eBay & ecommerce

Belfast Telegraph piece re Brexit and Retail in Northern Ireland

I was pleased last week to get my (hopefully) first byline in the Belfast Telegraph and it looks like I’m in Northern Ireland for 2021 at the very least. So I’m thinking a lot about Brexit, retail, Northern Ireland, Ireland and marketplaces, ecommerce. What I’m still trying to get my head around is what sort …

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mrktplcs 05 Oct 2020

(Original post lives here on mrktplcs.com) Cazoo, the UK used car #marketplace app has raised £240m investment and the company is now valued at over £2 billion (or over $2.5 billion), double its previous valuation. (TechCrunch) Inspiring #ecommerce case study: “In its fifth month since launch, carmats.co.uk achieved 3,157 orders, at an average order value of £36.64, meaning £115,667 …

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Mrktplcs: 10th July 2020

The Covid crisis has changed #ecommerce and #marketplaces in more ways than just ‘people bought more online.’ Increased activity had caused a problematic lack of worldwide warehouse space. (pymnts) (Will this become a bigger problem as we approach peak?)  We’ve seen a possibly important conversion of occasional shoppers into loyal customers. #onlineretail DigitalCommerce360 And also …

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Dan Wilson Book Signing @Waterstone’s in Brighton 17/10/2013, 19:30

If you’re free on Thursday evening this week and find yourself in the Brighton area, it would be lovely to see you at a book signing, talk and Q&A event I’m doing associated with the launch of my new book Make Serious Money on eBay UK, Amazon and Beyond. Waterstones in Brighton is on North …

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PayPal Twitter hack: won’t someone remember the Community Manager?

Several hours ago, the @paypaluk Twitter account was hacked. Whoever took control of it had fun, and Tweeted PayPal criticism and promoted that most critical (and frankly blind and obsessively anti-PayPal site that I’ve known for years whilst only feeling utter pity for the craziness of its contributors) PayPalsucks.com for a while. Those tweets made …

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