Packaging? What Packaging?
October 18, 2011
I honestly thought I’d seen everything as far as returned items go. I’ve seen many items missing the manufacture packaging and the age old perennial of items returned in the manufacturer’s packaging with with the address hand written and courier… Read more
How eBay is hiding your auctions from buyers
October 17, 2011
I’ve been trying to figure out what’s happening to Fixed Price and Auction style listings in the electronic categories where Catalogue is now mandatory. It’s not looking like good news for many sellers, especially those who rely on their auctions… Read more
Shawbrook Bank recognises need for SME finance
October 17, 2011
A survey by Shawbrook Bank, a new specialist savings and lending bank who opened today, has revealed that 89% of small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK believe the country’s banks fail to use common sense when they make decisions about… Read more
eBay to release iOS SDK for mobile app developers
October 17, 2011
If you’re a developer who builds mobile phone apps to drive traffic to eBay then there’s good news coming down the line for you. eBay Partner Network (ePN – eBay’s affiliate program) are about to release a Mobile iOS software development kit (SDK)… Read more
eBay survey on customer support contact options
October 16, 2011
eBay are surveying sellers to ask how they’d like eBay support to be shaped in the future. Questions included how important would 24 hour telephone support be to you and how would you feel if eBay scrapped email support. The survey also covers… Read more
eBay Resolution Centre return cases glitch
October 15, 2011
If you’ve received a Return Request through the eBay Resolution centre you may have a problem. Some users are finding that clicking on the “Take Action” link is leading to an error page stating that “The information you requested is currently… Read more
Saying Goodbye to eBay Chat Rooms and Neigborhoods
October 15, 2011
eBay are about to close the eBay.com Chat Rooms and Neighborhoods sections of the eBay community. The eBay Cafe was one of the very first eBay Chat Rooms established and goes way back to the late 90′s when eBay was in it’s infancy and as you can… Read more
PayPal India raises export payments to $3000 cap
October 15, 2011
There’s some good news for merchants in India this week, almost a year ago the Reserve Bank of India limited cross border payments to India to just $500. That’s now been raised sixfold to $3000 per transaction with immediate effect. To comply… Read more
X.Commerce – Move along, nothing to see here (yet)
October 14, 2011
Dan and I have been reading all the press releases from the first day of the X.Commerce developers conference. There’s loads of exciting sounding stuff such as eBay launching the world’s first open commerce ecosystem and eBay integrating Facebook… Read more
eBay cashes in on Microsoft’s Skype acquisition
October 14, 2011
If anyone is after pitching eBay for some money for a pet project today’s the day to do it – eBay just cashed in on Skype as Microsoft announced that their deal to acquire Skype has completed. Tony Bates, Skype CEO said that he’s “delighted to… Read more
Free auction listing for private sellers this weekend
October 14, 2011
It’s yet another free auction listing weekend for private sellers on eBay UK. All listings with any start price greater than £1.00 or more are free (listings under a pound are already free). Normal rules apply – no business sellers, no below… Read more
Webinar: Submitting products to Google Product Search
October 14, 2011
Google are holding a webinar on the 26th October at 10am Pacific Time (6pm in the UK) on Google Product Search. If you want to learn how to keep your product data fresh on Google Shopping then you should sign up for this event. Lasting 60 minutes… Read more
Really Nice Pinks experiment sell to raise funds for Breast Cancer Awareness
October 13, 2011
I’ve complained many a time (with a few notable exceptions such as the eBay employees that ran an eBay shop and were PowerSellers) that eBay staff often don’t seem to have a clue what it’s really like to sell on eBay, so it’s with great pleasure and… Read more
Chris Farrelly completes handover of eSellerPro, stays as Director
October 13, 2011
Chris Farrelly the founder of eSellerPro is leaving the company. Having built eSellerPro for the last six years Chris and eSellerPro attracted a £2m investment from Notion Capital last year and then Chris stepped aside as CEO in January of this… Read more
Using the catalogue adoption tool on eBay
October 13, 2011
eBay now insist that sellers listing in certain categories match their product against the relevant eBay catalogue entry when there is one available. Whilst you should be able to match your products to the eBay catalogue at the time of listing,… Read more
Royal Mail modernisation impacts me directly
October 12, 2011
Royal Mail contacted me by email today to let me know about some changes to the way their team in Thatcham, where I live, deliver to my house. They explained how letter volumes are falling and parcels are increasing and that they are investing in… Read more
eBay remove all images from completed listings
October 12, 2011
eBay have made a change on eBay.com as to how ended items are displayed to users. Rather than displaying (or having a link to) the full original description they’re displaying a cut down header with only a thumbnail of the original gallery… Read more
BlackBerry BBM, email, Internet down for 3rd day
October 12, 2011
photo credit: peyriFor the third day in a row BlackBerry mobile phone users are suffering outages to email, Internet and BBM (BlackBerry Messenger). I spoke to a colleague yesterday who has a corporate company phone and he said he thought it had… Read more
Daily Deal offered for £35 more than the RRP
October 12, 2011
TameBay reader Lee of Focus Gaming was up bright and early this morning and checking his inbox for today’s Daily Deals and spotted a bit of a pricing gaffe on the email. The Dell up for grabs today was advertised at a recommended retail price of… Read more
Win tickets to Arthur Christmas and LapLand with Parcelforce
October 11, 2011
If you fancy winning two tickets to the UK premiere of “Arthur Christmas” in London on 6th November 2011 and a holiday to Lapland for 2 adults and 2 children then it’s worth entering the ParcelForce Arthur Christmas prize draw. Unless you work… Read more
Planning for Christmas: 2011 Holiday Marketing Guide
October 11, 2011
Driving through through my home town of Thatcham yesterday I was a but surprised to see the council workers busily erecting Christmas lights and decorations onto the side of street lights. It’s still early October and Christmas seems a long way off,… Read more
Google’s level playing field is tilted towards rule breaking merchants
October 11, 2011
I’ve heard many a complaint about marketplaces that they don’t enforce the rules evenly and appear to allow some merchants to blatantly break the rules to their advantage. I’ve never heard the same from Google, well until now that is. Google… Read more
Go Global this Global Entrepreneurship Week
October 11, 2011
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a worldwide initiative that provides an exciting, supportive and inspiring environment for people to discover and fulfil their entrepreneurial potential. The aim of the week is to break down the barriers to starting… Read more
How Genie and the Geek assist eBay Fashion Outlets
October 10, 2011
At the Internet Retailing conference I had the opportunity to talk to Tayyab Akhlaq who runs My1stWish along with his three brothers. Unknown to me they had also launched a second business – Genie and the Geek. Genie and the Geek was set up last… Read more
Shopping Basket rolled out on eBay UK in October
October 10, 2011
eBay UK have announced that tests are over and the Shopping Basket is fully launched on the site – you should be able to see the basket in the top right hand corner of your screen and the blue “Add to Basket” option beneath the “Buy It Now” button… Read more
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From Twitter
- eBay predicts 1 in four of us will by off TV by 2014. My brother already shops on eBay on his interactive TV http://t.co/jxq5YVlP 10 hrs ago
- RT @customlogoshop: Got a business but wanting to look more professional? For just £50 you can re-brand your company! -... 11 hrs ago
- @ebay_uk @eBayFashion_UK I like the new swatch matching too, although some have said colours on a screen differ to real life so a challenge in reply to ebay_uk 12 hrs ago
- @ebay_uk Augmented Reality combined with Image Recognition, but probably hardest to achieve will probably have most impact for sales in reply to ebay_uk 12 hrs ago
- RT @john_w_hayes: You can now judge my book by its cover, but still cannot read it until June 11 - #becomingtheexpert | http://t.co/s73xseMa 2 days ago
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