Bits, the NY Times tech blog, calls our attention to something new going on over at eBay: Garden at eBay, a site for testing new tools, features, etc. with users before pushing them out to ebay.com.
Our first response is: whatever happened to Project San Dimas, eBay’s earlier attempt to clean up the user interface? [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Auction Markets'
eBay takes another whack at their search UI
February 10th, 2010 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Product Development, Usability
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New breed of auction sites
August 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Auction Markets
This from The Economist: Mind the pennies, an article that describes a new trend in entertainment shopping (or aka, productizing the joy of winning an auction).
The new sites — such as GoBid.com — are auctions where each new bid only goes up a by a penny. The items bid upon are TVs, [...]
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Buy low … go race a horse
April 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Fun, Other Markets
From the FT:
“Prices just fell off a cliff,” says Dina Astell of the Racehorse Owners Association. “Trainers who used to get credit from their banks stopped getting credit.”
Now all eyes are on the sale of two year olds, hosted by Tattersalls, to be held tomorrow and Wednesday. It uses the old English coinage of guineas [...]
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The Sucker Discovery Process
June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Auction Markets
BusinessWeek has this fascinating story about the decline of the auction business. Specifically, that auctions on eBay for ordinary, or relatively ordinary, items may be a thing of the past.
The one paragraph to read:
What happened to auctions? Not only do shoppers want convenience, they’re also looking for value. And the proliferation of pricing information [...]
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Searching Across Auctions
March 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Usability
In the “whatever can be transparent will be transparent (but not necessarily usable)” category we have this site from the UK: LIVE Alt Auction Search (ht to AltSearchEngines).
Select the auction sites you’re interested in searching (alas, no eBay!), enter your keywords …
… and off you go.
Hunh?
Not quite what I expected, but … um, interesting.
Anyway, [...]
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eBay Will Tinker With Their Search Engine
January 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Auction Markets
eBay’s CEO handover is in the news. From today’s FT story about it, this interesting quote:
Over the next few weeks, he said, Ebay would announce a series of changes to its fee structure and to the way its search engine sifts through its millions of listings and chooses which to present most prominently. He [...]
Go Go Donahoe, Part II
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Auction Markets
TechCrunch reports that The WSJ reports (yes, I did just write that sentence) that Meg Whitman, current CEO of eBay, is planning on stepping down after some recent under performance of their stock.
The person reported to take over is John Donahoe, who — as those of you who are avid UM readers (a bright and [...]
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