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Why Ebay must win their court battle

The recent ruling against ebay in which there were fined £31M over selling fakes has a deeper seedier issue associated with it. In the background there’s a clear restriction of trade issue, there’s a battle to ruin consumer choice and ebay have to win their appeal.
The European Union need to step in here, slap the […]

Ebay execs still don’t get it

Ebay live has just finished and I’ve been following events. The disappointing thing is that I’m reading a lot of negative comments. Although I’m mightily disappointed with ebay, it’s clear that many other people are too.
However that aside, the ebay execs just don’t get it and I’m at a loss to understand how they can’t […]

Ebay’s silver lining

Enough about Ebay already, I know I know. I’ve been very critical of ebay and remain so. Indeed I’d say it’s getting worse with the new 30 day non performing seller rules. Ebay are kidding only themselves with these changes and in times of a global credit crunch, they really are making some amazing decisions. […]

Ebay feedback gets negative response

I won’t sell on ebay these days, I wanted to but I saw the announcement on the forthcoming changes earlier in the year and decided I didn’t like the policies. Now those policies are kicking in and the reaction is largely negative.
The new feedback changes are in place in Australia and the UK, and they’ll […]

Virtual worlds growing up

“tax doesn’t have to be taxing” is the slogan from the UK tax authorities, oh yes it does is the answer from UK citizens. However it’s not just in the UK where tax is taxing. There’s a whole plethora of ways where tax authorities are looking to tax their citizens and in terms of virtual […]

Twitter

I’m declaring 2008 the year of twitter type blogging. This means I’m going to do lots of short updates!
Ok ok as it’s been ages again, I’ll start by saying that I don’t know what’s worse, Scoble being banned by facebook or being let back
in. He either deserved the ban or he didn’t and it’s disappointing […]