Seven. It’s just a number like any other, but it does seem to come up on a fairly regular basis.
There’s the Seven Wonders of the World, The Seven Deadly Sins, and the Seven Dwarfs: Happy, Sneezy, Sleepy, Bashful, Doc, Dopey, and my personal favorite, Grumpy.
Phone numbers are seven digits, and they say the optimum [...]

ShopVisible, the cart and listing service we reviewed several weeks back, has announced they have enhanced site security with ControlScan.
Within the announcement they state that membership protection will be enhanced by ControlScan, who provide a comprehensive security suite that ensures PCI Compliance and up-to-date standardised website safety for online sales, breach protection, and customer-sensed security.
ShopVisible’s [...]

ShopVisible LLC is a multi-channel shopping cart integration service with tools for many of the most popular platforms, including Amazon, Craigslist, and eBay.  Their tools suite also provides multi-channel payments processing including Google Checkout, PayPal, and now also Checkout by Amazon.
In addition to these “standard” ecommerce tools, they also provide shopping carts, product search tools [...]

There was a time, not too long ago, when the concept of online wish lists meant that each site had to add a software script to their site, and users had to direct family and friends to the particular site.  They then had to know how to find the wish lists of people they knew, [...]

If you’re a Sellathon user, you’ll have noticed the changes to the Sellathon site – at least according to an email that hit my inbox this last week.
It seems things are moving apace after Auctiva acquired the company, and these have been accelerated since eBay made a number of significant changes that threatened to [...]

Darrell MacMullin, the country manager for PayPal in Canada, has announced the introduction of a trio of services that bring the Canadian subsidiary in line with the major sites in the UK, US, and Germany.
One of the new tools now available on Canada is PayPal Website Payments Pro, and with it comes PayPal Express Checkout, [...]

The blogosphere is alive with talk of eBay Inc acquiring instant credit provider and payments service Bill Me Later.  In fact everyone is jumping the gun a little …
The official PayPal Blog and the announcement from PayPal President Scott Thompson states, “Today, eBay reached a definitive agreement to acquire Bill Me Later. ” and continues, [...]

eBay.com.au and PayPal.com.au have teamed up to run a competition for buyers, encouraging them to pay with PayPal on their mobile phone for items bought on eBay up to 30th September. There’s the chance of winning a $25,000 prize based on a series of cascading prize draws.

Australia has been a hot-bed of innovation in the mobile-phone based payments industry for several years, with initiatives from several of their banks based around home-grown developments by local inventors and entrepreneurs. It’s no surprise therefore for PayPal Australia to be entering this market at a time when the plastic card could be replaced by built-in applications on cell phones.

Representatives of European and North American payment networks will attend the inaugural meeting of the International Council of Payment Network Operators in London on September 22, 2008.

The ICPNO brings together payment networks from around the world addressing growing demand for a safer way to transact online. The ICPNO was established in 2008 to set common standards and rules for global interoperability of payment networks. These payment network operators offer a new form of alternate payment which is rapidly gaining market and consumer acceptance, allowing consumers to make payments to online merchants using their chosen financial institution’s online banking website.

After two years of incessant price increases, and being told the major fee revisions in January and last week were price decreases, which does not agree with the actuality, many eBay sellers are extremely price sensitive when looking at new channels. For that reason, most have expressed a preference for building their own ecommerce website and many serviced, script-based, store providers have emerged in the last year. Many of those providers have built their offerings on the back of customised versions of the open source osCommerce web store software – still the best and most powerful of the generic offerings on the web.

Thus it was with great surprise and welcome enthusiasm that I discovered (by accident) a new service called “shopit” yesterday …

Unlike eBay, AuctionsUnited encourage members to advertise their own sites, email address, telephone number and any other contact information they want to, as well as their businesses, in the item listings and within the free stores. This would appear to be self-defeating for a company that wants to monetise the listing and sale of goods on their site, and could well become so, were it not for some interesting loyalty and promotional schemes.

The Doba wholesale supply and dropshipping company provides a top class dropshipping and wholesale service for those involved in internet retail marketing. Many people make their money by retailing products online, especially using online auction sites such as eBay, and companies such as Doba are a godsend to them.

Harald and the team at osCommerce.com have announced this week that version 2.2 RC2 is now in public release.
This is backed up by the removal of RC1 from the osCommerce site’s main download sections, replaced with both the full, and upgrade, downloads, documentation, and migration code from earlier versions.  The code for earlier versions is [...]

In the UK, the 5th of November is the annual Bonfire Night and Fireworks Festival, held annually to commemorate (or commiserate) the unsuccessful attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the British Houses of Parliament, or Westminster Palace as it was then.
On planet eBay, 5th November 2007 will be remembered for many things -

India [...]