Archive for February 28th, 2006

  • Edgeio Launches

    Configure your blog for Edgeio, post an item and it gets listed, for free. The over/under on eBay buying Edgeio is 6 months.
    TechCrunch:

    After much anticipation and a period of being available to a private audience the team at Edgeio took the covers off of their creation tonight and launched to the general public. [...]

  • Google Now a Threat to eBay

    sfGate:
    Google Inc. has expanded its online payment service so that users can buy and sell everything from bicycle brakes to Beanie Babies through its Web site, posing an immediate challenge to eBay Inc.
    Google added the payment service to its nascent Google Base classified listings Friday, an expected move that nonetheless sends shockwaves through the [...]

  • Low Price - High Shipping Wins on eBay

    I have witnessed this first hand. I was losing sale after sale (daily) to sellers that listed an item for $9.99 with $9.99 in shipping while my item sat unsold at $13.99 with $5 in shipping.
    Marginal Revolution:
    Would you rather pay $10 and have free shipping or pay $5 and pay $6 for shipping? Answer: [...]

  • Google Payments

    Google moves closer to full scale, head on competition with eBay.
    TechCrunch:
    Google announced last week on their blog that they will begin to facilitate payments on Google Base in the near future. The blog post from Google pointed out that Google are already accepting payments on their video service as well as when users purchase software [...]

  • Internet entrepreneurship on eBay

    SF Gate:
    Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online. But he’s not unique in the way he does business.
    Internet users have been turning themselves into Internet merchants since eBay began in 1995. Ten years later, according to a [...]