Archive for July 13th, 2006

  • Mpire's eBay Shopping Service

    The question I posed to myself was somewhat a legacy view towards the “Seller� side of things since that has been my focus for the past year. It was really “How are we helping Sellers connect with buyers and actually attract shoppers to their products?�. With our Auction Management solutions, it’s easy to talk about [...]

  • Tips for selling on eBay Express

    I’ve been hearing from lots of eBay (EBAY - news - Cramer’s Take) sellers: What’s this eBay Express site all about? Will it really bring me more business? Why aren’t my items listed on the site? How do I know if someone buys my items?
    That’s a lot of questions, but eBay sellers like to feel [...]

  • Better eBay Searching

    A friend came to me yesterday trying to buy a digital camera, absolutely bewildered by eBay’s search tools. It seemed as though every time she typed “digital camera” into the eBay search box, she got everything but digital cameras.After trudging through pages and pages of results, she was about to give up on eBay altogether. [...]

  • Avoiding Fake Goods on eBay

    Every now and then I hear from someone I know who has paid what they consider to be a fair price for an eBay item—only to receive a poor-quality copy of the item they thought they were purchasing. The common thread that runs through many of these complaints is the unusually low price at which [...]

  • Red Flags for eBay Fraud

    13 RED FLAGS To Warn a Bidder of a Fraudulent Transaction
    Most people who are defrauded are victims of their own greed. When a transaction appears to be too good to be true, it likely is. Application of common sense can preserve your money.

    eBay View About Me for red-flags

    Blogged with Flock

  • NoChex brings up eBay Monopoly issue

    Days after eBay banned Google Checkout in the U.S. under its Accepted Payments Policy, eBay banned UK payment service provider Nochex - along with Google Checkout and other payment services - in the UK.Martin Greenbank, CEO of Nochex, characterized eBay’s policy as anti-competitive, and said, “I really wonder what the EU Competition Commission will make [...]

  • Mpire Teams with eBay for Bonds Site

    We teamed up with eBay to create a site for the world to watch how much Barry Bonds 715 Home run ball will get on eBay (the one that edged him past Babe Ruth on the all time home run list). If you haven’t heard the story on Andrew, you should check out the site [...]

  • eBay Auction Starter Kit

    Looking for “it”? That something different that will increase your eBay auction sale rates and selling prices? One of the most effective ways to generate more sales at high price-points is to create a more attractive, attention-getting auction listing. The easiest way to do this is through the use of templates that you can quickly [...]

  • eBay Wiki - World's Commercial Wiki?

    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 JotSpot’s innovative [...]