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eBay Plots 1 Million Transactions on Black Friday Map
eBay published an animated graphic that shows "Black Friday" sales plotted on a map of the Uni ...
Wednesday November 25, 2009
eBay Promotes TigerDirect with Special Buyer Coupons
An eBay buyer found a notice at the top of his account page stating, "You have a $5.00 off coupo ...
Tuesday November 24, 2009
eBay Holds 1-Day Promotion on Auction Listings
eBay is holding a seller promotion tomorrow. Here's the announcement, posted November 24th, 2009 a ...
Monday November 23, 2009
Monday Morning Quarterback: eBay's Spin on Search Outage
"The unanticipated technical issue resulted from a surge in live listings as sellers ramp up fo ...
eBay Absolves Auction Sellers of Consequences from Site Outage
eBay spokesperson John Pluhowski confirmed that Lorrie Norrington sent a letter last night to U.S. s ...
Sunday November 22, 2009
AuctionBytes $100 Best Buy Card Recipient is...Still 7 Left!
Congratulations to AuctionBytes reader Charlene Anderson, who will receive the first $100 gift card ...
eBay Search Outage - Postmortem Survey
On Saturday, November 21, 2009, eBay experienced an outage of the search feature on their site. We w ...
Saturday November 21, 2009
Major Search Outage Leaves eBay Shoppers Empty-Handed
eBay experienced search problems on Saturday morning, and now there ...
Friday November 20, 2009
uBid Sellers Worried over Enable Holdings' Financing
There have been recent reports from third-party sellers on uBid who complain of late payments from t ...
eBay Gives Employee Discount on Fashion Vault Designer Goods
eBay launched a special marketing program this week called Fashion Vault for select sellers in whi ...
Wednesday November 18, 2009
More Than A Few Kinks in eBay's Cross-Merchandising
Shopping for children's magazines on eBay? You might find ads for Playboy magazines in the listings ...
eBay Vendors Named in Senate Exploitation Investigation
"American consumers shouldn't have to worry that their favorite websites are ripping them off ...
Tuesday November 17, 2009
Amazon.com Traffic Surpasses eBay in October
Amazon.com traffic surpassed that of eBay for the month of October and experienced greater growth ...
Monday November 16, 2009
eBay Displays Competitors' Ads on Live Listings
Holiday shopping season be damned, eBay is making a major change late in the game to listings on its ...
Saturday November 14, 2009
Amazon.com Perceived as Owning the Customer 3X More than eBay
It was an innocuous four-question poll, which brought back a very interesting result. Last week, ...
eBay Tests Reaction to Seller Feedback Changes
eBay confirmed it was considering changes to the feedback rating system, and a new survey indi ...
Thursday November 12, 2009
eBay's Payment Reminders to Buyers Upsetting Sellers
Update 11/18/09: eBay UK announced it is stopping the post-transaction emails (Payment Reminde ...
Tuesday November 10, 2009
eBay Holds Model Trains Flash Sale - More to Come
eBay is holding a 3-day sale in Model Trains that appears to feature products exclusively from one s ...
eBay Takes Pulse of Sellers through Survey
eBay sent a survey to sellers asking them a broad range of questions about eBay policies and abo ...
Sunday November 8, 2009
eBay Listing Promo Kicks Off Plan to Reinvigorate Collectibles
A 2-week listing promotion in collectibles categories kicked off a new effort by eBay to reinv ...
Thursday November 5, 2009
On Marketplaces, Whose Customer Is It, Anyway?
When a shopper walks into a store at the mall and buys an item, the storeowner frequently asks the b ...
Wednesday November 4, 2009
Optimizing eBay Listings May Hurt You on Google?
AuctionBytes is running a 3-part interview feature with SEO guru Tom Critchlow of Distilled this w ...
Changes to USPS Priority Mail Rates in January
The U.S. postal service announced that first class mail will remain unchanged, but Priority Mail rat ...
Tuesday November 3, 2009
PayPal Mania Leads to Talk of eBay Corporate Name Change
CNBC reporters were among those swept up in the PayPal Mania taking place in San Francisco at the ...
Overstock.com Reports Q3 2009 Results
Press Release: Overstock.com Reports Q3 2009 Results SALT LAKE CITY , Nov. 3 /PR ...
Monday November 2, 2009
Is PayPal Getting into Virtual Currency?
PayPal's Developers Conference kicks off on Tuesday, and as I report in tomorrow's Newsflash, the co ...