I am now suffering from RSI form all the listings I have had to change separately as SMP cannot change from free p&p in bulk or change listing duration.
AHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

That said, my first ever laptop was a second hand ex-corporate one with (a 35MHz Pentium, a smaller hard drive than most computers have for RAM these days and German QWERTZ keycaps but set for a UK keyboard in Control Panel. It certainly taught me to touch type!!!

As a seller I am slowly but surely getting to grips with it. It took my 7 days to come up with a listing strategy that seems to be coming to its frootion now. I believe that with this new search, sellers need to be on the ball. I know us sellers are probably selling from a number of venues, but we need to keep in mind that eBay dont care about this, they expect us to concentrate and put our time into eBay and coming up with strategies. I cant blame for this, as they are a business too and it works both ways. they want to clean the site up, and return the most popluar items. seems to be working for me at moment, but time will tell!!!

# 14 – The company I used to work for had several keyboards that had @ + ” reversed. I never realised that was the reason why, but then we were in the UK and the company had no American connections. But they drove me mad for the opposite reason. I was forever typing speech quotes with @ at each end!

You think that is bad? I worked for a company that forced me to use the Japanese version of Vista (when I was new to Vista) with an American keyboard. I learned that “[” = “@” and pretty much everything else had to done by holding ALT and typing the ASCII code for that character. For instance they use the Yen symbol for what we do with the backslash. Typing backslash gives you a backslash (which does nothing). But if you input the ASCII code for backslash you get the Yen symbol.

Wish I could understand all that stuff about Best Match and searches on eBay.
If eBay is not careful it will drown a lot of entheusiastic sellers in technical complexities to the detriment of the ‘selling experience’
We hear loads about the ‘buying experience’ but stuff is only on ebay to be enjoyed if a positive ‘selling experience’ exists.
Why cant ebay stop messing about with everything and allow sellers to catch up?
I am no idiot having made a lot of money out of selling things over many years.
However I feel that there are too many people in eBay who are trying to excersise their intellectual muscles on fixing stuff that doesn”t need fixing.
Give respect to sellers!!
We know what we are up to and we fully realise that it need to be good for eBay.

the chinese not being able to list antiques/reproduction, on ebay would make not a jot of difference

I was not aware of this. It’s exactly the sort of (ever so slightly) trivial fact I want to see more on Tamebay. ;o)

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve typed email addresses in the US in the format chris”tamebay.com

The collecting world at large know that Ebay is flooded with fake Chinese “antiques”, so it depresses the market.

Modern Chinese porcelain that is pretending to be Antique Porcelain, is so good and close to the original that often only a specialist dealer or collector can tell the difference.

These items are incredibly difficult to detect, but Ebay makes the introduction of these into the international market very easy.

As we now are aware that is actually against the law for the chinese to export their own antiques, not one listing from mainland China, with the word antique or stating a chinese Imperial Period (a common trick as most Ebay employees are never going to know that Kangxi means a period that is late 17th Century, and would never know this was a deceptive listing), then none of these listings should be on Ebay.

So let me make this clear:

Anything in the antiques section on Ebay, that is made in China and ships from Mainland China is either:

A. A fake.
B. Illegally Exported.

So why are they on Ebay Uk and Ebay.com?

I would also add that any luxury branded item from the Chinese Mainland is going to be a fake 99% of the time. So lets have these listings blocked by Ebay.

So by restricting the export of these fake and illegal items from China, by not allowing them on International sites, Ebay would clean up a vast swathe of its collectables and antiques categories.

Lets hope Ebay will action this.

James the pink has indicated on the UK Powerseller Board that this is being looked into, which we thank him for, but lets see what happens…

Mark

Luckily I do not sell MP3 players but it does have a knock on effect for all sellers

What you can no longer do is pay for IVF to get your fixed price listings on eBay UK to show up on International sites such as eBay.com. If you could any recent sales UK you had would give you a boost on eBay.com search results.

The negative effect that this has on the “buyer experience” must be massive.

You could always just buy FeaturedFirst for everything.

Hmmmmm…. how about that.

Scot

If you go to your computer’s control panel (under start menu) you can alter your keyboard config’ to the area of the world you are in (or at least you used to be able too).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout

Does China have a VERO member?