eBay UK as announced big changes in their fees. Good coverage on eBay Strategies. Firstly, media (CD’s DVD’s etc.) will attract much lower listing fees (down, for most items, from 35 to 75 pence to 10 pence). However the downside is that success fees have gone up from 5.25%/3.25%/1.75% to a flat 9%. That’s a …
Category Archives: Internet Business
shill bidding on eBay
Shill bidding on eBay is, anecdotally at least, a big problem. eBay’s recent decision to hide the ID’s of other bidders has not helped the community policing. Slashdot has some interesting comments on the issue – including one chap that has the following advice: 1) Never bid on camcorders, computers, automobiles, or any other high …
eBay stock options
eBay paid (page 6) $75m in stock based compensation in the last quarter, and $317m for the year. That’s 5.4% of Gross Profit or 4.3% of revenues. It must be wonderful to have a company with margins like that. With the 12,600 employees in 2005 that would be $25,000 in options granted this year per …
NZ online traffic rankings from alexa….
Very cool summary of NZ site rankings from Projectx, or you can just look at the laest results on Alexa 1: Trade Me isn’t that far behind Google. In the USA eBay is number 5 after Yahoo!, Google, Myspace and MSN. 2: 6Park is bigger than Skykiwi, which was news to me. It has all …
Online Dating – at $3,500 a year
Match.com’s new Platinum service is not a bargain at $3500 a year. They promise personalised matching with Match.com members and (eventually) with other Platinum members. The high end of the dating market really is limitless – personal net worth is not really material when it comes to meeting and marrying the perfect partner. The USA …
Be on Google maps…
If you are in Sydney on Friday then look up and smile…
myspaceNZ
MySpace is launching a New Zealand site. Not a bad idea, if a little late. Three comments: 1: This is NZMusic‘s loss – they failed to make the transition from cool Muso discussion board to cool social networking muso space. 2: Bebo already owns New Zealand, except last time I looked their ads were not …
Real Estate online
Bid4Assets is bragging that they sold $239m in California real estate online since 2000, and $40m in 2006 alone. gee – right now there are 27,930 residential properties listed on Trade Me. At an average price of $300,000 per house that’s $8.379 billion worth of real estate listings. Kinda makes that US$239m in 6 years …
mia rose – youtube launching new artists..
Mia Rose – could she be the next big thing – and thanks to youtube?? It seems that youtube is beating this year’s US American idol for creating recording artists. The music industry is seeing that our media use is moving online – it’s just a matter of time for advertisers to follow…
A better deal fails – DFS online sales
DFS is perplexed (see the photo caption) why not many people take advantage of their 20%-off offers for online or phone shoppers. The aim is to avoid the up to 40% commission that the airports charge on duty free sales. I’ll give them 4 starter reasons: 1: I’ve never seen an online ad for DFS …
geni
geni is pretty cool – they want to build a family tree for the world. Check out the demo. It’s basically social networking family style, and has real potential. But why on earth did “Australasian” Gen-i not own the .com domain name? Is it because they are now owned by Telecom New Zealand? or because …
eBay no longer fun?
One, two , three interesting posts from the eBay eCommerce forum, happening now. ebaystrategies is live blogging from there, and the linked posts are from a presentation by Meg Sloan on consumer research. Some snippets: Meg’s team divide buyers into four categories: – Shopping driven passionates – Convenience driven enthusiasts – Price driven value finders …
Google checkout – aggressive promotions
Google express is aggressively recruiting buyers: Sign up and get US$10 free – which you can spend on anything (excluding post and packaging) from some pretty major retailers – including Buy.com and Toysrus.com. Meanwhile retailers get free processing unti lte end of this year. This is exactly what the wannabe online payments players in New …
eBay Feedback 2.0
Officialy pre-announced: eBay is splitting feedback up into 4 sub categories: – Item description – Communication – Shipping time – S+H terms They will also expire (archive) old feedback, and you’ll only be able to see the last two years of results. First to test this will be (at least) three international sites – Australia, …
mmmmm….
via Stuff – Sam Morgan…. “If you are seeking a chief executive for a company like Telecom, chucking an ad up on Trade Me Jobs is not going to be the sole thing you’ll want to do”…
Lance Wiggs 