Microsoft's eBay Store

I give Microsoft this. Microsoft has tried many innovative things over the past few years. This week Microsoft who already of course has their own retail website, not to mention over 75 Microsoft Store brick-and-mortar locations in the U.S. and Canada. Microsoft obviously has plans to expand their retail presence, and their latest effort in doing is the announcement of their very own store on eBay.

 

According to the Microsoft blog,” By working with eBay, a top global shopping destination with more than 124 million active users globally, even more customers can now purchase their favorite Microsoft first-party products including Surface and Xbox, as well as accessories. Our customers can expect the same safe online shopping experience, return policy and free shipping from the Microsoft Store on eBay that they’ve come to expect on microsoftstore.com.”

Right now, the eBay page for Microsoft does seem to arrive with a limited supply of products in comparison to the main Microsoft Store site. It is still selling the previous generation Surface and Surface Pro tablets at a discount, instead of having the most recent Surface products on sale. While everyone is looking forward to the Xbox One this weekend, the eBay page is still pushing the aged Xbox 360 console. I hope Microsoft updates their new eBay store soon because this is a great idea but the catalog needs to be updated if it to find success.