Archive for November, 2006
Tazbar Auctions
It seems like every time we turn around, there’s another auction site popping up. The newest one we’ve heard about is Tazbar. It’s nearly 4 months old already, and has quite a number of auctions. Tazbar is based in the U.K. which makes sense since 1 in 3 U.K. users is using paypal. Pretty [...]
MightyBids.com
Montreal based Mightybids.com is making quite the splash. Reportedly, they’re adding 500 new members a day and an average of 300,000 total auctions at any one time. Combine that with free simple listings and a really pretty interface and you get a pretty competitive eBay challenger. Mighty bids is probably the best designed of the [...]
1 in 3 UK residents use PayPal
According to figures released by Datamonitor, Paypal now has 15 million unique users in the U.K. That accounts for approximately 1/3 the 18+ population. It also accounts for just over half of the estimated 24.9 million online shoppers in the U.K. “We are growing faster than ecommerce in the UK. And these are not just [...]
Buy the shirt off of Bill Cobb’s Back
Bill Cobb, President of eBay North America, is auctioning off a eBay.ca hockey jersey that he wore during the town hall meeting last month. The jersey was a promotional bit for the new French Canadian language additions to eBay.ca. All proceeds from the auction will go to United Way for the Greater New Orleans area. [...]
Forget Parcel Post, Use Priority Mail
Shipping your items after sale is most likely the most mundane of the tasks that you partake in. When I first began selling on eBay, I used Parcel Post almost exclusively. I thought of it as the cheap way to ship things without having to charge a ton to my customers. The first problem that [...]
Gallery Plus promo Nov. 14-16
eBay is putting a 50% discount on the Gallery Plus feature upgrade for 3 days only. November 14th through 16th, the price of the Gallery Plus feature will be $0.37 instead of the $0.75 normal fee. Take advantage of it if you can. Remember to remove it if you relist items that were listed over [...]
Is your eBay store optimized for search engines?
Many in the online world who deal with websites know the term search engine optimization. Many eBay sellers do not. Trevor at Auctionbytes wrote an excellent article on the best ways for an eBay seller to optimize an eBay store for search engines. Despite 50 percent of online purchases being researched via a search engine, [...]
Mpire launches eBay popularity site
In one of the first steps in what should be a long string of sites using the eBay tools for developers, Mpire launched a site they’ve dubbed eBay pop. It’s a very flashy site with movers and shakers in 7 categories. Add to that, a voting poll, headlines, articles, and various other fine additions to [...]
Oltiby: Reverse auctions
Oltiby is just another in a long string of eBay alternative auction sites. Or is it? They bill themselves as the reverse online auction site. So, what does that mean? What it means is that instead of sellers listing items and buyers bidding on them, it works in reverse. The buyers create a listing for [...]
Amazon restricts sellers for holidays
Amazon announced on October 30th that they were placing restrictions on their marketplace sellers. We want all third-party orders to be fulfilled in a timely manner so they’re delivered by December 23, and we want the holiday season to be successful for all sellers. And so, to maintain the continued confidence of buyers and sellers [...]
