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22/04/2013

There’s just a month to go until the kick off for the 2013 Tamebay Ecommerce Cup – Managed by Genie and the Geek and we’ve can now reveal the list of competitors. There’s still just one place left (first come first served), so if you want to play email tayyab@genieandthegeek.co.uk. The teams (in alphabetical order) [...]

22/04/2013

The UK may no longer be the darling in the world of eBay. eBay’s 2013 Q1 results missed analyst expectations although they just about beat revenue expectations by a single cent and the UK is apparently partly to blame. Revenues were $3.75 billion, an increase of 14% roughly in line with ecommerce, yielding earnings per [...]

19/04/2013

We’ve been keeping track of the progress of Flubit.com since they launched in late September last year. It’s always tricky to launch a new marketplace in the face of competition from the giants – eBay and Amazon, so it’s great to see Flubit flourishing and growing. If you don’t already know, Flubit is a private [...]

18/04/2013

eBay have announced that from the Autumn all sellers will need to specify a returns policy in their listings. Sellers will have to offer a minimum of 14 days as the period in which the buyer can cancel the transaction and get their money back as well as specify who pays the return carriage – [...]

18/04/2013

Every so often a story hits the headlines of a seller suing a buyer that left them negative feedback. Today’s no different, a US based sellers is suing their buyer who left negative feedback with the comment “Order arrived with postage due with no communication from seller beforehand”. The Daily Mail reports that the item [...]

17/04/2013

Swapz is, as the name suggests, a classified ads site for swapping unwanted goods. Swapz launched in the summer of 2004 and since then it has grown to be the world’s highest Alexa ranked swapping site with over 500K members and delivering over 1 million page views daily. There are always around 250K live listings [...]

15/04/2013

Dan and I first heard of Bubbles at Internet Retailing Expo last month. A new marketplace is always of interest, but as normal we had several basic questions: What are you doing to attract buyers, what sales figures are you achieving and why should already busy retailers consider listing on your site. There are many [...]

13/04/2013

Friday was the first day of eBay’s Weekend Spectacular 70% off sale and from the 100 listings they had available by midnight over 9100 and £460,000.00 worth of merchandise had been sold. Best selling item by value were the Apple iPad Mini (in black or white) for which 627 units sold for £144,203.00. Most popular [...]

11/04/2013

We noted a few days ago that eBay had changed how buyers communicate with sellers and have been looking into the reasons behind this change and how it affects sellers. One of the problems sellers have told us is that My Messages are often handled through their third party software applications but resolution center cases [...]

10/04/2013

I’m trying to figure out how I can justify a mobile phone upgrade to the Samsung Galaxy S4 which has an expected launch date of the 26th April and I’m struggling, not because it doesn’t look to be a great phone, just because my current handset is so good. I already have the Samsung Galaxy [...]