Graduate to an eBay business
February 23, 2008
Nic Paton, a writer for the Guardian, asked TameBay readers to help research today’s feature “Bay of plenty”. The article tells the story of students turned Internet entrepeneurs. Gone are the poorly paid part time jobs working in clubs and bars to… Read more
eBay Workshop: Improve your DSRs
February 22, 2008
eBay have announced a workshop on “” hosted by Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor. It will be held on the US Workshop boards on Tuesday 26th February 9pm – 10pm. As sellers will be advantaged and disadvantaged based on their DSR ratings they are… Read more
My new shop design : going live!
February 22, 2008
I think I’ve just fallen in love with . The design that Frooition – in the guise of super-talented Adam Tibbetts – just produced for me makes me grin from ear to ear every time I look at it. I think it’s gorgeous. My favourite bit is still my new… Read more
Information for Clocktronix customers
February 22, 2008
Price Waterhouse Cooper have asked us to pass on the following message to any Clocktronix customers who have open PayPal SNAD claims, or who are still waiting for delivery of their goods: We understand that there are a relatively small number of… Read more
The dress that Love ripped for sale on eBay
February 22, 2008
A dress worn by Kate Moss that was ripped when Courtney Love trod on it is up for sale on eBay. The listing doesn’t say if it’s been mended since the incident, though it does look like it could do with an iron 
The in aid of Cancer Research… Read more
The £20k conman with perfect feedback
February 22, 2008
I’m not sure how this guy managed it! He’s just been convicted of selling laptops that he didn’t have, to 100 customers, receiving a 12 month suspended sentence and an order to return payments totaling £6935 to customers and PayPal. The part… Read more
“Related items” does show other sellers’ listings
February 22, 2008
There’s been plenty of concern on TameBay and elsewhere that the Related Items tab in the proposed new View Item layout will show other sellers’ items, as it did on eBay Express. Thanks to a lovely reader, we now have a screen shot, showing that it… Read more
Teenage Cancer Trust tickets must be sold through eBay for Charity
February 22, 2008
The Teenage Cancer Trust have been working with eBay to ensure that the charity benefits from secondary sales of tickets for their upcoming series of concerts. An has said that that at least 20% of the final sale price must be donated to the TCT… Read more
“We’re kind of capitalizing on the stupidity of eBay”
February 22, 2008
A pretzel allegedly shaped like the Virgin Mary is for sale on eBay. As of now, there are 85 bids on the original listing and the price is up to more than $2 million. There are also 16 other auctions with “Virgin Mary pretzel” in the title, with… Read more
eBay UK announcement on view item changes
February 21, 2008
about the changes to the view item page we noted earlier in the week. It’s not the most wordy of communications, so here it is in full: We wanted to let you know that over the next couple of months, 2% of users will be shown two different… Read more
eBay Oz to mask buyer ids on all auctions
February 20, 2008
that as of Friday this week they’ll be masking all buyer ids in auction bid history. This means that regardless of the start price of an auction you’ll never be able to see who is bidding, you’ll just see Bidder 1, Bidder 2, Bidder 3 etc. The… Read more
eBay notification preferences spam sellers
February 20, 2008
eBay have made a change to notification preferences and started sending sellers “eBay Fixed Price Listing End”. I was alerted when a seller contacted me asking how to turn off eBay emails, and then when this evening when my own listings started to… Read more
Spanair sell off flights on eBay
February 20, 2008
Spanair have announced plans to sell off 15,000 flights on eBay Spain, starting at bids of just €1 (70p). Flights to both domestic and European destinations, including the Canary and Balearic Islands, will be sold on both return and one-way… Read more
eBay India launches bundled upgrade deal
February 20, 2008
I know we have a couple of eBay India sellers who read TameBay, so here’s one just for you. eBay India have launched Pro Pack a bundled upgrade deal, where you can buy bold, border, highlight, Gallery Featured and Featured Plus for Rs.95 (normal… Read more
More on eBay’s new listing template
February 20, 2008
The new listing template is causing much discussion on what’s good and what’s bad. Since writing the post I’ve discovered a few more changes worth noting. The “Make it yours” box has some interesting new features. Firstly the time remaining on… Read more
World’s biggest music collection for sale on eBay
February 19, 2008
7 ways to avoid unpaid items
February 19, 2008
Auctionbytes point to a report claiming that one in ten eBay transactions results in an unpaid item. Though I haven’t managed to see the actual report, I find the statistic literally incredible: even in the olden days before PayPal, when more than… Read more
Gumtree winning the classified ads wars
February 19, 2008
News is out this week that eBay classified ads sites are trouncing the competition. In the US Kijiji has overtaken both Yahoo! Classifieds and Windows Live Expo, and are so far ahead of Google Base and Google Classifieds that they don’t even… Read more
The Amazon opportunities
February 19, 2008
Amazon is the name at the forefront of many sellers thoughts at the moment. Sales are up, everyone is talking about it, and of course news of the strike supposedly taking place this week is prompting debate on the best sites other than… Read more
eBay’s new listing template
February 19, 2008
eBay are testing a new auction template which is being shown to selected users across the site. The major change is the introduction of tabs to pull all the relevant information together making it easier for buyers navigate the listing. At the same… Read more
Geoff Ellis, T in The Park, hasn’t learnt
February 19, 2008
It’s the annual ticket fest on eBay as thousands of fans open the purse strings hunting for tickets to the popular Edinburgh festival T in The Park. Geoff Ellis, chief executive of T in the Park, complains “The Government has failed to give us the… Read more
Auction wrecker: “I hope they take me to court”
February 18, 2008
If one angry Manchester United fan has his way, an eBay seller will be taking him to court very shortly. Warrington man David Bonner bid £660,000 for one of the match programmes commemorating 50 years since the Munich air crash. Unsurprisingly,… Read more
TameBay : where the news is new
February 18, 2008
Last July, we wrote about eBay India’s new shopping cart. Today, Auctionbytes covered it. Morning, Ina… Read more
eBay strike will be non-event
February 17, 2008
The strike by eBay sellers that is supposed to start at midnight already looks doomed to failure. Listings on the site are reportedly up 25% following a and a revision of listing fees for US media sellers to reflect those already in place for UK… Read more
eBay elsewhere : links for 17th February
February 17, 2008
The Financial Times carries the shocking news that people make a living on eBay. Fancy! M&S staff are selling their store vouchers on eBay. Nick Carr has a very interesting piece on eBay’s changes to the feedback system. And finally, the… Read more
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