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Wednesday April 30, 2008 More Details on eBay's Dispute with Craigslist eBay published a copy of its corporate governance lawsuit against Craigslist, its founder Craig ...
PayMate Disputes eBay Claim in PayPal-Only Policy The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) deadline for sending submissions ...
eBay Changes PayPal Echeck Blocking Policy eBay will soon prohibit sellers from blocking echeck payments funded through PayPal. An echeck i ...
Tuesday April 29, 2008 Pierre Omidyar Defines eBay Level Playing Field Have you ever wondered what eBay founder Pierre Omidyar meant when he espoused the concept of th ...
Monday April 28, 2008 eBay March Billing Glitch? eBay billing is difficult for sellers to deal with (there was even a class action lawsuit over eB ...
Check Your eBay Buyer's Shipping Addresses Reports are surfacing that eBay is sending order information to sellers that display Europea ...
eBay Motors Runs Promos to Test New Fees Some eBay users discovered at least six promotions running concurrently on eBay Motors. E ...
AuctionBytes Bigger and Faster than Ever! Dear Readers, To keep up with our growing traffic, AuctionBytes has moved to a faster, larger se ...
Friday April 25, 2008 eBay Mulling Stores in Search - for a Fee? A seller posted on the discussion boards stating she had taken an eBay survey about poss ...
eBay Free Shipping Loophole Yet another on-the-ball reader wrote in with an example of what looks like a loophole in the eBay ...
eBay S&H Compares Apples to Oranges A reader sent me a letter that raised two issues. She said she believes some sellers are splittin ...
Wednesday April 23, 2008 eBay Sellers Must Live or Die by DSRs eBay's Lorrie Norrington had little new to say to a small gathering of sellers on April 23, 200 ...
Tuesday April 22, 2008 Nielsen Online's eBay Data Shows Interesting Trends In preparing a Newsflash article about eBay metrics, I calculated the percent change in Page View ...
eBay Sues Craigslist Founder over Minority Interest eBay issued a press release stating it has filed a lawsuit to challenge recent transactio ...
Google Checkout Employs 'Eco' Viral Marketing Google is trying to increase usage of Google Checkout by encouraging donations to environmental ...
eBay News Update, Amazon to Report Earnings eBay Australia previously announced it was banning all forms of payment on its ...
Monday April 21, 2008 eBay 10-Cent Promo - for PowerSellers Only eBay is running a 1-day, 10-cent listing promotion for PowerSellers only for auction and ...
Will Tax Rebates Stimulate Your Online Sales? Wondering when to expect a possible spike in sales due to those US tax-rebates, aka economic stim ...
Communicating with eBay My friend, who has been selling on eBay for a long time, wrote me this letter, and I thought it w ...
Friday April 18, 2008 eBay Helps Sellers Block Bad Buyers With the radical changes to feedback starting to roll out on eBay.com the week of May 19th, se ...
eBay Checkout Experiencing PayPal-Only 'Glitch'? This report just in from a reader: Just thought I'd let you know about some recent "glitch ...
Thursday April 17, 2008 eBay Brags Hacker 'Vladuz' Arrested A cyber-criminal who embarrassed eBay for nearly a year with claims he had hacked the site was a ...
eBay Seller Wants to Know, How's Business? I received an email from a reader earlier this week asking for a discussion on how sales volume ...
Wednesday April 16, 2008 eBay Profits up 22 Percent in First Quarter 2008 eBay reported financial results for its first quarter, ended March 31, 2008. I picked out the thing ...
Tuesday April 15, 2008 Amazon Auctions to Rise from the Ashes? File this under wild rumors and speculation: Amazon.com may be working on the return of the auc ...
Former eBay CEO's Next Job May Pay $1 a Year John McCain named former eBay CEO Meg Whitman as a possible cabinet member if he is elected Pres ...
eBay Live Auctions RIP - It's Official The story that the AuctionBytes Blog broke yesterday was confirmed by eBay today: it will ...
No BayEstimator for You, eBay Tells Sellers In a move that conjures up images of the "Soup Nazi" from the TV sitcom Seinfeld , eBay pulled ...
Monday April 14, 2008 eBay Axing Live Auctions Platform While not official, we've heard from credible sources that eBay is doing away with its Live Auc ...
eBay Launches Anti-Hijacking Initiative eBay already collects information about the types of items users are browsing and bidding on and ...
Sunday April 13, 2008 Stupid Postage Errors on eBay Canada An email came in to me from a Canadian buyer with the Subject line, "Stupid Postage Errors on e ...
Fluctuating Best Match on eBay.com eBay made Best Match the default sort order for search results last month. Since then, there ha ...
Wednesday April 9, 2008 eBay Australia Makes PayPal Processing Mandatory It's official - eBay is requiring that users in Australia use its PayPal payment service on all ...
Tuesday April 8, 2008 Pink-Slaps on the eBay PowerSeller Board I'm receiving complaints that someone is harassing users on the eBay PowerSeller board by reporti ...
OT: The Last Lecture Last fall I read this Wall Street Journal article about Professor Randy Pausch and his las ...
Monday April 7, 2008 PESA eBay Group, A Nonprofit of Convenience There was a fallout at the eBay seller organization called PESA (Professional eBay Seller ...
Newegg Mall Merchants - Spill Your Guts I've written up an article for Tuesday's AuctionBytes newsletter about Newegg's new market ...
Bear Stearns Latest Report on eBay Listings Bear Stearns released its latest report on eBay. It estimates that eBay hosted 52 million core li ...
Sunday April 6, 2008 Navajo Nation Residents May Lose Internet Connection I was appalled when I read the Associated Press report , "The thousands of Navajo Nation residen ...
Saturday April 5, 2008 Battle of the Blogs: eBay and Alibaba eBay and Alibaba both launched new blogs last week. The eBay Ink blog describes itself as ...
Thursday April 3, 2008 eBay Invoices Show DSR Discount Discrepancies? PowerSellers are receiving their eBay invoices with DSR discounts for the first time, and it app ...
Problems with PayPal Debit Card Called a Technical Glitch Two weeks ago I reported on a problem people were having with PayPal's debit card ("Users ...
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