Brian Blum | December 12, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
The line between EBay and the classified ad platforms it owns is becoming blurrier. EBay has revealed plans to more closely integrate inventory listings from the... Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | November 28, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Mercari, Japan's most popular mobile-only flea market, is generating handsome amounts of revenue in Japan, and this might have given it the confidence to... Kate Rodriguez | October 27, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
EBay-Kleinanzeigen.de, Germany's No. 1 general classifieds site by a long way, announced earlier this month that it was partnering with Danish company AdForm, to... Brian Blum | October 20, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Classifieds revenue at EBay continued to grow as the company released Q3 FY2016 earnings on Wednesday, albeit at a slightly slower pace. Classified revenue was up... Alessandra Ritondo | July 27, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, People
Goodbye, Luke Miller! And welcome Marco Ottonello, as the new general manager of EBay Classifieds Group in Italy, which operates the free marketplace Kijiji.it and... Brian Blum | July 26, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
A stock analyst who posts on the Seeking Alpha website under the name “Value on the Street” suggested today that EBay should buy marketplace app OfferUp as a way... Luke Smith | July 25, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
EBay is piloting a new program in the U.K. aimed at assisting users to sell unwanted goods on its marketplace. The new pilot program, called EBay Neighborhood, is... Anastasia Gnezditskaia | June 03, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
EBay France launched a section for buying and selling used items (here) at no cost. When the seller lists, he selects whether he wants to sell per auction, or at a... Christo Volschenk | May 02, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
In the global classifieds industry a good idea is quickly copied. OLX Nigeria’s Do-it-for-me upsell, officially launched last week (our report here), was a good... Brian Blum | April 28, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
EBay’s Q1 2016 earnings were modestly higher than expected, leading the stock market to reward the company with a 5-percent bump in its share price. EBay saw a... Léo Siqueira | January 27, 2016 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
MercadoLibre, a Latin American ecommerce player with growing classifieds operations, was elected by LoveMondays as one of the most loved companies in Brazil.... Peter M. Zollman | October 22, 2015 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
How’s this for disappointing? Anyone who --- like us --- was expecting to see some details of the performance of EBay’s classifieds group in its first earnings... Christo Volschenk | July 23, 2015 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
On July 16 EBay released financial results for the last time with business units PayPal and EBay Enterprise included. The next day PayPal and EBay parted ways -... Peter M. Zollman | July 20, 2015 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
Here’s a pretty good overview on the “new” EBay --- which gets back to the basics of being a marketplace now that PayPal has been sliced off. The spin-off was... Sharon Hill | November 18, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
We've covered the Rumgr marketplace several times, and talked about its acquisition by EBay and transition to the mobile-focused Close5 in our annual recruitment... Sharon Hill | October 07, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
Live auctions, which disappeared from EBay back in 2009, have been re-introduced, though in limited categories. The first will be held October 9. EBay shoppers... Andrzej Sowula | September 03, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
Naspers' Allegro.pl cancelled a possibility to sell same items within one auction due to lack of users’ interest. According to Anna Tokarek, PR Brand Manager in... Sharon Hill | August 29, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
We've just tried it ourselves and confirmed that EBay shoppers, at least in the U.S., are unable to bid on items in its Marketplace. According to Ecommerce Bytes... Sharon Hill | August 12, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
Tokyo, Japan-based mobile app developer Mercari has just launched a flea market app for both IOS and Android. The start-up intends to take on Craigslist in the... Christo Volschenk | July 21, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
On the Internet nothing is written in stone. Even the free-to-list proposition, which Kleinanzeigen.ebay.de always presented as a precious cornerstone of its... Christo Volschenk | May 19, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Automotive, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Since Apr. 29 professional auto sellers registered on auto site Mobile.de have been able to also list their used vehicles (not new vehicles) on... Sharon Hill | March 28, 2014 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
EBay Classifieds' Wanted category is a strange duck indeed, though the just-announced team-up with question-and-answer platform Rewarder.com seems a smart first... Christo Volschenk | January 17, 2014 | Classified Recommerce
Sooner or later it had to happen: someone had to build a super-duper, all-in-one site for used-goods trading. Such a site was built in Germany and will launch... AIM Group | October 18, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
The long-running court saga of Craigslist v. EBay has made another baby step towards closure, with Craigslist winning this round. On October 15 documents demanded... Christo Volschenk | July 08, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
As the first big platform in Europe to do it, Poland’s Allegro removed auctions as a transaction method from its platform on June 20. Since then, fixed-price... Christo Volschenk | July 05, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
It was the classic “buy two, get one free” action. Earlier this week EBay Classifieds Group acquired two Belgian general classifieds platforms and got a Dutch... Sharon Hill | July 01, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
Google is working on a new product called Google Mine, which would allow Google+ users to document everything they own and want to own - both intellectual and... Christo Volschenk | June 25, 2013 | Classified Recommerce
Germany’s recommerce sector is drawing ever more attention and money. Yesterday even a French venture capital fund invested in a German recommerce player. But,... Steve Shipside | March 01, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals
EBay France is closing down the classifieds section of its site effective as of the 18th of March in what will be seen as capitulation in the face of arch rival... Christo Volschenk | February 25, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
EBay Marketplaces and PayPal will create 450 new jobs at their European Operations Centre in Dundalk, Ireland in the next three years, to strengthen their customer... 
