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eBay Tests Split-Screen Search Results
eBay has been showing investors a prototype of a split-screen search results page that shows auct ...
Wednesday February 27, 2008
PayPal and eBay Pay Shoppers to Shop
eBay is running a marketing campaign to encourage buyers to shop on its site by offering them ...
Tuesday February 26, 2008
Bargainland Survives Post-eBay Troubles
Many AuctionBytes readers know of former eBay PowerSeller Bargainland (Paul St. James) and were ...
Monday February 25, 2008
eBay Adjusts DSR Feedback Scores after Site Issue
eBay said it would automatically adjust sellers' DSR scores in reaction to an issue that ...
Sunday February 24, 2008
Tools for Researching eBay Buyer Feedback
AuctionBytes is publishing an article in the February 25th issue of AuctionBytes Newsflash about ...
Rumors of 'Governor eBay' Continue
The Los Angeles Times, writing on Sunday about the semiannual Republican state conventio ...
ChannelAdvisor Pro Alternatives
ChannelAdvisor is discontinuing its Pro product, which we wrote about here on Friday. I've ...
Saturday February 23, 2008
eBay Glitch Leads to 3-Star DSR Maximum
Users are reporting they can only leave a maximum of 3 stars for Detailed Seller Ratings (DSRs) ...
Wednesday February 20, 2008
eBay Settings Going Haywire?
Two trusted readers told me they began receiving email notices from eBay when their listings e ...
Tuesday February 19, 2008
Amazon.com Category Restrictions
The AuctionBytes interview with Amazon.com's Matt Williams generated quite a bit of ema ...
Outage Hits PayPal, Appears to Be Fixed
Members complained of an outage at PayPal on Tuesday morning as early as 9:39 am PST. eBay pos ...
eBay Boycott Leads to Exploration of Alternatives
I've been hearing some sellers say that while they support the idea of boycotting eBay to protest ...
Monday February 18, 2008
eBay Testing View Item Page?
It appears eBay is testing the View Item page based on a link of a completed item page a user ...
Online Sellers and Shipping Woes
Last fall I received an email from a reader who was upset that Amazon was no longer accepting ...
Saturday February 16, 2008
Is eBay Boycott for Real?
Sellers are planning to boycott eBay beginning February 18, 2008, in protest of changes eBay a ...
Amazon.com: What's Your Experience with the River?
I interviewed Matt Williams, Director of Business Solutions for Amazon.com, in today's Auct ...
Dealing with a Departed One's Treasured Possessions
In today's AuctionBytes-Update newsletter (February 17), author Jan Perry tackles the painful di ...
Thursday February 14, 2008
Internet Guru: eBay Fascist in Treatment of Sellers
Former PayPal executive Dave McClure interviewed author, journalist and blogger Kara Sw ...
eBay Sellers Say Negs Are on the Rise
eBay is changing its longstanding feedback system so that sellers will be unable to leave bu ...
Profile of eBay's 'Best Match Search' Inventor
Raghav Gupta, Principal Research Scientist at eBay Research Labs, has published a tool f ...
Wednesday February 13, 2008
Desperate Seller Describes PayPal Nightmare
A seller outlined a nightmare situation with eBay's online payment service. Gabriele P. said s ...
Monday February 11, 2008
eBay Introduces Category-Based Fees in Media
eBay lowered insertion fees on eBay.com in the Media category, now it will cost less to list a ...
Sunday February 10, 2008
eBay Sellers Tell It Like It Is in New Survey
Over 1,600 eBay sellers responded to AuctionBytes' recent survey about eBay fee, feedback and pol ...
Thursday February 7, 2008
eBay Glitch Incorrectly Displays Free S&H
eBay search and browse results are displaying the word "Free" in the shipping column for some i ...
Wednesday February 6, 2008
eBay and Its Ecommerce Rivals
There is no ecommerce site quite like eBay in terms of style, size and scope, but there are a n ...
Tuesday February 5, 2008
Effect of Feedback Changes on eBay Buyers
eBay is changing its feedback system so that sellers may no longer leave buyers negative or neu ...
Sunday February 3, 2008
Misconceptions about Amazon's Feedback System
Can sellers leave feedback for buyers on Amazon? In perusing some of the forums, and speaking with ...
Friday February 1, 2008
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion for Yahoo
Contrary to some pundits' predictions, it appears Yahoo will not acquire eBay. This just in: Mi ...