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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sunday December 4, 2005 Customer Service
I came across a press release for a book about customer service: ABR Publishing releases "Custom ...
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 ...
