The Auction Professor is back with an update about using a “sell similar” strategy to fight declining sales on eBay. Numerous times, each year eBay releases an update announcing changes they are making to the platform. Sometimes they are simple Read more
eBay announced several new features for sellers during the first keynote address at day 2 of its eBay Open virtual conference related to shipping and marketing. Later in the day, it made an announcement about an initiative to reduce Unpaid Read more
eBay made a surprise announcement on Tuesday: it had began making updates to several categories, and, as far as we can determine, with no prior warning. Sellers have come to dread the consolidating changes eBay makes to categories and Item Read more
eBay sellers were unable to print shipping labels on Tuesday evening. The Technical Issues board was inundated with reports of problems beginning around 3:30 pm. eBay displayed the following message when sellers tried to print labels: “Something went wrong. Sorry, Read more
eBay has 1.6 billion listings live on its marketplaces, the company’s Chief Technology Officer told the host of the Modern CTO podcast, Joel Beasley. Mazen Rawashdeh said that volume gives eBay massive data that helps serve the purpose of eBay: Read more
eBay is continuing to roll out versions of its new listing tool to additional sellers, some of whom took to the eBay boards to report a problem with shipping options. One seller explained, “The new listing experience is lacking the Read more
eBay techies opened up about what goes into displaying auction ads to shoppers using “multi-objective ranking.” eBay sellers have been able to promote their fixed-price listings through Promoted Listings, and last year, eBay introduced a way for sellers to also Read more
eBay partnered with fashion reseller Reskinned, which has a store on the eBay UK marketplace that shows it’s been registered with the site since September 21, 2021. But what does a “partnership” between eBay and a seller mean? eBay said Read more
eBay recently became compliant with USPS rules around Media Mail, according to employees during a recent podcast. The statement was prompted by a question from a seller who wondered why he could no longer print Media Mail shipping labels through Read more
eBay has been trying to change the rules around IRS Form 1099-K, which changed for tax-year 2022. This week it turned to YouTube to explain the issue through the account belonging to eBay Main Street, an initiative to keep eBay Read more
