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Is Exponent Trading Company an eBay Consignment MLM?
A new service is getting mixed reviews on several blogs. Exponent Trading Company is started by folk ...
Tuesday June 26, 2007
What Do Sellers Think of eBay's New Search Technology?
eBay is introducing new search technology on its site and is asking users for feedback. The new "Fin ...
Monday June 25, 2007
eBay Sellers Complaining of Crackdown
Sellers are reporting that they are being targeted by eBay for seller nonperformance ("breach of n ...
Wednesday June 20, 2007
Airport Security Grabs eBay Seller's Balls
The free balls eBay gave away during its eBay Live conference in Boston were supposed to help u ...
Tuesday June 19, 2007
Google 'Suspect' Kicked out of eBay Conference
Google Blogoscoped reports that two men were ejected from eBay's gala celebration during eBay Live ...
Alibaba to Compete with eBay's PayPal?
Forget the problems eBay has with Google Checkout,...the rumor du jour is that Alibaba is gearing up ...
Monday June 18, 2007
Google versus eBay, What do YOU think?
eBay pulled its advertising from Google US in what it calls part of its routine marketing tests, ...
Thursday June 14, 2007
Google 'Freedom' Party at eBay Live has Hollow Ring
For the past several years, Google has managed to inject themselves into eBay's largest shindi ...
eBay: Back to Business in Boston
One of the eBay sellers who appears in a documentary about eBay is featured today in the Alamogor ...
Wednesday June 13, 2007
eBay Pulls Google Ads, Fight Getting Nasty
We reported early this morning that eBay and Google are duking it out over eBay continuing to ban ...
Tuesday June 12, 2007
AuctionBytes Guide to eBay Live Parties
Many parties and receptions at eBay Live are by invitation only, here's a guide to what's happen ...
eBay Reported to Be Developing Travel Auction Site
I'm not familiar with this publication, Travolution is reporting that eBay is "on target to unve ...
Monday June 11, 2007
Day One of eBay DevCon Wraps Up
The first day of the eBay developers conference saw news about eBay San Dimas, eBay Web Services a ...
Thoughts on eBay Developers Program Keynote
Unlike last year, there was no Las Vegas-style trapeze act at the eBay Developers Program keynote ...
Thursday June 7, 2007
eBay Express Items to Appear on Yahoo Search Marketing?
What if eBay and Yahoo did a deal where eBay Express listings appeared across the Yahoo paid-searc ...
Tuesday June 5, 2007
eBay on the Desktop: News from eBay Live
Each year during eBay's annual conference, the company likes to make splashy announcements (health ...
Monday June 4, 2007
Oops. eBay Suspends a Number of Seller Accounts in Error
We heard the eBay PowerSeller board was lit up last week with complaints from a few sellers whose ...
eBay Bid-Sniping Statistics
Mario Vodopivec runs a free sniping service for eBay bidders called Gixen. He's published some n ...
Friday June 1, 2007
Should Sellers List during eBay Promotions?
Today's Data Bytes column provided by Terapeak takes a look at the effect of eBay promotions on ...