Michael Jackson collection for sale on eBay
May 31, 2007
The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas is the venue for a huge auction of Michael Jackson memorabilia including many of the jackets he wore on stage at the height of his fame. The auctions will run concurrently in Las Vegas and on eBay as an eBay… Read more
eBay gets a new baby – StumbleUpon
May 30, 2007
Meg’s been spending again, in the region of $75m for StumbleUpon. For those that haven’t heard StumbleUpon is a discovery/search site. It aims to show you a combination of your own preferences and those of people like you to present websites,… Read more
Auctions only on eBay please!
May 30, 2007
Both the UK and Canada have Cheap Listing days on 31st May, the one difference being the UK announced theirs three days prior but Canada got less than 24 hours notice. The UK is aiming for low start (sub 99p) auctions, and we expect most of the… Read more
Would you risk £60k to a new eBay trader?
May 30, 2007
£60,000 is the investment that a company calling themselves bayagent have received in funding from a group of Venture Capitalists called Nstar. That’s a fair amount to invest in a company setting up as eBay trading assistants in a market where… Read more
$300million worth of picture hosting
May 30, 2007
One of the most commonly asked questions on the eBay community boards is how can I host my own pictures instead of paying eBay fees. The answer almost always quick to be given is use Photobucket. Photobucket is the YouTube of pictures, but has… Read more
eBay spends £10million on advertising
May 30, 2007
eBay has awarded a £10m advertising contract to Albion, they’ll be creating the next series of eBay adverts and it’s thought they’ll carry on using the primary coloured Logo People from recent campaigns. The logo people have appeared in a series… Read more
Out with the old, in with the new
May 30, 2007
Anyone waking up this morning can’t have missed the new eBay header as soon as they logged on! Colourful, bright and new functionality such as the drop down for fast navigation to top level categories. Click to embiggen Of course we’ve been… Read more
eBay Guardian Business Sense competition results
May 29, 2007
THe Guardian Business Sense Challenge 2007 winners have been announced. As predicted at the start of the competition the overall winner was laptopscrapyard aka Joe Williams who set out selling parts scavanged from broken laptops and… Read more
More UK/US visibility changes
May 29, 2007
eBay UK have just made another announcement regarding visibility of UK listings on eBay.com and US listings on eBay.co.uk. A further test is to be run over the next month, with a very small percentage of US searches including UK listings in… Read more
eBay Thailand to launch this year
May 28, 2007
eBay announced their 38th local marketplace will be Thailand, operated in conjunction with a Thai portal – Sanook! The site will be branded “Sanook! eBay” and should be launched in Thai-language by the end of the year. Sanook! is a leading Internet… Read more
Hackers compromise PayPal and eBay EV SLL protection
May 26, 2007
EV SLL built into the new Internet Explorer 7 was supposed to inform you when a phishing site was masquerading as a legitimate site such as eBay or PayPal. The title bar in your browser will turn green for known safe sites, red for known phishing… Read more
Bid Assistant available in the UK
May 25, 2007
eBay’s new bidding tool, Bid Assistant is now available in the UK. As I wrote previously, this allows buyers to select a group of items, of which they want to win just one, and the software will bid successively on each until one is won. I think… Read more
Don’t tell me my buyer is NARU
May 25, 2007
I’ve been waiting for payment for a buyer for just over a week and today opened an unpaid item dispute. To my surprise I was instantly credited as the buyer is NARU (Not a registered user). You may think why am I surprised? Well it’s all to do with… Read more
Who ate my breadcrumbs?
May 24, 2007
If you have an eBay Shop, you probably used to see a line of links across the top of your listings, showing which category and subcategory your listing was in. They were small links, but beautifully formed, enabling buyers to easily move up one… Read more
Meg puts her shirt on eBay
May 24, 2007
Ever wanted to give Meg Whitman some feedback? Well, now you can. eBay’s president is auctioning a number of personal items and pieces of eBayana as part of Give Fest, an eBay employee event where items are being sold for charity. Auction items… Read more
Skype affiliate changes
May 24, 2007
If you’re running a very old-style Skype banner anywhere, Jaanus wants you to know you need to change it: When your visitors clicked on the banner, they were redirected to Skype and you could earn what we called Skype Points. Until now, there was… Read more
eBay content licence does not take away your rights
May 24, 2007
The new eBay user agreement content licence has caused concern to some eBay users. It reads:Content licence When you give us content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple… Read more
Postal strikes in Belgium, and maybe the UK
May 23, 2007
If you sell to Belgium, you need to know that postal workers are going on strike from Friday and that those in the Ghent area have already been on strike for twelve days. The protest is against new software designed to organise postal routes:… Read more
eBayers needed…
May 22, 2007
Were you one of the hardy souls using eBay before 2001? Do you remember the days of Billpoint, having to create your own invoices and being allowed to link to your website? Did you send envelopes stuffed with dollar bills to US sellers in the days… Read more
eBay serves offsite links in preference to listed items!
May 21, 2007
eBay has started to serve adverts for off site websites in preference to items listed on the site. I can understand that it’s preferable to offer alternatives if a null search result is returned for a buyers search. However I have discovered that… Read more
eBay Italy competition for reviews
May 21, 2007
eBay Italy are running an incentive to produce eBay reviews. With twenty prizes ranging from a holiday in Kenya to electronics and jewellery it’s a great incentive to write some reviews. Even better entry into the competition is automatic with… Read more
eBay Seller Rewards you for using PayPal
May 21, 2007
eBay seller rewards (now renamed “eBay Rewards”) is now complemented with a new PayPal Percentage Rule. For high spenders who have a turnover greater than £10,000 in sales per month on eBay they can gain rebates based on the percentage of eBay… Read more
UK hits £100bn online sales
May 19, 2007
One hundred billion pounds! That’s the amount that’s been spent online in the 12 years since WH Smith became the first online retailer in the UK, according to the the Telegraph. The article traces ecommerce in the UK back to the first sale, a book… Read more
Flickr flames Only-Dreemin
May 18, 2007
Icelandic photographer Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir has claimed that photographs were stolen from her Flickr account, and subsequently sold on eBay by seller Only-Dreemin. She also discovered that Only-Dreemin’s website was selling her pictures…. Read more
The community has slipped
May 18, 2007
Well the community button from the eBay header has. Once it was firmly pinned in the header but logging on to any of the community forum boards this afternoon the button is duplicated below the header. I’m sure it wasn’t there previously, and… Read more
Recent Forum Threads
- The New Feedback
- Feedback: How do you post a follow-up to a reply to feedback
- Mobile app for Ebay Daily Deals - (Developed for the iPhone)
- Deal of the Day
- PayPal eCheques - where does the money go?
- PPI and paypal transaction reviews
- Shared banned list
- Trackable Delivery to the USA??
- Selling items using the freight option
- Web address in feedback?
From Twitter
- PayPal returns and fake goods - the Guardian investigates... http://is.gd/aODrX 1 day ago
- #Whitman "wows away" Latino voters http://is.gd/aOCVx #California #voteSantos 1 day ago
- RT @scotwingo: eBay Strategies Blog post - new seller tool ?!, Paypal/eBay split speculation, new twist on eBay Bucks http://bit.ly/9ZE1r0 2 days ago
- RT @ebayinkblog: The Garden is Growing http://bit.ly/aEvB6Y 3 days ago
- @cyberdees I'm just writing up that very story now :-D - fingers crossed for them. in reply to cyberdees 3 days ago
- More updates...
