in Unique Visitors
Amazon.com has handily beaten eBay in terms of unique visitors to its site for the month of Novemb ...
Sunday December 14, 2008
Interview with eBay's Griff Reveals More Change Ahead
AuctionBytes' retrospective series on P2P ecommerce continues with an interview with Jim "Griff" Gri ...
Skip McGrath Launches the Official Geezer Guides
Skip McGrath has been writing for years about eBay in his free eBay Seller News email newsletter, in ...
Thursday December 11, 2008
Auctiva Demonstrates New Storefront Offering
We wrote about Auctiva's new project, an online storefront service , in November. Today Auctiva ...
Wednesday December 10, 2008
Etsy Warns New Legislation Harms Craftspeople
Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade and vintage goods, issued an open letter warning of the ...
Tuesday December 9, 2008
eBay 50% off Listing Fee Sale, December 10
eBay is holding a 50-percent off listing fee promotion on December 10, 2008, on eBay .com, eBay Ca ...
Glitch Report: USPS Click-N-Ship
Sellers are reporting problems with the US Postal Service postage-printing service. Beginning ...
Monday December 8, 2008
eBay's Former Search Guru Has Advice for Sellers
The eBay Research Labs houses some brainy researchers, as I discovered during the 2006 eBay Develo ...
Sunday December 7, 2008
Online Shopping on Par with Last Year's Holiday Season
ComScore reports that holiday online spending is now on par with last year. Retail ecommerce spend ...
Saturday December 6, 2008
Fight The Grinch by Offering Coupons to Shoppers
With the economy playing Grinch this holiday season, retailers are employing every trick in the book ...
Insight into eBay's Operation Catalog
If you want to better understand eBay's current strategy, read our interview with Mercent CEO Eric ...
Thursday December 4, 2008
eBay Replaces Community with Commodity
Rachel Makool, Senior Director of Community Development, is said to be leaving eBay at the end of th ...
Twittering Ecommerce Holiday-Shopping Glitches
StorefrontBacktalk.com is monitoring ecommerce sites and offering consumers real-time updates via ...
Wednesday December 3, 2008
Preying on Suspended eBay Sellers
A website is promising to solve your eBay suspension problem - by selling you an existing eBay acc ...
AuctionBytes Retrospective Series on P2P Ecommerce
Prior to 1995, retail was pretty much business-to-consumer, aside from newspaper classifieds and som ...
Tuesday December 2, 2008
Collins Stewart's Key Trends for Cyber Monday
Sandeep Aggarwal, Senior Internet Research Analyst with Collins Stewart LLC, published the follo ...
Etsy Warns Deadbeat Sellers to Pay Up
The normally warm-and-fuzzy Etsy marketplace for handmade goods sent a stern warning to sellers th ...
Monday December 1, 2008
Diamond Spotting: Altrec Launching on eBay
Altrec.com, a large retailer selling camping and hiking gear and sporting goods online, registe ...