28/02/2009
A spokesman for eBay France has said that lower insertion fees on BINs for business sellers will continue beyond the end of March. The offer, which sees the normal 50c insertion fee cut to 15c, began in October, was extended to the end of last year, and then again to the 31st March. A thread [...]
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It’s not often you see Mark Lewis write an article which is published in the national press, but yesterday he spoke up about the resale of concert and sporting tickets in the Guardian. The article covers his thoughts on the difficulty fans have in legitimately obtaining tickets, the punitive restrictions on those with tickets who [...]
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eBay have today announced the retirement dates for My eBay Classic and the old search options. The My eBay Classic will cease to exist on eBay UK on the 9th March, and the New My eBay will become default on eBay Ireland on the 2nd March. The old search options will disappear at some point [...]
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26/02/2009
Bloomberg.com reports that eBay has won a court case brought in Germany by Rolex over sales of counterfeit watches on the site. The court’s decision on Tuesday found that Rolex could not demonstrate that similar counterfeit goods remained on sale after eBay had been alerted to them being posted on the site. A spokesman for [...]
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eBay have released new API (Application Programming Interface) calls for feedback DSRs (Detailed Seller Ratings). The new API calls are: * createDSRSummaryByCategory: Creates a seller’s DSR summary report for sold items based on the categories they were listed in and a date range. * createDSRSummaryByPeriod: Creates a seller’s DSR summary report for sold items based [...]
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eBay UK have just announced that insertion fees for private sellers on auctions starting at 99p or less are to be abolished. At the same time, Final Value Fees are being increased to 10% across all price tranches (regardless of starting bid), up to a maximum FVF of £40. eBay say: We’re continuing our commitment [...]
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24/02/2009
MercadoLibre, eBay’s Latin American partner, have released their financial results for 2008 with a whopping 63.8% increase in gross profit to $109.5 million, up from $66.9 million in 2007. Revenue for the year increased 61.0% to $137.0 million, marketplace revenue grew 57.6% to $109.6 million while payments revenue grew 75.8% to $27.4 million. We only [...]
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eBay.com Motors are holding cheap listing days on Tuesday, February 24th and Wednesday, February 25th*. Insertion fees for auctions in the parts and accessories categories are capped at 50c. All other fees are charged as normal, and there is a list of exclusions, most notably vehicle listings and BIN listings, so do read the small [...]
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During a call with a supplier today they reminded me that today is Pancake Day and tomorrow is the start of Lent. They asked what I was giving up for Lent which I hadn’t really thought about. In fact truth be known it had totally escaped me that today was Pancake Day. The conversation did [...]
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24/02/2009
You might remember Stuart from his suspension by eBay last year. Since his eBay shops were forcibly closed, he’s been concentrating on his websites, building them from the ground up to replace the income that eBay took away. Today, he’s sharing hot tips from a recent fashion industry conference. photo credit: MoonSoleil I attended the [...]
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