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Live Blogging eBay's Annual Shareholder Meeting
Hi everyone, I'm Greg Holden, author and regular contributor to AuctionBytes. I'll be live-blogging ...
Tuesday April 28, 2009
Spin City: eBay Struggles to Control the Message
AuctionBytes has been covering the ecommerce industry - primarily eBay - for the past 10 years, and ...
Monday April 27, 2009
Bonanzle Sellers Fired up over Listing Counts
Some readers have been urging me to write about Bonanzle's climb up the PSU chart of listing count ...
Reports of eBay's New Dispute Process in Action
Reports are surfacing from buyers who have encountered eBay's new dispute resolution process ann ...
Saturday April 25, 2009
Online Merchants Take Note: Twitter Traffic Explodes
Marketing evangelist Guy Kawasaki has called the Twitter phenomenon the Democratization of Power - " ...
Friday April 24, 2009
eBay Fixated on Fixed Price as Revenues Decline
I'll say one thing about the online tech-news site The Register - they aren't subtle, as in this ...
Wednesday April 22, 2009
eBay Marketplaces Show 18% YoY Decline
eBay reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2009. It posted first quarter ...
Tuesday April 21, 2009
IMA Ex-President Redirects Website of eBay Seller Group
Attempts to visit the website of the Internet Merchant Association (IMA) this morning resulted in r ...
Monday April 20, 2009
eBay Traffic Drops in First Quarter from a Year Ago
AuctionBytes looked at March traffic data for eBay and Amazon in today's Newsflash newsletter. W ...
Friday April 17, 2009
eBay Considering a Certified Seller Program
eBay is considering a "certified seller" program according to a reader who took a survey from ...
eBay's Product-Return Requirements in US and UK
eBay announced changes this week that sellers are still reviewing to determine the effect on their b ...
Wednesday April 15, 2009
ProStores to Be the Next eBay Divestment?
eBay took away a major incentive for using its ProStores ecommerce offering when it decided to elimi ...
Tuesday April 14, 2009
eBay Moves toward Guaranteed Buyer Satisfaction
eBay is moving toward a system where it captures more information about transactions in order to g ...
Monday April 13, 2009
Tomorrow's eBay Announcements: No Fee Change, New Dispute Process
eBay confirmed it would announce a new dispute process tomorrow and said there would be no changes t ...
Analyst Downgrades eBay Citing Numerous Concerns
Sandeep Aggarwal, Senior Internet Research Analyst at Collins Stewart LLC, downgraded eBay to a Sell ...
Sunday April 12, 2009
Tech/Political Reporter Joins Meg Whitman Campaign
Mary Anne Ostrom and I traded eBay stories when we sat together at the first eBay Live user conv ...
eBay Announcement Expected on Tuesday
eBay is expected to make its long-awaited announcement on Tuesday. eBay said it would only make two ...
Saturday April 11, 2009
Where to Begin When Selling Online
Many AuctionBytes readers have been selling online for a long time (many got their start on eBay and ...
Friday April 10, 2009
eBay and Skype - Can't Make This Stuff Up
The New York Times said Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the pair who founded Skype and sold it to ...
eBay's Farhang Kassaei Talks about Open Platform
eBay's platform architect, Farhang Kassaei, talks about eBay's recent launch of Selling Manager Appl ...
eBay Motors, Pep Boys, AutoTrader Hold Fraud Summit
eBay Motors, AutoTrader.com, Cars.com, Mota.com and Pep Boys are forming an alliance to address the ...
Thursday April 9, 2009
eBay's Go Green $5,000 Shopping Spree
A seller forwarded a promotional email from eBay with the message, "Join the Green Team and yo ...
eBay, Online Sellers: Beware of Fraudulent Payment Attacks
In today's AuctionBytes Newsflash newsletter, I report on a baffling case of online fraud affectin ...
Tuesday April 7, 2009
Amazon Restrictions in Book Category
As reported in today's AuctionBytes Newsflash newsletter , Amazon.com will limit which sellers will ...
Monday April 6, 2009
Pennsylvania Treasury Raises $2.6 Million on eBay
The Pennsylvania Treasury Department's continuous eBay auction for unclaimed property has added ba ...
eBay's Seller-Targeted Ads - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Sellers have been noticing ads appearing on My eBay, where members manage their accounts. ( "eBay ...
Sunday April 5, 2009
Sellers Report Amazon Glitch Re-Prices Inventory
Sellers on Amazon.com's discussion boards are reporting that the prices of their items are fluctua ...
Saturday April 4, 2009
Etsy, Where Handmade and Vintage Collide
Etsy calls itself, "Your place to buy and sell all things handmade." After I began giving more cover ...
Wednesday April 1, 2009
Some eBay Sellers Get 10 Free Auction Listings
eBay is running a promotion in which certain sellers will qualify to list 10 auction-style listings ...
Would You Pay 20% Rev-Share to Reach eBay Sellers?
eBay launched its Project Echo initiative for third-party developers today. "Selling Manager Appli ...