Great changes to Shops pages
June 30, 2007
A subtle but rather good change to eBay Shops’ pages I noticed this morning: postage prices have now appeared alongside all items. Anything that makes buyer’s lives easier has to be a good thing, though in a perfect world, I’d like to see a… Read more
eBay ask for patience after the flood
June 29, 2007
With many areas of the UK having been affected by flooding this week, this afternoon eBay have asked buyers to be patient “during what is a difficult time for many sellers, and allow a little longer than you normally would for delivery”. Sellers… Read more
Ask Dan : bringing users to your auction site
June 28, 2007
Dan Wilson, author of “Make Serious Money on eBay UK and Beyond”, online community expert and ex-Community Manager of eBay UK, hosts the first of his “Ask Dan” feature on eBay. If you have a question about buying or selling on eBay, post your… Read more
Police tell me this isn’t happening!
June 28, 2007
A current court case has thrown up an eBay policy which clearly isn’t working. A depot manager was pulled over in his car by men posing as police officers, then his wife and children were also kidnapped by more “police officers”. £53m was then… Read more
How to catch a Romanian fraudster
June 27, 2007
eBay have revealed some of the ways they targetted Romanian fraudsters who attempted to perpetrate fraud on eBay buyers. Matt Henley, a member of eBay’s US-based Fraud Investigations Team, spoke about the three year long campaign during a two-day… Read more
Friends Reunited by Paypal
June 27, 2007
Friends Reunited has become the latest website to take payments by Paypal. Their 18 million members, signed up to trace old school and college friends, can now pay their subscriptions with Paypal as well as with credit card. Friends Reunited… Read more
The perfect photo for eBay listings
June 27, 2007
“You can close your mouth now, madam.” It’s a brave man who says that to Sue, but I was as amazed as she was during a demo at eBay Live in Boston: Fluid Mask from Vertus is one of the most stunning Photoshop plugins I’ve ever seen. They say a… Read more
New item specifics in Collectables categories
June 27, 2007
We’re hearing from a number of collectables’ sellers that item specifics have suddenly appeared in their categories on eBay UK. There’s been no announcement about this: stamps’ and postcards’ categories are definitely affected. Some sellers appear… Read more
Good morning, Vietnam!
June 27, 2007
Vietnam becomes the 38th country to have its own eBay site, as eBay.vn was launched in Hanoi this morning. According to Sam McDonagh, Director of eBay Southeast Asia, the first Vietnamese eBayers registered to use the global site in 1998. The… Read more
Testing Paypal’s new look
June 26, 2007
eBay have been doing a fair amount of site redesign recently, and now it seems it’s Paypal’s turn for a fresh look, and they’re looking for your input. The Paypal site now sports a link at the top to take you to the beta version of the new site,… Read more
Royal Mail strike floods ParcelForce
June 26, 2007
eBay have warned buyers and sellers alike that there may be delays in Royal Mail post for payments and deliveries of purchases due to Friday’s Industrial Action. They’re asking eBayers to be patient over the next few days. There are already knock… Read more
Do you know my name?
June 26, 2007
Tesco have just joined my list of companies never to do business with again. How? Well they sent me the email below. Not only did they address me as “Dear ,” which does nothing to endear them to me, but they had the temerity to send me an email… Read more
eBay £1.7bn cash, eBay alternative worth $9.00
June 26, 2007
Rosalinda Baldwin The Auction Guild values MightyBids.com as worth little more then the cost of registering it’s URL. That’s in comparison to eBay with almost unlimited cash reserves. That valuation jives with the current bid of $25,100.00 that’s… Read more
Paris Hilton trashed on eBay!
June 26, 2007
As if the star didn’t have enough media attention as she steps out of jail straight into a Larry King interview on Wednesday it now turns out even her garbage isn’t safe. Although parking is temporarily suspended on several streets surrounding her… Read more
PowerSellers’ Discussion Board to be split
June 24, 2007
There have often been calls on the PowerSeller Community Forum to split the board into different topics. The most common request on the UK PowerSeller Board has been for “Business” and “Chat” sections. Now on the US PowerSeller Board it may… Read more
eBay ads back on Google – kind of
June 22, 2007
eBay have announced today that they are to restore some paid advertising on Google. But eBay spokesman Hani Durzy said “I will tell you it will be in a much more limited way than it was before.” Adverts are apparently due to start later today, but… Read more
SS2BM : Blue moon turns gold for independent sellers
June 22, 2007
Running 21st to 30th June, Summer Solstice to Blue Moon is an unprecedented event, bringing together online merchants and alternative auction sites and market places, to show that there is plenty of life beyond eBay. Many online auction sites are… Read more
Win €5000 (£3360) holiday with Skype
June 22, 2007
Skype are offering a top prize of €5000 with two laptops and ten wifi phone packages as incentives to purchase Skype enabled telephones or headsets. Once you’ve made your purchase you can enter the competition…… or of course you can use… Read more
Sorry I damaged your £42k purchase
June 22, 2007
What do you say to a buyer when they’ve won your auction on eBay and you then break their purchase? Well that’s the situation Lewis Hamilton the rising F1 star is in – having sold a kart for £42,100 for charity he’s taken it for a spin around a… Read more
eBay going back to China
June 22, 2007
eBay are to return to the Chinese online auction market, Meg Whitman has said. The new “Tom eBay”, a joint venture with local media company Tom Group, is within a few months of going live. In order to strengthen buyer confidence, all… Read more
QXL’s free listing fortnight
June 22, 2007
QXL, “the UK’s original online auction site”, are offering free insertion fees on all listings placed from Saturday, 23 June until midnight Saturday, 7 July. Success fees (QXL’s equivalent of FVFs) and listing upgrades are not included in the offer…. Read more
BUY IT NOW will not disappear when the first bid is placed.
June 22, 2007
A common complaint from both buyers and sellers is that the BUY IT NOW option disappears from an auction as soon as the first bid is placed. Sellers have to pay for the additional BUY IT NOW option so only get value up until the first bid – on a… Read more
One-day postal strike announced
June 21, 2007
The CWU have announced a one-day postal strike for Friday 29th June. CWU deputy general secretary Dave Ward said “We have also agreed further strike action within two weeks from 29 June that is designed to maximise the impact on Royal Mail but at… Read more
Thinking about the future with eBay Ireland
June 21, 2007
eBay Ireland opened for business just two years ago, but has been an almost instant success. Earlier this year they achieved half a million registered users, not bad for a country with a population of just 4.3 million. TameBay spoke to John… Read more
Another day closer to a postal strike
June 21, 2007
The BBC report that talks yesterday between Royal Mail management and the CWU, aimed at averting a national postal strike, have ended in stalemate. RM have said they are unable to improve on their current 2.5% pay offer. Both sides are stating… Read more
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