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Is eBay’s Latest Sale a Let Down?

Monday, 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?

Wednesday, 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 [...]

The eBay Balance of Power

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

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 [...]