The announcements coming from eBay this week are more about tweaking a few items, than the grand sweeping changes of the past few months. I’m hoping for our sellers that the mentality of “leave things alone for the holiday season” has finally arrived at eBay. On October  21st eBay announced the new Paperless Payments requirement. [...]

We wanted to share some good news from Vendio. Vendio has been chosen by Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as one of the “Fast 50″–a designation given to the fastest-growing private companies in Silicon Valley, as a result of its strong revenue and percentage of growth over a three-year period from 2005 to 2007.

Over the next few months, eBay will begin increasing exposure of item specifics. Additionally, they will begin including Custom Item Specifics in the left navigation. If you do not use Item Specifics you will be competitively disadvantaged in Search (yes..another search criteria). If you do not use Item Specifics or Custom Item Specifics, now is [...]

Here’s the Monday Morning Catch Up News.. eBay has reduced its workforce by 10% globally in an effort to “improve our operations and streghten our ability to continue investing in growth”. Additionally, they have acquired a US based payment business Bill Me Later, and a classified site in Denmark. In other news, there is a [...]

Many of you have eBay stores, that you use to drive additional sales, and you may be wondering what is going to happen with your eBay stores. Recently, eBay introduced 30-day Fixed Priced listings for a flat insertion rate of $.35. Separately, eBay has eliminated the Store’s Inventory format for their UK and Italy sites, [...]

Vendio is attending the Rocketplace conference this week and everything is going smoothly. The airline did not lose my luggage, my plane arrived on time, the hotel has great rooms and there has not been one mix up and no disappointments. The attendees are amazing, the host Debbie Levit of AsWas is great and there is [...]

Nothing interests those of us in a SaaS (software as a service) business more than advances and developments in browser technology.  Browser limitations can constrict our ability to provide compelling user experiences, time savings applications, and speedy services.  As new capabilities are added, we can introduce new technologies to our user interface and make general [...]