eBay is retiring its eBay Marketplace Research tool on 15th September 2008, according to Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider, whose tool will be offered as an alternative. Marketplace Research by Terapeak will be accessible from the eBay website, with Terapeak providing dedicated customer support. Terapeak’s tool provides research for sellers based on completed eBay listings. Terapeak said it plans to extend the range of reports and features that were available with eBay’s tool, including up to two years of category trends, seller-specific searches, and dedicated customer support.

Fred Speckeen, CEO of Terapeak/AERS, said, “The transfer of research responsibilities to Terapeak reflects our longstanding business relationship with eBay, and our company’s commitment to providing the best market research product possible. Although most eBay sellers know us for our Terapeak product, Advanced Economic Research Systems (AERS) was the first licensee of eBay data, and also provides e-commerce analytics based on eBay data to the larger Fortune 1000 community. We are proud and excited to be invited to offer Terapeak as an alternative to eBay Marketplace Research.”

“Millions of eBay transactions are analyzed and processed by AERS systems each day,” says AERS CTO Andrew Sukow. “We continue to improve our processes, our systems and the Terapeak product in order to help eBay sellers maximize their profit potential.” Marketplace Research by Terapeak will provide important and useful research for eBay sellers based on completed eBay listings. Terapeak plans to extend the range of reports and features that were available via the eBay tool. These new features include a greater data history, including up to two years of category trends, seller-specific searches, and dedicated customer support.

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