Comments on: UK listings not showing on eBay.com?

By: trinaisaac

trinaisaac — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:44:21 +0000

Its true, even today sellers are only now finding out why their sales are gone. If a warning had been given people would of had the choice to cut back on their listings, saving paying money on fees when little chance of sales.

They could of then worked out new strategies, before throwing good money after bad.

We were told by a ebay pink, if selling items to the US, then list on the .com site. This was also stated on the working lunch programme.
Now sellers in the UK are unable to list any more items on the .com site due to quota limits.
These sellers can not get any response how to have this restriction lifted to carry on selling on the .com site. Add to this the problem with searches, things are not looking very good for sellers on ebay.co.uk.

By: Sue

Sue — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:53:52 +0000

Andrew, eBay *have* come clean: they’ve stopped showing UK listings on .com, and they did eventually announce it, albeit in a slightly wussy “open-ended trial” kinda way:
http://www.tamebay.com/2007/02/too-lame-too-late.html

By: Andrew Titcombe

Andrew Titcombe — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:50:15 +0000

The UK Powerseller boards are pages and pages long -lots of very hurt sellers. Some like me ready to retire and get a real job
Every week there is a new post from a seller who has just discovered why sales have disappeared – eBay need to come clean about what has happened.
As usual no communication from eBay HQ and they tell us customer service is important
Commission on sales is up so they won’t notice the difference.
Avoid auto-relist at this time is my best advice

By: TameBay : The reality of the loss of eBay.com visibility

TameBay : The reality of the loss of eBay.com visibility — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:05:56 +0000

[...] Nick has been affected by the unanounced changes to visibility of UK listings on eBay.com and today shares how it has affected his business and the steps he’s taken to minimise the impact. [...]

By: TameBay : An Interview with Scot Wingo

TameBay : An Interview with Scot Wingo — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:03:03 +0000

[...] The loss of US visibility for UK sellers has affected cross border sales, but Scot predicted that in the future a listing upgrade could be put in place so that those wishing US visibility for their products could regain that market. Aside from talking to Scot I spoke to several ChannelAdvisor customers who this change caused a lot of pain. The main problem they told me wasn’t the loss of visibility, it was the lack of notice given. If they had had time to adjust their selling strategies they could have minimised financial loss and compensated for loss of visibility with different listing strategies. In the short term it has been a severe disruption to business, but as with most changes on eBay seller are adjusting to the new circumstances. [...]

By: TameBay : Working Lunch features .com visibility issue

TameBay : Working Lunch features .com visibility issue — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:12:26 +0000

[...] The BBC’s Working Lunch programme today featured some eBay sellers who have been adversly affected by the new lack of visibility of UK listings on eBay.com. There wasn’t anything particularly new in the report – UK sellers are infuriated by the change, eBay claim it’s for the benefit of their US buyers – but apparently an eBay representative is going to appear on Friday’s show (sadly I’ll be on a plane, so be sure to let me know what happens). [...]

By: TameBay : .com listings to appear by default on .co.uk

TameBay : .com listings to appear by default on .co.uk — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:32:28 +0000

[...] UK sellers already infuriated that .co.uk items have been removed from the default search results on eBay.com are not going to be pleased that .com items will now appear by default in some UK categories. eBay stress that this is a “two month test”, and further tests in the future may see UK listings appear by default on other national sites, “with the aim of giving them the most appropriate visibility worldwide”. [...]

By: TameBay : eBay denies “Unproductive Listing Removal” policy

TameBay : eBay denies “Unproductive Listing Removal” policy — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 13:45:38 +0000

[...] Laura (aka Daphne when posting on community boards as a “pink”) addressed sellers who’s biggest gripe was, as always, “It is not fair to us Sellers to intentionally do things behind our backs the things we need to know and understand so we can make our own adjustments as a Seller”. This is a real problem for eBay, so many seemingly minor changes occur on the site which to sellers can have a major impact on their business. What eBay may feel is a minor enhancement can have far reaching consequences for a sellers strategy to maximise sales on the site. Recent examples include unannounced experimenting with visibilty of UK listings on eBay.com, and the introduction of “Biddy’s Button“. (One change positive for sellers and one negative, just to be fair Both equally important for sellers to be aware of though.) [...]

By: TameBay : Too lame, too late

TameBay : Too lame, too late — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:10:09 +0000

[...] We posted last weekend that many UK sellers had noticed that their listings were no longer showing up on eBay.com. Now, a week later, eBay have finally made an announcement about what is going on: [...]

By: Mountie

Mountie — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:22 +0000

Good news for you – your eBay feedback will show up on ALL eBay sites. One tip for you – if you list directly on the .com site they have implemented “My World” features. Even though they’re not enabled in the UK we’d suggest UK sellers listing on .com customise their “My World” on the .com site.

To see the difference this is my mountcomp myworld on eBay.com and this is my mountcomp myworld on eBay.co.uk (which defaults to my feedback page… but they’ll enable it soon I hope)

By: moonmac

moonmac — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:38:38 +0000

The currency issue may not be such a great problem to overcome. The search issue is the greatest threat to my business. I’m going to test the water and start some direct ebay.com listings.

Is it possible to move an UK ID to ebay.com so you can keep your feedback rating?

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:43:11 +0000

Terrible news for us Antique sellers who rely on a mixed market

By: Biddy

Biddy — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:46:17 +0000

The big problem with “mixed currencies” is that you cannot combine items bought in different currencies. If you’re really intending to target a non-UK market, then personally I would recommend having a shop based on that site, as I do with eBay France. (Of course, if the UK would join the Euro, I wouldn’t need to…. but that’s a whole other argument )

By: Brain Snale

Brain Snale — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:49:14 +0000

You can see the day in the future when you will have to list on the separate sites to get exposure to both markets, that way ebay will get two listing fees. I wonder how long before that gets implemented!

By: Mountie

Mountie — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 19:47:25 +0000

Which sites they’d show on would depend on the locations you ship to. For instance if you log into my eBay shop from .co.uk you’ll see my listings. If you log into .com you won’t because I don’t ship to the US.

If you do ship to other countries then your listings will appear on both sites, but eBay will show the price as “GBP 9.99 (Approximately US $19.49)” when looking at .com for a UK listing. If you list on the US site in $ the opposite will happen when looking at your listing on .co.uk – you’ll see $ with an approximate Â£ value.

By: moonmac

moonmac — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:21:18 +0000

If you have mixed listings (ie UK ebay and ebay.com) in an UK ebay shop would it have mixed currency? Would ebay.com listings be seen in an ebay UK default search? Would you think about having the shop on ebay.com?