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Turn eBay Data into Dollars - now available Amazon
The publisher has sent me a rush copy of my new book, "Turn eBay Data into Dollars." It's availab ...
Useful Tools for Nerds & Geeks
I've seen a lot of articles by reporters & bloggers taking a look back at 2005 and predicting ...
Thursday December 29, 2005
Online Auctions Year End Wrap-Up 2005
Each January, I like to take a brief look back at the previous year for the major trends. I've made ...
Wednesday December 28, 2005
Will Higher Postage Impact eBay Sellers?
Typically buyers pay for postage when making eBay purchases. Exactly how sensitive are buyers t ...
Monday December 26, 2005
eBay 10-Cent Listing Day
eBay Post-Christmas promotion eBay repeated its 2004 holiday promotion, announcing Monday ...
Friday December 23, 2005
eBay Patent Wars
MercExchange said it reached an agreement with the USPTO (patent office) regarding its 051 auction ...
Thursday December 22, 2005
Credit where credit is due (previous entry)
I forgot to name the eBay Motors - Google Maps mashup creator - Adam Trachtenberg from eBay. And no ...
eBay Classifeds - Getting Local
eBay kicked up a stir with its Live-Pets policy proposal last weekend ( link ), but what's also i ...
Tuesday December 20, 2005
Andale Founder Seeks Apprentice for New Venture
Andale founder Munjal Shah is doing it again. In five years, Shah raised over $60 million in fina ...
eBay Good Partner for AOL?
Apparently Billionaire Time Warner shareholder Carl Icahn thinks so. He cites a recent Goldman Sa ...
Monday December 19, 2005
Your Feedback Really Does Matter (USPS and eBay)
Two pieces of news. One, the USPS will NOT be discontinuing the USPS Shipping Assistant on Januar ...
eBay Sign-In Glitch Gets Worse! Bah Humbug
Just as people are trying to process holiday orders - when time is of the essence - a glitch tha ...
Saturday December 17, 2005
eBay Sign-In Glitch Allows Access to Member Accts?
I don't usually publish Newsflash articles on the weekend, but several readers wrote me this morn ...
Friday December 16, 2005
Will eBay Have to Add VeRO Staff?
eBay completed its pilot program and has launched a digital download program, allowing any member ...
John Battelle Gives Talk to eBay Geeks
Media and search guru John Battelle gave a talk to eBay employees on Tuesday. Here's what he had ...
Wednesday December 14, 2005
How come no one is selling Its on eBay?
Apparently some people are searching eBay for "It," or at least one person did. Here's what Ian S ...
AOL Exits Classifieds as Google & Microsoft Enter
As Google and Microsoft gear up new classified ad services, AOL is pulling out, according to an ema ...
Tuesday December 13, 2005
Cool Site of the Day
eBay Social Networking site biddingBuddies is featured on the "Cool Site of the Day" website today, ...
Monday December 12, 2005
eBay Patent Case Has Lawyers Watching
Patent attorney Dennis Crouch writes an interesting post about the eBay - MercExchange patent ca ...
Reader Letter: Family Circle Magazine
Here's a nice letter from a reader I received today. Family Circle magazine is profiling her eBay b ...
Sunday December 11, 2005
eBay to Skype: Resistance is Futile
Russel Shaw blogs that eBay is pushing its culture on Skype ("Is eBay assimilating Skype B ...
eBay Workshops on Research
eBay is offering two upcoming workshops on a topic near and dear to my heart since writing a boo ...
Saturday December 10, 2005
eBay's Whitman Goes Gulp over Yahoo's Skype-alike?
Word was out last week that Yahoo was getting into a Skype-like service with its Instant Messenge ...
Friday December 9, 2005
Phishing: Why It's Hard to Stop Hoax Emails
I subscribe to a number of email newsletters, and a must-read if you are interested in Internet iss ...
Wednesday December 7, 2005
Yahoo and Skype-alike
eBay spent a fortune on Skype this year, and the field is getting very crowded. The Associated Pres ...
Tuesday December 6, 2005
More eBay Breakfast in Bed
More pictures,... eBay randomly selected 100 PowerSellers to receive a special "Breakfast in Bed" d ...
eBay Treats Sellers to Breakfast in Bed
eBay apparently treated some PowerSellers to breakfast in bed this morning. Two sellers have alread ...
Monday December 5, 2005
Google Employee Perks
New York Times (free registration required) has an article about the perks employees get at Goo ...
Sunday December 4, 2005
Auctions vs. Fixed-Price: One perspective
Reyne Haines and I got into an email conversation after I received her press release announcing her ...
XBox 360 on eBay
So when eBay's CEO said 40,000 XBox 360 Consoles were sold on eBay (see this story ), did ...
Customer Service
I came across a press release for a book about customer service: ABR Publishing releases "Custom ...
Saturday December 3, 2005
MSN Shopping Has eBay Auction Listings
Gary Price posted on the Search Engine Watch that MSN Shopping has integrated with eBay and ...
Friday December 2, 2005
Washington Post Columnist on eBay-MercExchange
Interesting article in Washington Post about the MercExchange - eBay lawsuit. It's the only time ...
Thursday December 1, 2005
eBay Charity Auctions Can Lead to Headaches
So many people fail to understand the ins-and-outs of eBay charity auctions. Here's yet another tal ...