Daily Deals: Portable Gas BBQ

May 11, 2010

At long last there’s a Daily Deal to get excited about, it’s not clothing or fashion, it’s not from an Outlet, in fact it’s from a smaller seller with under 1500 feedback. If you’re in the market for a it’s on offer for just £19.99 with free 24… Read more

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Buying from Buy

May 10, 2010

First off I have to admit I’ve made a mistake – I ordered a product and failed to read the description and discover that the item will only work with a MAC and that I only have a PC. However I’ve been pretty impressed with the seller Buy.com as a… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Soapbox | 5 Comments 

eBay.com dump the stores link in navigation bar

May 10, 2010

eBay.com have announced that in line with the UK they are going to dump the Stores link in the navigation header. The reasoning is like the UK that there’s no point searching eBay Stores now that all listings are viewable in core search results, and… Read more

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Save time with Unpaid Item Assistant and Auto Answers

May 10, 2010

Automation is the key to saving time as a seller, and automation is the topic of a webinar with Anshu Goel, senior manager in the eBay EU seller platform team on Thursday this week. In conjunction with ChannelAdvisor, Anshu will be discussing… Read more

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Why displaying “Business Seller Information” is a bad thing

May 9, 2010

I’ve just had my Sunday evening disturbed by an eBay buyer turning up on spec hoping to buy a laptop power supply. He’d obtained my contact details from my eBay listings “Business Seller Information”, but although this is my registered address my… Read more

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Fashioning eBay’s future?

May 9, 2010

I don’t seem to be able to escape the ads for eBay Outlet at the moment. Not only are they all over the site, and in my inbox, they’re following me to Waterloo tube station too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen eBay push one specific part of the site… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Soapbox | 16 Comments 

eBay to expand Gmarket into Japan

May 8, 2010

eBay have announced expansion plans in Japan and Singapore with an expansion of GMarket, which eBay acquired in 2009. Gmarket founder Young Bae Ku and eBay will both put around $10million into the new venture with eBay owning a 49% stake and Young… Read more

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eBay launch new Delivery Services Hub

May 7, 2010

eBay have launched a brand new Delivery Services Hub in the UK with a raft of special offers from a variety of couriers and courier consolidators. Rather than being just the normal crowd they’ve also taken the time to source 2-man and large delivery… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Featured | 10 Comments 

Free private seller listings: 8th-9th May

May 5, 2010

There’s a free listings weekend coming up for private sellers. For Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th of May there’ll be no insertion fees for auction listings regardless of start price. Business sellers and PowerSellers are excluded from the… Read more

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eBay pay for their mistake

May 4, 2010

eBay apparently made an error on the price of one of today’s Daily Deals and advertised it at £9.99 instead of £11.99. It appears that they’re dipping into their own coffers to make good the difference. With approaching 250 sold it’s not a huge… Read more

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“Get out of the way and let us get on with business” (whoever wins)

May 2, 2010

It’s General Election week, and by Friday morning we might know who’s going to be running the country. Or the way things are going it’s quite likely we’ll end up with a hung Parliament and still have no idea who’s in charge! TameBay’s own General… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 7 Comments 

Material girl’s old photos on eBay

May 1, 2010

A guy in the states has struck it lucky after buying some old boxes with unknown contents and finding a stash to old Madonna memorabilia. His business is to buy storage unit goods when the owner falls behind with the rent. In this case it appears… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 2 Comments