PayPal stops payments to and from India

February 7, 2010 · Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, eBay News · Comment 

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.

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Online auctioneer set for Xmas rush

November 30, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, eBay News · Comment 

Boxing Day Sales Offer Further Reductions For Bargain Hunters

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.

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Amazon debuts mobile payment option

October 8, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping · Comment 

Man dialing mobile phone (focus on mobile phone)

Amazon Payments LLC, an Amazon.com company, released a mobile payment system on October 5.

Amazon Mobile Payments Service lets the company’s merchants process transactions via mobile phone and allows consumers to check out using Amazon’s 1-Click.

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How to write and submit articles online to increase eBay traffic

August 31, 2009 · Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing · Comment 

Article writing is a technique used by bloggers, website owners, and internet marketers to drive traffic to their websites. eBay sellers can also use this technique to get the same results. You can submit articles to sites like eZine Articles, eHow, or ArticlesBase for publication on their site.

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eBay takes back the crown from Amazon in retail web traffic, Nielsen says

March 19, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, eBay News · Comment 

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,

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Jo-Ann attracts fans, while eBay loses some, Nielsen Online says

February 2, 2009 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping · Comment 

Jo-Ann.com attracted 53% more traffic in December compared to a year earlier, Nielsen Online says. But the winner in traffic to home and garden shopping destinations was Home Depot, despite traffic dropping 5%. Meanwhile, although eBay Home was, as usual, a top traffic contender, its traffic fell a hefty 48%.

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PayPal accounts compromised over 16 months; No response from eBay

October 30, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, Other auctions news, eBay News · Comment 

Online payment service PayPal has had an exploit on its hands for at least 16 months and counting, and seems to have no resolution for it. A tipster forwarded us screenshots of the fraud, which involves a dummy subscription service to PayPal’s sister company Skype, all part of the eBay corporate family. Using the fake Skype subscription, several small charges are made against a PayPal account, all in the same dollar amount.

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PayPal Brings Website Payments Pro Options To Canada

October 17, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, eBay News · Comment 

PayPal has launched the Website Payments Pro range of products in Canada. The initiative allows e-commerce merchants to offer shoppers the possibility of paying via their PayPal accounts, their credit cards, by phone, fax or mail.

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eBay Top Paid Search Term in August

September 22, 2008 · Filed Under Affiliate Marketing, Internet Marketing, eBay News · Comment 

Hitwise releases new Paid and Organic search data Office Supplies category receives the most paid search traffic

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Facebook overtakes eBay to become 3rd top UK website

August 7, 2008 · Filed Under Internet Marketing, Online Shopping, eBay News · Comment 

Social Media phenomenon, Facebook, has become the third most visited site in the UK and is closing in on second placed Hotmail, the online email service owned by Microsoft. According to internet monitoring company, Hitwise, Facebook received 2.75% of UK internet traffic last month beating eBay at 2.46%. The top site is, obviously, Google.

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