MarketWatch.com:

Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider, today announced that Marketplace Research by Terapeak is being offered as an alternative for eBay Marketplace Research, which eBay plans to retire as of September 15th, 2008.

Available to all existing eBay Marketplace Research subscribers, and to all eBay users going forward, the tool will be accessible from the eBay website, and Terapeak will provide dedicated customer support.

Fred Speckeen, CEO of Terapeak/AERS, says,

“The transfer of research responsibilities to Terapeak reflects our longstanding business relationship with eBay, and our company’s commitment to providing the best market research product possible. Although most eBay sellers know us for our Terapeak product, AERS was the first licensee of eBay data, and also provides e-commerce analytics based on eBay data to the larger Fortune 1000 community. We are proud and excited to be invited to offer Terapeak as an alternative to eBay Marketplace Research.”

Terapeak Marketplace Research is a fast-growing, privately-held e-commerce data and analytics company, with headquarters in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Terapeak is one of the business units housed within Advanced Economic Research Systems (AERS), which deliver data and analytics based on the world’s largest e-commerce platform, eBay.