Online Classifieds
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 [...]
Looking ahead at retail for 2009…
I have been spending a little time this week thinking about 2009 and retail in general. Although I haven’t been able to speak to too many other sellers recently the ones I have spoken to are hinting at the same issues. Prices are all going up, thanks to the current exchange rate (1 Australian dollar [...]
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 [...]
Carsales.com.au announces some strong profit growth
Carsales.com.au (the leader in the Australian auto classifieds online market – a market in which we compete) has recorded a strong growth in revenue(up 62% to $46.2mil) and EBITDA up 99% to $17.1mil. This resulted in a reported net profit of $11.8million for the financial year.
