Mpire Turning into Shopping Portal?

In this blog post, which was nearly a year ago, I talked about Mpire.Com and a wonderful mobile product they were rolling out at the time.

Mpire is also one of the vendors that offer a web based eBay Research tool. Their Researcher tool, like the mobile tool, allows you to research closed eBay listings and see various statistics on their performance.

It appears, however, that Mpire is morphing into some sort of shopping portal and the site looks considerably different than it did a year ago. It emphasizes shopping services a great deal more than seller services now. It features a downloadable shopping plug in, downloadable coupons, and even a shopping blog.

The mobile product I raved about a year ago no longer works - at least not on the same phone it had been working on before for me. It was free, what can I say? It would have been something I would have gladly paid for.

The links to their Researcher and their seller tools are way down at the footer section of the main page. I am not really sure where this company is headed, but it almost looks like they're moving away from seller services entirely.

However, in the meantime, their online seller Researcher tool is still operational and it's free to use. It's still a great tool for eBay sellers, so check it out. Link here.

Tags: eBay Research, Mpire Researcher, eBay Selling, eBay Seller Tools