UK, US, Germany make major announcements today
20/08/2008 at 06:54
eBay will be making major announcements today regarding the US, UK and German sites. We expect to hear of fee changes, as well as changes to seller requirements, payment policies and Shops’ structures. Stay tuned – we’ll bring you updates as soon as the official announcements happen. We’re in for an interesting day.
keithf says
7:17 am on 20/08/2008
eBay.com changes now on auctionbytes.com
Whirly says
8:18 am on 20/08/2008
Spill the beans Biddy, we know you know
Board_Surfer says
8:29 am on 20/08/2008
Basically, FVF up for BINs, Insertion fees down for BINs.
All wrapped up in a we are going over to a success based fee structure spin.
Oh and cheques and PO’s to get banned.
Josordoni says
8:46 am on 20/08/2008
Specific to US of course, waiting with bated breath for what will come for us this side of the pond….
Board_Surfer says
8:58 am on 20/08/2008
usually when the dog barks the tail wags
the UK will be very similar no doubt.
ebuyerfb says
9:09 am on 20/08/2008
While I’m glad to see this new feature regarding quasi-store items I can’t understand why they couldn’t just put stores in search. Stores in search was one of the best (and most short lived) things that ever happened on eBay but they’ve only spiralled downward since.
Eddie (AuctionChex) says
9:15 am on 20/08/2008
Oh and cheques and PO’s to get banned.
Oh well, it was good whilst it lasted
Any jobs going anywhere – I have a little experience of eBay!
Board_Surfer says
9:23 am on 20/08/2008
I heard you were old and past it Ed :-p
Richard (from eBay) says
9:27 am on 20/08/2008
One small clarification for #3/ #7: we won’t be banning cheques and POs in the UK for the foreseeable future.
#6: The ‘quasi-store items’ format will be visible in search, so the effect for sellers should be much the same.
Regards
Richard
northumbrian says
10:03 am on 20/08/2008
Someone had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Board_Surfer says
10:03 am on 20/08/2008
Well I doubt the changes will make much difference to me, I am a fan of auctions and rarely use BINs.There is no excitement in a BIN
Lower insertion fees ( if thats one of the changes) has to be good news depending on your sell through rate.
Josordoni says
10:14 am on 20/08/2008
#5 not always – the discount structure for PS is very different as an example. So the fee structure for the UK might be equally different.
But I agree, the direction is very likely to be the same.
Thanks for the info on cheques Richard.
northumbrian says
10:27 am on 20/08/2008
FFS hurry up
I have my fingernails chewed down to the elbow
John says
10:30 am on 20/08/2008
The paint is dry.
Send more paint.
Whirly says
10:43 am on 20/08/2008
#13 “FFS hurry up
I have my fingernails chewed down to the elbow”
Norf they have to run spell checker 1st, then pass it over to custard support for a review then when custard tell them they can’t remove the feedback they will post it…come on you know the drill by now gramps.
John says
11:03 am on 20/08/2008
However, they are making it mandatory to have 4.3 DSR in all category? There is no point to sell internationally then. Shipping to the US always takes 2 weeks or vice versa. International sellers are at a disadvantage.
northumbrian says
11:18 am on 20/08/2008
selling internationally is essential given the state of things here
we manage fine with DSRs we clearly state that postage can take 2/3 weeks on the auction listing
northumbrian says
11:29 am on 20/08/2008
those in the know ,must need more time to unload their shares before the announcement is made
Josordoni says
2:06 pm on 20/08/2008
#5
Both of us wrong.. no comparison here to the US. US got off lightly as far as I can see, cheques or no cheques…
And listing fees going down? Don’t make me larf…:(
keithf says
6:37 pm on 20/08/2008
Announcement on eBay Germany http://community.ebay.de/communitynews/item/show/1195
Can’t get an understandable translation
Sue Bailey says
6:39 pm on 20/08/2008
Post coming shortly, Keith