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EcommerceBytes Blog
News and insight focusing on ecommerce. by Ina Steiner, Editor of EcommerceBytes.com |
eBay Opens Up About Cassini Search
EcommerceBytes readers are likely to have heard about eBay's Cassini search platform, but they' ...
Friday June 28, 2013
Amazon Launches Pinterest Like Collections
Amazon.com launched a new feature with a nearly identical concept as Pinterest - Amazon Collecti ...
Thursday June 27, 2013
eBay Sellers Worried over Photo Compliance Emails
Emails eBay sent to sellers meant to help them get their photos into compliance with a new policy ...
Wednesday June 26, 2013
What Would Get You to Try New eBay Rival from Square?
Many small sellers are blase about new marketplaces, having had their hearts broken many times bef ...
Tuesday June 25, 2013
Surprise, Cassini Already Launched on eBay
eBay launched its new search platform Cassini on eBay.com this month. The official announcement didn ...
eBay Boards Down, Users Redirected to LiveWorld.com
eBay discussion boards are down - and what's worse, trying to access them results in a long wa ...
Monday June 24, 2013
How Should eBay and Bonanza Improve Seller Photos?
A picture is worth a thousand words - unless it's a really bad product photo in a marketplace listin ...
Sunday June 23, 2013
eBay Opens Wallet to Attract New Sellers
If only one was privy to the results of the promotions eBay runs, because it would be really interes ...
Thursday June 20, 2013
Will Cassini's Arrival Save eBay Search?
To say eBay has been dissatisfied with its search engine would be a vast understatement - top execut ...
Tuesday June 18, 2013
Should Courts Turn to eBay for Lessons in Dispute Resolution?
The legal system should take lessons from eBay when it comes to dispute resolution, according to Bri ...
Monday June 17, 2013
An End to Postal Deliveries at Your Customer's Front Door?
Just when you thought it couldn't get worse for small online sellers when it comes to shipping or ...
eBay Launches New Shipping Calculator - FedEx Included
eBay launched a new shipping calculator today that for the first time includes the ability for sel ...
Saturday June 15, 2013
Yahoo Email Policy Poses Risk to eBay and Etailers
Haven't logged in to your Yahoo email account in the past year? You're at risk of losing the ...
Friday June 14, 2013
Would You Buy eBay Insurance for Return Shipping?
eBay is surveying sellers about its Managed Returns program, and asked them if they would be interes ...
Thursday June 13, 2013
eBay Tweaks Fees and Wants to Manage Sellers' Returns
eBay made two announcements today in areas of critical concern to sellers: fees and returns. The fir ...
Extreme Listings: Using Humor to Market on eBay and Amazon
Most shoppers think of product-listing descriptions as a source of information, but listings can a ...
Tuesday June 11, 2013
Is eBay Traffic Problem Real or Is Reporting Tool Broken?
Is eBay's traffic problem real, or is its reporting tool broken (again)? Last week, Julia Wilkinson ...
Monday June 10, 2013
eBay and Etsy Sellers Bemoan High Cost of International Shipping
"USPS price hike has KILLED my international sales," reads the title of one thread on the Etsy disc ...
Amazon Launches New Prime Service for Groceries
Amazon expanded its grocery store and delivery service called AmazonFresh to the Los Angeles area an ...
Sunday June 9, 2013
What Changes Would You Like to See on eBay Discussion Boards?
eBay is revamping its community area including the discussion boards. The change comes as eBay trans ...
Saturday June 8, 2013
eBay Bans Employees from Desktop Access to Its Site
It's not unusual for companies to prohibit their employees from accessing certain websites from work ...
Thursday June 6, 2013
Selling Internationally on Etsy Has Its Challenges
It's always interesting to note the parallels between Etsy and eBay, and I sometimes forget that ju ...
Wednesday June 5, 2013
eBay Rolling Out Cassini to All This Summer
In Monday's blog post, I wrote about eBay's new search engine, Cassini, which prompted a source to s ...
Monday June 3, 2013
eBay CEO John Donahoe Opens Up About Search
It's not often you get to hear eBay executives talking about marketplace search, and the company doe ...
Sunday June 2, 2013
eBay Hides Community Tab for Some Users
It looks like eBay is at it again - users are complaining that the marketplace has moved navig ...