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
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
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
eBay is running a promotion in which sellers can list up to ten auction or fixed-price listings and pay no insertion fees and pay no final value fees. eBay rarely includes final value fees as part of its promotions, making this a Read more
Rakuten Shopping (formerly Buy.com) has revealed the finalists for its 2013 Shop of the Year Awards. Each year, the Shop of the Year Awards recognize the Rakuten.com marketplace’s most successful and pioneering merchants in several categories as well as two Read more
Etsy will retire two search options, the “list view” and the Market Research Tool. The company announced on Thursday that it would stop supporting the two options effective January 23rd. “By consolidating search to one view, we can provide a Read more
In a potentially major blow to eBay, Amazon and other ecommerce and Web companies, a U.S. appellate court has struck down a set of rules that had barred Internet service providers from playing favorites with the online traffic passing over Read more
These days, widgets are out of style – at eBay, at least. The online marketplace is retiring some tools that allowed people to display listings on their own websites or blogs. eBay announced the deprecation of four such tools on Read more
