How to use eBay catalogue to your advantage

November 4, 2011

How to take best advantage when selling with eBay catalogueYesterday we looked at how eBay Catalogue may affect your ranking in search results. There are ways to take advantage of eBay catalogue and some sellers already are being advantaged by these… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Selling Tips | 8 Comments 

How eBay catalogue impacts your listing strategy

November 3, 2011

How eBay’s Catalogue may affect your search positionThere are a number of reasons why having your product matched against eBay Catalogue affects you ranking in search results. Knowing what they are is the first step in knowing how to list to your… Read more

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Terapeak 15 months for the price of 12 offer

November 1, 2011

Terapeak, the definitive source for eBay research, are running a promotion until the end of the year giving you access to their eBay Market Research tools for 15 months for the price of 12 months subscription. Added bonuses are Free Hot Research… Read more

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Webinar: Submitting products to Google Product Search

October 14, 2011

Google are holding a webinar on the 26th October at 10am Pacific Time (6pm in the UK) on Google Product Search. If you want to learn how to keep your product data fresh on Google Shopping then you should sign up for this event. Lasting 60 minutes… Read more

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Using the catalogue adoption tool on eBay

October 13, 2011

eBay now insist that sellers listing in certain categories match their product against the relevant eBay catalogue entry when there is one available. Whilst you should be able to match your products to the eBay catalogue at the time of listing,… Read more

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Planning for Christmas: 2011 Holiday Marketing Guide

October 11, 2011

Driving through through my home town of Thatcham yesterday I was a but surprised to see the council workers busily erecting Christmas lights and decorations onto the side of street lights. It’s still early October and Christmas seems a long way off,… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Ecommerce, Marketing, Selling Tips | 14 Comments 

Would you give a special discount to a Charity?

October 9, 2011

Glenn is a regular TameBay reader and today shares his personal experience of trading with Charities on eBay. This morning I received an email from an apparent ‘Charity’ representative asking if I could give a special discount on a number of… Read more

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E-commerce and Photography

October 5, 2011

I’ve known Mark and Philomena for many years and often browsed their collectible items on eBay (and even bought a couple). One thing that’s always impressed me is the quality of their images, especially for items such as glass which is notoriously… Read more

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“Google Trusted Stores” launched as pilot program

October 3, 2011

Google have announced a pilot of “Google Trusted Stores” program to give shoppers reassurance when buying on the Internet. The program allows buyers to shop with confidence across the web in the knowledge that they’ll receive reliable, on-time… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Customer Service, Ecommerce, Marketing, Selling Tips | 11 Comments 

RSS eBay feedback monitoring

September 25, 2011

TameBay readers are always resourceful and one pointed me to a neat feedback tool this week. It’s basically a feedback tool to enable you to be notified by an RSS feed whenever someone leaves feedback for you.”One tool I have been using for the past… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Internet, Selling Tips | 13 Comments 

Introducing SaleHoo Online Stores

September 19, 2011

SaleHoo, who in 2005 launched their wholesale supplier directory, is now home to over 95,000 online retailers who enjoy the supplier directory, the busy forums and free educational resources. Now, after 18 months of planning and development and 6… Read more

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“My competitor left malicious low Feedback DSRs”

September 12, 2011

We always welcome guest posts from our readers and today tell the story of a reader who was subjected to feedback abuse from one of their competitors. Normally we don’t publish anonymous stories, but in this case we’ve chosen to withhold the… Read more

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Best practice listing strategies Part 3: UPC EAN ISBN

September 11, 2011

In the first two parts of this series we looked at best practices for eBay Catalogue and eBay longer titles and Item Specifics. Today in the final part we look at how using product codes can help your sales. eBay have added a field into… Read more

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Best practice listing strategies Part 2: Title & Item Specifics

September 10, 2011

Following on from “Best practise listing strategies Part 1: Catalogue” today we’ll look at best practises for titles and item specifics. Tomorrow we’ll look at “Best practice listing strategies Part 3: UPC EAN ISBN”. 80 character listing… Read more

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Best practice listing strategies Part 1: Catalogue

September 9, 2011

There have been a number of changes recently to eBay all of which will affect the way that you list and describe your items. Catalogue, Mandatory Item Specifics, and Longer Listing Titles will all have an impact on how your items are found. eBay… Read more

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Demystifying Liquidation Suppliers: Can they boost your online sales?

September 8, 2011

Alice Delore is an education specialist for SaleHoo.com, an online community of over 95,000 online sellers and retailers. Their product range consists of an online selling course, ecommerce software and their flagship product, a wholesale… Read more

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Promoting your best selling items in your eBay shop

August 31, 2011

Did you know that you can change the default search order for your eBay shop? Currently the default search order for your eBay shop will be Time Ending Soonest – This is the old traditional way of displaying items in eBay search and it’s still the… Read more

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Test purchase leads to shilling suspension

August 23, 2011

It appears to be a bad day for sellers with account problems, as I’ve had four telephone conversations today regarding eBay accounts being suspended. One however with a TameBay reader who I shall call “Alex” (mainly because that’s his name) has had… Read more

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New categories to list against eBay product catalogue

August 23, 2011

From today eBay UK has increased the number of electronics categories in which sellers should list their items with a matching product from the eBay catalogue. Sellers must, where possible, list an item against a matching product from the catalogue,… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, Selling Tips | 13 Comments 

Last edition of the News of the World on eBay

July 10, 2011

Unsurprisingly today there are a large number of listings for the last ever edition of the News of the World newspaper. Closed, following the controversy over phone hacking, the worlds longest running newspaper printed it’s last edition today with a… Read more

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Calculate import duty and taxes with Duty Calculator

July 2, 2011

Do you import items and want to work out what the VAT and Duty will cost? A friend pointed me to a useful site today which will calculate the costs for you. Duty Calculator will figure out the tax due when importing an item based on the costs and… Read more

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Monsoon hits 50m items sold on Amazon milestone

June 15, 2011

Monsoon Commerce, a solution enabling sellers to list product on eBay, Amazon, Buy.com and Play.com, have hit a major milestone. They’ve now helped their merchants to sell over 50 million Items on Amazon.com. They’ve also announced release of the… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Amazon, Selling Tips | 2 Comments 

Meet the company: iContact

May 27, 2011

I’ve known John Hayes for many years and it was with some surprise I found out that he was joining iContact as their EMEA Business Development Executive. iContact is a US-based email marketing firm, and John’s role is to help them open their first… Read more

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Tips & Tricks: SMP Printing

May 26, 2011

We always like tips and tricks that make our daily eBaying life simpler, and today a reader has come up with a simple hack to make the new Selling Manager Pro behave a little more user friendly. If you usually print out the SMP sold products page… Read more

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Greater UK & US visibility on eBay Australia

May 24, 2011

photo credit: *_*From today eBay Australia are opening up number of listing categories on eBay.com.au to include relevant listings from eBay.com and eBay.co.uk in search results. This is being done in selected (but unspecified) categories where… Read more

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