UK and DE listings displayed on eBay.IT

January 12, 2012

eBay Italy has announced that from the 9th of January, in some categories, items from the UK and Germany will be displayed on the Italian site. This isn’t a surprise – eBay tested visibility from UK and German sellers to Italy six months ago, the… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, eBay.it | 10 Comments 

eBay acquire Billsafe for PayPal Germany

December 22, 2011

eBay have just bought PayPal a Christmas present! Having purchased a minority share in Billsafe in 2010 they’ve just acquired the rest of the company. Billsafe provide a service which German buyer love – the ability to purchase on invoice…. Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de, Paypal | 6 Comments 

eBay survey business sellers on government policies

December 11, 2011

If you’re a business registered seller in the UK, France or Germany you may be one of the few thousand selected to be surveyed on business issues affecting you. eBay are conducting the survey through Freshminds and want to give sellers a voice to… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, eBay.fr | 21 Comments 

1st EU 1 million feedback eBay seller is dynamic-auction

November 1, 2011

The first European eBay seller to achieve 1,000,000 has been revealed as German eBay seller, . It’s taken two years since the first seller to achieve 1,000,000 feedback was announced as being Jack Sheng (who actually has four 1 million feedback eBay… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 6 Comments 

eBay.de & eBay.at run inhouse payments pilot scheme

September 21, 2011

eBay are testing a new payment system in Germany and Austria. Rather than as currently happens the buyer paying the seller direct, under the pilot scheme buyers will actually pay eBay for their purchases on the site. With the Pilot once a… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 15 Comments 

UK and German goods displayed on eBay France

September 16, 2011

eBay are running a test to display items from eBay UK and eBay.de on eBay France. Items will only be displayed from UK and German eBay Top Rated Sellers and currently only a group of French buyers will see items from these two countries. The big… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, eBay.fr | 2 Comments 

Is International Site Visibility listing enhancement worth buying?

July 13, 2011

photo credit: *_*In eBay’s latest Seller Update they’ve said that if you specify International postage to the US, Canada and Australia your listings may appear in the standard search results for that country. This will start from late… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.com, eBay.com.au, eBay.de, eBay.it | 9 Comments 

Greater UK & DE visibility on eBay Italy

June 24, 2011

From this week eBay are testing great visibility for UK and German sellers on eBay Italy. Your listings may be shown on eBay Italy if you are a top rated seller, have defined Italy as a country you ship to and your listings are being searched for by… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.com, eBay.com.au, eBay.de, eBay.it | 8 Comments 

Internationalisation of online marketplaces

May 21, 2011

“Internationalisation” was the new buzz word at ChannelAdvisor EU Catalyst this year. Cross border trade is up according to everyone and the opportunity in the UK’s close neighbours in Europe is just too big to miss out on. 20% of all eBay… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under Amazon, eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, eBay.fr | 9 Comments 

Item Condition goes missing on eBay.com, .de, .co.uk

April 22, 2011

If you’re wondering why your items aren’t selling, or why if they do sell they’re not fetching the price that you expected, it may be down to a major glitch on eBay spotted by a TameBay reader. On many listings the Item Condition is missing and… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.com, eBay.de, Featured | 25 Comments 

Discount codes for eBay UK & Germany from 16th November

November 9, 2010

There has recently been an campaign running on eBay.com, with discounts offered from a range of large sellers. Seventeen different sellers participated, with up to 35% savings off select items running between 1st and 14th November. Following the… Read more

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Free listings with iPhone selling app

July 12, 2010

The iPhone selling app is now available in the UK and Germany and what’s more for casual sellers it’s free to list auctions with the iPhone app from the 12th to 29th July. For UK sellers the iPhone app makes it really quick and easy to list CDs… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under CLD, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de | 1 Comment 

eBay Germany Motors’ fee changes

March 1, 2010

As of 30th March, eBay Germany Motors prices are changing. The good news is that picture pack will be free; the slightly less cheery news is that FVFs, reserve price fees and buy it now fees are all increasing. Check out the full details in… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 6 Comments 

eBay.de’s compulsory PayPal policy under investigation

February 27, 2010

eBay is under investigation in Germany to test whether its new rule requiring new sellers to accept payments by PayPal online breaks competition law. As of Thursday, German sellers with fewer than 50 feedbacks are required to offer PayPal as a… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de, Paypal | 1 Comment 

Free listing days for private sellers on eBay France & Germany

February 16, 2010

eBay France and eBay Germany have both announced free listing days for private sellers for later this week following the eBay UK one we already know about. on 18th February. Private sellers will be charged no insertion fees for auction… Read more

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eBay auto emails rolled back until next year

November 18, 2009

This morning eBay have rolled back the new auto-emails for Order Confirmation, Order Update (dispatch) and 48 hour Payment Reminders. We expect an announcement board post later today confirming the roll back for several European countries. I have… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de | 10 Comments 

Multi-Variation Listings now available for Clothing and Home & Garden

July 15, 2009

You heard it here first: multi-variation listings have just gone live for all Clothing, Shoes and Accessories categories on eBays UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. They’re also live for most Home and Garden categories on UK and… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.ch, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, eBay.ie, Featured | 33 Comments 

Boomerangs – Easy returns goes live on eBay

June 23, 2009

eBay have enabled Easy Returns on the site to enabling buyers to inform you they wish to send items back for a refund. A drop down allows buyers to select a reason for the return, although they can if they wish enter a message to the seller to… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.co.uk, eBay.de, Featured | 40 Comments 

eBay.com to launch revamped keyword ad program

September 24, 2008

eBay have announced today the launch of a pay-per-click keyword ad program to be known as ‘eBay AdCommerce’. Initially the program will be run as a Beta test for selected sellers on eBay.com and eBay.de, but it’s anticipated AdCommerce will be… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay.com, eBay.de | 6 Comments 

eBay Germany re-introduces mutual feedback withdrawal

August 22, 2008

eBay Germany have re-introduced mutual feedback withdrawal in limited circumstances. Sellers can request buyers retract neutral or negative feedback within 30 days of the feedback being left. There are limits of two requests per month, and… Read more

Written by Chris Dawson · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 61 Comments 

eBay Germany : returning stores to search

August 21, 2008

eBay Germany have announced fee changes for business sellers today, creating perhaps the most complicated fee schedule ever seen on any eBay site. The most important change is that Shop items will be converted into a new fixed price format,… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 13 Comments 

eBay Germany require specified shipping

July 3, 2008

From this week, sellers on eBay Germany are required to specify at least one domestic shipping service. eBay say that 95% of sellers already do so, but that the remaining 5% will no longer be able to list without specifying at least one shipping… Read more

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German sellers must specify postage

June 17, 2008

Another one to file under “expect this to roll globally any time now”: from 1st July, of their listings, and will not be able to simply list postage costs within the item description. This is a sensible move and frankly should have been made… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 5 Comments 

eBay Germany introduce maximum shipping prices

May 29, 2008

eBay Germany are in 34 categories. Ranging between €5,00 and €8,00, a range of items are included in the new policy, from computer accessories, memory sticks and MP3 players, to silver-plated jewellery, some watches, and pearls. The… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 21 Comments 

eBay Germany highlights free shipping

May 14, 2008

the launch of a new icon to highlight items offering free shipping. Germany’s is also now offering the possibility to lauch “free shipping sales” in Shops. The same changes were made on .com last month, so sellers on other countries’ sites… Read more

Written by Sue Bailey · Filed Under eBay, eBay.de | 2 Comments