Earlier today, the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris, France ordered eBay to pay 38.6 million euros ($61 million) in damages to the French luxury goods company Louis Vuitton (LVMH), regarding the sale of counterfeits online. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by LVMH back in the Fall of 2006. Since that time eBay has…

Each year, the eBay Internal Communications team sets up an interactive floor map of the Solutions Center at eBay Live that employees, who are unable to attend the conference, can access. I wanted to see if I could take the interactive map and make it accessible to eBay Ink readers this year. Unfortunately, given the…

I missed this one while I was out of the office last week…eBay partnered with ChoDienTu.vn , a Vietnamese online marketplace. As I understand it, ChoDienTu.vn will evolve into an eBay co-branded site where individuals and businesses in Vietnam can participate in local trade as well as international trade via eBay’s global websites. The new…

eBay launched a long-term Call for Action campaign in Brussells yesterday, aimed at reforming the current European Union (EU) Competition, Consumer and Trademark Law. The launch meeting called on the EU to modernize competition, consumer and trademark law in order to address what it labeled “digital protectionism.” The key speakers at the event (in the…

We’ve talked about shipping costs here on Ink a few times in the past and it came up regularly during the eBay Live! sessions last week. An article on CNNMoney.com yesterday broke it down further. Referencing free shipping from Amazon and Barnes & Noble (with purchases over $25) and other incentive programs from Lowe’s, Sears…

eBay has acquired VUVOX (pronounced “view-vox”) to help further develop rich media capabilities in the eBay marketplace. At first glance, the integration of VUVOX into eBay is aimed at creating an enhanced customer experience using the personal media tools and applying them to listings and pages on ebay.com. From the VUVOX website: VUVOX is an…

And so my first eBay DevCon and eBay Live! came to a close on Saturday night. I managed to make it home to SF safe and sound last night (albeit with a bit of head cold – I’m typing this from my couch with a lot of tissues and hot water with lemon). There was…

Another day is coming to a close here in lovely (but slightly overcast) Chicago and, with the exception of Monday night, I haven’t had a chance to see much of the city so I plan on getting out for a little R&R this evening… Before I do though, a few things to report on from…

One would think that a conference center in a hotel in downtown Chicago would allow you to connect to the outside world. One would think that and one would be wrong. I arrived at the ballroom at 7am this morning ready to set up my “blogging station” so I could report live from eBay’s annual…

Quite a bit of news coming out of the first day of eBay Live! 08 today. A press release was issued earlier today outlining how eBay plans to improve protections for buyers and sellers. Buyers who pay with PayPal will be protected on eligible transactions for 100% of an item’s purchase price – with no…