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Month: August 2014

Reports of eBay Live-Chat Account Takeovers

August 4, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay users are receiving transcripts of conversations they’ve supposedly had with eBay customer service. The problem? They never contacted customer service. What’s puzzling is that several people have reported such incidents, and in at least two of these cases, the Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay account takeovers, eBay data breach

eBay Responds to Widespread Reports of an Outage

August 4, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay acknowledged it experienced technical issues last week but downplayed their impact on users. Days after reports came flooding in from users unable to log in to the site or use certain features, eBay posted the following message on its Systems Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay outage

eBay to Close Prostores Platform for Small Retailers in February

August 1, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay is giving online retailers six months to move their online stores hosted on ProStores and Magento Go to another platform. The company posted a notice on the ProStores homepage and store sign-in page that ProStores is shutting down on Read more

Marketplaces, News, Selling ToolseBay, ProStores

Rakuten to Replace Play.com in Global Consolidation

August 1, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

Japanese ecommerce giant Rakuten is consolidating its international marketplaces, which will impact sellers on certain platforms in Europe. The company will move all of its ecommerce marketplaces into one global platform, a spokesperson told EcommerceBytes. “The global ecommerce marketplace platform Read more

Marketplaces, NewsPlay.com, Rakuten

Etsy Canada Kicks Off Summertime Road Trip

August 1, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

Etsy Canada is spreading its message in person through a 9-day road trip in two provinces that kicks off in Montreal today (August 1st). Staff at the Toronto headquarters have prepared a 30-foot custom AirStream trailer with vintage and handmade Read more

Marketplaces, NewsEtsy marketing

eBay Surveys Users on Changed Perceptions after Security Breach

August 1, 2014September 2, 2017 Ina Steiner

eBay is conducting a series of focus groups in August and September, EcommerceBytes has learned. It appears one area of interest is how users’ perceptions of the site have changed over the past 6 months – an indication eBay wants Read more

Marketplaces, NewseBay data breach, eBay survey

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