An eBay shareholder who is also a hobby seller spoke out against its feedback system at the company’s annual meeting on Friday. In response, the president of eBay Marketplaces Devin Wenig said the company could do better and revealed it Read more
eBay has some major changes queued up that will impact sellers. On Friday, a top executive revealed to shareholders that eBay would be rolling out a new feedback system. And the same day, it sent an email to sellers informing Read more
It is becoming increasingly clear that eBay’s Cassini search engine is not accomplishing all eBay had promised it would. The latest evidence is a new policy eBay is rolling out to penalize “polluters.” The company explained: Starting in June, listing Read more
eBay sellers say they were cheated out of listing at the current prices on Thursday. eBay is raising insertion fees today, May 1st, but complaints came in on April 30th that it had begun charging sellers the new higher fees Read more
On the same day it’s raising fees for a majority of sellers, eBay is holding its annual shareholder meeting where it offers the small audience of investors the opportunity to ask questions. Sellers aren’t known for using the event to Read more
Litigation makes strange bedfellows – four Internet rivals have joined forces to make an appeal to the Supreme Court. We wrote yesterday about eBay helping Google in its fight with antitrust regulators in Europe. Now comes news that eBay, Facebook, Google, and Read more
Google favors its own comparison shopping site in general search results pages, which stifles competition and harms consumers, according to the European Commission, which is conducting an antitrust investigation. But outgoing CEO of eBay John Donahoe bolstered Google’s claim that it’s Read more
Alibaba has laid off employees at its U.S. subsidiaries Auctiva and Vendio, according to a source familiar with the matter. When asked, spokesperson Abbygail Reyes replied, “We have made changes that align the organization with the needs of our business Read more
Over the past week or so, eBay shoppers have been unable to redeem their eBay Bucks loyalty rewards on purchases made on the site. One buyer told EcommerceBytes that when they contacted customer service, the representative acknowledged there was a Read more
eBay is running a free-listing promotion in the U.S. that appears to be targeted at casual sellers. “Make more cash, save more cash” is the tagline, and eBay tells recipients of the invitation, “We’ve made it even easier to make Read more
