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22/02/2013

My colleague Dan received an email from eBay today informing him they were about to delete one of his old accounts if he didn’t sign in pronto. We first heard that eBay were going to do this a year ago, dormant accounts were to receive emails giving 30 days notice that if the account owner [...]

20/02/2013

Will you be attending the Internet Retailing Expo 2013 at the NEC in Birmingham on the 20th & 21st of March? It’s one of the vital dates in the UK ecommerce calender and highly recommended if you sell online and want to grow or streamline your internet business. IRX13 promises to be the ideal forum [...]

18/02/2013

eBay have just re-announced the eBay Feed on the eBay.com announcement board, along with a site to introduce The Feed to those who haven’t seen it before. We’ve been wondering what was happening, as when The Feed was first announced back in October it was scheduled to be rolled out to all US users by [...]

14/02/2013

As previously announced, eBay are beefing up support and they’re putting their money where their mouth is with 450 new positions in Ireland up for grabs. eBay said that “The new jobs will help provide the growing European customer base of the company’s eBay Marketplaces and PayPal businesses with an enhanced experience in the areas [...]

13/02/2013

As an eBay employee, many moons ago, I kept a healthy interest in eBay Inc.’s share price, not least because I had some options as part of my package there. But since departing I’ve barely looked at it: a share price doesn’t in itself tell us much aside from what Wall St. thinks will generate [...]

12/02/2013

At the Finovate EU conference today Kabbage will announce their launch in the UK – their website came out of beta yesterday evening. Kabbage is a company which makes finance available to online retailers based on their eBay sales and PayPal receipts, as well as taking their social media profiles into account. Since their launch [...]

11/02/2013

eBay have changed the returns process, sellers should now be specifying who pays return postage when they list their item, rather than in their “Return Policy Details” or withing their Item Description. The new options in the listing flow enable sellers to specify that they’ll accept returns for 14, 30 or 60 days from receipt [...]

11/02/2013

The Post Office have launched Drop & Go, a service that offers business customers and a fast track pre-paid card system to send their mail. If you’re an online seller that visits the Post Office on a daily basis this is the perfect service for you. The new Drop & Go service, currently available at [...]

10/02/2013

Thursday this week saw about 1,000 ecommerce retailers turn up at the London’s Business Design Centre for the Metapack Delivery Conference in London. I have to admit I was so busy bumping into people I didn’t get to attend many of the actual presentations – meeting old friends and new businesses is often the most [...]

8/02/2013

Ahead of presenting at Finovate Europe, Ezbob have announced their intention to attack the US market later this year. Expected to launch a US operation in September this year, they said that the US represents the biggest e-commerce market but it was always their intention to attack the US. The US bank lending is from [...]