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[Internetstockblog.com] The Internet Stock Blog: Are merchants leaving Shopping.com (SHOP)?: Internet businesses have the (unique) ability to guage the impact of price changes almost instantaneously. Rapid feedback on its recent price hike is probably what led eBay to partially reverse it a short time later, for example. So it would be surprising if Shopping.com's price rise indeed led to significant and damaging merchant defections without the company doing something to counter that. Bottom line: expect a near-term reversal of the price rise, or assume that only weaker (and lower revenue-generating) merchants are being driven from the site.

[Internetstockblog.com] The Internet Stock Blog: SHOP price hike suggests increased ...: That's further fueled by two factors: (1) More merchants buying ads drives up PPC prices. This is particularly true as more offline merchants move online. (2) As ecommerce businesses become more efficient, for example by using analytics to reduce the rate of shopping cart abandonment, their profitability goes up. That raises their ROI on PPC ads, which in turn drives a further price rise for PPC ads since PPC ad pricing is determined by auction.

[Blog.searchenginewatch.com] eBay Goes Shopping and Acquires Shopping.com: Lorrie Norrington, president and chief executive of Shopping.com, said the deal will bring Shopping.com users broader choices. The Brisbane, Calif., company, which will be operated as a separate eBay business, plans to marry its Epinions product and merchant review system with eBay's seller and buyer "feedback" system, which lets buyers and sellers rate their experience.

[Organizedshopping.com] Organized Shopping Blog - news about shopping search engines and ...: The announced acquisition of eBay and Shopping.com got me thinking about a friend who is an online retailer. Several years ago, he sold computer cables on eBay to make extra money while in college. Rapid turnover lead to a growing inventory that soon filled every nook and cranny of living space, like a scene from the movie, The Blob. Eventually, his catalog grew to over a thousand products, and he went from the simplest website possible (one-page .

[Blog.exclusiveconcepts.com] The Online Marketing Blog: Individuals, small businesses, and some larger businesses post products for auction on eBay, and also maintain "stores" within the eBay website where shoppers can make purchases without bidding. eBay sellers must maintain a presence on eBay to participate. This means that the shopper never leaves eBay to make a purchase, and the sellers must coordinate a system to process orders through eBay.

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