Amazon’s Kindle and Kindle DX are portable readers, which use wireless technology to download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display with the look of real paper.
As a channel to replace eBay’s closing of the digital downloads category, the Kindle bookstore has until now only been available to [...]

After a minor delay past the originally announced launch date, UK auction site eBid rolled out their new look this month.

Visually more modern than the old site appearance, with little discernible effect on load time, the bright, fresh, new look is sure to appeal to buyers who’ve never visited one of the company’s 18 country [...]

Amazon’s Conference call for their Q4-2009 results will be held on 28th January, and webcast live, with archives of the broadcast held for public viewing for three months.
Amazon has announced today that it will hold a conference call to discuss its fourth quarter 2009 financial results on 28th January 2010, at 2:00 p.m. PT / [...]

Oztion, the online auction site that only allows Australian resident sellers, today extends Buy Now listing durations to 60 days.  Previously their longest duration was 28 days.
An announcement on the site, on Friday, states that -
Changes to BuyNow Only listings
We will be making some changes to BuyNow Only listings.

BuyNow Duration Changes
We are changing the listing [...]

Australian auction venue Oztion introduced a Best Offer feature this week and within 24 hours saw a 25% cut in the Average Selling Price (ASP) of Buy Now items sold after accepting offers made by buyers.
Reactions from sellers caused another announcement to be made the following day stating that a Minimum Offer threshhold tool had [...]

Amazon have released their first quarter financial results, and set an extremely hard act for eBay to follow, particularly after the auction site’s dismal performance in the last quarter of 2008.
A quick skim of the press release for details that jump out reveals -
Net sales increased 18% to $4.89 billion in the first quarter, compared [...]

Etsy have advised important changes to the way they handle billing for seller fees.
A review of how billing works currently on Etsy is that the billing cycle starts on the first day of each month, and Etsy automatically sends a billing statement by email for the fees accrued in the previous month. Sellers have a [...]

Amazon have announced its latest mobile offering for customers- “Amazon App for BlackBerry,” which is now available as a free download directly from Amazon.com at www.amazon.com/blackberry_app.
Designed specifically for the BlackBerry, the app offers customers who use a BlackBerry device with a track ball a quick and simple way to find, discover, and buy products from [...]

We’ve received an email from Ian Lambert, owner of Auctions-United.  The site is undergoing major changes within itself and they are using this opportunity to reduce membership from £25.00 to 99 pence.
Whilst it was previously £25.00 to join, a member then received £25.00 into their CyberWallet (CyberCash being the site’s in house currency).   Now they [...]

The eBid monthly newsletter arrived today, thin on real news other than a few seller and listing metrics.
The site now has -

2,418,875 Live Auctions
6,788 eBid Stores Live

Both these numbers are flagged as new highs, although eBid’s old problem (of sellers moaning in forums about lack of sales) seems to be resurging again, and I guess [...]

It all started off with a forum thread that snowballed into what the ebid.net community are now calling “ebid Aid“.  Charity auctions are running right now at eBid.net to raise cash for victims of the disaster.
eBid.net members are auctioning off anything and everything to raise money for aid agencies helping those affected by the horrors [...]

Amazon has announced two welcome enhancements to the Amazon FBA service yet only one of them appears to have received much press amongst bloggers.
Sellers have often complained about receiving negative feedback from buyers concerning shipment of orders fulfilled by Amazon.  Given all the bruhaha surrounding feedback on eBay in 2008, bloggers have picked up on [...]

Etsy recently implemented Web Analytics for Etsy shops (powered by Google Analytics).
Following on from that they have updated their configuration for Google Analytics, which they say has reduced unexpected traffic source keywords in Google Analytics reports.
Additionally, they have expanded the available features within Google Analytics to include information about Etsy’s site search.

GoDaddy, one of the USA’s largest and most noticeable web hosting services, threw it’s hat into the ecommerce ring this month by announcing it’s opening a new marketplace.
The pre-launch announcement was also covered by Auctiva, and AuctionBytes interviewed Jonathan Cottrell, General Manager of Marketing Solutions at GoDaddy.com.  GoDaddy charges sellers $4.99/month to list on the [...]

Bonanzle’s “Buy” page had been bugging Bill Harding due to the left-side boxes looking antiquated, and having a secondary search box (confusing), some “browse by” choices that did not separate cleanly from the choices below the Bonanzas box, and an annoying requirement of making a buyer click twice to get to some of the most [...]