Global Sources is a wholesale product sourcing website where manufacturers (mostly in Asia) advertise wholeslale products for export to the US.  Global Sources publishes a series of magazines for their customers. They have recently started offeing free copies of the electronic version to anyone who wants them.
Here is the link where you can download free [...]

eBay Sellers have a new eBay research tool to track and evaluate their buyer’s behavior.  Today, the Sellebrity Company announced Auction Analytics, a new service to monitor and interpret traffic data for eBay auctions.   The new service is located at www.sellebrity.com.
“This is not your father’s analytics service,” says founder and CEO, Jason Ritenour.  ”Not [...]

Just Updated: 77 Free eBay Tips to help eBay sellers avoid mistakes, sell more items and build your eBay business
I have been publishing my free eBay tips for the past 6 years. As you can imagine with all of the changes on eBay and the services provided by third parties, these need to be updated frequently. The truth [...]

eBay Live to be replaced with smaller regional events dubbed eBay On Location
Lorrie Norrington, President, eBay Marketplaces announced that eBay’s annual convention, eBay Live, has bit the dust.  The last eBay Live was in Chicago in June of 2008. At that event, Norrington announced that eBay Live 2009 was cancelled but that eBay would resume [...]

But, be even more careful buying them.
Last week California essentially went bankrupt.  No –its is not a formal or complete bankruptcy, but when you can’t pay your bills and you are $25 billion underwater I would call that bankrupt in my book. When California couldn’t meet its obligations, it began issuing IOUs instead of payments [...]

comScore shows that Amazon passed eBay for the first time
According to comScore, Amazon had 60 million visitors to its site compared with 50 million a year ago. By comparison, eBay had 70 million visitors, down from 80.1 million a year ago. Amazon clearly has the potential to overtake eBay unless eBay can rebuild its visitor count.
eBay also [...]

eBay’ s decision to spin off Skype was a brilliant decision, so could PayPal be next?
eBay overpaid for Skype and they never succeeded in integrating it into the eBay platform. Yet Skype continued to grow and its prospects for the future are excellent. So eBay’s decision to spin Skype off into their own IPO works. [...]

A look at the new eBay policy announcement and the likely effect on eBay sellers
The last few parts of the announcements include a new dispute resolution process, free access to eBay Selling Manager, moving the shipping process from PayPal to eBay and tools to bulk edit your listings.
The new Dispute Resolution Process will be the [...]

There has been a lot of confusion for sellers of toys and children’s clothing. eBay’s Uncle Griff posted a blog on eBay with some answers
Basically a lot of fear by sellers is overblown –but there are some new requirements to meet if you sell children’s clothing or toys on eBay.  Here is the link to [...]

PayPal reached an agreement to share seller income information with the IRS starting in 2012
The new requirement was mandated by The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 recently passed by Congress. President Bush signed the bill into law on July 30. The bill and applies to all payment providers but PayPal negotiated with the IRS to only provide information on [...]

This is a promised follow-up to Yesterday’s post. You can scroll down the page to read that one first if you missed it.
Yesterday’s post generated both a lot of hits –so many that my server jammed up for a while, and a ton of email. By far, most of the email said I was on [...]

Well, it’s almost midnight and Karen and I just returned from the ECMTA party hosted by eBay’s arch-nemesis, www.Alibaba.com.
There were about 300 people at the event which was held at the Alhambra Palace –a retro-kitsch Middle Eastern themed restaurant with a Lebanese band and Belly Dancers, tons of free food and booze and about 300 [...]

This is the smallest and least exciting eBay Live since the first one In Anaheim.
I always look forward to eBay Live. It is a chance to meet and greet many old friends and make new ones, see the latest third party technologies and services, talk to key eBay employees one on one and basically recharge [...]

Although it will not give out any details it appears that eBay changed a long-standing policy and cut a special deal with Buy.com to list thousands of items on eBay at reduced fees.
The concept of “the level playing field” has been a long standing policy at eBay. For year, large sellers have lobbied eBay for [...]

A report from Nielsen Online, a service that tracks online statistics for advertisers shows a sharp drop in eBay’s Page Views and Unique Visitors
I was a bit shocked when I saw these numbers.  I expected eBay’s numbers to be flat versus the same quarter last year, but the new Nielsen numbers showed a sharp drop.
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