Free listings for French sellers extended to 1st May 2011

December 9, 2010

If you’re in France there’s great news regarding your eBay fees next year. From 1st January until 31st May there’s free listings . The only conditions are that you have to be resident in France and registered on eBay.fr and you have to have an eBay… Read more

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European Court of Justice: eBay not liable for alleged trademark infringments

December 9, 2010

According to a non-binding opinion of European Court of Justice Advocate General Niilo Jaaskinen, eBay should not be liable for trademark infringement as claimed by cosmetics giant L’Oreal. However they could be liable if they have been notified of… Read more

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Wii Sports Resort Package on eBay for £139.99

December 9, 2010

The games console deals continue this week with the . Currently the next best price on Google Shopping is over £155.00 but stock of the package appears to be limited with many suppliers out of stock. Last week eBay had the XBox 360 Kinect Bundle… Read more

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Daily Mirror exposes VAT tax dodger

December 9, 2010

There’s a full page article in today’s Daily Mirror reporting on an investigation into an eBay trader. Page 31 of the Mirror documents how a seller with a £1m business has been suspended from the site during investigations into alleged VAT… Read more

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£1m counterfeit seller jailed for 21 months

December 8, 2010

A seller of counterfeit goods on eBay has just received a 21 month prison sentence, almost four years after investigations into his “business” began. Following the arrest in February 2007 police traced up to 30 eBay accounts and PayPal records… Read more

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PayPal wins two Website of the Year 2010 awards

December 8, 2010

Arsenal 1, PayPal 2 – An unlikely scoreline you may think, but Arsenal just won the accolade of “Best Website of 2010″ and PayPal chalked up both the “Best Website of 2010″ and the “Most Popular Website of 2010″ awards in the Finance… Read more

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PackVERTISE: How to make money from shipping

December 8, 2010

PackVERTISE is a new service ideal for UK eBay, Amazon and website retailers to enable you to make money every time you ship a parcel. The concept is simple, you get paid for adding flyers into your parcels with product samples, giveaways or coupons… Read more

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eBay.com adds auto URL shortening service for Twitter

December 7, 2010

If you’re a fan of twitter the one thing that probably annoys you is that website URL addresses take far too many of the valuable characters available in a single Tweet. There are plenty of URL shortening services such as bit.ly, tiny.cc, goo.gl,… Read more

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Google launch eBookstore with 3million free and paid ebooks

December 7, 2010

Google has launched the Google eBookstore in direct competition to the Amazon Kindle. It already claims the largest selection of books available boasting some 3 million books available at launch. The eBooks are compatible with most of the… Read more

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25¢ auction insertion fee 7th-10th December

December 7, 2010

There’s yet another listing promotion on eBay.com, this time for for auctions of 1, 3 or 5 day durations. This time the promotion is available to ALL sellers on eBay.com (not just those without a stores subscription as recent promotions have… Read more

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Alibaba hold 1st UK “Open Sesame” Conference

December 6, 2010

Alibaba held their first ever UK conference today in London. Targeted at Alibaba customers, who ranged from start-ups and one-man-bands to the procurement departments of larger companies, the Alibaba Open Sesame 2010 conference taught about global… Read more

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eBay UK breaks all records for Christmas sales

December 6, 2010

Not only was yesterday the busiest shopping day of the year on eBay UK, but it broke all the records by a considerable margin. More than 5 million shoppers logged on yesterday making 1.4 million purchases. Sales were up a massive 18% compared with… Read more

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XBox 360 Kinect Bundle on eBay for £220.00

December 6, 2010

If you’re still looking for an Xbox 360 Kinect then eBay appears to have a pretty good deal from Zavvi. The cheapest price showing on Google Shopping today is £233, but on eBay you can buy the . If you liked the Nintendo Wii, then you’ll… Read more

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PayPal permanently restrict Wikileaks account

December 4, 2010

If you’ve been listening to the news lately you can hardly have missed the furore caused by WikiLeaks publication of 250,000 US Embassy Diplomatic Cables. This has led to a worldwide embarrassment for everyone from government and embassy… Read more

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eBay.com launches US Online Business Index

December 4, 2010

eBay UK launched the Online Business Index in 2008 as a barometer of small-business sentiment across a range of business topics. Since then it has grown to include the Online Business Forum on LinkedIn and has grown beyond eBay sellers to include a… Read more

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eBay acquires Milo local comparison shopping site

December 4, 2010

eBay have just purchased Milo.com, a site which focuses on making what’s available in local high street stores visible online. Their mission is to track every product on every shelf of every store in real-time. They want to build a bridge between… Read more

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Free Buy It Now upgrade for non-store eBay.com sellers

December 4, 2010

If you sell on eBay.com and don’t have an eBay store subscription then you’ve already got 100 free auction listings every month up until January 7th. eBay have just made it even better – for auctions listed between 4th and 13th December you can now… Read more

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Free auction listings for private sellers 4th-5th Dec

December 3, 2010

There’s a free listing weekend for private sellers on eBay UK this weekend. For Saturday and Sunday private sellers using the Sell Your Item form can list auction style listings with no insertion fees. Business and PowerSellers are excluded, as… Read more

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eBay.com DealFinder comparison shopping feature

December 2, 2010

eBay.com have announced a new buying feature called , which is a product comparison site highlighting the savings available compared to other ecommerce venues. In truth it’s more of a total revamp of the old Dealfinder feature which aimed to find… Read more

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World series of Poker bracelets on eBay

December 1, 2010

Last week poker legend Peter Eastgate sold his World Series of Poker (WSOP) winners bracelet on eBay with bids closing at $147,500. The money was all donated though eBay for Charity to Unicef. The in 2008, since when he has retired from playing… Read more

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Should eBay suspend the despatch time DSR?

December 1, 2010

I appear to live in the only part of the country where snow hasn’t fallen on my driveway, but that’s not the situation across much of the rest of the country. People have been stuck on trains and on the roads overnight and are still trying to get… Read more

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