Archive for the 'eBay Trends' Category

If being diagnosed with leukemia wasn’t bad enough, Patrick Pedraja’s hair started falling out from the chemotherapy treatments.
“That was a big thing,” said Patrick, who’s 11 and likes to be called Pat. “I loved my hair.”
But his newly expansive forehead gave him a bright idea. If he could get companies to pay to advertise on [...]

AuctionBytes:
zeeDive.com, a site that attempts to create shopping excitement by listing items with falling prices, announced it is now possible for eBay Store owners to list their inventory on the site. The company said sellers benefit from additional exposure with no cost to list items - zeeDive charges sellers only when an item sells.
Shoppers on [...]

chron:
EBay Inc. moved billions of dollars worth of merchandise in each quarter of 2006, but investors used to years of astronomical growth just couldn’t get excited about moderate forecasts or slowing expansion amid growing competition in the U.S. and abroad.
EBay’s shares lost nearly 7 percent through mid-April but really began their descent on April 19, [...]

iMedia:“Domino’s has teamed up with eBay once again for their new, “Anything Goes!” campaign. The scavenger hunt contest on Ebay will accompany Domino’s new promotion which offers any pizza on their menu for $9.99.
“As we continued thinking about value, we thought, why stop at pizza for just $9.99? Why not a DVD player or a [...]

Inc.com:
To help combat bogus eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) seller ratings, which can mislead customers by giving a stamp of approval to fraudulent vendors, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a technique to help validate the scores.
EBay fraudsters have found ways to artificially elevate their seller ratings, by conducting transactions with friends or using alternate online identities [...]

adn:

As time ran out to bid online for Alaska’s state jet Thursday, the biggest spender was willing to pay only about $1.9 million for the used Westwind II.
It wasn’t enough, and no one won the 22-year-old aircraft.
That doesn’t mean the auction is over, said Meghan Stapleton, spokeswoman for Gov. Sarah Palin. The state plans to [...]

AuctionBytes:
The number of eBay.com auction listings rose over 56 percent in 1 day this week due to a post-Christmas promotion for sellers. According to MedVed data, there were fewer than 9 million listings (derived by counting auction category totals on eBay.com) at the start of day December 27, 2006, and by the end of the [...]

Rarely would I allow for my first shot in a duel to come from user-managed Web reference Wikipeda, which has come under fire for poor sourcing. But I just can’t resist. Quoting from its entry on Minnesota’s legendary Mall of America:
“Mall of America is … the most visited shopping mall in the world, with more [...]

eBay Strategies:Bob Peck at Bear Stearns hosted a call with Gian Fulgoni, Chairman of Comscore. There was lots of great macro ecommerce info, but I thought what would be interesting to eBay Strategies readers is some of the content around Google Checkout. The take-aways for me were:

Google Checkout is driving the AOV thanks [...]

eBay Strategies:
As predicted in early November here at eBay Strategies, eBay has retreated to some degree in China according to reports from Fortune, WSJ and others. The plan is for eBay to partner with Tom Online to launch an entirely new auction site. eBay would own 49% of the JV and TOMO the [...]