ChannelAdvisor Complete launch in the UK
March 30, 2007
ChannelAdvisor are celebrating the launch of “ChannelAdvisor Complete” in the UK by mailing a miniture shopping cart to thousands of sellers across the UK. A cute twist on the traditional pen or mousemat, but one that certainly got my attention…. Read more
eBid reveal their new look
March 30, 2007
Long-time eBay competitor eBid announced a redesign this week. I love the clear, crisp new look in a neutral shades accented with orange, scarlet, turquoise and teal – close but not too close to the eBay logo. It’s all very easy on the eye, and… Read more
Pope’s old car back on eBay
March 30, 2007
eBay’s most famous motor is going back up for sale! The VW Golf, once owned by Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, was bought for €188k by the Golden Palace Casino in 2005. It’s now being reauctioned in aid of Habit for Humanity…. Read more
Guardian Business Sense Competition update
March 30, 2007
The five finalists from the Guardian Business Sense Competition spent a day at eBay UK head office in Richmond for some training. Andrew Dudley of postalsupplies was on hand to give some advice. Establishing an accounting system at the start, to… Read more
PayPal launch Website Payments Pro
March 30, 2007
PayPal have launched new facilities for merchants use on their own websites – Website Payments Pro. It gives greater flexibilty with more choice for buyers on how to pay even if they don’t have a PayPal account. Although the cost will be £20 per… Read more
New dynamic galleries for eBay shops
March 30, 2007
eBay have upgraded the promotion boxes in eBay shops with a scrolling gallery option. This is similar to the popular Vendio and Auctiva galleries which many sellers include in their auctions. The gallery is category sensitive so it can… Read more
Pirates of the Carribean Bill Nighy script
March 29, 2007
Bill Nighy has donated his Pirates of the Carribean script complete with his highlighted and scribbled notes for sale on eBay. The sale is part of a collection of celebrity goods from the likes of Tom Stoppard, and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter)…. Read more
RM Staffordshire strike again this weekend
March 28, 2007
Royal Mail staff are to strike again this weekend. 150 managers will aim to complete deliveries in the area, as postal workers walk out from Friday to Monday in support of a sacked colleague…. Read more
Friday morning maintenance extended
March 28, 2007
eBay are extending the regular Friday maintenance period from two to four hours. From 22h00 on Thursday night until 02h00 Friday morning eBay Pacific time, certain features will be unavailable or intermittently non-functional: for UK eBayers, this… Read more
Skype me money via PayPal
March 28, 2007
I’ve just download Skype 3.2 beta and as promised it’s now PayPal enabled! I can now right click any contact and send them money via PayPal without even leaving Skype to do so. Of course before you start sending money you have to link your Skype… Read more
Got a new Motors ad?
March 28, 2007
Top eBay motorbike seller and TameBay guest blogger Sean Coolness sent us this ad, half a page from this morning’s Daily Telegraph, for eBay UK Motors. The tag line is “watch similar sales live and pay the right price at eBayMotors.co.uk”…. Read more
Prettying up the buying pages
March 28, 2007
Another announcement from eBay UK today, that they’re making some changes to the bidding/buying process: Gallery pictures will appear on the confirmation page: hopefully it would take more than the click of a page for the buyer to forget what… Read more
In case you hadn’t noticed, eBay is broken…
March 28, 2007
How long ago was it we first noticed that Checkout wasn’t working properly? I blogged it a month ago, but I know I spent a good few days before that wondering if it was me, or my buyers. I know, at this point, you’re hoping I’m going to say it’s… Read more
Surprise fees for Nochex buyers
March 28, 2007
The BBC’s Working Lunch programme yesterday had a feature about a viewer who was charged an extra fee by his credit card company for paying via Nochex. The £3 fee was for a “cash advance” on the card. A number of sellers on the Nochex forums have… Read more
Postage labels create more work for sellers
March 28, 2007
eBay have today enabled Postage Labels on the site, but unfortunately the way it’s implemented has spoilt the workflow for many sellers. The drop down, in My eBay, used to helpfully display the next natural action in the sales process. For… Read more
Hijacked accounts are costing you fees
March 28, 2007
At the beginning of the month we blogged that sellers were not receiving automatic final value fee credits when auctions were cancelled due to a hijacked account. When eBay restore the account to the rightful owner they cancel all auctions that have… Read more
Buy a nuclear reactor on eBay
March 28, 2007
The title to this post sounds like one of those anomalies that come up on Google, but in this case it’s true! A seventeen year old amateur physicist by the name of Thiago Olsen spent two years scouring eBay and other sources for the parts to build a… Read more
Apple iphone trademark misuse on eBay
March 27, 2007
I came across an article today where eBay cancelled auctions for six iPhones from the .com site. They were pre-sales but as the iphone is not due for release until June in the US eBay took the understandable view point that the auction breached… Read more
More deadly than the Mail?
March 27, 2007
The Daily Mail are on their high horse about eBay sellers making a profit. When half their readership must be making a few quid here and there on eBay, their vitriolic piece slamming sellers as “a cynical new breed of internet profiteers… with… Read more
Bulgarian woman ’scammed Americans of US$350k’
March 27, 2007
A Bulgarian woman has been arrested, accused of using eBay to swindle American buyers out of US$350,000. Mariyana Feliksova Lozanova, a.k.a. “Gentiane La France,” a.k.a. “Naomi Elizabeth DeBont,” who is said to be part of an “transnational crime… Read more
Should eBay buy QXL?
March 26, 2007
eBay should buy QXL according to Michael Jivkov, he argues that QXL has a clear market share in many East European territories whilst eBay is a minor player. In the UK QXL languishes way behind eBay but in Poland for instance QXL has a 95% market… Read more
Shops fall out of Google results
March 26, 2007
eBay sellers watching their traffic reports closely last month might have noticed a drop in their traffic coming via Google. What they didn’t realise until today was that Google traffic had fallen not just to individual shops, but to the whole site…. Read more
Scottish postal workers strike
March 26, 2007
If you’re a seller or a buyer in the Edinburgh area, you might like to know that posties from the central Edinburgh depot staged a wildcat strike this weekend. Strangely missing from any news reports, the strike is over new working practices: staff… Read more
My eBay’s missing payments
March 26, 2007
eBay’s site melt down got a step worse today, as communication between sellers’ records on eBay, and Paypal, broke down. The problem began some time over the weekend, as items with cleared Paypal payments were showing either as “payment pending”, or… Read more
1 in 10 Internet users are scammed for £875
March 26, 2007
Internet users who have experienced online fraud lost an average of £875 each over the past twelve months, according to “Internet Safety: The State of the Nation,†research by the government and industry online safety campaign, Get… Read more
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