PayPal picks up 250 mobile carriers courtesy of Zong

July 13, 2011

Last week eBay agreed to acquire Zong, a mobile payments provider. Zong lets people buy products or services with their mobile phone, the charges then appear on your phone bill. Think Facebook credits for Farmville upgrades and you’ll get the… Read more

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Cheques in again

July 12, 2011

The Payments Council has announced today that the planned scrapping of cheques in 2018 will no longer go ahead. Richard North, the Chairman of the Payments Council said: It’s in the DNA of the Payments Council to consult and listen to all… Read more

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eBay.com Summer Seller Update Released

July 12, 2011

The latest eBay.com seller update has been released and it includes something that sellers have been asking for for year – longer listing titles. There’s also an increase to seller protection, the end of off-site links and email addresses in… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.com, Featured | 11 Comments 

Propagate your email marketing with social media

July 11, 2011

Most email marketing is only as good as your email marketing list, but by encouraging recipients to share you message on Facebook and Twitter multiplies the reach of your message many times over. Rather than marketing directly to those on your email… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under News | 16 Comments 

Last edition of the News of the World on eBay

July 10, 2011

Unsurprisingly today there are a large number of listings for the last ever edition of the News of the World newspaper. Closed, following the controversy over phone hacking, the worlds longest running newspaper printed it’s last edition today with a… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Selling Tips | 32 Comments 

PayPal add order postage status to account history

July 7, 2011

I’ve just noticed a minor change in my PayPal account activity and history page views. PayPal are now marking items as “Posted” in the order status column alongside the “Issue refund” link. As all my recent sales have been on eBay it appears that… Read more

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eBay spawns new social media spam technique

July 6, 2011

You have to kind of admire spammers, they’re constantly evolving their methods and abusing new features to fill your inbox. The latest evolution is the use of eBay’s new social media sharing features to propagate their junk mail. eBay now have… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Social Media | 1 Comment 

@PayPalUK Twitter account hacked

July 6, 2011

@PayPalUK, the Twitter account for PayPal in the UK was hacked tonight and content including changes to their logo was posted. The attackers also posted tweets linking to PayPalSucks.com, an anti-PayPal site and then devoted the next hour to… Read more

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eBay catalogue data goes AWOL

July 5, 2011

I’ve got two almost identical listings on eBay, the only difference should be that one is an auction and the other is a fixed price listing. However the fixed price item (listed today using “sell similar”) has a large chunk of content missing -… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk | 4 Comments 

eBay, this is why you deserve to fail

July 5, 2011

Having spent about a decade as a seller on eBay, it’s been pretty instructive for me to become solely a buyer in the last few months. I’ve wondered why buyers are so suspicious, so reluctant, so ready to believe I wanted to rip them off…. and now… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under News | 115 Comments 

Google launches prizes.org

July 4, 2011

Google have just launched Prizes.org, a place where you can create contests and let people compete for a prize of your choosing. The best submission wins the prize. Essentially it’s a site offering cash payments for solutions, creative work,… Read more

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How to surprise your wife with a sauna

July 3, 2011

Every now and again I come across an eBay story where a sale goes perfectly and that’s just what happened to Lyndon Holman of Devon. One morning before work Lyndon bid and won a his perfect sauna on eBay but it was 142 miles away in Birmingham…. Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay.co.uk | 17 Comments 

Calculate import duty and taxes with Duty Calculator

July 2, 2011

Do you import items and want to work out what the VAT and Duty will cost? A friend pointed me to a useful site today which will calculate the costs for you. Duty Calculator will figure out the tax due when importing an item based on the costs and… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Selling Tips | 15 Comments 

Royal Mail start to accept mail for Canada

July 1, 2011

Now the Canadian postal workers are back to work Royal Mail have today started to accept parcels destined for Canada. However if you are sending items to Canada you’ll still need to communicate with your buyers to let them know that there are likely… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk | 1 Comment 

Are you having success with Comparison Shopping Engines?

July 1, 2011

I have to admit to not being overly impressed with most comparison shopping engines (CSEs) – their growth in recent years has been flat compared to the rest of ecommerce. However it appears that CSEs can still return some bang for your… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Ecommerce | 5 Comments