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eBay Reveals It Conducted a Test of All Stores in Core
Sellers who are wondering what impact eBay's pending changes will have on their own business may wan ...
Thursday January 28, 2010
Amazon.com Q4-2009 Sales up 42% to $9.5 Billion
Amazon.com's press release dated 1/28/10 follows. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today ann ...
Wednesday January 27, 2010
Live Blogging eBay's Town Hall Meeting on Seller Release
eBay is hosting a Town Hall meeting to discuss Tuesday's Seller Release announcement. I'll be live b ...
Survey Asks eBay Sellers to Measure Effect of Upcoming Fee Change
eBay announced far-reaching changes to fees on January 26, 2010, and will eliminate the ...
Tuesday January 26, 2010
eBay Announces Fee Changes, Will Eliminate Store Format
As anticipated , eBay will eliminate its Store Inventory format and has introduced a new pr ...
Saturday January 23, 2010
1,400 Merchants Rate eBay, Amazon and 13 Other Marketplaces
In the January 10th issue of AuctionBytes Update, we invited readers to rate the ecommerce marketpla ...
Friday January 22, 2010
Frooition eBay Designer Announces MBO
Frooition went into administration (see Wikipedia definition ), and the company announced a managem ...
Thursday January 21, 2010
Etsy Tests Relevancy in Search Results
Etsy is testing relevancy in search results to make it easier for shoppers to find items they are ...
Wednesday January 20, 2010
eBay Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2009 Results
eBay's conference call with analysts is at 5:00 pm Eastern today, here is the company's press rel ...
Tuesday January 19, 2010
eBay's First Round of Changes Coming Next Week
eBay is announcing earnings on Wednesday and will announce its next round of seller changes on T ...
eBay's Web-hosting Service ProStores Outage Caused by Storm
Bad weather in San Jose, California has caused power outages that have brought down eBay's web-hosti ...
Sunday January 17, 2010
Amazon Breaks eBay's Record for Unique Visitors
Amazon reached a record 66.5 million unique visitors to its website in December 2009, an inc ...
Wednesday January 13, 2010
Catching Up before Ecommerce Earnings Season
Last year was a tough one for retail, and it will be interesting to see just how well ecommerce mark ...
Saturday January 9, 2010
It's Your Turn to Rate the Ecommerce Marketplaces!
Online merchants live by their reputation, particularly on marketplace sites such as eBay. Each venu ...
Thursday January 7, 2010
Is the Small Seller the Poster Child for eBay?
eBay CEO John Donahoe spoke at several conferences in the fall during which he talked about the impo ...
Sunday January 3, 2010
What Changes Will Impact eBay Sellers in 2010?
According to sources, eBay has an ambitious agenda for 2010, with three seller releases planned for ...