The fighting and arguing at IMA, as it appears from the outside, boils down to nothing more than a teenage prepubescent firestorm over he-said she-said and a power struggle to gain control.
Posts Tagged ‘PeSA’
IMA Disbanding? - Discourse in the Ranks - Transparency Issues - What?
Posted in News, commentary, ecommerce, tagged Auction Bytes, ECMTA, eCommerce Trade, Ethics, IMA, IMA Board, Ina Steiner, Internet Merchants Association, Internet Trade organization, PeSA on July 3, 2008 | 61 Comments »
eBay Live 2008 PESA Round Table - Brian Burke Answers Questions
Posted in eBay, eBay Live 2008, tagged Brian Burke, eBay, eBay Live 2008, ECMTA, ecommerce, PeSA on June 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the events of the day yesterday in the PESA Pavilion was a round table session with Brian Burke of Feedback Fame at eBay.
Past Neutral Feedback Ratings Converted to Negatives by eBay
Posted in News, commentary, eBay information, tagged eBay, Tamebay, PeSA, feedback 2.0, ebay feedback, ebay neutral feedback, post dating feedback on May 16, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Neutral feedbacks from the past are being manually converted to negatives in sellers feedback profiles! eBay is doing just that, changing past neutrals into negatives with a visual change from a grey mark to a red in the feedback profiles.
Review - eCommerce Summit ECMTA PeSA 2008 vs Catalyst Pinehurst 2008
Posted in Catalyst, News, PeSA ECMTA Summit 2008, commentary, eBay, tagged catalyst 2008, Channel Advisor, eBay, ECMTA, eCommerce Summit 2008, Habitat For Humanity, Lorrie Norrington, New Orleans, PeSA, Pinehurst, Scot Wingo on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently (yesterday while in the NOLA airport via a Twitter Tweet from a friend) I was asked to compare this year’s Summit event with the recent Channel Advisor Catalyst conference held in Pinehurst, NC.
eBay Estimator BACK - Best Match Survival - Optimize Your eBay Listing Title’s BayEstimate
Posted in News, eBay information, tagged eBay, PeSA, Best Match, eBay estimator, eBay Tool, Title Tool, eBay Listings on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The eBay Estimator Title Tool is Back!
eBay Research has relaunched the eBay Estimator and given the tool a new Title:
Optimize Your eBay Listing Title’s BayEstimate
BayEstimate? Guess the name is as good as any…
I have not had much of a chance to check out the newly revised version of the title tool. I felt it was important [...]
eBay Estimator Title Tool Will Return - Will BEST MATCH Bug be Corrected?
Posted in News, commentary, eBay Tool, eBay information, tagged Best Match, Best Match Bug, eBay estimator tool, eBay Spin, eBay Tool, ECMTA, PeSA on April 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
As it is now, Best Match is an unfair system advantaging both high volume sellers and crafty scammers who know how to game the system. Did anyone at eBay seriously believe that people would not find this very serious bug, did eBay not test these types of search protocols before releasing Best Match?
PeSA ECMTA DSRs Conference Call - Final Analysis - What Sellers Should Know
Posted in eBay, eBay Business, eBay information, tagged Best Match, Conference Call, DSR's, eBay, eBay & Beyond, ECMTA, ecommerce, Feedback, PeSA, Trading Assistant Journal on April 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Brandon Dupsky of ECMTA hosted today’s special invitation conference call for PeSA/ECMTA members and selected invitees of the Trading Assistant Journal and eBay & Beyond Internet Radio Show.
The call, focusing on the reality of DSRs (Detailed Seller Ratings) and how they effect eBay sellers’ businesses, was held at 5PM Eastern time on Thursday, April 10th, [...]
eBay Detailed Seller Ratings DSR’s HELP Call in or Listen -Thursday PESA ECMTA
Posted in eBay, eBay Business, eBay information, tagged Conference Call, DSR, eBay Buyer Experience, eBay DSR, eBay Help, eBay Rules, ECMTA, ecommerce, PeSA on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
DSR’s getting you down?
Don’t know what to do about the eBay Star ratings, having trouble figuring out the whole new concept eBay is promoting as the “Buyer Experience”? Trouble with Best Match?
You are not Alone!
eBay has initiated numerous radical changes in the last several months and you are not the only one trying to keep [...]






























IMA Membership - Are you better off? Internet Merchants Association Debacle Worth It?
Posted in commentary, ecommerce, tagged PeSA, IMA, Internet Merchants Association, Internet Trade organization, Members Banned on July 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I have received letter upon letter, obviously written by very upset and almost physically shaken individuals who in most cases simply wanted to belong to a fair and honest group of like minded people.
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