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Walmart Marketplace Opens to Select Retailers
Walmart.com launch today Walmart Marketplace, which enables a "select group of retailers" to off ...
Sunday August 30, 2009
Ecommerce Trends: From Product Reviews to Social Shopping
Do you like to read what other people have said about a product before making a purchase? And do y ...
Friday August 28, 2009
Could eBay Garner 'Goodwill' by Giving Up Craigslist?
eBay acquired a 28 percent share of the Craigslist online classified site in 2004, and then proceede ...
Wednesday August 26, 2009
eBay Mysteries Include Missing Bodies, Duplicate Listings
Readers have asked me about some problems they've been having this week. An email came in this eveni ...
Monday August 24, 2009
Drive-by Policy Changes: Even eBay Can't Keep Track?
If eBay changes a policy and forgets to announce it, does it count? This may sound like an ancient p ...
Wednesday August 19, 2009
eBay Silences Founding 'Voices' Members
The new eBay team put into place last year after long-time CEO Meg Whitman retired has been slashing ...
Tuesday August 18, 2009
eBay Updates User Agreement to Cover Dispute Process
eBay updated its User Agreement in two areas to cover changes announced in its "SR2" changes on July ...
Sunday August 16, 2009
Warning: eBay Search Results May Vary by Browser
An online seller wrote to me claiming that eBay Best Match was broken. Best Match is eBay's way ...
Tuesday August 11, 2009
Clarification on eBay Photo Policy with Product Catalog
There's been a lot of concern about eBays new policy on using seller photos in its Product Catal ...
Monday August 10, 2009
eBay-Yahoo-Amazon Troika Against Google?
Documents in the eBay Seller Antitrust Litigation had previously alleged that eBay and Yahoo formed ...
eBay Rolling out Seller Tools in SM Apps
Auctane Shipping Manager is the latest tool listed in eBay' SM Apps directory, and expect to see m ...
Thursday August 6, 2009
Will eBay Let Other Sellers Use Your Photos?
Some people have read that eBay will be putting all photos into a catalog of online images t ...
Tuesday August 4, 2009
Schedule for Releasing Survey Results on eBay SR2 Changes
Last week, eBay announced their latest round of changes. It was a comprehensive set of policy update ...
Monday August 3, 2009
PayPal Down, Outage Affects Some eBay Transactions
Attempting to log in to PayPal results in an "Internal Server Error" message on Monday, and the outa ...