ChannelAdvisor announce Insite/Academy dates for 2008

July 11, 2008

ChannelAdvisor have released the dates for their 2008 Insite tour which takes in five cities across the UK. The Insite conference is a must for sellers considering or using multiple channels to market (and if you’re not already we’d strongly recommend that you do).

The full day conference looks at industry trends, best practices and advanced strategies for maximising profits across marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, along with shopping comparison engines and paid search.

If you’re missing eBay Universities which aren’t running in 2008 then attending one of the Insite days is a must. The dates are:

  • London – 21st August, 2008;
  • Newcastle – 16th September 2008;
  • Birmingham – 2nd October 2008;
  • Glasgow – 16th October 2008;
  • Manchester - 23rd October 2008

Academy is for ChannelAdvisor clients only, but attending Insite is open to all online retailers. I’ve attended Insite for the last two years and highly recommend spending just one day out of the year for an overview of today’s market and a roadmap of changes expected in the next 12 months.

You can book online for Insite on the ChannelAdvisor website.

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Events | 11 Comments 

200k Shopping.com items appear on eBay

March 1, 2008

This post was written in March 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

The eBay boards have lit up with the news that hundreds of thousands of suprious listings appeared on the eBay.com over the weekend.

User names such as sdc_prod_9124_14 with some 48,000 eBay listings appeared, although currently all the listings appear to have been removed. SDC is the acronym for shopping.com, the shopping comparison site owned by eBay.

sdc_prod_9124_14The listings had no bid/bin links, simply a link to add to watched items leading so speculation that eBay are using them to increase listing numbers. A more rational explanation is that some one made an error in launching Shopping.com listings onto eBay and the error was swiftly reversed.

In all cases I’ve been able to find the items that appeared on eBay are still valid Shopping.com listings. An example is the screen shot Auctionbytes captured, the Olympus Evolt E10 Starter Kit listed on eBay under the user sdc_prod_301013_74 is still available to view on Shopping.com. Links in the eBay item description confirmed it belonged to The Twister Group who listed the product on Shopping.com.

It’s known that at least 212,000 listings appeared across a dozen eBay User IDs, in comparison to the 12 - 13 million listings on eBay.com at any one time the influx of Shopping.com listings represent just over 1.6% of the total listings on the site.

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 6 Comments