eBay News

26/01/2010

The news is out and we now know what the changes for eBay.com will be for the next few months. For those of us in the UK there’s not too many clues as to what will happen in the UK as it appears eBay.com are playing catch up with many of the changes duplicating what’s [...]

23/01/2010

At Small Business 2.0 this morning Richard Kanareck, Communications Director from eBay has just talked about what’s happening on eBay in the near future and it’s free postage. Richard said that buyers love free postage, but it’s a pain point for many sellers as it squeezes their margins. He hinted that although currently free postage [...]

19/01/2010

eBay UK has announced a new test this morning, which will see “seller merchandising” displayed on live listings: Starting on 20 January, we will be running a test on displaying merchandise at the bottom of view item pages for a small percentage of active listings. You may begin to see relevant merchandise including merchandise from [...]

19/01/2010

eBay UK has announced a new test this morning, which will see “seller merchandising” displayed on live listings: Starting on 20 January, we will be running a test on displaying merchandise at the bottom of view item pages for a small percentage of active listings. You may begin to see relevant merchandise including merchandise from [...]

22/12/2009

The last posting date has passed, and all good eBay sellers ought to be sitting down with a glass of sherry and a mince pie. But don’t relax too much – there’s an eBay fee change on the cards! Remember back in July when the Top-Rated Seller program was announced? Part of that announcement was [...]

13/12/2009

eBay announced in the Spring that they’d be testing and introducing an Amazon style buy box on eBay product pages and TameBay reader Jimbo has spotted them starting to appear on eBay UK. The “Great savings from eBay sellers” box sits at the top of the product page and highlights an offering from one seller [...]

29/11/2009

Off site adverts are back on the view item pages, thankfully only at the bottom well below the item description instead of at the top of the page. It’s something that’s bound to hit a raw spot with sellers though – the page they they have “paid for” is being used to promote another companies [...]

29/11/2009

The point has been made that if you already have Internet Explorer 8 installed on your PC the IE8 for eBay install will fail. Don’t worry – you can still customise your existing install to get the same functionality in three easy steps: eBay Daily Deals webslice This will install a new button on your [...]

28/11/2009

A quarter of all TameBay readers are still using Internet Explorer 7 or even 6 as their Internet browser, and if that’s you it’s time you upgraded to IE8. Rather than downloading the standard version there’s a version specifically tailored for eBay. Internet Explorer 8 optimised for eBay updates the Daily Deal as WebSlice in [...]

25/11/2009

eBay have enabled tracking numbers in Selling Manager Pro (SMP)which is great news for both buyers and sellers. Hopefully it’ll cut down on the “where’s my item” questions as buyers are able to track the item themselves. There’s a new button in SMP which when clicked allows you to enter tracking numbers in bulk. Default [...]