30/04/2008
Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has put his bullet-proof car up for sale on eBay. The listing says that the car is for sale following its replacement, but a Front National spokesman told reporters the aim was “glorious money”, which might well be the truth: in February, Le Pen was fined €10,000 and given [...]
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eBay Spain have announced that “report this item” links have been added to the bottom of all item pages on eBay.es. The “Informar sobre este artÃculo” links allow users to quickly inform eBay of items which break listing policies and other rules. Most other eBay sites have had these links for a while now, beginning [...]
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Today speaking at the Internet World exhibition in London Richard Ambrose announced a new program of “Trusted Reporters” on eBay UK. Starting within the next few weeks pilot program with a couple of dozen users will be launched with a fast track for action to be taken. By the end of the year, if the [...]
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30/04/2008
Numerous sellers have been reporting that PayPal payment emails are missing buyers’ addresses. The problem seemed to start a couple of days ago, and has apparently been spreading ever since. It seems that not all sellers are affected, and of those who are, not all their emails are lacking addresses. In a long thread on [...]
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From June this year eBay Italy will be the first site to make major changes to Shops, scrapping existing SIF listings and combining them with BIN to make a new format – “Buy It Now with full visibility in the search”. In addition to the standard listing lengths there will be a new 30 days [...]
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I’ve looked at eBay Ink a few times, and really wondered what’s the point? Up until today there’s been very little content that couldn’t be found elsewhere, but today RBH posted some genuine insider stuff. It’s three pretty interesting video clips from a longer conversation between JD and Pierre Omidyar, which was broadcast to eBay [...]
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A new startup is being billed as the marketplace that will rival eBay. Launched in public beta today, though apparently only open to US residents, Wigix is aiming for the Buy It Now, new items end of the market. The site, whose name stands for “want it get it exchange”, offers a stock exchange-type price [...]
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eBay France is offering free Stores listing fees during May, June and July to sellers who use prefilled information in their listings. Prefilled information is available on eBay.fr for books, films, music, video games, PDAs, digital cameras and mobile phones. The promotion is open to business-registered sellers only, and is valid for Stores (Boutiques) listings [...]
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If you’re worried that your Buyer Dissatisfaction Rate is coming close to the dreaded 5%, Auctiontrax have a new tool to allow you to check how bad things really are. You can see your negatives and neutrals over the last 90 days as a percentage of your total feedback, and see whether you need to [...]
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29/04/2008
eBay UK sellers are receiving emails from Account Managers this morning advising them of unannounced changes to the rules regarding seller non-performance: there will be no more 30 day grace period for sellers whose buyer dissatisfaction rate falls below 95%. if your BDR falls below 95% over a 90 day period, you will immediately have [...]
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