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eBay CEO Meg Whitman Shares Advice at Utah Event
Outgoing eBay President and CEO Meg Whitman spoke to Utah executives at the Utah Technology Councilā ...
Impact of eBay Changes - Too Early to Call
Wall Street guru Henry Blodget took a look at Bear Stearn's latest eBay listing data and prono ...
Sunday March 30, 2008
Selling on Amazon.com
Many eBay sellers are looking at Amazon.com as an additional venue on which to sell. Here's a ...
eBay Best Match No Longer Default Sort?
On March 3, 2008, eBay announced it was making Best Match the default sort order for searc ...
Saturday March 29, 2008
eBay Confirms Glitches. Rumored 3-P DSR Tool
A seller wrote to AuctionBytes on Friday morning, "woke up this morning to find a neutral that ...
Thursday March 27, 2008
Joys and Pitfalls of International Shipping
The low dollar is making US items attractive to overseas shoppers, a potential sweet spot for o ...
eBay DSR Glitch - Deja Vu
Some people are reporting having problems leaving DSR ratings when leaving feedback on eBay. ...
Wednesday March 26, 2008
Collecting: On the Lighter Side
The very entertaining Collectibles Guide on About.com, Barbara Crews, has a fun blog post ...
Tuesday March 25, 2008
New eBay Digital-Download Policy Affects Auction Template Sellers
eBay is banning sales of digital downloads from its site, restricting them instead to th ...
Monday March 24, 2008
eBay Requires Sellers to Specify Shipping Costs
Beginning this week, eBay will begin requiring that all new sellers who are listing for ...
eBay Gives Buyers an Incentive to Complain
It appears that eBay is sending coupons to buyers who have left low DSR ratings f ...
PayPal Required on eBay UK - Coming Soon to eBay.com?
After banning sellers from accepting Google Checkout when it launched, eBay told its UK se ...
Sunday March 23, 2008
Partial Seller Dashboard Is Live for eBay PowerSellers
A reader wrote to me Friday to say the eBay Seller Dashboard is now live. However, according to ...
Saturday March 22, 2008
eBay Surveys Buyers on View-Item Page Layout
A reader said he received a survey from eBay this week aimed at buyers and asking him to view t ...
Saturday March 22, 2008
Users Report PayPal Debit Cards Being Declined
A reader wrote to ask if we had heard of a PayPal glitch on March 20th. After trying to use the c ...
eBay Launches Feedback Extortion Policy
eBay Marketplace prez Lorrie Norrington posted an announcement on Thursday in part to help sel ...
Friday March 14, 2008
eBay CEO Meg Whitman Switches to McCain Camp
Republican Presidential candidate John McCain issued the following press release announcing that ...
Thursday March 13, 2008
Reader Reports Problem with UPS Website Quotes
Longtime reader Ed reports a problem with the UPS website, reporting that the quotes he gets are& ...
Amazon Restrictions on Sony Electronics?
A reader says Amazon.com has restricted his sales of Sony Electronic items because of a broader ...
eBay Watchdog Security Demo
Falle-Internet.de invited us to be witness to what they said would be a demonstration of an eBay ...
Friday March 7, 2008
eBay Glitch Undercharges Buyers for Shipping
A glitch in eBay's shipping calculator caused buyers to see incorrect shipping charges ...
Thursday March 6, 2008
eBay to Launch New Blog in April
eBay will launch a new blog in April that it told Fortune Small Business would be an unfil ...
eBay Stores Displaying Inconsistent Counts
Sellers noticed that their Stores are displaying inconsistent counts of the numbers of it ...
Tuesday March 4, 2008
eBay's Jim Ambach Gives IMA Conference Keynote
eBay's Jim Ambach presented the keynote address at the IMA conference titled, "Partnering with o ...
Multi-Channel PowerSeller Likes Sponsored Links on eBay
I asked a PowerSeller attending the IMA conference what she thought of the Shopping.com and Google ...
Update to Shopping.com Mystery Listings on eBay
I spoke to eBay's Usher Lieberman during the IMA conference on Monday. He said he had made a mista ...
Monday March 3, 2008
Category Listing Numbers May hold Key to eBay's Future
A couple of things I thought I would do to clear out my inbox while Ina is at the Internet Merchan ...
eBay Expands SMI to All Auction-Style Listings
To nobody's surprise, eBay announced that they will be expanding their SMI (Safeguarding Member ID ...
Saturday March 1, 2008
Mystery Shopping.com Listings on eBay?
Mystery listings are appearing on eBay that don't allow shoppers to bid or buy. The listings ...