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Final CLD before Christmas for eBay.ie, prediction of CLD for eBay.co.uk

So eBay.ie have a “Catch the last minute Christmas shoppers by listing an item using the Buy It Now Only (Fixed Price) format for only 5 cents this weekend” cheap listing day. As per our post on the 24th November, we’re still predicting that as has… Read more

Tazbar joins eBay in the fight against counterfeit goods

Regarding counterfeit goods Lee Markham of Tazbar today told me “the actions that ebay are taking in this area are good….. there will be many people who are in possession of stock who will be looking to get rid ASAP. therefore we all have to be… Read more

In brief

An xray of a duck apparently showing an alien in its stomach has been sold on eBay for US$9600. To the Golden Palace Casino: who else? Ever wondered what happens to all the scissors and knives confiscated at airports? They end up on eBay, of… Read more

Free secure images for Paypal checkouts

Do you use Paypal checkout on your website? Unless you’ve paid for secure hosting, your customers are probably getting that annoying pop-up browser warning on the secure pages, asking if they want to display the non-secure items too. It gets on my… Read more

Overstock have same counterfeit problems as eBay

In an open letter on the Overstock forums, CEO Patrick M. Byrne chastised sellers for their attitude to Overstock staff. Angry sellers turned on them over new measures bought in to prevent auctions with a buy it now price a couple of pennies higher… Read more

Steps to reduce counterfeit items on eBay start to take effect

eBay have made no official announcement regarding the steps they are taking to remove counterfeit goods from their site. They do however appear to be making moves to implement the unannounced program. On the Community Question and Answer Board… Read more

Get it Fast in time for Christmas

Time to start adding Special Delivery or ParcelForce options to all your eBay listings. From tomorrow eBay will start promoting ‘Get it Fast’ to buyers in the run up to Christmas. Get it fast gives buyers the option of a guaranteed delivery time on… Read more

Skype: “out!”

Skype’s entire business development team underwent a massive reorganisation yesterday, with several senior figures leaving the company and marketing to be centralised in London. Senior executives in Poland, France (Jerome Archambeaud, French Market… Read more

Moving right along…

It’s hard to believe right now when I seem to spend every waking moment packing parcels, but there will be life after Christmas. Marshia Collier, author of eBay for Dummies, considers what the New Year might have in store for eBay sellers. It’s… Read more

WWW: what women want

Women will drive online shopping this Christmas outspending men for the first time, according to internet research firm Nielsen Net Ratings. Outspending men by just £7 but, in my experience, getting a lot more for her money, the average woman has… Read more

eBay Express Exclusives in the Evening Standard

Today’s Evening Standard is promoting exclusive designer goods available on eBay Express. Five talented designers come together under the express*exclusives user ID and you can read more about them on the express*exclusives about me page. Currently… Read more

Find your Best Match on eBay UK

eBay have brought a new method of sorting search results to the site:Best Match allows you to sort the listings that you see based on their ‘relevance’. The ‘relevance’ of a particular listing is based on past buyer behaviour, as well as the… Read more

eBay Express wish lists come to the UK

Last week we pointed out the missing ‘wish list’ on the eBay Express UK site. Someone at eBay must be listening to us because today it’s appeared! Go make your wishlists and email them to family and friends (and your boss!) and make sure they know… Read more

eBay top of the stocks

Financial bloggers Seeking Alpha have chosen eBay as number three in their all-time top ten tech stocks. They write: eBay’s stock chart is arguably the most impressive one for the reason that unlike other Web companies of the 1994-2000 era, its… Read more

Skype and landline in one handset

Dave from DSTele.com just gave me a heads up on a really exciting bit of kit! The first ever cordless Skype phone that does not require a PC and that can also accept landline calls. The RTX SKYPE Dualphone 3088 allows you to connect the Dualphone… Read more

Is it time Tony Blair got skyped up?

It often seems that anything George dubya Bush does Tony Blair does next. Well on a recent visit to Estonia their prime minister, Andrus Ansip, decided to give President Bush a Skype phone. Jaanus reports on the skype blog that it was a top of the… Read more

eBay in the news

Crime of the week: The defendants established business lines of credit with more than thirty businesses based on false and fraudulent financial information, and then used the fraudulently obtained lines of credit to obtain assorted high-end… Read more

Steps to reduce counterfeit items on eBay

We’re hearing from several sources that eBay are about to take steps to reduce counterfeit items on eBay. Steps will be introduced in the next week or so to prevent sales of items which attract fakes and scams which could include everything from… Read more

Virtually a millionaire

Ailin Graef has been playing an online game called Second Life for the past two years and become a real life millionaire. Second Life is a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. There’s a digital continent, teeming with people,… Read more

Shell bidding

Sea urchin shells and spines are popular collectors’ items on eBay, but buyers began to get confused when the shells they received didn’t look like anything else in their collections. In fact, a new species previously unknown to scientists was being… Read more

Two in five Brits on broadband

The Guardian technology blog points out that three-quarters of those who are online in the UK are now on broadband. This is great news: obviously, the faster the internet, the more usable and flexible it is, and the more frustrating it isn’t. And as… Read more

Buyers eye – pollypuffle

Pollypuffle (Carol, to those that know her) recently said about her customers “everything else and I mean EVERYTHING else is secondary – You don’t got buyers, you don’t got sales, rocket science it ain’t!” and having recently purchased from her I… Read more

Wrapping with Esmerelda

Right on cue for the serious spendy season, the third eBay UK advert is now available for viewing. I like the message here that some of her Christmas shopping has already been done on eBay, but that there’s still plenty of time to order more goods… Read more

Shit spelling sends charity auctions to the dogs

Sadly the celebrity Fleece Dogs auctioned on behalf of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home haven’t reached great prices, mainly because no one could find them. Despite coverage on the BBC, the Sun newspaper and a mention on the Johnathan Ross show the… Read more

Phishers on the phone

Phishers are moving from email to the phone to try to steal banking and other personal information. A new batch of emails purporting to come from Paypal give out a telephone number for members to call to verify their data. Other scammers have even… Read more

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