Posts Tagged ‘ecommerce’
“Take off” Paying until after you Land
Friday, July 25th, 2008
It has been a year since Northwest Airlines became the first airline to accept PayPal payment for online ticket purchases. It was announced today that Northwest is the first airline to accept PayPal Pay Later.
The service lets passengers buy tickets on Northwest’s Web site, and then defer payments for 90 days, and is available [...]
eBay Motors Driving Social Media
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
I managed to spend some time this afternoon with Danny Chang, Manager of Buyer Strategy for eBay Motors. We had actually connected via Twitter when I first set up the eBayInkBlog Twitter feed. Check out and “follow” the eBay Motors Twitter feed here: http://twitter.com/ebaymotors.
Danny wanted to talk about ways in which Motors could use social [...]
Deck out your office and look great doing it using PayPal
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
As reported over on the PayPal Blog, American Eagle Outfitters and OfficeMax are the latest two new merchants to join the growing list of places to shop online with your PayPal account.
“AE continuously strives to provide the best possible online shopping experience for its customers,” said Fred Grover, executive vice president, e-commerce and international, American [...]
UPDATED: eBay Wins Tiffany Court Case
Monday, July 14th, 2008
It appears that the court has rejected Tiffany’s lawsuit against eBay. Tiffany had argued in the lawsuit that eBay should be held liable for trademark infringement on the basis that significant volumes of silver jewelry merchandise that Tiffany contends are counterfeit have been made available for sale on eBay’s website. As a matter [...]
Positive news about Neutrals not being Negative
Thursday, July 10th, 2008
In my final blog post from eBay Live! I referenced a conversation I had with Marcia Cooper and Harvey Levine of GeneralEnterprises.net in which we talked at great length about a single neutral feedback negatively affecting their status on eBay given the recent changes to the Feedback system. As certified eBay Education Specialists, they [...]
No Phishing Allowed
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
eBay, PayPal and Google have partnered together to ensure that Google’s Gmail (https://mail.google.com) service will automatically detect PayPal and eBay phishing e-mails and prevent them from reaching your Gmail inbox.
“We’re very excited that Google has taken this step and is working with us to help protect your online safety,” said Michael Barrett, the chief information [...]
eBay Desktop Usability Study
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The eBay Desktop blog is soliciting volunteers to take part in an eBay Desktop usability study.
The only requirements to take part in the study are that you have to be located in the SF Bay Area and (at least an occasional) user of eBay desktop.
I’m finding out from Alan Lewis if there is [...]
eBay Vows to Fight Following Overreach by LVMH
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Earlier today, the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris, France ordered eBay to pay 38.6 million euros ($61 million) in damages to the French luxury goods company Louis Vuitton (LVMH), regarding the sale of counterfeits online.
The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by LVMH back in the Fall of 2006. Since that time eBay has invested [...]
eBay, ChoDienTu Team Up in Vietnam
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
I missed this one while I was out of the office last week…eBay partnered with ChoDienTu.vn , a Vietnamese online marketplace.
As I understand it, ChoDienTu.vn will evolve into an eBay co-branded site where individuals and businesses in Vietnam can participate in local trade as well as international trade via eBay’s global websites. The new joint [...]
eBay Launches “Call for Action” Campaign in Europe
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
eBay launched a long-term Call for Action campaign in Brussells yesterday, aimed at reforming the current European Union (EU) Competition, Consumer and Trademark Law. The launch meeting called on the EU to modernize competition, consumer and trademark law in order to address what it labeled “digital protectionism.”
The key speakers at the event (in the photo [...]
