Archive for June 29th, 2006

  • eBay Stays Competative at all Levels

     Website Services Magazine
    In what could be a serious blow to every retailer and online advertising network on the Web (heads-up Google and Yahoo), eBay has announced they will begin selling contextual advertising to eBay sellers, to be placed on affiliate websites.  For a cut of the profits, eBay will provide direct links to a seller’s items on various websites, […]

  • eBay Hobby or Business

     My Hobby
    Q: I made extra money selling things on eBay last year. These
    were items I picked up at yardsales mostly. My husband says I
    am responsible for paying income tax on the money I made, but
    I disagree. This is just my hobby, not a business. What do you
    think?
    – Gladys A.
    A: With so many people selling on […]

  • Google Payments Now Available

    Search Engine Roundtable
    The rumored Gbuy (click to see historical tracking of coverage) has been launched under “Google Checkout” at http://checkout.google.com. It basically has the same exact interface from the sellers or buyer accounts perspective as when I first tested it in As Chris Sherman wrote;

    Checkout isn’t a person-to-person, stored-value system like PayPal. But with its […]

  • Google Checkout An Extension of Technology

     Search Engine Watch
    Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that’s tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn’t the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike.
    Rumors have been flying for more than a year about a payment system under development by Google. […]

  • eBay New Wiki Released

    Read/write Web
    eBay, in collaboration with JotSpot, has just released a new community wiki - making it almost certainly the world’s largest wiki platform for a commercial website (Wikipedia is bigger, but it’s non-commercial). eBay Wiki is described as “a collection of fact-based articles written and maintained by eBay Community members” and is powered by […]