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Online Retailer 2009 in Sydney – the State of Online Retail in Australia
I just got back from Online Retailer in Sydney. It was the first event of it’s type in Australia, attracting over 2500 attendees and a good number of exhibitors.
I had opportunity to talk to many of the attendees, catch up with many other online retailers and also interviewed people like Armand , VP of Global [...]
eBay Australia Pricing Changes – a Positive Move!
eBay this morning released some news regarding their upcoming pricing chances. In summary, no changes will be made to auction fees but store fees and insertion/final value fees will change.
Also, store listings will again appear in core search (mixed in with auction listings) using Bestmatch, eBay’s search algorithm in use in various ways around the [...]
Want to grow your eBay business?
Want to grow your eBay business?
Then consider attending this years PeSA event in Sydney, called ‘Survive & Thrive’.
PeSA is the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the Australian arm is holding this year’s seller event in Sydney. Last years was a great success with hundreds otf attendees, and I think this years will be even bigger.
Tickets [...]
eBay 2.0. Or is it all too late?
It has been a little while since I read Scot Wingo’s blog, and he had a great post recently that I took the time to read and digest.
It was his own roadmap on how he thinks eBay should change in order to survive.
For those who don’t know, Scot is founder of ChannelAdvisor (software that we [...]
PeSA Australia Summit Wrap-up
Back on deck at work this morning, following up a few people that I met at the Pesa Summit over the last few days.
It was great to meet some readers of my blog, and talk to a lot of sellers. After my panel session on Business Automation my 15 min one on one blocks with [...]
PeSA Australia Summit Day 1
I just got home from the PeSA Australia summit, Navigating Success for Change.
A good turnout with close to 300 signups,s to the Flemington staff were kept busy with coffee and snacks during breaks.
Keynote this morning was from Jonathan Garriss (of Gotham City Online) who has flown in from the US and talked about current opportunity [...]
eBay to Phase Out 3rd Party Checkout
eBay annouced that it is to phase out 3rd party checkout.
This is a move that will impact many thousands of (usually large) eBay sellers.
It will affect us, as we use ChannelAdvisor, as do many larger sellers. ChannelAdvisor’s main markets are US and UK, and they have some very big eBay sellers using their systems.
For us, [...]
The ACCC proposes to revoke immunity for eBay’s PayPal only policy
This afternoon the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, an independent statutory authority formed in 1995 to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974 and other acts in Australia, issued a press release regarding it’s intent toward the pending PayPal only policy change from eBay.com.au.
The press release says:
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a draft [...]
Trading Post Auctions – Initial Feedback
Trading Post launched their auctions 2 days ago now. Since then I have spoken to lots of sellers, from small to very large. What do they think fo Tradingpost Auctions so far? Will they list?
There are a number of Powersellers already listing hundreds of products. I haven’t heard of many sales yet, but there is [...]
Sensis’ Tradingpost Launches Auction Site To Compete With eBay!
This morning tradingpost.com.au has become the newest Australian auction site, to compete head on with eBay Australia.
Tradingpost.com.au (owned by Sensis) is a strong brand name with Australians and been around for many years as a classifieds print publication, and for some time now a website too.
I have never much liked the tradingpost.com.au search and display [...]
