French right-winger sells car on eBay
April 30, 2008
Far-right French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen has put his . 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,… Read more
eBay Spain gets ‘report this item’ links
April 30, 2008
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… Read more
eBay announce Trusted Reporter program
April 30, 2008
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… Read more
Addresses missing from PayPal emails
April 30, 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… Read more
eBay Italy: EUR0.01 listings, free Gallery, Best Match
April 30, 2008
From June this year eBay Italy will be the first site to make , 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… Read more
JD speaks to sellers through Pierre
April 30, 2008
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… Read more
US start-up takes on eBay
April 29, 2008
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… Read more
eBay France free boutiques listings promotion
April 29, 2008
eBay France is offering during May, June and July to sellers who use prefilled information in their listings. is available on eBay.fr for books, films, music, video games, PDAs, digital cameras and mobile phones. The promotion is open to… Read more
Two useful feedback tools from Auctiontrax
April 29, 2008
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… Read more
No more ‘grace period’ to sort out poor feedback
April 29, 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… Read more
eBay UK joins Twitter
April 29, 2008
eBay UK has become the latest business to discover Twitter today. The micro-blogging service lets you discover your friends’ answers to the question “what are you doing now?” Mini-posts of up to 140 characters can be posted via Skype, mobile phone… Read more
eBay Motors Australia hooks up with drive.com.au
April 29, 2008
eBay Motors in Australia are partnering with Drive.com.au in a deal which will see and vice versa. Working with dealers to list their entire inventory on eBay is nothing new, the GM partnered with eBay in an agreement to list their entire… Read more
DSRs have Whirly in a spin
April 29, 2008
When eBay talked about DSRs, Best Match, search result advantages and disadvantages, and all the other changes they’ve made recently, there was a refrain running through the conversation, that one buyer’s bad marks would not, could not, affect a… Read more
1st May: 5p auction only cheap listing
April 28, 2008
eBay UK are holding a one day auction only . Auctions starting on the 1st will have an insertion fee of just 5p regardless of price. Call my cynical but isn’t 1st May the day that the supposed sellers strike is rumoured to start? Great timing by… Read more
So farewell then, eBay Matchups
April 28, 2008
eBay Matchups, the fun but pointless “which is better” game, has been removed from the eBay site. It was launched in November 2006, apparently the after-hours brainchild of a couple of eBay employees. Matchups had its finest hour when blogger and… Read more
Neutral feedback to be counted as negative
April 27, 2008
A post on the eBay Developers’ Blog reveals some more details about the feedback changes coming in May. As we already knew, percentage calculations will now be on the last 12 months’ activity, not the entire lifetime of an eBay account. The formula… Read more
Is this the return of Stores in Search?
April 26, 2008
A poster on the eBay.com Stores discussion format has copied an interesting question from a recent eBay survey: Imagine that eBay updated its current eBay Stores product offering: In the revised eBay Stores product offering, listings in the Store… Read more
eBay affiliates’ deadline extended
April 26, 2008
The eBay Partner Network has given affiliates an extra month to move their links from Commission Junction to the new network. CJ links will now cease to be valid on 31st May. This applies to Half.com and all eBay countries except Belgium,… Read more
‘PayPal only’ sends Ozzie sellers to eBay competitor
April 25, 2008
OZtion, the second largest online auction site in Australia, has announced record growth in the two weeks since eBay Australia announced their new PayPal only payments policy. OZtion’s listings have increased 22% to approximately 580,000… Read more
eBay Canada names new country manager
April 25, 2008
eBay Canada have officially named Andrew Sloss as their new country manager. Sloss was previously head of marketing for eBay.ca, and has been acting country manager since September last year. Prior to joining eBay Canada in 2002, he had spent five… Read more
Could you sell on Overstock UK?
April 24, 2008
Overstock announced in February that will be expanding to the UK and Europe this summer. I met some of their staff at Catalyst US and today Jake Bailey, Director of International Business at Overstock, gave TameBay the inside track regarding their… Read more
Lorrie to sellers: you are our customers too
April 24, 2008
Lorrie Norrington’s keynote speech at the PESA Ecommerce Summit has some interesting thoughts for sellers on the future of eBay. eBay Ink has provided the full transcript of the speech, and here are the highlights: Sellers are eBay’s… Read more
Demand Draft appears as payment option on eBay
April 24, 2008
eBay have inadvertently changed the payment methods displaying on listings to read “Demand Draft” instead of “Postal Order/Bankers Draft”. A demand draft isn’t something I’ve come across before but appears to be a guaranteed cheque drawn on a… Read more
Google University to visit London
April 24, 2008
Internet World takes place on 29th April – 1st May at Earls Court in London and one thing that caught my eye were the Google University classes. Starting with “The Basics” at 11am each day of the show, if you’ve never used Adwords and want to learn… Read more
Sued for leaving neutral feedback
April 24, 2008
eBay sellers have been getting pretty protective of their feedback in recent weeks. With search results’ order and even ability to list on the site now influenced by the feedback buyers leave, I was unsurprised – if a little depressed – to hear of… Read more
Recent Forum Threads
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- 1st post - selling rules question..
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