The eBay Android app is now available for free

The eBay Android app is now available for free at the Android Market. To download it, search for “eBay” from the Android Market on your handset.
Like most Android apps, the eBay Android app also supports speech-to-text voice search.
The app allows you to search, buy, pay, and check status of your eBay activities anywhere.
Check the Android Market for updates.
PayPal stops payments to and from India
Online shop eBay’s popular electronic payment system PayPal seems to have been blocking all personal transactions to and from India. Strangely, it has offered no justification for this decision.
In a perplexing move, popular electronic payment gateway PayPal Inc has suddenly started blocking personal transactions to and from India. PayPal was allowing business transactions till a few days ago, but now has also stopped it along with personal and gift payments.
eBay refiddles with auction fees
ebay is making more changes to its already profoundly confusing US pricing structure as a way to attract high volume sellers and appease those who auction only a few low-priced items.?
Amazon, Ebay Satisfy Online in the Holidays even as eBay Goes Mobile
Retailers that have been expanding electronic commerce may have done themselves a big favor this holiday season, improving customer service at a time when high-tech shopping became more attractive to consumers.
And it wasn’t just “traditional” e-commerce that made gains.
eBay’s Holiday Gift: 1.5M Sales Via Mobile
Mobile phone shopping is easier than driving to the store or even booting up a laptop to make a purchase because you can do it when you’re inspired to make a gift purchase. Maybe that’s why eBay performed remarkably well this holiday season.
Online auctioneer set for Xmas rush
On-line auction house Ebay was expecting early bird shoppers to steal a march on the Christmas shopping rush by flocking to the website on Sunday.
Many internet retailers are expecting their busiest day of trading on Monday but Ebay was bracing itself for a surge of 5 million visitors on Sunday.
MicroPlace – Help People To Help Themselves Out Of Poverty

MicroPlace (www.microplace.com ), a PayPal company launched in 2007, is a social business that enables everyday people to invest in the world’s working poor.
The organization, whose mission is to alleviate global poverty, facilitates online investments in microfinance that have proven to be an effective way of transforming people on the margins of society into economically productive individuals.
MicroPlace is championing a model that fuses people’s desire to be philanthropic with the efficacy of investing to raise microfinance capital. MicroPlace is a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay, Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY).
eBay Black Friday’s Sales Map

eBay has created a transaction map of the United States that spans the duration of Black Friday’s shopping activity on the site. The map is a visualization of U.S.-based buyer and seller transactions over that 24-hour period.
eBay and PayPal Now Offer Bill Me Later
If you’re shopping on eBay, Bill Me Later will be available as a payment option for both Buy It Now and approved auction purchases. This is according to the PayPal Blog.
Sellers can now revise live multi-quantity listings with sale
Sellers can now edit almost everything in live multi-quantity fixed price listings even after a sale on the item, except for title, category, duration and format.
If you need to add quantity, modify the item price, edit the description, modify shipping costs etc, you don’t need to end and recreate the listing. You can simply revise your live listings. Buyers who had previously bought the item will have an option to see the earlier version of the listing.












