The Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) held its semi-annual gather in San Francisco this past week. The PESA Summit 2006 was a huge success with many of eBay’s largest sellers in attendance in addition to many of the most important companies in ecommerce. buySAFE has sponsored every PESA Summit since the group’s inception in 2004.
Although the group includes eBay in its name, most of these merchants are actually multi-channel retailers seeking to sell product whereever they can make reasonable profits. These days, that actually means eBay sellers want to sell off eBay. AuctionBytes has recently produced some very interesting research on the trend to move beyond eBay. ChannelAdvisor‘s Scot Wingo covered eBay’s challenges on his blog last week as well I will be writing more about this trend over the coming days because it is obviously important for all of us in ecommerce.