December 2010

31/12/2010

In line with previous years it’s no surprise to see a rash of articles telling of people selling unwanted Christmas presents online, but this year it seem there have been more inappropriate gifts given and received than ever. Perhaps it’s due to the snow meaning that last minute shopping was conducted with even more haste [...]

29/12/2010

There aren’t many eBay Trading Assistants in the world, but visiting David Brackin of Stuff U Sell in his 16,000 square foot warehouse today, shows that the Trading Assistant business model is still alive.   Trading Assistants have traditionally been a tricky model to get right, not least because you’re reliant on the stock that [...]

27/12/2010

In what may be the last significant acquisition of the year the Tengelmann Group announced today that it is strengthening its commitment to ecommerce by taking a share in Supreme NewMedia. Supreme NewMedia are best known for their Supreme Auction software available for eBay Germany as well as an English language version of Supreme Auction [...]

27/12/2010

There’s less than a week left until the VAT hike to 20 on the 4th January, and if you’ve not already decided how to handle it then it’s time to do so. eBay’s research has found that found that nearly a quarter (24%) of online businesses will absorb the whole cost of the VAT hike [...]

25/12/2010

23/12/2010

Tony Bates, CEO of Skype, has gone on YouTube to apologies to users for the outage over the last few days and to explain what actions the company is taking to ensure the situation never happens again. Thanking users for their patience and continuing to use Skypes service Tony said that useage is back up [...]

23/12/2010

There are only a few hours of shopping left until Christmas day, and if you’ve not yet bought that final gift then time is running out. It’s probably too late to purchase on eBay now, unless you have a very accomodating seller who can still ship today for delivery tomorrow, so it’s time to turn [...]

22/12/2010

Skype has been intermittantly unavailable for many users today and the online icon is currently a grey “Trying to connect” status for me. It didn’t take Skype long to notice that the number of online users was falling and when investigating found that many of their Supernodes were taken offline by a problem affecting some [...]

21/12/2010

Is there an app you’ve always wished someone would invent for your mobile phone? Well if so the time has come for a bit of Do-It-Yourself. Google have released the App Inventor for Android, which means with a bit of software downloaded to your PC and your mobile to hand you can create and design [...]

21/12/2010

There’s been much talk recently both in the UK and in the US regarding eBay, PayPal and the tax man. The big issue is should eBay and PayPal hand across sales data and seller’s details to the authorities to ensure that any taxes due are paid. In the UK the issue was sparked by the [...]