February 18, 2008
eBay sellers are rebelling against the recently announced fee changes and policy changes at eBay.
Chief among the the offending changes is the increased final value fee — the percentage of a product’s sale sale price that goes to eBay.
I really appreciated the semantics that eBay used in announcing its fee changes. Their official announcement said [...]
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January 15, 2008
Amazon.com has decided to pay fines worth $1,500 day rather than comply with a court order prohibiting the company from offering free shipping to its customers in France.
According to the article at the International Herald Tribune, the French law prohibits discounting books by more than 5 percent (and Amazon’s free shipment counts as a discount). [...]
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