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Top 5 video games sold on eBay USA for the month of June 2009: Nintendo Wii still dominates with unconventional genres

Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the latest look at video game trends on eBay USA, we at AERS have been using Advanced technology to get our expansive database to tell us a story. This time, the focus is on eBay USA top five video games sold by volume and revenue for the month [...]

[ More ] July 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Company Blog |

Dell takes gold and silver, HP takes bronze in eBay laptop sales- HP gets price premium

Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada

Recently on this blog, we covered the latest trends for HP and Dell in ecommerce sales. Demand for these products has been surging on the world’s largest ecommerce site.
From the dates of April 1 2009 to June 29 2009, the top three models by volume for both manufacturers [...]

[ More ] July 17th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

Toshiba TG01 Success of Flop?- Look to eBay for Success Predictors

Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada

Launching in the UK with Orange on July 10, 2009, the new TG01 will be the world’s first smartphone to be using the new Quantum processor with the dizzying processing speed of 1GHz. Will it succeed in the market? eBay is a common venue for early technology developers, so [...]

[ More ] July 17th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

Whither Google, so goes the Web

Google had an outage from 10:15AM-12:15AM this morning affecting about 14% of their global users, which on any other web service might warrant a TechCrunch article or two, some gripes about uptime, and a bunch of #FAIL tags on Twitter.  Unfortunately, though, when you’re Google, your outages have a far bigger reach — even when [...]

[ More ] May 14th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

Fantastic 3D Visualization in Sports

At AERS we’re really into cutting-edge visualization techniques, so we’re always on the lookout for cool ways to express complex data.  Jason R. Bailey has totally gotten our attention with this movable visualization of every shot from the 2007-2008 NBA season.  Wow.
If you find yourself on a basketball court next weekend and can’t decide where [...]

[ More ] May 11th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

Smartphone wars on eBay: Blackberry vs. iPhone

Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc.
Victoria, BC, Canada

January sales figures released by Avian Research revealed a decline in iPhone sales while Blackberry experienced an increase. Online trends in eBay could eventually reflect this offline trend with recent figures released from Terapeak on smart phone sales. Despite being currently outnumber by iPhones in the ecommerce market, the [...]

[ More ] March 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Company Blog |

iPod Shuffles are for Girls

Women prefer cheap & simple portable MP3 players
Yesterday, Apple revealed a smaller and simpler iPod Shuffle amid great hoopla.  The new product features more storage, a much smaller form factor, and a feature called “VoiceOver” which rather usefully, given the lack of a screen, tells you what song is playing and who the artist is.  [...]

[ More ] March 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments | Posted in Company Blog, Featured |

Fine jewellery and watches on eBay defy the economic downturn

Valentine’s Day is commonly associated with luxury items as an expression of undying love. As everybody’s favorite romantic holiday passed, sharp increases in the sales of such items were expected.
Are there bright spots hidden in the gloom and doom currently given by the media? The answer is a resounding yes.
Since August 2008, eBay sales of [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

It is official: the eBay community favors new laptops from HP while Dell languishes

As recently reported on this blog, HP had impressive results on the eBay USA platform during Q3 2008. What has happened since then? Last month, HP posted a 13% loss in profit for its fourth quarter and Dell reported a 48% decline in profit for the same period.
Despite the downturn in offline sales for both [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Company Blog |

eBay USA: a safe haven for Dell

As the US savings rate increases to an all time high since 1997, it seems that eBay is increasingly becoming a safe haven for various products including Dell technology.
For the fourth quarter, Dell has reported a profit of $351 million USD. This is a 48% decrease from their Q3 2008 profit of $727 million USD. [...]

[ More ] March 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Company Blog |