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How Will Sellers Deal with Postal Rate Changes?
New postage rates go into effect on May 14, 2007, in the United States. What are your strategies f ...
AuctionBytes Newsletter Changes
We have moved to a new list-host service and have started publishing an HTML version of both our n ...
Friday March 30, 2007
eBay's Jeff Skoll & Pierre Omidyar Together Again
Here's a recent picture of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar with the first President of eBay, Jeff Skol ...
eBay Quashes Rumor over Store Fee Hikes
eBay is not raising fees for eBay Stores, spokesperson Brad Williams told me today. ChannelAdvisor C ...
Wednesday March 28, 2007
Affiliates Can Now Publish eBay Reviews & Guides
eBay recently broadened its Affiliate program so sellers could earn revenue on sales they drove to ...
Thursday March 22, 2007
PayPal Survey Outlines Possible New Features
An AuctionBytes reader forwarded me a survey they received about features PayPal is considering im ...
Tuesday March 20, 2007
eBay Sellers Converge in NC for ChannelAdvisor Conference
I'm in North Carolina attending the ChannelAdvisor Catalyst Conference. I'm estimating there are o ...
Sunday March 18, 2007
Urgent Warning to eBay Sellers about New Fraud
I wrote on Friday about scammers using eBay's "Ask Seller a Question" feature to help them harvest ...
Saturday March 17, 2007
Results In: AuctionBytes Polls eBay Sellers
AuctionBytes conducted a survey recently and is publishing the results in the March 18, 2007, issue ...
Monday March 12, 2007
eBay Gets Aggressive with Google Bait
A user on the Vendio discussion boards noticed something interesting as she was browsing items ...
Thursday March 8, 2007
eBay Feedback 2.0 - Too Much Transparency?
Now that eBay Feedback 2.0 has rolled out in some international sites, users can see the change in ...
Saturday March 3, 2007
AuctionBytes Survey of eBay, Online-Auction Sellers
AuctionBytes is surveying online sellers to take a snapshot of the state of the online-auction indus ...