According to its website, with 88 million users and nearly 200 million items for sale daily, eBay is “the world’s largest online marketplace”. It is also a self-proclaimed cultural barometer – “a global community set to forecast global shopping trends daily through searches, purchases and live sales”. Putting its power to expected use, eBay launched [...]

For the past few years, internet marketplace eBay has been struggling to keep up amid slowly-declining interest in the site.  Despite the fact that the majority of merchandise on eBay is at fixed prices, like any other online boutique, there is still the perception that the site is merely a dumping-ground for auctioning off used [...]