eBay crashes, PayPal reverse payments

November 30, 2008

To the people visiting this post from Q&A, please note this story is from 2008 – and not related to the Great Crash of Nov 2009. eBay appear to be having a few problems tonight with many site functions returning “Sorry, that’s not working right… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Glitches | 21 Comments 

eBay Elsewhere : links for 30th November 2008

November 30, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider* has some rather depressing figures on the decline in eBay.com’s traffic, which has been accelerating since the summer. Henry Blodget blames eBay’s management, pricing structure and competition for the decline; Jemima Kiss for… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 6 Comments 

vzaar launch off-eBay video service

November 30, 2008

Some nice news from our chums at vzaar: you can now embed their videos on sites other than eBay: if you’ve ever wanted to use the same video on your website or another marketplace or auction site, you now can. Better still, vzaar are now offering… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 1 Comment 

Guess What’s missing from this picture?

November 29, 2008

Where’s the ? For those who missed the logo, didn’t already know that eBay UK’s Xmas slogan is “guess what” and couldn’t read that execrable writing as they were sprinting for their train, this cake frill round a tree is meant to make you do… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 14 Comments 

How to get free subtitle until the end of January

November 29, 2008

is available for sellers with a Featured or Anchor shop. I have to say as one of those paying £50 or £350 a month it’s nice to see some added benefits coming in although the cost justifies itself purely on listing fees alone. If you want to… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under CLD | 6 Comments 

eBay to refund all fees for VAT affected listings

November 28, 2008

eBay have just announced that they will to enable sellers to update multiple quantity fixed price listings with the new VAT rates. To qualify for the refunds UK sellers must be business or VAT registered, the listing must be a multiple quantity… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Featured, News | 30 Comments 

eBay Ireland aren’t assisting with VAT changes either

November 28, 2008

Lest UK sellers think they were alone in being given no help from eBay with changes to the VAT rate, eBay Ireland have which is almost a cut and paste copy of the UK one. Irish VAT increases from 21% to 21.5% on Monday 1st December, and as is the… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Site Changes, eBay.ie | Comments Off 

Free listing for DVDs and video games on eBay.fr 2nd December

November 28, 2008

this coming Tuesday, 2nd December, in the DVDs and video games categories. The promotion is valid for auction and BIN listings; other fees are charged as normal. Nothing is specified about French residence or seller status…. Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under CLD, Glitches | Comments Off 

Action plan for VAT changes to your eBay listings

November 28, 2008

Due to the large number of VAT registered sellers who will have to update their eBay listings manually this weekend I thought I’d share my work plan for updating VAT rates on live listings. To do todayUse TurboLister to bulk edit all auctions… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 30 Comments 

EUK & Woolworths to impact DVD sales on eBay

November 27, 2008

Whilst the news that Woolworths has appointed Deloitte and Touche as administrators this morning probably hasn’t escaped you, what’s less known is that it includes Entertainment UK (EUK), one of the last major DVD suppliers in the UK. The DVD… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 13 Comments 

eBay UK sellers must manually edit listings for VAT changes

November 26, 2008

about how the 1st December change in the VAT rate should be reflected by sellers on the site. That’s the good news: the bad news is, we’re on our own. eBay’s announcment says this: the VAT rate can be edited on listings without sales. listings… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Featured, News, Site Changes, eBay.co.uk | 92 Comments 

Mercent Retail and eBay Large Merchant Services

November 26, 2008

eBay have launched a new set of APIs to build Large Merchant Services (LMS) specifically designed to meet the integration needs of Large Merchant sellers. With the push towards recruiting Diamond PowerSellers existing tools simply don’t scale well… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 3 Comments 

Microsoft’s live.com cash-back and eBay webinar

November 26, 2008

ChannelAdvisor are holding a webinar at 2pm Eastern Time (7pm in the UK) focusing on how to get the best from coupons and cashback. Buyers can save anything up to 30% on purchases and 4.5 million buyers a month are performing Live Cashback… Read more

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Free listing weekend for private sellers on eBay UK

November 26, 2008

for auction items with a 99p or lower start. The promotion is valid for private sellers only (so dust off that buying ID ;-) ), and runs on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th November 2008. All other fees are charged as normal…. Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under CLD | 10 Comments 

The pre-budget report, VAT and eBay

November 25, 2008

eBay are looking at ways to enable the change in VAT from 17.5% to 15% without sellers having to cancel and relaunch their items. Currently it’s not possible to edit the VAT rate once a listing has sales or bids. Relisting would incur additional… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 4 Comments 

Half price listing on eBay Motors this weekend

November 25, 2008

eBay UK are running a this weekend. Any vehicles listed as Auction, Auction with Buy It Now, or Fixed Price will will have the insertion fee reduced from £8.00 to £4.00 in qualifying categories. Classified Ads are excluded from the promo which… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under CLD | 3 Comments 

eBay UK’s homepage and the GREAT BIG AD

November 24, 2008

The transformation of eBay UK from marketplace to advertising hoarding continues, with the appearance of a HUGE advert for Vodaphone on the home page. At the spendiest time of year, eBay UK are promoting not their sellers, not even something… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Featured, Site Changes, eBay.co.uk | 22 Comments 

eBay Australia : is this a new partnership between eBay and sellers?

November 24, 2008

A few days ago, eBay Australia put out a document entitled “Planning for a stronger marketplace”. It’s the result of several months of consultation with their sellers following eBay.com.au’s embarrassing reversal of their PayPal-only policy back in… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 18 Comments 

Maximum 60-days recent sales score today

November 24, 2008

Today is 60 days from the eBay UK fee changes on the 25th September and is the first time it’s been possible to have a maximum 60-days Recent Sales score on listings. It won’t last long though, those with Good Til Canceled listings will see their… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Selling Tips | 18 Comments 

50% off eBay.com auction fees for high DSR sellers

November 24, 2008

For 24th – 25th November auction listing fees are being discounted by 50% for eBay.com and eBay.ca. However in order to take advantage of the savings all 4 seller DSR ratings must be 4.5 or above. New sellers who haven’t yet received 10 DSR scores… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under CLD | 3 Comments 

eBay.com drops duplicate listings policy

November 21, 2008

eBay.com search results would no longer hide duplicate listings from the same seller, a process that’s become known as “de-duping”. Where an individual seller has more than one identical listing for sale, all instances will now show in search;… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Site Changes, eBay.com | 14 Comments 

Checkout glitch estimates delivery yesterday

November 21, 2008

Several sellers have reported a glitch in eBay’s checkout in the last few days, where delivery time is estimated to be “within -1 day after seller dispatches item”. The problem mainly seems to occur on “sellers standard rate” and international… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under Glitches | 5 Comments 

eBay pirate jailed for 21 months

November 21, 2008

The BBC reports that an man who sold pirated ebooks on eBay has been jailed for 21 months. The Derbyshire man made £85,000 selling copies of audiobooks with as many as 37 eBay IDs over a five year period. The books included the Lemony Snicket… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 6 Comments 

What do you know about EmPwrOnline?

November 20, 2008

EmPwrOnline has been advertising seminars in the media in the last month or so and I recently attended one of them in Brighton. Rather than providing ‘the secrets of proven eBay selling success’, they offered some basic and insubstantial eBay… Read more

Written by Dan Wilson · Filed Under Ecommerce, News | 14 Comments 

Linking PayPal accounts for higher discounts

November 19, 2008

There’s a little known benefit available from PayPal for those that hold more than one PayPal account. It’s been confirmed via Monroe on a recent eBay call, and verified with account managers that you can link two or more accounts for the purposes… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Featured, Paypal | 5 Comments