While Amazon is getting its inventory ever closer to its customers by building a physical distribution network, eBay is giving up on its testing of local delivery called eBay Now. But it’s not clear many buyers or sellers will miss Read more
Online merchants and eBay and Amazon sellers now have access to data from product-sourcing site Alibaba through Terapeak, a leading supplier of marketplace analytics with over 2.6 million users. Terapeak users can view, search and filter the top 30 million Read more
eBay acquired a used-clothing shop Twice that allowed people to send in their used clothing and accessories and have the company sell the items for them on a consignment basis. The founders told customers it was shutting down the site Read more
A new report shows Wall Street continues to buy what eBay is selling when it comes to the marketplaces business, even as the parent organzation splinters. A report from Citi Research approves of the new eBay Marketplace management strategy of Read more
The Confederate flag. The Atlantic calls it a pop culture phenomenon, politicians call it racist and “unnecessarily divisive and hurtful,” and many find it toxic after it featured heavily in a tragic hate crime in Charleston, South Carolina that left nine people Read more
A new report from the Telegraph indicates it’s quite easy to get back on eBay even after being suspended by the marketplace “for life.” The UK newspaper said it exposed a man last year for selling fakes on eBay and Read more
eBay CEO John Donahoe was in Israel last week, according to Globes, where the company has acquired several companies and has operated an R&D center there since 2007. eBay’s top executive is leaving the company once it breaks up sometime in Read more
In the mid-2000s, a schoolteacher turned entrepreneur in China by the name of Jack Ma went head-to-head with what was then the King of Ecommerce, eBay. Porter Erisman was an insider at Alibaba, and in a new book, Alibaba’s World, he Read more
eBay is running a promotion to encourage sellers to list long-duration, fixed-price listings. Sellers who are invited and who activate the promotion can list up to 2,000 30-day fixed-price listings and pay no insertion fees. However, some sellers received invitations Read more
eBay is taking another stab at offering an advertising program for sellers. The newly announced Promoted Listings offering takes a different approach than previous attempts, however – sellers only pay when a shopper actually purchases an item after clicking on Read more
