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Is eBay’s Latest Sale a Let Down?

January 5th, 2009

There are a few items to note with the new 50% Off Auction-Style Listing Fee Promotion.
First, I know I’m not the only one that feels a bit let down that there was not a free listing day announced. I’ve talked to quite a few sellers who were pretty disappointed that eBay has let go of [...]

Saturation in the eBay Book Category?

December 31st, 2008

In an article about listing volume, auctionbytes reported the change in listings by category from January to December of 2008. The largest growth category was books, which grew 486.33% - which is a huge increase in the number of listings.
So I was a bit curious as to the conversion rate in books. Using Vendio Research [...]

Amazon.com no longer accepting BillMeLater in 2009!

December 30th, 2008

The eBay and Amazon.com fight continues….
As most now know, eBay/PayPal acquired BillMeLater earlier this year to augment their growing payments business (and likely to head off a potential competitor before it got too large).
At the time of the acquisition, BillMeLater was an integrated payment method at Amazon.com.  Amazon.com announced today in Seller Central, however, that [...]