eBay launched new seller performance standards on Saturday and held several information sessions this week to answer sellers’ questions about the new policies. Here are some of the points we found interesting, some of which may come as news to Read more
eBay’s StubHub unit was a bright spot in eBay’s fourth quarter earnings released last month thanks to its high revenue growth, but now it’s facing “major league” problems. While StubHub’s revenue is a fraction of eBay’s total revenue – eBay Marketplaces saw Read more
Visa launched its Visa Checkout online payment service in 2014 with the help of former PayPal executive Sam Shrauger, now Senior Vice President of Digital Solutions at Visa. This week it previewed a new design that will launch in April Read more
Are you familiar with the term, “Inventory Days to Zero”? Monitoring this metric can help you avoid running out of stock, and it’s just one of several performance indicators sellers should be watching. Rob McGrorty of Webgility is back with Read more
Back when eBay founder Pierre Omidyar was a boy playing with his Pez dispensers and the number of Internet users could be counted on two hands, my grandmother was a telephone operator. She sat before a huge board full of Read more
Auction site Proxibid reported double-digit growth in online sales in 2015 and a nearly 50% increase in Merchandise Value (GMV) compared to 2014. The company attributes the strong growth in part to a partnership with eBay. “Company growth was fueled Read more
Best Buy opened its site to third-party merchants in 2011, and today, February 24, 2016, it is cutting them loose with the closure of its Marketplace business. The closure affects only the US marketplace on BestBuy.com. EcommerceBytes broke the news on Tuesday Read more
Etsy grew Gross Merchandise Sales 21.3% to $741.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2015, the company revealed Tuesday when it released earnings. It said the growth was driven by a 15.5% year-over-year growth in active sellers and 21.4% year-over-year Read more
“What will eBay do with $750 million?” a reader asked upon reading that the company was raising that amount by offering 6% notes. According to eBay’s press release on Monday, it expects its offering of $750 million in senior unsecured notes to Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion, and unlike most seller promos in the UK, it’s not limited to private (casual) sellers. But while the week-long promo is for business sellers, it’s also by invitation only. Sellers who receive an invitation Read more
