Posts Tagged with ‘auctions’

Pretty much everyone who uses the internet has visited (or at least heard of) eBay, which has long been the top online auction marketplace. There are now thousands of business-minded people around the globe whose livelihood now depends solely on eBay and for good reason. Buyers can find the most rare of items, and sellers can find a buyer for the most obscure merchandise. But, eBay has been struggling since the explosion of the web 2.0 era, and other marketplace's [...]

Anyone who has sold items using eBay (or even Craigslist) knows how much more potential an item has to sell when a photo is provided. And 'actual' images are better than the 'stock' photos that some sellers download from the manufacturer's website. Prospective buyers don't just want to read a description, they want to see exactly what they would be spending their money on since some sellers can be very vague with their words.
For this reason, several services such as [...]

Shopping or searching for items on eBay nowadays can be a hassle. For one reason or another, searching for a single product can turn up all sorts of unrelated results.
For instance, a simple search on eBay for an 'iPod Video', even when filtered down to the iPod sub-section of the MP3 Players category, returned several iPod parts and accessories among the scattered results of the actual MP3 player. The search results can be narrowed down to better match users [...]

In an effort to increase the slowing growth rate of the leading online auction marketplace, eBay has launched a new section of its website, known as eBay Neighborhoods, which is intended to provide a social network, across which eBay users can better communicate and contribute to a worthwhile shopping experience.
eBay's second quarter results, posted in July, were impressive, but new item listings on eBay's core shopping site declined by 6% from a year earlier while power seller listings were down [...]

It has only been three short months since the launch of the Facebook Platform, which gave developers an opportunity to integrate other services into the growing social network via widgets, and this first quarter proved quite impressive.
Now, there are well over 3000 applications to choose from in the Facebook application directory. Some Facebook apps have even received noticeable attention from investors and interested companies. Where I've Been is one such example, which was rumored to have sold to TripAdvisor for [...]