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Does PayPal Really Ask for Bank Account Passwords?
Some eBay sellers on a discussion board were questioning why PayPal was asking them to revea ...
Buy.com Dominates eBay's Daily Deals
eBay sends Daily Deal emails every day showcasing two items that offer free shipping and deep disc ...
Thursday February 26, 2009
Impasse over DSRs at eBay Town Hall Meeting
eBay managers and sellers reached an impasse yesterday over the issue of Detailed Seller Ratings ...
eBay Sellers Critique PayPal Notification Emails
eBay sellers were taken by surprise when PayPal changed their payment notification emails a week ...
Tuesday February 24, 2009
What's Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Laughing At?
Jeff Bezos was on Comedy Central's the Daily Show talking about the Kindle, Amazon's reading devic ...
Monday February 23, 2009
Update on Auctiva Malware Incident
Auctiva is offline following an incident in which trojan malware was found on its servers. You c ...
Sunday February 22, 2009
Trojan-Clicker Infects eBay Vendor Auctiva
Auctiva said it found and quickly fixed a scripting virus that had attached itself to some html ...
Friday February 20, 2009
eBay Promotes Daily Deals with Coupon Offer - Woot!
eBay emailed 50,000 coupons to members as an incentive for them to sign up to receive Daily Deal e ...
Thursday February 19, 2009
PayPal Experiences Security Key Glitch
PayPal announced that some customers may be receiving an error message when attempting to login to ...
Online Sellers Affected by May Postage Rate Hike
Multichannel Merchant published an article about the impact of May's postal rate increase will hav ...
Wednesday February 18, 2009
Delays in Microsoft Cashback for eBay Purchases
eBay heavily promoted Microsoft Live Search cashback during the holiday shopping season as a way f ...
Monday February 16, 2009
More Data from EveryPlaceISell.com - Merchants' own Retail Sites
As promised in the previous blog post, we will be periodically posting information we ag ...
Sunday February 15, 2009
EveryPlaceISell Reveals Multi-Channel Trends of eBay Sellers
Nearly 2,600 online merchants have created free listings in the EveryPlaceISell.com merchant direc ...
Friday February 13, 2009
eBay's Long Beach Memo
eBay's corporate blogger Richard Brewer-Hay published a letter from eBay's Vice President of Selle ...
Thursday February 12, 2009
eBay News Coming Soon, Griff Says
Jim "Griff" Griffith gave listeners some tantalizing hints on his radio show this week about some ...
Tuesday February 10, 2009
eBay Rumors - Top Seller Meeting, Free Pictures
eBay is holding a Top Seller Summit in Long Beach on Thursday with about 50 of the top merchants fro ...
eBay - No News May Be Bad News
I've received several inquiries from sellers wanting to know if I've heard whether eBay will increas ...
Monday February 9, 2009
eBay's Meg Whitman to Announce Governor Run Today
BettyConfidential.com reports that former eBay CEO Meg Whitman will announce today her long-rumore ...
Saturday February 7, 2009
Users Concerned over eBay Changes to Chat Boards
eBay users from the U.S. and Australia are concerned over changes to the discussion and chat board ...
Friday February 6, 2009
Top Products for Valentine's Day
Shopping search engine Sortprice.com revealed the top searches and product categories for Valentine' ...
Wednesday February 4, 2009
eBay Live Auctions Closure Fragments Search Process
An alert reader noticed the AntiqueWeek magazine website is now running " AntiqueWeek Live Auctions ...
eBay Not Standing with Sellers on Paper-Payments Ban
A long-time AuctionBytes reader forwarded us an email from eBay that shows that, at least in one sit ...
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Amazon Beats eBay Traffic in December
Data from Nielsen Online shows Amazon.com beat eBay again in December in terms of unique visitors ...
Sunday February 1, 2009
eBay Glitch Report plus Reader Tip on My eBay
A seller reported that eBay is displaying free shipping on the "Order Details" page in cases whe ...