Private auctions became available earlier this year, although some buyers only began testing them in recent weeks. Amazon has not actively promoted the feature, and marketers must ask their ...

Amazon's auction site has battled a number of glitches and outages in recent months. In March, a series of outages caused numerous auctions to disappear from the site.

Amazon lists the featured auctions in descending order, according to how much each seller bid. Among the areas where sellers can feature their auctions is on a page that allows auction buyers to ...

Amazon offers bidders $2,500 worth of insurance for auction items bought using its Payments service, but only $250 worth of insurance for items bought without Payments, she said.

Amazon.com is quietly scaling back its once high-profile online auction business, a testament to the power of eBay, the industry bellwether.