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 [...]

This year we saw the introduction of the diamond level sellers, which are very high volume sellers that eBay has set out to attract. This may be a very very good thing for the small to medium size sellers and have some unintended consequences that eBay will probably have to struggle with.
How many diamond [...]