Free Shipping Episode II - An A/B Paid-search test..

Free shipping is a hot topic with eBay sellers these days (more to come on the topic) and I thought you maybe interested in some results that our COO, David Spitz, is reporting on over at sister blog - SearchMarketing.com.

Tying this back to the eBay world - eBay is one of the largest buyers of paid-search advertising.

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How Amazon develops ‘products’/offerings…

Over on sister-blog, Amazon Strategies, we just posted an article that details how Amazon releases new offerings and then we give a list of the offerings of interest to retailers like Prime, Merchants@ and where they are in that framework.

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Amazon news item - Amazon’s under the radar private label.

Over on Amazon strategies we have news of Amazon's private label - Pinzon.

Seeking Alpha Disclosure - I am long Amazon, Google and eBay is an investor in ChannelAdvisor.

Amazon news item - Amazon’s under the radar private label.

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Why isn’t PayPal more successful?

Fred Wilson is a venture capitalst who I've never had the pleasure of working with, but I read his blog regularly and he posited an interesting question today about why PayPal isn't actually more wide-spread than it is.

As is frequently the case with Fred's posts, the real value-add is in the comments.

Give the post+comments a read as I think eBay Strategies readers will find it of interest as well.

Do you think PayPal has a big brand/customer service problem out there?

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Is eBay’s ‘real’ threat Amazon or classifieds (or both?)

I did this interview with Business Week about classifieds today and it got me thinking….

On this blog I've spent a good bit of time comparing eBay vs. Amazon's seller business.

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