HONG KONG, August 24, 2010 – Alibaba.com (HKSE: 1688.HK) (HK.1688), the world’s leading e-commerce company for small business, has entered into an agreement to acquire Auctiva, the leading third-party developer of tools for eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) sellers. With more than 170,000 active users, Auctiva provides a variety of listing, marketing and management tools as well as image hosting [...]

Auctiva, a leader in tools for online sellers, is launching AMP – the Auctiva Marketplace Platform. AMP takes item information from thousands of individual e-commerce stores and groups them together into one platform that developers can use to build custom marketplaces and applications. This simple idea offers an opportunity never before seen in the e-commerce [...]

Why in the world do people care what I think? I am not trying to be funny, I am being serious here. I am "just a squirrel trying to get a nut", either that or I am just a NUT, you can take your pick, LMAO So I write a story that gives an example [...]

In my video on the new Auctiva price increase I was rather critical of the timeframe given for sellers to adjust. When you move from free to $9.95 or as much as  $34.95 a month PLUS transaction fees, that is like and INFINATE price increase. That is like going from 0-60 mph on the Superman [...]

Why oh why is the eBayosphere all up in arms? Well it is quite simple. Back in September 2008 eBay changed its policy for what is known as “round tripping” links. Ebay pays affiliates for driving traffic to eBay through ads, websites and keywords etc. Many of these affiliate will set up shops that contain [...]

I did the initial story that had just the facts on the Auctiva fee change. But not lets get down to the REAL nitty gritty. What should you DO? Well I say you should at least watch this video. This is about you business and your ability to remain profitable. This saga is just beginning [...]

OK, so some were reading a story in the AuctionBytes web site and then my email and phone started to "blow up". So I am like…WTF is going on? Why is there so much commotion? So then I get around to the email to see a press release from Auctiva.com and here is the ENTIRE [...]

So now after 5 DAYS…Auctiva “TURNS OFF THE CHINESE “MONSTER” VIRUS”. MAN, did I almost call this scenario on the Emergency Call with Dwight Miller from Sunday? HELLO!!! I think some may have thought my constant reporting of this starting on Saturday was not a “big deal”?!? Seemed like I was screaming in the wind, [...]

This morning I am HAPPY to report that the issues with Auctiva and their “malicious software” has been resolved. I was able to get to the Auctiva pages will NO ALERTS from Google. The tag of malicious site has been REMOVED! The pending status is good news for ALL the sellers that use the tool. [...]