Best Match guide: Value, Specifics & Efficiencies
October 9, 2009
eBay have posted some guidelines regarding Best Match on the PowerSeller board this morning, so for that that don’t have a PowerSeller account the message is value, specific search and efficiency. ValueeBay say that when two items have different… Read more
Free listing on Play.com for Tradebox users
October 9, 2009
With Christmas fast approaching now is the time to maximise sales and Play.com, with 10 million registered buyers are offering to waive their lising fees for TradeBox users who start to sell on PlayTrade. Sellers can list unlimited items on… Read more
How to survive the postal strike
October 8, 2009
There have been a few stories in the mainstream press in recent weeks about how the postal strike is harming small businesses, and eBay sellers in particular. While it’s good to get the word out that the strike is on, too much of this is going to… Read more
eBay UK suspend dispatch time DSRs during postal strike
October 8, 2009
A little glimmer of good news for today: eBay UK has announced that it will suspend the dispatch time score in Detailed Seller Ratings during the postal strike. The option for buyers to rate sellers on dispatch time will be temporarily removed… Read more
Royal Mail workers vote for national strike
October 8, 2009
photo credit: soapbeardThe CWU have announced that their members have voted three to one in favour of a national strike. There are no details as yet of actual dates involved, though union deputy general secretary Dave Ward has said it will be at… Read more
Everything changes : eBay listings now editable
October 8, 2009
The eBay Developers’ Blog has confirmed that changes to allow sellers to edit just about any part of their listing, even after it’s had a sale, are now live. Price, description and postage costs can now be revised, as can just about any other… Read more
Top-Rated Seller : a new breed of dolphin
October 8, 2009
photo credit: mrkathikaeBay blogs and forums have been alive in the last couple of weeks with stories of merchants who missed out on Top-Rated Seller (TRS) status by fractions of a per cent. It breaks my heart and utterly infuriates me to see good… Read more
eBay sales rise for the first time in a year
October 7, 2009
Good news for eBay – according to Scot Wingo, CEO of ChannelAdvisor, eBay sales have gone up for the first time in a year. Driven by increased fixed price listings, 3,000 sellers who ChannelAdvisor track have reversed a month on month decline with… Read more
eBay moot Top Rated Seller qualification review
October 7, 2009
I’ve been contacted by several (including some very large) sellers who haven’t made the cut for Top Rated Seller and have seen their sales plummet. Some sellers have missed out literally by a few tenths on just one DSR (Detailed Seller Rating) but… Read more
eBay UK couponing buyers
October 7, 2009
Someone at eBay has been hit with the generous stick today: I spent the vast sum of a fiver on a bluetooth dongle, and have been rewarded with a voucher for 10% off my next purchase, up to a total of £70. There’s no email and nothing in My… Read more
“I cut myself on tape guns for what?!”
October 7, 2009
A little bit of entertainment for a Wednesday morning… Thanks to Joe from eshopbooster for the… Read more
ChannelAdvisor sue defamatory spammer
October 7, 2009
Back on the 12th of August a spam email was circulated to many ChannelAdvisor customers alleging that ChannelAdvisor overcharged their clients and were running up legal bills which “may cause the Company to be no longer financially viable”. The… Read more
PayPal top up cards with £10,000s instead of £100s
October 6, 2009
Anyone who topped up their PayPal top up card yesterday is likely to have had a nice surprise. PayPal muddled up their decimal place and in some instances added balances of thousands of pounds instead of hundreds. If for example you topped up your… Read more
First look at AdCommerce ROI metrics
October 6, 2009
eBay are trialling ROI (Return On Investment) metrics for AdCommerce which should be rolled out to all users in the near future. Currently the trail is available to a limited number of AdCommerce users. With the ROI data sellers will be able to see… Read more
Browser flaw exposes PayPal to hackers
October 6, 2009
There’s a serious hole blown in PayPal’s security, and there’s very little that PayPal themselves can do to protect users against the exploit. Internet Explorer, Google Chrome or Apple Safari browsers running on Windows are all affected and the… Read more
Microsoft hotmail email passwords compromised
October 5, 2009
If you use a Microsoft Hotmail, MSN or Live email address it’s recommended you change your password and security questions. About 10,000 hotmail passwords have been posted on pastebin.com, and that’s just user names begining with “A” or “B”. If… Read more
A sign of the times – Brighton council raise cash
October 5, 2009
If you’re after an unusual trinket to decorate your garden Brighton & Hove City Council have an unusual set of nostalgia for sale – The old metal sign posts from around the city have been listed on eBay. There’s a choice of 11 sign posts to bid… Read more
Easy accounting for EKM websites with Tradebox
October 5, 2009
If you have an EKM ecommerce website there’s good news on the accounting side. Tradebox and EKM have partnered to to seamlessly import your website sales into Sage. Tradebox already support imports from eBay, Amazon, Play.com and ChannelAdvisor,… Read more
eBay account managers support linked accounts
October 5, 2009
eBay Personal Account Managers (PAMs) are starting to support all seller accounts and not just the account that meets thresholds for that particular seller. Some sellers have already received emails from their account manager asking them which other… Read more
The best publicity for a rare item is listing it on eBay
October 5, 2009
What do you do when you’ve got a valuable item and want as much publicity as possible? Someone with a 32 year old Apple 1, hand built by Steve Wozniak on of the founders of Apple, posed the question to the San Francisco journal. The answer he… Read more
PayPal’s turn for a bashing in the Times
October 3, 2009
Reading an article in the Times this morning it’s little wonder that PayPal and eBay are emailing users encouraging and reminding them to use trackable delivery options for expensive items. Fair enough the Times article highlights paying with… Read more
2 years on Verner gets judgement against Autodesk
October 3, 2009
Two years ago Timothy Vernor took Autodesk to court in the US, for using VeRO to remove 2nd hand copies of Autodesk’s Autocad software that he was selling on eBay. Autodesk claimed that their software was licensed and never sold, and so their… Read more
Use PayPal for the Xbox LIVE Marketplace in the US
October 3, 2009
PayPal are gearing up to attack the younger market, having already introduced PayPal Student accounts for teenagers in the US, they’ve now hooked up with Microsoft and the Xbox. Student accounts are funded directly from parents PayPal accounts… Read more
Giving Works drops minimum donation to a dollar
October 1, 2009
As of today, Giving Works has lowered its minimum donation to just $1. The eBay.com charity program previously required sellers to donate a minimum of $5 from a charity listing. The automatic collection of money raised has also been extended from… Read more
eBay reorg support with EU Center of Excellence
October 1, 2009
eBay have announced a new expansion of their European customer support operations in Dublin which will become a European Center of Excellence. eBay are continuing their approach in other parts of the business to streamline operations by… Read more
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