The old aphorism about too much of a good thing being, well, a bad thing, provides a caution to anyone who designs things. Restaurant menus, fashion options, and yes website searches may be serving up too much. In the case Read more
More online-only retailers are moving to the offline world with brick-and-mortar stores, and eBay subsidiaries are poised to capitalize on the trend toward “omnichannel” retail. For the past dozen years, traditional retailers have been expanding online, building online storefronts and Read more
When the people in charge of keeping websites secure and keeping sensitive data private are running scared, you know it’s time to worry. A vulnerability called the Heartbleed Bug was discovered recently, and, one of the things that has people Read more
eBay Canada has lifted some of the restrictions on editing fixed-price listings, it told sellers on Monday. The reason for having such policies in the first place is to minimize buyer confusion when they view a listing after having made Read more
Product Listing Ads (PLA) represented a significant shift for ecommerce pros who had been previously been able to promote products through Google Shopping for free. Google has supported this new emphasis with AdWords updates in recent months. By late summer, Read more
Etsy launched a new homepage after several months of testing, and in a blog post for developers, it provided more information about the reasoning behind the new design. Etsy shows the new homepage design only to first-time visitors to Etsy’s Read more
eBay is running a new promotion that lets sellers list up to 15,000 fixed-price listings for free – if they receive eBay’s invitation to participate. eBay has been running more of these types of promotions of late that let sellers Read more
Recent activity by eBay’s global payment processing arm PayPal regarding updates to the company’s privacy policy generated some expressed concerns online. Perceptions and worries about how private people’s online lives truly are have been heightened in recent months, and activities Read more
eBay is kicking off a promotion today encouraging business sellers located in the UK to list their items on four other European websites. And eBay UK is providing a powerful incentive for those sellers who are eligible to participate: it’s Read more
Online buyers and sellers were among the first targeted by fraudsters and identity thieves in the early days of the Internet, and those threats have not abated. As EcommerceBytes reported last week, Amazon and PayPal are among the companies most frequently targeted Read more
