From ReadWriteWeb we hear that buyers and sellers are still unhappy with eBay. The reasons? The boycotters still have many unresolved issues regarding the changes that have been taking place on the site, the most radical being a change to the feedback system which prevents buyers from being able to leave negative or neutral feedback. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'eBay'
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 [...]
Tags:eBay·London·United Kingdom
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 [...]
Fun With Used Gadget Put Options … Hunh?
January 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Other Markets
A friend sends this link from Wired: Pre-Sell Your Gadget Before You Get Tired of It. This brief article discusses a new company called TechForward. TechForward is a fascinating little company that sells you the right to sell them a gadget you’ve just purchased, at an agreed price at a specific time in the future. [...]
Tags:eBay·TechForward·USD
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 [...]
Tags:Davos·eBay·John Donahoe·Meg Whitman
Go Go Donahoe
December 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Auction Markets, Usability
This morning’s FT offers up this wonderful little story about eBay: Ebay’s rising star plots revamp of ‘flea market’. In it we discover that Mr. Donahoe (the rising star in the title) has been giving some tough love to eBay, and will continue to do so. As he’s quoted in the article: A year ago, [...]
Tags:Donahoe·e - commerce·eBay·fraudulent and inefficient sellers·Search engine
Interview with Dan Kelly, CEO of Sparter
November 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Financial Markets, Interviews, Virtual World Markets
Dan Kelly, CEO of Sparter, graciously agreed to speak with me over the Thanksgiving holiday. I encourage you to take the time and read this, since Dan spoke about a number of fascinating topics, such as gold farmers, virtual currency arbitrage (or lack thereof), scarcity in Virtual Worlds, and delivery risk. UsableMarkets: How did you [...]
Tags:Asia·Bessemer Venture Partners·Dan Kelly·eBay·Europe·online communities·online community·online games·online games industry·online goods·online marketing·payment systems·Sparter·Thanksgiving·USD·white label solution
Interview with Alan Lewis
November 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Auction Markets, Interviews
Those of you who follow this blog with any regularity – a fine and exclusive bunch, if I do say so myself – have heard me discuss eBay and usability before. In particular, it’s not often that you see such a high profile company struggle so visibly with the issue of usability, and then decide [...]
Tags:Actors Studio·Adobe·Alan Lewis·crucial tool·eBay·Effective UI·Intel·Meg Whitman·search feature·search result page·spent time developing example applications·United States·web services·XML
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