eBay is running a promotion in which sellers can list up to 5,000 listings and pay no insertion fees. The promotion is unusual in that it is offered to all sellers rather than the typical invitation-only promotion usually seen these Read more
eBay UK is running an invitation-only Free Listing Day promotion in which sellers can list up to 100 auction listings and pay no insertion fee. In a slight twist, however, only listings with a duration of 10 days qualify – Read more
eBay CEO John Donahoe said the company would step up investments in 2014, “particularly in PayPal” (eBay spent $800 million in cash to acquire Braintree last year), but he will have to do it while fending off advances by Carl Read more
eBay’s Pierre Omidyar hasn’t talked this much about the company he founded in years. But in order to get press about his new startup, he’s doing interviews, and the story of eBay’s founding (the real one, not the apocryphal Pez Read more
eBay sellers have the option of using eBay’s online-postage label program, and the marketplace alerted sellers to several changes coming to USPS this month, including previously announced postage-rate changes. Highlighting the announcement was news that the USPS would be adding Read more
In November, the U.S. Postal Service launched a Retail Partner Expansion Program pilot with Staples, an office-products chain-store. Under the pilot program, Staples sells postal products and services at select stores in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California and Georgia – including Priority Read more
eBay UK is running a promotion in which business sellers can list up to 50,000 listings and pay no insertion fees. Like many eBay promotions these days, it’s by invitation only. Sale listings are restricted to fixed-price format on eBay.co.uk, Read more
In our last installment of Online Selling Trends, we introduced the members of our panel and asked them about the challenges and opportunities that lay ahead for online sellers in the New Year. Today, they provide some tips on marketing and Read more
A record number of readers participated in this year’s nomination process for the Sellers Choice Awards in which sellers rate the online marketplaces on which they sell. The awards give merchants, who are rated by their customers every day, a Read more
eBay is encouraging sellers to list high-value items in what is yet another promotion kicking off in January. This promotion is limited to Store subscribers who are often excluded from sales. The promotion lowers the $250 cap on commission fees: Read more
