In 2009, eBay CEO John Donahoe decided to close eBay Live Auctions, a live-bidding platform and seemingly successful part of its Marketplaces business. On Thursday, eBay announced it will launch a new live-bidding platform on eBay.com in partnership with Invaluable, formerly Read more
One tends not to associate good things with the concept of negativity. Something negative usually means a bad result; in ecommerce that can be events like a site not responding to visitors, or shoppers abandoning carts during checkout. However, Google Read more
When Amazon announced this week it was adding a feature for Twitter users to be able to place items in their shopping cart by replying to tweets with the hashtag #AmazonCart, we wondered if merchants and affiliates would benefit from the program. Read more
Searching eBay for certain product attributes in “Item Specifics” fields comes up empty for some listings. It’s a critical problem since sellers are paying for exposure on eBay, but buyers won’t be able to find their listings when searching certain Read more
Calling it one of the most universally celebrated holidays, National Retail Federation CEO Matthew Shay said Mother’s Day would see consumers spending a total of $19.9 billion this year, and 29% of Mother’s Day shoppers would shop online to find Read more
Online auction site eBid is readying a feature that allows sellers to require immediate payment from buyers. And the site, boasting 4 million live listings, said new updates to its mobile app are completed and awaiting App Store approval. The Read more
Sellers on Bonanza can now use ShipStation to help them manage their shipping activities. ShipStation helps online retailers organize and process their orders and offers automatic order importing from over 40 shopping carts and marketplaces, including eBay, Amazon, Shopify and Read more
PayPal President David Marcus responded to one of his executive’s very disturbing posts on Twitter that began over the weekend, calling the incident shocking and sad. He tweeted a link to a PayPal blog post in which he called the Read more
Does net neutrality matter for online retailers? Ask Brian Kilcourse, and you’ll hear a resounding yes. Network neutrality has been at the heart of a long-simmering policy fight in the nation’s capital that appears once again to be nearing a Read more
Stanley Gibbons is a household name in the philatelic world, and last year, it acquired a long time auction site called bidStart that got its start in 2005 specializing in stamps. Mark Rosenberg, founder of bidStart and Chief Digital Officer Read more
