All eBay articles
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Interview
Q&A: eBay luxury boss talks Christmas trends and being the ‘original’ secondhand marketplace
With the luxury fashion market in decline, the same can’t be said for pre-loved luxury. Retail Week spoke with eBay’s general manager of global luxury, Mari Corella, about the rise in interest in secondhand luxury fashion, trends ahead of Christmas and what the business has been doing to ensure authenticity
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News
eBay has launched a trade-in option in the UK
eBay has launched a trade-in option in the UK to give customers the opportunity to give new life to their old tech while making extra money.
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News
eBay to open ‘Listings in Lights’ Christmas pop-up
Online marketplace eBay is set to open a pop-up on Tottenham Court Road for two days, offering a range of pre-loved gifts just in time for Christmas.
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Retail Navigator Analysis
eBay (Financials)
eBay delivered a 3.2% rise in group sales to $10.1bn (£8.1bn) for the year ending 31 December 2023 (FY2023). eBay chief executive Jamie Iannone said “Last year, we made significant progress toward our vision to reinvent the future of ecommerce for enthusiasts.”
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News
eBay has expanded its Circular Fashion Fund with fresh investment for start-ups
Online marketplace eBay has announced the expansion of its Circular Fashion Fund (CFF), which plans to deliver $1.2m (£921,000) investment in business start-ups by the end of 2025.
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Data
Data: Shopper verdict on the top five retailers and brands for online CX
One thousand UK consumers were asked, with no prompts, to share the retailer or brand that had offered them the best digital shopping experience this past year. We take a look at shoppers’ top five with the full list revealed in Retail Week’s new report
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Retail Navigator Analysis
eBay (Strategy)
eBay UK removes seller fees across nearly all its categories, “designed to give buyers access to greater breadth and depth of inventory while creating a simplified and streamlined experience for sellers.”
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Analysis
Secondhand tech: Should more retailers cash in on the opportunity?
With AO snapping up Music Magpie and Vinted announcing the launch of a dedicated category for electronics, Retail Week takes a look at what some retailers are doing in the secondhand tech space, and if others are missing a trick.
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News
eBay has removed private seller fees in the UK
Online marketplace eBay has removed fees for private sellers across all categories except motors in the UK.
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News
Recipe-in-a-box brand Gousto appoints eBay veteran to drive growth
Recipe-in-a-box brand Gousto has appointed eBay veteran Murray Lambell as chief customer officer to drive market share after it returned to profitability last year.
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Innovation of the Week
eBay promotes circular fashion with new ‘resell on eBay’ feature
Innovation of the Week is a subscriber-only series highlighting retail initiatives that have caught the eye of our team.
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News
eBay creates new resell feature to boost pre-loved fashion sales
eBay has launched a new “resell on eBay” feature to allow users to list their clothing on the website in a couple of clicks.
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News
eBay scraps selling fees for secondhand clothes
eBay has become the latest marketplace to ditch its selling fees for fashion-seeking UK users in its latest effort to encourage shopping for pre-owned clothing.
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News
‘Online is the new car boot sale’, says Charity Super.Mkt founder
Charity Super.Mkt co-founder Maria Chenoweth has said “online is the new car boot sale” when speaking about the role of pre-loved in the fashion market, alongside Depop, eBay and River Island at LIVE 2024.
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News
eBay to axe 1,000 roles
Online marketplace eBay will lay off around 1,000 staff in the US, equating to an estimated 9% of its current workforce.
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Data
Exclusive: eBay was most popular secondhand platform over Christmas
eBay has topped Vinted and Depop to be named the most popular secondhand platform in December 2023 as demand for pre-loved gifting surged over Christmas.
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Data
Merry click-mas: Top 50 most-visited retail websites for Christmas
To understand how retailers fared online over the crucial golden quarter, we teamed up with Similarweb to track how many visits the biggest retail websites in the UK received from Black Friday to New Year’s Eve
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Analysis
The top retailers for CX as voted for by UK shoppers
Marks & Spencer and eBay are among the businesses named by consumers in Retail Week’s How They’ll Spend It 2024 report for offering the best shopping experiences.
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Analysis
What will 2024 bring? Retail bosses predict the year ahead
As 2024 begins, what do retailers think will top the agenda for the year ahead? We asked leaders of some of the UK’s biggest retail businesses to get out their crystal balls and make some predictions
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News
Vinted, eBay and Etsy sellers face new tax rules
Sellers on platforms including Vinted, eBay and Etsy now face new tax rules set by HMRC in a bid to crack down on tax evasion.