Events – Archives
eBay Ink in Washington D.C. for AAI Press Conference
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Antitrust experts from the government, legal and academic communities are joining retailers and consumer advocates in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to discuss the anti-consumer effect that newly legal price-fixing, also known as ‘retail price maintenance’ (RPM), has had on the cost of consumer products.
From 1911 to 2007, antitrust law prohibited manufacturers from punishing retailers for [...]
Rich LaMagna on ABC to discuss online consumer protection
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
My first regular contributor to eBay Ink, Online Safety Advisor, Rich LaMagna, appeared on SF Bay Area ABC 7’s “On Your Side” yesterday talking about online consumer protection. The short segment ran last night and focused on the new increased PayPal protection and eBay’s increased commitment to making the site safe.
View the segment and read [...]
Consumer Electronics Go Big on Black Friday
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Even though I waited until “Cyber Monday” to make my first online purchase of the holiday shopping season (and plan to have all done over this coming weekend), Black Friday consumers, particularly those interested in consumer electronics, were online in full force. The most searched for product on eBay across all categories was the Nintendo [...]
eBay Advertising & PR
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
I wrote a post last month about a number of promotions eBay was running for the marketplace heading into the holiday buying season. A lot of the deals are outlined at http://pages.ebay.com/deals/. The post was met with mixed responses. Some folks questioned why it seemed that eBay was simply focusing on coupons this year.
Radio Advertising
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eBay “Lays Down the Law” at 4th Annual Training Event
Monday, November 24th, 2008
Hello Everyone,
I wanted to give you a quick look into a very interesting event that I attended this past Tuesday, November 18: eBay’s fourth annual, one-day training event for law enforcement officials. Over 100 federal, state and local U.S. law enforcement officers from the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, U.S Postal Service, the [...]
Yahoo! Adds eBay Application to New Homepage Test
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Yahoo! has introduced an eBay application to the “My Applications” dashboard area of the new yahoo.com homepage they’ve been testing since September. Yahoo! began user testing with a random fraction of their user-base in four different countries: U.S.A., United Kingdom, France and India to see what folks would want most out of a next generation [...]
eBay Top Seller Webinar: Focusing On Success
Monday, November 17th, 2008
As most of you know, I was busy between both San Jose campuses last Thursday attending Professor Yunus’ speech and meeting million feedback achiever, Jack Sheng. As a result, I was unable to participate in the eBay Top Seller Webinar that also took place on Thursday. I managed to get the archived version of the [...]
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Nobel Laureate Celebrates MicroPlace One Year Anniversary
Monday, November 17th, 2008
I was lucky enough to attend an invitation-only event for the investors of MicroPlace last week as they celebrated their first year anniversary. MicroPlace was created to help alleviate global poverty by enabling everyday people to make investments in the world’s working poor. Learn more about microfinance and MicroPlace here.
To help celebrate the occasion, Nobel [...]
Congratulations to Jack Sheng!
Thursday, November 13th, 2008
As of today, the green shooting star above will only look familiar to a few individuals around the world… it represents a Feedback score of 500,000. The “Sweating Star” (as I like to call it) on the right is familiar to only one person, Jack Sheng, as it represents a Feedback score of 1,000,000 (something [...]
PayPal Experiences Link Bug… and Blogs about it.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Scott Guilfoyle, PayPal’s senior vice president of platform services, is reporting a pretty significant but seemingly easily fixable bug on the PayPal blog this afternoon.
“Early this morning, we made a change to our site that caused some links to PayPal from Web sites such as eBay, merchant sites, blogs, forums, and others to be [...]
