With the recession in the air and relief around the world, the prospects for online retailers this season look glum. So far in November, online sales were 4 percent lower than last year. Online retailers, eBay and Amazon will fight for every U.S. dollar last July.

eBay looking for growth outside the mother and pop auction as all employees from the site. The company has a fixed price within a specified period of time. But earlier this week, they took another step toward wooing the type stores, which are more likely to be found in the Amazon. Monday, eBay announced a new program, still in beta, so wholesale merchants to list on the price of one thousand articles on the site.

According to comScore, eBay had 70.7 million U.S. visitors in October, fell 11 percent from a year earlier. By contrast, Amazon had 60.1 million U.S. visitors in October, which is 6 per cent.

In fact, is that merchants selling on the Internet list their items for sale in different places on Amazon, eBay, their own web pages, etc. (Multi-channel e-commerce services Mercent example, if eBay supports the API for its retail clients online) .

Now, with this new API we saw some interesting mixing and matching. Internet retailer, for example, can now list on eBay and using the results of Amazon API for sending commands from the warehouse in the Amazon.

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