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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]