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More Details on eBay's Dispute with Craigslist
eBay published a copy of its corporate governance lawsuit against Craigslist, its founder Craig ...
PayMate Disputes eBay Claim in PayPal-Only Policy
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) deadline for sending submissio ...
eBay Changes PayPal Echeck Blocking Policy
eBay will soon prohibit sellers from blocking echeck payments funded through PayPal. An echeck ...
Tuesday April 29, 2008
Pierre Omidyar Defines eBay Level Playing Field
Have you ever wondered what eBay founder Pierre Omidyar meant when he espoused the concept of t ...
Monday April 28, 2008
eBay March Billing Glitch?
eBay billing is difficult for sellers to deal with (there was even a class action lawsuit over eB ...
Check Your eBay Buyer's Shipping Addresses
Reports are surfacing that eBay is sending order information to sellers that display Europea ...
eBay Motors Runs Promos to Test New Fees
Some eBay users discovered at least six promotions running concurrently on eBay Motors. ...
AuctionBytes Bigger and Faster than Ever!
Dear Readers, To keep up with our growing traffic, AuctionBytes has moved to a faster, larger se ...
Friday April 25, 2008
eBay Mulling Stores in Search - for a Fee?
A seller posted on the discussion boards stating she had taken an eBay survey about pos ...
eBay Free Shipping Loophole
Yet another on-the-ball reader wrote in with an example of what looks like a loophole in the eB ...
eBay S&H Compares Apples to Oranges
A reader sent me a letter that raised two issues. She said she believes some sellers are splittin ...
Wednesday April 23, 2008
eBay Sellers Must Live or Die by DSRs
eBay's Lorrie Norrington had little new to say to a small gathering of sellers on April 23, 20 ...
Tuesday April 22, 2008
Nielsen Online's eBay Data Shows Interesting Trends
In preparing a Newsflash article about eBay metrics, I calculated the percent change in Page View ...
eBay Sues Craigslist Founder over Minority Interest
eBay issued a press release stating it has filed a lawsuit to challenge recent transacti ...
Google Checkout Employs 'Eco' Viral Marketing
Google is trying to increase usage of Google Checkout by encouraging donations to environmental ...
eBay News Update, Amazon to Report Earnings
eBay Australia previously announced it was banning all forms of payment on its ...
Monday April 21, 2008
eBay 10-Cent Promo - for PowerSellers Only
eBay is running a 1-day, 10-cent listing promotion for PowerSellers only for auction and ...
Will Tax Rebates Stimulate Your Online Sales?
Wondering when to expect a possible spike in sales due to those US tax-rebates, aka economic stim ...
Communicating with eBay
My friend, who has been selling on eBay for a long time, wrote me this letter, and I thought it w ...
Friday April 18, 2008
eBay Helps Sellers Block Bad Buyers
With the radical changes to feedback starting to roll out on eBay.com the week of May 19th, s ...
eBay Checkout Experiencing PayPal-Only 'Glitch'?
This report just in from a reader: Just thought I'd let you know about some recent "glitch ...
Thursday April 17, 2008
eBay Brags Hacker 'Vladuz' Arrested
A cyber-criminal who embarrassed eBay for nearly a year with claims he had hacked the site was ...
eBay Seller Wants to Know, How's Business?
I received an email from a reader earlier this week asking for a discussion on how sales volume ...
Wednesday April 16, 2008
eBay Profits up 22 Percent in First Quarter 2008
eBay reported financial results for its first quarter, ended March 31, 2008. I picked out the thi ...
Tuesday April 15, 2008
Amazon Auctions to Rise from the Ashes?
File this under wild rumors and speculation: Amazon.com may be working on the return of the au ...
Former eBay CEO's Next Job May Pay $1 a Year
John McCain named former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a possible cabinet member if he is elected Pre ...
eBay Live Auctions RIP - It's Official
The story that the AuctionBytes Blog broke yesterday was confirmed by eBay today: it wil ...
No BayEstimator for You, eBay Tells Sellers
In a move that conjures up images of the "Soup Nazi" from the TV sitcom Seinfeld , eBay pulle ...
Monday April 14, 2008
eBay Axing Live Auctions Platform
While not official, we've heard from credible sources that eBay is doing away with its Live Au ...
eBay Launches Anti-Hijacking Initiative
eBay already collects information about the types of items users are browsing and bidding on an ...
Sunday April 13, 2008
Stupid Postage Errors on eBay Canada
An email came in to me from a Canadian buyer with the Subject line, "Stupid Postage Errors on ...
Fluctuating Best Match on eBay.com
eBay made Best Match the default sort order for search results last month. Since then, there ...
Wednesday April 9, 2008
eBay Australia Makes PayPal Processing Mandatory
It's official - eBay is requiring that users in Australia use its PayPal payment service on al ...
Tuesday April 8, 2008
Pink-Slaps on the eBay PowerSeller Board
I'm receiving complaints that someone is harassing users on the eBay PowerSeller board by reporti ...
OT: The Last Lecture
Last fall I read this Wall Street Journal article about Professor Randy Pausch and his las ...
Monday April 7, 2008
PESA eBay Group, A Nonprofit of Convenience
There was a fallout at the eBay seller organization called PESA (Professional eBay Selle ...
Newegg Mall Merchants - Spill Your Guts
I've written up an article for Tuesday's AuctionBytes newsletter about Newegg's new market ...
Bear Stearns Latest Report on eBay Listings
Bear Stearns released its latest report on eBay. It estimates that eBay hosted 52 million core ...
Sunday April 6, 2008
Navajo Nation Residents May Lose Internet Connection
I was appalled when I read the Associated Press report , "The thousands of Navajo Nation residen ...
Saturday April 5, 2008
Battle of the Blogs: eBay and Alibaba
eBay and Alibaba both launched new blogs last week. The eBay Ink blog describes itself a ...
Thursday April 3, 2008
eBay Invoices Show DSR Discount Discrepancies?
PowerSellers are receiving their eBay invoices with DSR discounts for the first time, and it ap ...
Problems with PayPal Debit Card Called a Technical Glitch
Two weeks ago I reported on a problem people were having with PayPal's debit card ("Users ...