eBay king shifts £2m accessories
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UK eBay trader BMC Digital sees export sales rocket on weak pound, as online auction house declares mobile phones the most exported UK product
A mobile phone accessories dealer selling entirely through eBay claims to have seen a “substantial” increase in international sales thanks to the weak pound.
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eBay takes back the crown from Amazon in retail web traffic, Nielsen says
Google garnered the most online traffic as usual last month, Nielsen Online says. But in the to and fro between Amazon and eBay for unique visitors, there was a change of pace. EBay sites beat out Amazon with 63.06 million visitors,
Study: EBay Needs to Return to Its Roots
Over the last year, EBay has been trying to slowly move users away from its auctions and more towards purchases of fixed-priced items. Last week, however, eBay announced that it plans to return to its roots and that the company wants to put more emphasis on its auctions business again.
Coming Soon To eBay: The Taxman
Are you a spare-bedroom merchant? Time to start reporting sales to the IRS.
With the economy worsening, more and more people are likely trying to make ends meet by selling goods via eBay, Amazon.com, Google Checkout and other online services. The Internal Revenue Service is fixing to wield a big new weapon to get its cut.
EBay’s ProStores Offers PowerReviews Express To Online Merchants
EBay’s ProStores, geared toward supporting customizable online stores for small and mid-sized businesses, has begun to offer PowerReviews Express, an application that lets merchants populate their product pages with customer reviews.
Chinese auction giant Alibaba/Taobao looking to compete with eBay and Paypal in the US?
Disgruntled eBay sellers who have long been hoping for a strong, viable alternative eBay ecommerce site might find help on the horizon from unlikely source. China and Jack Ma.
Jack Ma founded Alibaba, (www.alibaba.com) which is a very successful site based out of China that has struck gold by by opening up a business to business marketplace which cut out the middleman and allowed western companies to connect directly with suppliers and manufacturers from around the world, but mainly with Chinese companies.
Hey eBay, Say Hello to Bonanzle
Bonanzle was launched in June 2008 by Seattle computer programmer Bill Harding, who wanted to re-create the social dealmaking experience of a garage sale online. Anyone can sign up for a free Bonanzle “booth,” a page where a seller displays items and interacts with visitors. Sellers can easily reward good customers with markdowns.
How eBay Is Alienating Selling Allies
The mighty online auction house only needs to look in the mirror to figure out why sales are slipping, customers are leaving and listings are shrinking. Solution providers that once called eBay “friend” are rejecting its hostile policies. Here’s why.
eBay: Good in Parts
At the Accel Symposium, we heard John Donahoe, eBay CEO, admit that there was little synergy between core eBay, PayPal, and Skype. He lauded PayPal, showed some false modesty around Skype, and talked about core eBay in a way that indicated a clear understanding of its limitations and challenges. If that sounds a tad negative, that was not what I took away. What I did take away was that eBay is a great collection of parts, a really great collection of parts, that would be more valuable as independent entities.
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