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Feedback on Feedback to Feedback

All,
Thanks again for your kind words and emails. Sorry for the delay in getting this to you. As promised, I managed to spend time with Brian Burke this week and he tackled a lot of the follow-up questions that came through from the “Accountability” post written last week.
The following follow-up questions and answers are shown [...]

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Small Sellers: Our Competitive Advantage

Posted by Lorrie Norrington

In reading some of the comments in Richard’s eBay partners with Buy.com post and the Evolution of the eBay Feedback post I think it’s important that we address the misperception that eBay dislikes small sellers. Let me be clear: eBay has always believed that small and casual sellers — “the little guys” — are eBay’s [...]

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Accountability: The Evolution of the eBay Feedback System

Yesterday I sat down with Brian Burke, Director of Global Feedback Policy, to get a full run-down of all the changes being applied to eBay’s Feedback system. During our discussion, I was able to get the rationale and reasoning behind the changes as well as ask some of the questions that had been provided by [...]

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eBay partners with Buy.com

I was having lunch with members of the PR team on Thursday and the subject of a new partnership with Buy.com came up. I was told I’d have information by the weekend so I could draft a post for Ink. Two hours after lunch, Randy Smythe of My Blog Utopia contacted me asking if there [...]

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The F-word…

…As in “Feedback” (what were you thinking?).
The pending changes to eBay’s Feedback system have been a topic of much discussion since they were announced earlier this year. Early next week I am sitting down with Brian Burke, Director of Global Feedback Policy, to go over all aspects of the changes coming later this month and [...]

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eCommerce Summit Q&A: Part 2

In a continuing effort to provide all questions and answers that came out of the Summit last week - and the questions asked here on the blog - here is part 2 of the Q&A. This post highlights the ongoing shipping & handling discussion that came out of the “Navigating the Changes at eBay” panel. [...]

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John Donahoe Interviews Pierre Omidyar

Earlier this month, I referenced a conversation between John and Pierre that was webcast live to all eBay Inc employees during the first week of April. I have included three clips from their conversation below*.
The following clip shows Pierre addressing some of the recent changes in the Marketplace. He also addresses what he means [...]

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eCommerce Summit Q&A: Part 1

As promised, I will be posting Q&A sessions on Ink in multiple parts to make sure I cover all questions posed both here on the blog already, and at the eCommerce Summit. The following questions were asked immediately following Lorrie’s keynote yesterday.
Q. Based on a group study this morning, 2 out of 5 of the [...]

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Lorrie Norrington Keynote at eCommerce Summit

The 2008 Spring eCommerce Summit officially kicked off this morning with an introduction by PeSA Executive Director, Jonathan Garriss, welcoming all attendees to New Orleans.
eBay President of Marketplace Operations, Lorrie Norrington, was the keynote speaker of the day and her presentation focused on giving a Marketplace progress report for the past few months and re-emphasizing [...]

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Ink on the road…

I am heading down to the 2008 Spring eCommerce Summit in New Orleans early tomorrow and will be down there through the end of the week. In addition to reporting back from Lorrie Norrington’s keynote, taking part in the Habitat for Humanity day, and putting quite a few names to faces, I am looking forward [...]

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