STEVE WODA'S BLOG

AuctionBytes Report on Online Buying Survey, Part 1 Why do people shop online? How do they find items, and what factors are important to them in making purchasing decisions? These are some of the questions we set out to explore in our December online-buying survey. Over 900 people took the survey. By aggre Scoble Finds Out Facebook Is the Jealous Sort – Advertising Age – Adages Robert Scoble, he of many thousand friends on Facebook, was suspended from the social network after

Procrastinators head to stores this week: NRF survey – DMNews As the holiday shopping season is getting shorter, the biggest procrastinators are men, according to NRF’s 2007 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch. The survey found that 19.4% of men had yet to begin their holiday sho Buyers of illegal software can get rewards when they blow whistle Software pirates who peddle their goods on eBay, watch out. A software industry trade group is h

AuctionBytes.com, one of my favorite ecommerce news sources, is conducting another survey to study online shopping behavior. The survey explores a number of areas that are important for small business ecommerce merchants to fully understand about their customers. If you have a few extra minutes, I encourage you to complete this survey. Ina Steiner, the editor, will publish the survey results in a few weeks, and I will make sure to share with you as well. You can complete t

AuctionBytes’ Ina Steiner reported this week that an anti-trust lawsuit was recently filed against eBay. ‘Michael Malone filed an antitrust class-action lawsuit against eBay this week under the Sherman Act, alleging eBay "utilizes its nationwide monopoly of the on-line auction market to monopolize the available forms of payment that sellers can use on eBay." eBay controls which payment methods sellers may advertise in their listings, and this year, it eliminated buyer-protect