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eBay Launches One Stop Shop For All Things Fashion

Francis — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:26:18 +0000

eBay recently launched FashionVault, a site that sells designer clothes and includes Gilt Groupe-like flash sales on designer items. Now, the company is launched eBay Fashion , a “new enhanced shopping destination for clothing, shoes and accessories on the world’s largest online marketplace.”

EBay tops new high as marketplace changes loom

Francis — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:23:36 +0000

EBay Inc. has long been trying to sell investors on the company’s efforts to revitalize its once powerful online marketplace business, but investors seem to just now be paying attention.

EBay has suffered market-share loss to rivals such as Amazon.com /quotes/comstock/15*!amzn/quotes/nls/amzn (AMZN 135.06, +0.33, +0.24%) , in part because of the latter’s use of fixed pricing that was more appealing to some buyers.

Read complete article at MarketWatch site.

eBay refiddles with auction fees

Francis — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:09:51 +0000

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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.?

This article from The Register 27 January 2010
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PayPal, eBay to Integrate Bill Me Later Into Sites

Francis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:23:35 +0000

Almost a year after eBay purchased online billing company Bill Me Later, the company’s offerings will be integrated into eBay and PayPal in the coming weeks.

Bill Me Later will launch for a limited number of sellers and buyers on eBay and PayPal in the next few weeks, Sam Shrauger, PayPal’s vice president of global product strategy, wrote in a blog post.

This article from PC Magazine 23 September 2009
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eBay king shifts £2m accessories

Francis — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:32:43 +0000

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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.

This article from MobileNews.com 25 March 2009
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More people trying to sell prized collectibles in tough economy

Francis — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:30:17 +0000

“It seems like everyone’s trying to unload their old stuff and dig things out of the closet and garage, bring them in, and try and get any value they still hold,” says Hot Comics manager Bjorn Brosdahl.

Thanks to the economy, customers are coming in daily, offering to sell comics and other collectibles.

This article from MSNBC 19 February 2009
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EBay, Alternative Site Holiday Resources for Sellers

Francis — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:46:34 +0000

This week eBay alternatives get ready for holiday shoppers, while HammerTap offers a free Webinar to help eBay sellers prepare for seasonal sales. Also in the news this week: WidgetBucks launches new Santa-themed widgets and eBay says a court order requires the company to hand over Canadian PowerSeller details to Revenue Canada this week.

This article from Ecommerce Guide 19 November 2008
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phpAuction Releases XL Premium Version 4.0

Francis — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:30:32 +0000

Fancy starting your own online auction site?

PhpAuction XL Premium just released version 4.0 of their software that lets multiple industries create niche auction sites to cater to different markets.

Click here to read more.

Historic front pages are hot on eBay

Francis — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:05:45 +0000

Post-Election Day newspapers became a hot commodity Thursday on eBay — with at least one optimistic seller asking $1,200 for a copy of The Washington Post.

This article from Miami Herald 7 November 2008
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PayPal broadens the availability of reduced fees for small online purchases

Francis — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 11:44:03 +0000

Online payment service PayPal has made available to merchants a pricing structure that reduces fees on all purchases below $12. The micropayment pricing had previously been available on certain transactions since 2005, PayPal says.

This article from Internet retailer 30 October 2008
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PayPal accounts compromised over 16 months; No response from eBay

Francis — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:44:04 +0000

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.

This article from The Industry Standard 28 October 2008
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BidCal Will Help You Better Track eBay Deals in the Tough Economy

Francis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:39:35 +0000

BidCal is an interesting new tool that has just been released by Calgoo Software, the company behind Calgoo, a very nice web calendaring solution that synchronizes all your calendars on all your devices, desktop and online and allows you to share calendars with your friends or family if they use a different calendaring solution.

This article from Profy 22 October 2008
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EBay Competitor Launches Storefronts, Affiliate Plans

Francis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:36:01 +0000

Wigix, an eBay alternative that provides a unique stock-market style method for buying and selling goods, today announced a new service for sellers. Called Storefronts, the service lets sellers build and brand their own customized online shops through the Wigix Web site.

This article from Ecommerce-Guide.com 22 October 2008
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Researchers Discover Why People Overbid on Ebay: Fear

Francis — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:26:32 +0000

Ever wondered what causes the spate of wild bidding in the last few minutes of an Ebay auction? Scientists say they now have answer: The irrational behavior is caused by people’s fear of losing, not their desire to win. While economists have recognized the concept of “loss aversion” for some time, a new set of experiments used brain scans and lab experiments to show how strongly the phenomenon plays out in auctions, and how it’s tied to overbidding.

This article from Discover 26 September 2008
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eBay paves the way for the end of the auction

Francis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:13:23 +0000

EBay confirmed today sweeping changes to the way it runs the business paving the way to replace its auction model with more fixed-price sales to take on Amazon.

This article from Times Online 20 August 2008
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Auction websites fight amongst themselves

Francis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:29:40 +0000

AS the popularity of auction giant eBay hangs in the balance, local competitors have started fighting amongst themselves.

Australian auction websites OZtion and Trading Post, anticipating an exodus of users from the market leader, are locked in a stoush over the use of the word “free”.

This article from News.com.au 14 August 2008
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From eBay to Bidtopia: Bargainland’s Success Story

Francis — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:27:10 +0000

Bargainland (which is also a company named for the popular eBay user ID), was greatly affected by changes at eBay. Policies on designer brand names, for example, limited Bargainland to listing only five of these items at a time, and in other instances, Bargainland was required to have a 98 or 99 percent positive feedback. St. James said that when you sell this type of product, even if you list every single item as damaged in the description, you just cannot achieve that high of a rating. The company also believed that eBay, through its new policy changes, was discouraging the types of listings that was the core of its business.

This article from E-Commerce-Guide.com 12 August 2008
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Irked by eBay, Some Sellers Trade Elsewhere

Francis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:06:34 +0000

Some online retailers are moving away from eBay.

Irked by February’s changes in fees and the feedback-rating system, merchants who once sold wares exclusively at the online-auction site can now be found on a number of smaller alternative sites that have sprung up. With names like Wigix, Silkfair, Etsy and Oodle, these sites aim to offer more hand-holding for sellers — and charge lower fees — than the behemoth eBay.

This article from The Wall Street Journal 12 August 2008
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It’s Craigslist Meets YouTube Meets eBay As Listasaurus.Com

Francis — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:01:06 +0000

Listasaurus.com, the first online classifieds site to pay users for listing their ads and one of the few to offer video classifieds, has just added auctions to their list of features, making it the first website to offer video auctions. Listasaurus.com offers standard classified listings like Craigslist, a Business Directory similar to the Yellow Pages, and now auction-style sales similar to eBay, all that allow video uploading capabilities like YouTube.

This article from PR Web 7 August 2008
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PayPal branches out from eBay’s money tree

Francis — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:49:58 +0000

PayPal President Scott Thompson said here at the RBC Capital Markets conference Wednesday that by year’s end, his company will derive more total payment volumes from its Merchant Services than from eBay buyers and sellers. Merchant Services is the name for the payment software PayPal provides to third-party sites like Starbucks, Delta Airlines, and American Outfitters.

This article from CNET News 6 August 2008
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E-shopping on surge; eBay India selling one product a min

Francis — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:45:55 +0000

Internet shopping seems to be catching up fast in the country with every minute one product being sold on the Indian website of the world’s largest online marketplace eBay.

This article from The Economic Times 3 August 2008
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Amazon.com buying Canadian used bookseller AbeBooks

Francis — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:07:43 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. said it’s buying online bookseller AbeBooks for an undisclosed price.

This article from Atlanta Business Chronicle
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Amazon takes on eBay with PayPal rival

Francis — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:11:01 +0000

A new online service will allow retailers to offer customers one-click payment by selling via Amazon’s website.

Amazon has set out to take on eBay by unveiling an online payment service which will compete directly with PayPal.

This article from TimeOnline 30 June 2008
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Amazon defies spending slump

Francis — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:22:11 +0000

The world’s largest Internet retailer announced Wednesday that its second-quarter profit more than doubled over the same period a year ago, blowing past analysts’ expectations while shrugging off a slumping domestic economy as overseas consumers gobbled up video game consoles and other electronics.

This article from ReportonBusiness.com 23 July 2008
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Ebay Members to Seek Recourse Through the Courts

Francis — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:55:39 +0000

“The group of ebay members which has guided a large number of us in recent weeks to make written submissions to the ACCC, petition and attend a conference, and write to Ministers, Senators, ASIC, the Banking Ombudsman, industry regulators and our banks, will now launch a further series of initiatives to bring ebay into line with decent trading practices. The first of these initiatives will be to seek remedies through the courts.”

They have released a media statement which is on the next page.

“MEDIA STATEMENT: Ebay Members to Seek Recourse Through the Courts

“Early last week a well co-ordinated group of eBay members was instrumental in facilitating large numbers of their peers, nationally, to write to their local Ministers, Senators, The Banking Ombudsman and to ASIC and other relevant organisations to register complaints over the aggressive manner in which eBay continues to promote PayPal as its preferred payment method.

“The complaints are well documented and numerous, and ranged from: eBay’s misrepresentation, suppression of other payment methods, deletion of sellers’ listings without cause, refusal to allow sellers to pass on PayPal charges and the issuing of misleading statements to further the illusion that PayPal is more secure than other established and proven payment methods.”

“Other complaints included PayPal’s freezing of member’s accounts, the inequity of the PayPal User Agreement and PayPal’s refusal to sign the EFT Code of Conduct – therein denying eBay members the same protection which banks and other financial institutions provide to their customers.

“Later in the week the group again led their peers to write en-masse, but on this occasion to their respective banks, to air concerns over eBay’s public statements that PayPal is the safest product in the EFT marketplace, implying that all other EFT transactions – and in particular Direct Deposit – are unsafe by comparison.

“On the basis that the ACCC concluded in its draft Notice: “The evidence available does not support the view that PayPal is the most secure method of payment or offers the best service for all transactions”, eBay members sought reassurance from their banks that eBay’s assertions are incorrect and that Direct Deposit is a safe transaction method.

“This week the group will launch a further series of initiatives. Mr Tony Green, the group’s spokesman on legal matters, announced today that “… as eBay’s response to member’s legitimate concerns is woefully inadequate it is now time to commence our next offensive which will be to seek remedies through the courts”.

“Mr Green went on to say ”eBay’s recalcitrant behaviour has pushed us to the point that we must now use the legal system to bring eBay into line with decent trading practices.”

“Mr Green said, “In a conference last night the group decided unanimously that it would use legal due process to stop eBay from destroying its own site and, in the process of this, destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of loyal eBay members”. He added, “We are eBay’s customers and to date they have refused to listen to us. eBay has left us no alternative than to appeal to the courts to right the wrongs that eBay has forced upon us.”

“In anticipation of this offensive the group has had a team of researchers looking at legal precedents, similar legal actions and the various legal alternatives available to it.

“We discussed several options available to us in prosecuting these actions,” said Mr Green “… and the possibility of a major legal firm doing the work on a no win no fee contingency basis is being examined.”

“The principles at issue here are of vital importance to the largest consumer group in Australia – 5 million people according to eBay’s own figures – only a few of these are commercially scaled businesses, most are mums and dads striving for a modest supplement to the household income, and these people do not have the financial resources to pursue fair and just treatment at the hands of eBay”, said Mr Green.

“It appears that political leaders and regulators have yet to fully comprehend the significance of the issues and have not yet commenced the required corrective actions, and thus the group has stepped up its activity to rally eBay members together and to take eBay on as one. Ultimately, eBay will be made to comply with all of the laws of our country.”

“Contact has been made with a University Law School as the group are exploring the possibility of engaging law students – ironically, many of them also disaffected eBay members – to research this area and begin cataloguing the huge volume of accumulated evidence assembled by eBay members.

“Further, there are a growing number of other eBay members offering to contribute to a fighting fund to pay for the planned actions.

“eBay members are delighted to learn of Paymate Pty Ltd’s announcement on 11th July of it having lodged a formal complaint to the ACCC concerning eBay’s alleged breaches of s47 and s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974,” said Mr Green, ” … and our group will now examine the merits of approaching Paymate with a view to the pooling of evidence and conducting a joint legal offensive against eBay.”

“Our research to date is moving us on from the Trade Practices, and other Acts, competition sections to those sections dealing with unconscionable conduct, and breach of contract “, said Mr Green.

“We need to do something dramatic, and quickly, to protect eBay members – mums, dads and businesses – from being destroyed by a company that can see no further than its own profit figure. If the anger of its loyal customers means nothing to eBay we intend to look to the courts to uphold Australian Law and to give us respite from the excesses of eBay”, said Mr Green.

“eBay believes that eBay members are isolated from each other, largely ignorant of eBay’s actions with regard to PayPal and are therefore ineffectual in complaining about or opposing eBay’s deplorable practices. For the average eBayer being channelled into paying by PayPal may seem to be a risk free and temporary thing rather than a calculated deception by eBay”, Mr Green said.

“Most eBayers are unsure how and where they should complain, and eBay are counting on this to push its policies through. We intend to expose this tactic to all eBay members.”

“The discussion boards on eBay are a good indicator of the level of anger at eBay’s new policies. There is no flocking to the boards by people who support the new policies. To the contrary they are full of horror stories and tales of anger and frustration from people who are violently opposed to them”, said Mr Green.

“Between them the co-ordinators of the group have a data base of over one hundred thousand email addresses of eBay members who have purchased from us, and through other supporting sellers access to many hundreds of thousands more. If necessary we will contact every one of them to alert them to the full consequences of the disastrous policies that eBay have introduced. We will do the job that eBay is morally obliged but too frightened to do – to keep eBay members informed,” said Mr Green.

“The group will conference again this evening to make decisions on its first legal offensive against eBay and to decide on a timetable.

“Meanwhile, activity on the eBay site from both buyers and sellers has taken a nosedive, member’s anger and frustration continues unabated, and the level of disaffection with eBay is growing. eBay’s only response has been to temporarily discount listing fees – again – the third such promotion in the past six weeks in a desperate move by eBay to arrest the steady decline in the number of listings.”

Jumbuck to buy Oztion

Francis — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:18:50 +0000

JUMBUCK Entertainment has seized on the opportunity created by disgruntled eBay users to expand its web business with a planned acquisition of Australian online auction house Oztion.

This article from Australian IT 3 June 2008
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Trading Post launches eBay rival

Francis — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:30:08 +0000

SCORNED Australian eBay traders were given a new online venue to sell their goods yesterday after the Trading Post launched a rival auction site.

This article from news.com.au 28 May 2008
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Sensis launches online auction to challenge eBay

Francis — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:29:33 +0000

SENSIS has launched an online auction service on its Trading Post classified website amid hopes it can lure professional sellers unhappy with market leader eBay.

The auction service, which coincides with an overhaul of the Tradingpost.com.au website, aims to take advantage of unrest among merchants over eBay’s move to ban any electronic payment method except the PayPal service it owns.

This article from The Australian Media 28 May 2008
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For PayPal, it is only the beginning

Francis — Mon, 26 May 2008 17:15:23 +0000

Scott Thompson, president of online payment solutions provider PayPal was in Israel this week to attend the IVA conference in Tel Aviv. He told "Globes" why he believes almost all payments will be made online within three to five years.

This article from Globes Online 25 May 2008
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‘Secure’ PayPal page is… you guessed it

Francis — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:47:39 +0000

A serious scripting error has been discovered on PayPal that could enable attackers to create convincing spoof pages that steal users’ authentication credentials..

This article from Channel Register 16 May 2008
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EBay, GE Money Expand PayPal Credit To EBay Site

Francis — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:42:12 +0000

Ebay diving into the murky waters of consumer credit in a bid to boost sales, even as consumer debt delinquency rates are rising nationwide.

The Internet auction site said its popular PayPal electronic-payments unit, which saw revenue rise 32% last quarter, would begin offering financing options for purchases on its eBay.com auction site with credit issued by General Electric Co.’s (GE) consumer credit arm.

This article from CNN Money.com 16 May 2008
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Online payment firm sees silver lining from eBay/PayPal decision

Francis — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:45:15 +0000

Australian online payments company Centricom says that while it is angry with eBay’s decision for force customers to use its wholly-owned subsidiary PayPal, it may actually benefit from a backlash against PayPal from other merchants.

This article from SmartCompany 12 may 2008
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Is Amazon a more profitable channel then eBay?

Francis — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:37:58 +0000

Just like the eternal epic struggle of “boxers vs. briefs”, the comparisons between eBay and Amazon will never cease among online retailers. At least as long as both command a significant share of traffic and online sales in the U.S..

This article from Amazon Strategies 7 May 2008
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So farewell then QXL: it’s been 11 years

Francis — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:26:23 +0000

QXL (pron. "quick sell" – geddit?) has announced that it’s shutting its UK site as of May 30, and will not accept any more listings after May 9; your last day to bid or buy will be May 19.

And so draws to an end 11 years of the dream that had been fostered – that a British-built company might be able to take on the rest of the dot-com world.

This article from Guardian.co.uk 7 May 2008
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eBay Eachnet Just Wants To Be Free In China

Francis — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:21:14 +0000

eBay Eachnet has announced immediate plans to exempt a series of important fees for users, a move that marks the beginning of the company’s shift to a free service pattern.

eBay Eachnet’s main Chinese competitor Taobao.com has maintained a leading market position since it was founded because of its menu of free goodies for users. Taobao is run by e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba.com.

This article from ChinaTechNews 7 May 2008
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eBay and auction sites see slight fall in popularity

Francis — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:17:12 +0000

According to analysis from Point Topic, UK households are being cautious when shopping online as broadband growth peaks in the UK.

Point Topic’s consumer broadband surveys indicate that online shopping is still popular, with 69 percent of consumers saying that they shop online.

This article from Seek Broadband 7 May 2008
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Another eBay competitor enters the ring

Francis — Thu, 08 May 2008 07:11:59 +0000

The decision by eBay to require its vendors to use its PayPal payment system appears to have triggered something of a new spring for online trading sites.

First Melbourne-based online auction site OZtion reported that new listings on its site have exploded since the unpopular eBay announcement, and now a new internet trading site has announced its plan to take on the market leader.

OfferMe.com.au, which will launch in August, works like a kind of eBay in reverse.

This article from SmartCompany 8 May 2008
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Obopay vs. PayPal: Ease-of-use vs. cheap to use

Francis — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:12:14 +0000

The battle is on for mobile money transfers as eBay’s PayPal, the online payment veteran, is taking on the plucky, young up-start, Obopay for domination in the budding space.

This article from Fierce Wireless 30 April 2008
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PayPal Protecting Users or Stealing Under Guise of Protection?

Francis — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:00:28 +0000

PayPal already has a notorious reputation as highlighted in several past legal cases and entire web sites devoted to this company which parades as a financial service but is not registered as such

This article from Mathaba News Agency 6 May 2008
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Auction websites fail to benefit from economic slowdown as shoppers flock elsewhere

Francis — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:53:29 +0000

Auction sites are suffering a downturn in popularity. The last 6 months has seen the proportion of UK households saying they buy on eBay and other online auction sites drop by 4% according to the latest data from Point Topic’s series of consumer broadband surveys.

This article from ITProPortal.com 6 May 2008

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Fididel launches live-negotiation auction business

Francis — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:11:23 +0000

Fididel is new kind of auction site that aims to draw in buyers and sellers who aren’t happy with the lack of real-time negotiation on sites such as eBay or Priceline.com. The site gives buyers and sellers the ability to chat in real-time and quickly agree upon a sales price.

This article from VentureBeat 5 May 2008
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Amazon Sues New York State to Void Sales Tax Rules

Francis — Sat, 03 May 2008 05:32:16 +0000

Before the ink on the bill has even dried, Amazon.com has filed a suit challenging New York State’s new law that forces online retailers to collect sales taxes on shipments to state residents.

On Friday, Amazon filed a complaint in New York Supreme Court in New York City, objecting to the law. The provision is meant to contribute about $50 million to the $122 billion budget that was passed by the state legislature April 9 and signed by Gov. David A. Paterson last week.

This article from The New York Times 1 May 2008
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Paypal Canada announces lower fees

Francis — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:21:15 +0000

Paypal Canada have just announced a fee cut for Canadian users. The fee has been cut from CA$0.55 to CA$0.30 per transaction for receiving funds. At the same time, the conversion rate for US Dollars to Canadian Dollars will be lowered for some.

Click here for full details of the fee changes.

Start-up hopes to outdo eBay with online market

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:21:56 +0000

Wigix Chief Executive James Chong is nothing if not ambitious: he thinks he’s got the recipe for an Internet marketplace that will rival eBay.

Chong, who was the architect of Charles Schwab’s online trading platform, believes eBay’s design is best suited to auctions of collectible, one-off items. But for those buying Sony PlayStations, digital cameras, or other mass-manufactured items, he thinks Wigix–”Want It Got It Exchange”–has the better approach.

This article from CNET News.com 29 April 2008
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Kindleporn: Amazon Stays Mum About Its Adult Book Store

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:50:37 +0000

Did you know that Amazon sells erotica for its Kindle e-reader? Neither did we. Perhaps that’s because Amazon (AMZN) doesn’t go out of its way to publicize it. In fact, Amazon is so bashful about its blue material that it won’t even tell you how well it’s selling.

This article from Silicon Alley Insider 28 April 2008
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Amazon: Friend or Foe?

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:46:39 +0000

New moves have publishers grumbling more than ever about one of their biggest customers

Along with discussions of hot books and high prices at this month’s London Book Fair, another major topic of conversation in the aisles was Amazon. The immediate flashpoint was the e-tailer’s new policy of making publishers who use print-on-demand go through its BookSurge subsidiary if they don’t want to risk having Amazon deactivate the buy button on their titles.

This article from Publishers Weekly 28 April 2008
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Jeff Bezos talks about Kindle on Amazon Homepage again

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:43:33 +0000

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos talks again *apology from March) about the Kindle ebook reader in a message on the Amazon.com homepage. As reported the Kindle is back in stock since April 20th.

This article from I4U News 29 April 2008
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Writers call for 1 May Amazon, eBay boycott

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:27:03 +0000

UK Arts Council-funded WriteOnDemand – a site for struggling authors keen to see their names in print – is calling for a day-long boycott of Amazon on 1 May over the online retailer’s insistence that print on demand (POD) books sold through its site use its own BookSurge service.

This article from PC Advisor 29 April 2008
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Amazon.com Starts Its Own Gadget Blog

Francis — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:50:37 +0000

As if there aren’t enough gadget blogs, like Gizmodo, Engadget, Crave, and more, Amazon.com has launched its own gadget blog. The blog, named End User, could possibly be a little self-serving, as most of the posts seem to have links directly to Amazon.com items for sale (no!) and the blog’s authors are all Amazon.com employees (double no!).

This article from Huliq 28 April 2008
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Amazon Toying with Vertical Integration

Francis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:38:31 +0000

Amazon.com (AMZN) has been pursuing growth at all costs. Its recently announced Q1 2008 results are a testament to that drive. It reported the quarter’s revenue at $4.13 billion, meeting analyst expectations and reporting a 37% increase over the previous year. Its earnings for the quarter at $0.34 were marginally higher than the market’s expectation of $0.32, and are 30% higher than previous year earnings.

This article from Seeking Alpha 25 April 2008
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Top 10 Amazon Power Shopper Tools

Francis — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:38:44 +0000

You already love the one-stop convenience of shopping online at Amazon.com, but chances are you’re not getting everything you can out of this feature-packed shopping engine. Did you know Amazon can email you suggestions from Mom’s wish list two weeks before her birthday? Automatically ship you a new case of toilet paper every two months? Refund the difference on the price of an item you purchased that went on sale?

This article from Lifehacker 23 April 2008
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