eBay sent an email this week to buyers and sellers warning them of changes to its user agreement and privacy policy prompted in part by the breakup with PayPal. The changes go into effect on June 15 for current users. Read more
eBay is running a seller promotion in the UK, and as is typical on that country site, it’s designed to encourage private (casual) sellers to list items. The current promotion is by invitation only, and sellers must activate the promotion Read more
Adding insult to injury, eBay increased fees for media sellers a day before a fee hike was supposed to go into effect. As part of the Spring Seller Update, eBay raised fees for media sellers from 5 cents to 30 Read more
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
