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Hi gang,
Please do me the honor tomorrow of joining myself and John Lawson, aka ColderIce, aka one of Startupnation’s home based business winners, as we discuss what the GSI Commerce deal means for eBay and for YOU, my dear eBay seller nation. Yes, we’ll also be talking about the upcoming fee changes, format changes, the [...]

SAN JOSE (Startupnation.com) - To enhance the recent fee changes that will force sellers to offer free shipping, eBay announced this morning that all sellers must offer their items for sale for free as well.
The new program will be called “FreeBay”, and will be effective as of April 10th.
“We have really been listening to the [...]

Hi Gang,
“Ooohhh, so THAT’S why our fees are so high,” exclaimed eBay’s seller community today after eBay announced that it is acquiring GSI Commerce for $2.4 BILLION in cash and debt.  Hey, I’m an optimist - at least they didn’t buy Skype again!
This is a pretty interesting purchase if you ask me.  A lot of [...]

Hi gang,
How does worm farming + raving + poker playing = Zappos?
What everyone knows about Tony Hsieh is that he’s the Zen Master of Culture at Zappos, a wildly successful shoe website that was just sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion - not bad for 10 years work.  I think what most people don’t know [...]

Hi gang,
eBay’s had a tough week.
Not that it hasn’t been a tough week in general.  Lehman’s gone.  AIG is getting bailed out (I bet that makes Lehman happy - if they would have waited 3 days, maybe they could have received part of the $600 billion the gov is forking over to save the economy).   [...]

Hi gang,
Well, Google pulled off another surprise yesterday and announced that they have been working on a web browser, named Chrome.  They made the beta available for download to the general public and within 1 day, Google has 1% of the browser market!
There are a ton of possibilites here for Chrome to integrate into all [...]

Hi gang,
“Ohhhhhh,  the sun’s not so hot in the sky today.”
“And I can feel summertime slipping on away, yes I can.”
-September Grass,  James Taylor
Believe it or not,  the title of this post and my man James’ quote are actually related.  You see,  I hate summer.  For my business, and I suspect for many businesses,  my [...]

Hi gang,
So I’ve had a week to digest all the new changes that eBay rolled out.  Here’s my opinion of the main changes:
1.  On eliminating checks and money orders -  this will upset people, and eBay will lose a tiny fraction of buyers, but as a seller, I am happy about it.  They are a [...]

Hi gang,
Well,  eBay just got interesting again.Â
Last night, eBay allowed several media outlets to disclose all of the upcoming changes that eBay will be announcing today.
There’s a lot,  and I don’t want to rehash it all - my job will be to break it all down for you.
For some wierd reason,  eBay itself has not [...]