eBay News

26/04/2013

There may be a problem on eBay, we’ve got a seller who has shipped four items which eBay have now refunded. The orders originally appeared in Selling Manager Pro, but then disappeared and at one time with orders showing at a not very impressive minus 1. We don’t know if this is a very isolated [...]

26/04/2013

The current Taoiseach Enda Kenny, has officially opened eBay’s new Operations Centre in Dundalk, Ireland. The new facility will provide support for eBay and PayPal customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. It’s good news for the Irish economy, eBay reckon they’ll create about 450 jobs with PayPal needing 1,000 new employees to man [...]

25/04/2013

eBay appear to have started pushing SquareTrade warranties a little harder – at least it’s the first time in my ten plus years on eBay that I’ve had an email offering to sell me a warranty on anything that I’ve purchased. A few days ago I took the decision to buy a new laptop. My [...]

24/04/2013

eBay have updated the Android App to include Shopping Basket support in the UK (and the US although they prefer to call it a Shopping Cart! This should please Tamebay reader Liz who asked for the feature a few days ago when we were looking at the eBay App shortcomings as the shopping basket will [...]

22/04/2013

In eBay’s Q1 financial results John Donahoe announced that eBay gained 2.8 million new mobile customers last quarter and that eBay customers using mobile buy twice as much as those on traditional computers. No Questions, No Returns That got me thinking about my own experiences with eBay mobile and there are a few things that [...]

22/04/2013

There appears to be a bug (or perhaps a previously unforeseen scenario) with eBay’s relatively new shopping basket. If a buyer adds an item with carriage specified as “Freight” and another with collection in person to the shopping basket then it’s impossible to complete the purchase on eBay. They buyer will see a message “Please [...]

19/04/2013

There appears to be a problem with revision of multi-variation listings through Large Merchant Services. If trying to revise the price on a number of SKUs on one listing the process reports the change has been successfully carried out, but in reality the price isn’t altered. This shouldn’t affect most users – it’s likely to [...]

18/04/2013

I don’t like complaining, but I’m really annoyed with one of the two purchases I made from the eBay Weekend Spectacular sale a few days ago. When buying a new product you expect it to be new and that’s not just the product but also the retail packaging. That wasn’t the case for the garden [...]

17/04/2013

I don’t know a single eBay seller that doesn’t live in fear of their selling account being limited. It’s doubly worrying for consultants and developers as if their account is linked to a client account that’s limited it could affect all of their other clients too. This week a developer gave me a call as [...]

17/04/2013

There’s an interesting update re free listings allowances for sellers on eBay.com. Similar to the UK, in the US sellers without an eBay Stores subscription get 50 free listings per month. Up until now they’ve been auction style listings but in the future they can be either auction or fixed price listings. In the UK [...]