April 2007

30/04/2007

I had an interesting call from a friend tonight that wanted to list their first item on eBay. Their son’s car is up for sale and where better to advertise it than eBay for motors? Of course being the local “eBay expert” they asked me over to assist. First thing was to show them how [...]

30/04/2007

Dan Wilson continued his series in the Guardian today with how to buy on eBay. Dan himself, an avid Dr Who collector, is pictured with some of his eBay purchases. The article covers everything to look for from seaching and finding potential item to buy, to checking out sellers and deciding which to buy from. [...]

30/04/2007

Today I received a Trading Assistant request to contact another eBayer and potentially sell on their behalf. The email included a telephone number to contact the prospective client on, but with an 07024 number. This number falls within a range set aside as “Personal Numbering Services” attracting a charge of 47.5p per minute. Needless to [...]

30/04/2007

Just days after the ten-day listings from the last CLD ended, there’s another cheap listing day on eBay UK. This one offers half-price insertion fees on auction listings only – similar to the offers seen on eBay.com and .ca recently. eBay’s previous efforts to persuade buyers and sellers to return to the “core” auction format [...]

30/04/2007

I just, finally, upgraded to Sky Plus, which inevitably meant that I looked at my Sky package. I realised I’m paying £6 a month for Sky Sports which I never, ever watch, so I went to Sky’s website to downgrade. I can’t. Banners for *upgrading* my account are all over the place, but then I [...]

29/04/2007

It makes a nice change to be able to say that a national newspaper has some positive coverage of eBay. It’s even nicer to be able to say that it’s a series running over a week, and that it’s being written by Dan Wilson, ex-eBay Community Manager, top attraction at eBay University, and of course, [...]

28/04/2007

Following the enormous success of WAGs Boutique Nicola T has set up a website to carry on selling the Great Ormond Street Childrens Hospital (GOSH) hoodies and other clothes that she designed for the show. She said: One night I was thinking about what would happen when the show finished and thought “why stop?, why [...]

27/04/2007

Nick Talley is the managing director of POP-culture.biz Limited, which has been trading as iposters on eBay since 2003 selling posters, prints and other pop-culture items. 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 [...]

27/04/2007

Google have made much of their Checkout promotions where they’re basically buying market share. Spend £30 and Google will bung you a tenner so you’ll only pay £20 – a great deal for buyers and retailers with the promotion in place have reported great results. Rather than place a large order buyers are making multiple [...]

26/04/2007

The postal workers’ union is to ballot its members on strike action over the closure of a Derbyshire sorting office. Officials of the CWU say they have not been consulted over plans for the Heanor office, which is to transfer its staff and business to the Ilkeston office eight miles away. Royal Mail say that [...]