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A press release today from eBay reveals the direction they intend to take shopping in the future. eBay’s research carried out by retail experts Conlumino reveals that the retail industry is on the cusp of a third wave of technological revolution. After online and mobile, a new wave of shopping technologies will again present opportunities [...]

Three days after last week’s eBay.com 50,000 free auction listing promotion finished on the 13th May eBay have offered another promotion for another 50,000 free listings. eBay.com sellers can list up to 50,000 auction listings with the Buy It Now feature for free today, Wednesday the 16th of May. Time the promotion is open to [...]

eBay announced this afternoon that there was a glitch affecting some users of Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro tools. Apparently the glitch also affects Mark Down Manager for those uses who use the discounting feature to hold a sale in their eBay shops. Hopefully the glitch will be fixed quickly and everything will be [...]

With impeccable timing in the run up to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a pair of what is claimed are her old knickers have surfaced on eBay. The vintage silk undergarment has a monogram of the Royal Crown with the initial script “E” underneath on the top left and a designed stitched going across the garment [...]

Having missed out on a rainy bank holiday weekend eBay have now obliged with the free listing day we were expecting. This weekend for the 12th and 13th May you can list auction style listings on eBay from a private account with free insertion fees. The start price needs to be £1 or more to [...]

There’s another weeks free auction listings for eBay.com sellers with an eBay shop, and the maximum number of free listings is once again 50,000. The promotion applies to all durations apart from 1 day listings. Unlike the UK, for the eBay.com promotions you can use listing tools, but unless you’ve a huge inventory 50,000 listings [...]

It’s miserable weather. It’s a bank holiday weekend. There are going to be loads of people on a three day weekend with nothing to do. So where’s our free listing weekend? eBay have been holding listing promotions in the UK roughly once every two weeks for most of this year, but now with a bank [...]

There’s yet another eBay UK free listing weekend for private sellers on the 28th and 29th April. Again Business sellers and PowerSellers are excluded as are the use of any professional listing tools such as TurboLister or Selling Manager Pro. This time sellers can list up to 100 auction style listings with a start price [...]

Great news for all sellers on eBay.com. For the next three days (26th – 28th April) you can list up to 5,000 fixed price listings for free! This includes both sellers with an eBay store and non-store subscribers. Seemingly this is a pretty generous promotion as a fixed price listing can be both multiple quantities [...]

I’m starting to think it would be easier to write when there *wasn’t* a free listing weekend for private sellers. Yet again this Saturday and Sunday, 14th-15th April, private sellers can list up to 100 auction style listings for free. Same rules, same conditions, no PowerSellers, no Business Sellers, No professional listing tools, Sell Your [...]