Auctions had experienced negative growth for over a year so if Cassini can increase Auctions without impacting Fixed Price transactions it should be positive for eBay’s results.

"I do believe eBay is going to stop the auctions and go Fixed price, a la Amazon," a reader wrote to me this evening, sending along a screenshot of their auction re-listings showing the default …

It also marked the beginning of eBay transformation from a purely auction-based platform to a more traditional e-commerce site. This shift was crucial for , as it allowed the company to …

First, eBay is increasingly attracting large retailers to trade in its ultra-efficient marketplace that gives them access to 114 million registered users. Second, these professional merchants want …

The cause of this shift is cited as an evolution to compete with other agencies such as Amazon, which has been growing at a faster rate than eBay. It is on this point that the article stops, just …

Auctions were very popular in the early days of internet commerce, but today online sellers mostly use posted prices. We model the choice between auctions and posted prices as a trade-off …

We know that somewhere in the region of 80% of eBay sales are now Fixed Price items. The Auction format, which accounted for 100% of sales when eBay launched, has been in decline …

The small sellers who had driven eBay's early growth were encouraged to shift away from the auction format and move toward the fixed-price sales model. eBay adjusted its fees and …

Other auction sites sprang up, but network effects—the more buyers eBay had, the more sellers it attracted, which in turn attracted more buyers, and so on—made the company difficult to beat.

the latest wired magazine has a fascinating piece on the decline of online auctions. it notes that even ebay, whose name was once synonymous with auctions, now only gets 31 percent of its …

Unlike eBay’s auction model, Amazon offered fixed prices, fast shipping, and a straightforward shopping experience. Consumers increasingly favored the certainty and convenience of …

This direct competition, albeit with a different model (fixed-price sales, no auctions), started to eat into eBay’s growth, especially for new products. Many sellers who once focused on eBay …