The company used to vet companies based on their eBay sales account and other information.
But business mashps are catching on, and they are likely to be huge at Salesforce, which has 280 business software mashups that offer ways to track eBay sales activity on Salesforce's record-keeping software or ways to tell where clients are using Google maps.
To stay on their good sides, Ebay bans the sales of stocks and bonds on its site.
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EBay's sales for the last three months of 2012 topped analysts' forecasts as the online marketplace saw strong trading over the Christmas period.
Despite the company's push to convince large retailers and computer makers to sell their surplus on Ebay, that business remains at only about 4% of Ebay's sales, the same as a year ago.
While there are sites like eBay where such sales are popular, Poshmark simplifies the process, says Chandra, who previously was founder and CEO of Kaboodle, which was acquired by Hearst Corp in 2007.
But Ebay category managers are making sales calls to large corporations.
On Cyber Monday in November, traditionally seen as the start of holiday shopping season, sales transactions on eBay's mobile applications more than doubled from the year before.
By developing apps with cool tools and a social network-style environment, eBay hopes to bump up sales even higher than the current average of 9, 200 cars and 383, 982 car parts sold via mobile devices each week.
Well, 80% of the retailers surveyed by Edgell Network and eBay Local said they expect their sales to be negatively impacted by an average of 5% because of showrooming.
Sales have been crimped by Ebay sellers and carmakers themselves, which are putting in better stereos at the factory. (A few audio companies make money that way but at lower margins.) Audio equipment company Kicker this year reduced its budget for its dB Drag team.
On eBay, however, the goal is higher sales or what the industry calls conversion.
By the time Donahoe's succession was announced in January of this year, he was returning to those "convenience-oriented buyers" and talking up Ebay as a channel for fixed-price sales.
EBay turned mom-and-pop garage sales into national businesses.
Like other ecommerce sites, the faster that searches on eBay can be accomplished, the higher the possible sales.
At age 10 he started buying books and other "low-end stuff" at garage sales and re-selling it on eBay.
Over the years, I've heard repeatedly from small business owners who sell in the eBay marketplace and other online channels that expanding Internet sales taxes to all transactions would hurt their ability to grow or create jobs and to fuel the price and service competition that creates value for consumers.
It has released Same Store Sales (SSS) data for Amazon, eBay, comparison shopping and search on a monthly basis from December 2011 to December 2012.
EBay says that online clubs command 20% of online fashion sales in Europe.
Melanie Tan, the vice president of eBay, said the firm had seen a rise in its sales in China and was keen to explore further growth options.
While Amazon saw a 45% increase in sales over last Green Monday, Wingo points out that eBay (up 25% for the month of December to date) is cashing in on coveted items that have sold out in brick and mortar outlets.
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The operator of the world's biggest online marketplace, eBay, has agreed to partner with a Chinese firm to boost its sales in the country.
Gurian also likes eBay (nasdaq: EBAY - news - people ) because of its strong growth in sales and profits.
It does not buy goods to sell on, like a retailer, nor does it organise individual sales or write the catalogue, as an offline auctioneer would. eBay's sellers write their own descriptions, set their own prices, establish their own terms, and collect the money from their own sales.
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During the sting, SIIA officials scanned Web sites of eBay, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSNBC.com and smaller auction sites for software sales.
Former eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman acquired its stake in the belief that Skype would help accelerate online sales if the buyers and sellers on the online-auction site used the service to communicate.
Richard Thomas of Traffic told CNN that Internet sales of ivory was potentially a major problem that was difficult to combat, but said eBay had been good at monitoring and removing anything illegally posted for sale on the site.
Now, Lebenthal often combs eBay for vintage jewelry finds from designers such as Kenneth Jay Lane, and she regularly peruses online sample sales.
As a result, recent industry research conducted by the Edgell Knowledge Network (EKN) and eBay Local found that eight in 10 retailers expect such showrooming to average about a 5% loss of sales during the 2012 holiday season.
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There are mashups that let you see which products are selling best on eBay , that help manage the sale of foreclosed property through a network of real estate agents, or merge sales information with data mining from analysis firm Business Objects .
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