Come in and discuss issues relating to online selling platforms and services. Fixed-price and niche auction sites, online payment services, listing management services are all open topics in this forum. Do NOT make promotional announcements here, companies should post them in the Announcements forum.

Take a break from talking about business. This forum is for general topics. You can discuss just about anything, as long as the discourse is civil, and you don't spam. Have fun!

This forum is for sharing information and advice related to online fraud. We can help prevent fraud by educating ourselves about it. There is a growing fraud information page on our Site. Feel free to suggest helpful resources for us to add. Please use this forum for constructive activities only.

Jim Crawford hosts this forum devoted to helping users market their Web Sites and e-businesses. Jim is an entrepreneur and Internet Marketing Consultant. His Web Site, The Collector's Marketing Resource Center, provides information about Web site design and marketing for the highly competitive antiques and collecting industry.

This forum is for questions about trademark and copyright issues for online auction sellers, including discussion of eBay's VeRO program.

Husband-and-wife team Karen Dudnikov and Michael Meadors, who sell under the eBay ID Tabberone, will moderate. Karen is an accountant who makes handmade items, Mike is a computer programmer. Together, they have successfully battled major corporations who used eBay's VeRO program to shut down their auctions. Visit their Tabberone Web site for more information.

This forum is for questions and discussion related to packing and shipping. Representatives from packing and shipping companies have been invited to this forum and are welcome to answer questions from users.

In order to facilitate the reporting process of technical difficulties on online auction sites and 3rd party services, and to help confirm whether they are widespread problems, we have created “The Glitch Report" forum.

Report technical issues in this forum so that they are documented in a timely manner. Hopefully this sharing of information will help users get a better sense of the significance of a problem. Serious and widespread issues will be reported in the EcommerceBytes NewsFlash newsletter.

Discuss strategies contained in Ina Steiner's book "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars," a guide for becoming more profitable by analyzing your eBay sales. Ask questions, discuss strategies and keep up-to-date on new features and products. Vendors are welcome to participate by answering questions and announcing new features, workshops and promotions.

This forum is to be used by companies to post announcements concerning their Online Auction Sites and Services. All announcements of this type, posted in other forums, will be moved to this area.