ebay Australia: Free listings and new buyer emails

Good news if you’re Australian, you’ve got two days (26th – 27th November) to list as many auctions and fixed price listings on eBay as you can for free. There are the normal restrictions with a few categories like motors not qualifying and of course the duplicate listing policy remains in force.

The promotion is only available to users based in Australia, but it should result in a significant increase in listings from the antipodes over the next couple of days.

Australian eBay users are also waking up to the introduction of the new buyer communication emails recently rolled back in the UK and Europe. If we’ve got any Australian readers that could share the text of the emails and let us know if it’s friendly than the UK version it would be good to know!

One Response on "ebay Australia: Free listings and new buyer emails"

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   Judy says:

   November 26, 2009 at 9:59 pm

   This is a great promo – I’m impressed that for once eBay hasn’t left it too late in the lead-up to Christmas to offer FLDs to sellers.

   In the past it’s usually been the first or second week in December, which is almost too late to guarantee delivery by Christmas to some parts of this big brown land of ours.

   I got a Don’t forget to pay for your … email the other day, 48 hours after purchase. The text of the email was just “Thanks again for shopping on eBay”.

   The irritating part of receiving the email was that I had sent the seller 3 messages requesting Registered Post and he hadn’t replied to any of them. Even though I knew the ‘Don’t forget… ‘ email was automated, it irritated me intensely and I send a very terse message to the seller, which finally got a response.

   I know how it works and it annoyed me, so I wonder who buyers who don’t know the eBay system feel about it. Not a great step forward in ‘communicating’, IMO