eBay Android app is available for free at the Android Market
/ February 17, 2010 63 COMMENTS

The eBay Android app is now available for free at the Android Market and can be downloaded by searching “eBay” from the Android Market on your handset. In addition to traditional type search, the eBay application – like most Android apps – comes enabled with speech-to-text voice search. Simply tap the microphone button near the search bar and say what you’re searching for. The app will then automatically search for that item…

eBay Seller Release: Behind the Scenes
/ January 27, 2010 1 COMMENTS

All, I’m still answering specific questions through email and comments here on Ink but in the meantime, I wanted to share a little sneak peak into what is happening behind the scenes. In addition to our usual Customer Service call center and PR efforts around news like this, we have also established two dedicated Communications…

VIDEO: Andrew Chase talks from eBay Customer Service Center
/ January 26, 2010 0 COMMENTS

The following video was recorded earlier today at eBay’s Customer Service HQ in Salt Lake City, Utah. Andrew Chase (aka @ebay_andy) has joined me on past podcasts to help answer seller questions around previous announcements we’ve made in the marketplace. I find him an extremely knowledgeable and unsung hero for our community – similar to…

VIDEO Interview with Lynda Talgo regarding eBay Buyer Protection
/ January 26, 2010 5 COMMENTS

I was also able to spend some time with Lynda Talgo, Senior Director of Resolutions at eBay, to discuss the eBay Buyer Protection news coming out of today’s Seller Release in more detail. What follows is a 3-part, face-to-face with Lynda in the lobby of the Community building at San Jose HQ. Again, like the video conversation with Dinesh, I’ve embedded the questions right into the videos.

VIDEO Interview with Dinesh Lathi about eBay Seller Release
/ January 26, 2010 13 COMMENTS

I was able to spend some time with Dinesh Lathi, VP of Buyer and Seller Experience at eBay, to discuss the news coming out of today’s Seller Release (eBaySR) in more detail. I did my best to anticipate some of the more challenging questions that may be on Ink reader’s minds and posed them to Dinesh (I realize you’ll have a ton more… and I’m happy to ask those too). What follows is a 7-part, comprehensive sit-down discussion with Dinesh in the lobby of the Community building at San Jose HQ. I’ve embedded the questions right into the videos.

eBay "Seller Release" Announces Fee Changes, Stores Subscription Packages & Buyer Protection
/ January 26, 2010 55 COMMENTS

eBay announced some significant changes to the selling and buying experience in the US marketplace today. Beginning March 30, sellers across the board will be able to experience lower up-front cost (in some instances zero up-front cost) when listing items on ebay.com.

To Date: Over $5.5 Million in relief for Haiti through eBay & PayPal
/ January 25, 2010 0 COMMENTS

Every time I think I’ve seen it all, the power of the individual, coming together with their fellow man/woman, comes face-to-face with my expectations and blows them out of the water. I received a very brief but powerful email overnight that contained two statistics I wanted to share with all of you. eBay A reminder…

My Favorite eCommerce Podcasts
/ January 21, 2010 6 COMMENTS

For those of you who don’t know, my previous “job” (I put the term in quotes because neither feel like your typical job) was acting as a kind of A&R agent for independent producers on a network called Mevio (then called PodShow). As a result, I still find myself following the hundreds of shows of…

eBay Inc. Q4FY09 Twitter Session: Cautionary Language
/ January 20, 2010 0 COMMENTS

This twitter session contains non-GAAP measures relating to the company’s performance. You can find the reconciliation of those measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measures here. This Twitter session may make forward-looking statements relating to our future performance that are based on our current expectations, forecasts and assumptions and involve risks and uncertainties. These statements…

eBay Inc Reports Q4 2009 Earnings
/ January 20, 2010 0 COMMENTS

eBay Inc. announced earnings for Q4 and full year ended December 31, 2009. Fourth-quarter revenue was $2.4 billion, up 16% from the same period last year. This includes the $112 million in revenue from Skype during the period that we still fully owned it. The year-over-year increase was attributed primarily to “excellent growth in PayPal…