eBay News

19/03/2013

eBay have released this video to explain the thinking behind the 2013 eBay UK Spring Seller Release

18/03/2013

Are you claiming benefits at the same time as running an eBay business? If so you should of course be declaring your eBay income but it appears some of our Aussie chums down under might have forgotten that eBaying counts as working. According to AustralianIT, thousands of eBay PowerSellers will now be tracked and checked [...]

18/03/2013

eBay have just updated their member-to-member contact policy banning users from swapping email addresses in messages as well as officially prohibiting users from making offers to buy or sell outside eBay and including links to non-eBay sites that don’t directly help buyers purchase items on eBay. eBay add “Messages that include phone numbers and links [...]

14/03/2013

Mark Goodwin works for Transforming Data a Cloud based Data Transformation solutions provider who operate an on-demand hosted data conversion platform doing any to any format conversions for file types ranging from CSV, Flat Files, and XML through to EDI. Mark provides expertise in format conversions into the eBay File exchange format, streamlining the bulk [...]

13/03/2013

eBay has been examining how its systems work with reference to how much energy the server hardware they use consumes and come up with some pretty astonishing results. In an effort to use less energy, eBay boffins examined the code that underpins the site and discovered ways to make key processes run with less memory. [...]

12/03/2013

A couple of weeks ago eBay Radio celebrated their 500th show, and the annual eBay Radio Party and Conference to be held in Las Vegas on the 18th – 20th June will be a celebration of their 10th anniversary. June 18 will be a special day of product-sourcing information sponsored by Kabbage, Inc., followed by [...]

12/03/2013

A few days ago we wrote that eBay were making the new sign in page permanent for all eBay UK users. It would appear that the screen shot we used was just one of the permutations eBay tested and not the one which will be used going forward. We’ve now got the actual sign in [...]

12/03/2013

I was down in Brighton with Dan yesterday for a Tamebay board meeting (pub lunch) and picked up on a gem of an eBay listing that’s apparently upset the city godfathers. Driving out of Brighton listening to the local Radio Station – Juice 102.7, they were talking about an eBay listing for a pebble from [...]

11/03/2013

ChannelAdvisor has just announced the agenda for this year’s Catalyst Europe, and eBay are returning as a sponsor and keynote for this year’s event. For those of you who haven’t attended before, Catalyst is a great e-commerce event held annually in London, taking place this year on the 3rd and 4th of June in the [...]

11/03/2013

I’ve had a couple of people mention recently that sales patterns on eBay seem to be variable. Normally that’s indicative of only one thing, eBay are testing or changing the way items are surfaced in search results. The latest tip comes from Whirly, he spotted what appears to be an unusually high number of Auctions [...]