Archive for April, 2007

Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman on Wednesday gave an upbeat assessment of eBay’s international business, although growth in Germany during the last three months was “not where we want them to be.” In Germany, as is also the case in the United States, growth is being pressured by recent eBay actions to improve the quality [...]

Having watched Google Checkout add lots of little blue shopping cart symbols to AdWords listings, PayPal obviously decided that was a great idea, and tapped Yahoo to help them out.
Yahoos so excited with their partnership that theyve announced it twice. And why not? Its a win for both Yahoo and PayPal.
PayPal gets a channel to [...]

Online auction leader eBay reported quarterly results that beat Wall Street expectations and said its outlook for the rest of the year would be at the high end of analysts’ predictions.
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We trust them with our search queries, e-mails, calendar information and, more recently, documents and spreadsheets. Now Google is preparing to keep watch over the holy grail of data protection – bank and credit card information.
From today, UK customers will be able to use Google’s online payment mechanism, called Checkout, to make purchases through participating [...]

When Paul Fischer and Gregory Skibbee started eBay jewelry seller Windsor Auctions (eBay User ID: windsorauctions-usa) in 2005, they weren’t sure whether they should try selling internationally. But when Fischer, a 39-year-old Lutz, Florida, entrepreneur, and his 48-year-old co-founder looked more closely at what they would gain by going global, the choice was easy. “The [...]

A 1999 metallic gray Volkswagen Golf believed to once belong to the pope went up for sale on eBay, but the auction ended Saturday without a winner.
For the second time in two years, eBay hosted an auction for a car said to be Pope Benedict XVI’s old hatchback. Though bids surpassed $204,000, a reserve price [...]

In years past, alternatives to eBay had a low chance of success, particularly if they were free sites. However, in the market targeted by eBay Express (fixed-price items), it appears this is changing. There are a number of ecommerce sites that have become quite popular. We’re going to look at a couple of them that [...]

Seventy-seven percent of eBay and online sellers are concerned about higher shipping costs when new USPS rates go into effect in May, and 26 percent are concerned that postal tools they use may not be ready when the changes go into effect, according to a recent AuctionBytes survey.

Postal rates are going up in the United [...]

Marketing on auctions is nothing new. Although Ebay is the most popular auction site on the internet, plenty of auctions sites have sprung up because of Ebay’s success.
Many people are quietly making thousands of dollars per month marketing their products on eBay. What isn’t really well known is the number of people who are making [...]

The ultimate piece of Disneyana is available on eBay. Walt Disney’s signed passport is on the auction site and is expected to fetch a hefty price of between $14,000 and $21,600.
The passport was used just once, according to the item description, when he traveled to London right before Mary Poppins was released.
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