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eBay.com 2010 Spring Seller Update

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 [...]

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Free postage to be scrapped in the near future

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 [...]

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eBay displaying other sellers’ items on your live listings

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 [...]

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eBay displaying other sellers' items on your live listings

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 [...]

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Above-Standard PSs launch 16th January

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 [...]

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Amazonification of product pages with value box

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 [...]

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Off site ads appearing on view item pages

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 [...]

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Customising an existing IE8 install for eBay

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 [...]

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eBay and Microsoft team up with IE8 for eBay

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 [...]

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eBay add tracking feature for selected carriers

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 [...]

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