Ecommerce News

1/06/2010

PayPal UK has announced today on its official blog that with immediate effect, transactions taking place off-eBay will have the same levels of buyer protection as those that take place on eBay. Specifically, “significantly not as described” claims will be allowed for off-eBay purchases just as they are on eBay. Here’s the link to the [...]

29/05/2010

Richard Brewer Hay, the official eBay blogger, interviews John Donahoe, eBay’s President, during eBay OL in Dallas. I love that JD is making the effort to video the people he’s talking to, so that he can pass on their exact comments to the appropriate people at eBay. That’s a really neat idea and one that [...]

25/05/2010

If you need a new career direction but can’t give up the day job, or need to earn a little extra cash, or wonder what to do now your eBay store isn’t quite as lucrative as you’d once hoped, then this is the book for you. At its heart, it lists 50 businesses you can [...]

17/05/2010

Do you want to win an eBay Fashion Outlet goodie bag including bottle of Perrier Jouet Champagne and £40 in PayPal vouchers? If so head over to the eBay Life4less blog and tell them what your fashion essentials are. The winner will be picked from the comments on the eBay Life4less blog next Monday and [...]

10/05/2010

First off I have to admit I’ve made a mistake – I ordered a product and failed to read the description and discover that the item will only work with a MAC and that I only have a PC. However I’ve been pretty impressed with the seller Buy.com as a buyer and their entire sales [...]

10/05/2010

Automation is the key to saving time as a seller, and automation is the topic of a webinar with Anshu Goel, senior manager in the eBay EU seller platform team on Thursday this week. In conjunction with ChannelAdvisor, Anshu will be discussing ways to use the Unpaid Item Assistant to reduce the time and effort [...]

29/04/2010

I’ve been talking about marketing online with a local garage, and he’s been amazed at how successful a few simple ideas have been. He already has a website (albeit not a great one, but he knows that and is planning to get it reworked) so I suggested in the mean time he try eBay Local [...]

23/04/2010

If you’re thinking of a new website (or of revamping your existing site) then there’s a ChannelAdvisor webinar on the 29th April which is a must attend. It aims to show how to create an effective home page that differentiates your site from the competition, best practices for navigation and user-friendly site search, tips to [...]

12/04/2010

Scot Wingo kicked off this year’s Catalyst conference attended by 250 retailers, with an overview of what’s happening in the ecommerce world. Scot talked about the changes in how shoppers find products, how eBay appear to have turned the corner in the UK with fixed price sales accelerating in comparison to auctions and how eBay [...]