Phishing or buyer loyalty program?
Buyers are reporting what they first thought was a phishing scheme (note to ebay: you guys have to get better at this type of communication), but appears to be a real test for buyers.
Here’s a sample of the text:
Earn eBay Bucks for your purchases*
– then get 30 days to splurge!
Dear XXXXX,
(NOTE: this would be USERID, but I blanked out to protect identity)
eBay announced today there will not be an eBay Live in 2009 (skipping a year), but that they are going to be in Orlando in 2010.
I’m out in Salt Lake City (first time - very scenic!) today at Overstock’s 2008 Partner Summit.
Background:
ChannelAdvisor is one of two vendors that are directly connected into Overstock’s backend which allows our customers to post their products directly into the Overstock shopping site.
**UPDATE on the post below***
Usher who works in eBay’s PR department posted a comment that I wanted to surface here on the main post:
Scot - on the 63/30 question:
63% of ALL PowerSellers got *at least* a 5% discount.
Tuesday afternoon we concluded the UK ChannelAdvisor Catalyst event with a flurry of activity.
Play.com’s head of their marketplace (called PlayTrade), Luke Taylor presented an interesting overview of PlayTrade.
