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Live HMRC e-Marketplaces Tax Q&A on Twitter this evening

Chris Dawson — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:26:52 +0000

If you’re an online seller and have any tax questions then log on to Twitter between 7pm and 8pm this evening. HM Revenue and Customs are hosting a live Twitter Question and Answer session … [visit site to read more]

eBay research into third wave retail technology

Chris Dawson — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:26:42 +0000

A press release today from eBay reveals the direction they intend to take shopping in the future. eBay’s research carried out by retail experts Conlumino reveals that the retail industry is on the cusp of a third wave of technological revolution. After online and mobile, a new wave of shopping technologies will again present opportunities and challenges for the industry.

According to the research Interactive TV will have the … [visit site to read more]

Another 50,000 free listings for eBay.com

Chris Dawson — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:03:00 +0000

Three days after last week’s eBay.com 50,000 free auction listing promotion finished on the 13th May eBay have offered another promotion for another 50,000 free listings.

eBay.com sellers can list up to 50,000 auction listings with the Buy It Now feature for free today, Wednesday the 16th of May. Time the promotion is open to all sellers on eBay.com – both eBay Stores subscribers and sellers who do not have an eBay Stores subscription.

According to eBay the only thing that could stop you … [visit site to read more]

SM, SMP and Mark Down Manager glitch

Chris Dawson — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:13:40 +0000

eBay announced this afternoon that there was a glitch affecting some users of Selling Manager and Selling Manager Pro tools. Apparently the glitch also affects Mark Down Manager for those uses who use the discounting feature to hold a sale in their eBay shops.

Hopefully the glitch will be fixed quickly and everything will be back to normal, but if you’ve been having issues using the site at least you’ll know that it’s not something that you did to break the … [visit site to read more]

Moocho – SoLoMo payments startup

Chris Dawson — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:34:17 +0000

There are three big trends in commerce these days encapsulated in the acronym SoLoMo – Social, Local and Mobile. The big trend in payments is for a digital wallet so that you can pay anywhere anytime without needing to carry a physical wallet around.

What no one has done so far is to connect … [visit site to read more]

36% of SME use Facebook, 60% are digital dinosaurs

Chris Dawson — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:55:14 +0000

Over one third of UK small businesses say that they now use Facebook to drum up new customers – more than local directories such as Yellow Pages and Thomson and substantially more than print or online advertising. That’s the findings of a survey by website builder BaseKit. They found that 36% of small businesses in Britain use the social network to market themselves, where just a quarter say they rely on local directories as a source of new … [visit site to read more]

35% off with PayPal at Domino’s Pizza voucher code

Chris Dawson — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:05:31 +0000

If you’ve got some spare funds in your PayPal account and are still busily packing the weekends orders then it’s time for Pizza for lunch. Domino’s Pizza UK are offering PayPal users 35% off when you spend over £35 online!

The offer is valid until the 27th May 2012 for full price menu items but can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer. To get your 35% discount and treat your staff to lunch order simply online at Dominos, enter the voucher … [visit site to read more]

Do you want national TV exposure for your business?

Chris Dawson — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:11:45 +0000

Do you buy and sell overseas? Have you sourced products from Alibaba? If so then Alibaba are running a marketing campaign highlighting “Go Global” buyer and supplier stories, and they are looking for businesses to take part. If you’ve got a story about a great supplier that you found on Alibaba.com they want to hear from you.

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PayPal Japan – PayPal SOFTBANK partnership

Chris Dawson — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:42:24 +0000

“PayPal Japan” a new joint venture between PayPal and SOFTBANK to build a digital payments business that will drive the future of commerce in Japan. The strategic partnership was announced in a presentation by Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of Softbank and John Donahoe, President and CEO of eBay and David Marcus, … [visit site to read more]

Actinic Online adds low cost Actinic Payments

Chris Dawson — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:56:08 +0000

Actinic Online have made Actinic Payments available for all of their users having been in Beta for the last six months. Actinic Payments makes it easy to set up, accept and manage payments from all major credit cards including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Maestro and Delta.

You’ll still need a merchant banking … [visit site to read more]

Scott Thompson ousted from Yahoo! after just four months

Chris Dawson — Sun, 13 May 2012 23:17:47 +0000

“This was an opportunity he felt he had to take“, were the word John Donahoe used in January this year when announcing to PayPal staff that Scott Thompson was leaving to become CEO of Yahoo! Four months later it doesn’t appear that the grass was greener as Yahoo! announced today that Scott Thompson has “left the … [visit site to read more]

Queen Elizabeth II’s Royal knickers up for sale on eBay

Chris Dawson — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:08:39 +0000

With impeccable timing in the run up to the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, a pair of what is … [visit site to read more]

eBay tries to shut down AuctionBytes for phishing!!

Chris Dawson — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:03:09 +0000

Our friend Ina Steiner over at AuctionBytes has just has a bit of a shock. eBay asked her Internet Host to block her new EcommerceBytes blog and redirect users to an eBay anti-phishing page. eBay mistakenly thought a blog post about eBay’s buyer protection program was an attempt to commit fraud and entice people to enter their eBay log in credentials.

Ina of course is well … [visit site to read more]

eBay Australia removes ad from search results

Chris Dawson — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:40:51 +0000

eBay Australia have announced their intention to remove adverts from the top of search results pages. These were some of the most annoying adverts on eBay and will be gladly missed. The biggest impact is of course more listings will be visible in search results.

No one will be sorry to … [visit site to read more]

100 Free listings on eBay UK 12-13th May

Chris Dawson — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:27:05 +0000

Having missed out on a rainy bank holiday weekend eBay have now obliged with the free listing day we were expecting. This weekend for the 12th and 13th May you can list auction style listings on eBay from a private account with free insertion fees.

The start price needs to be £1 or more to qualify for free insertion fees (you already get free insertion fees for auctions with lower start prices as a private seller). All the normal terms apply – private sellers only, no professional listing … [visit site to read more]

PayPal withdrawls to banks to be instant by summer

Chris Dawson — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:19:41 +0000

PayPal have just released their policy updates which kick into effect from the 12th July 2012. Most of the updates are house keeping and typographical corrections, but there’s one bit of news that will please all PayPal users in the UK.

PayPal are going to speed up transfers between PayPal and your bank account. Both ways!

It will mean that money movements between PayPal and bank … [visit site to read more]

Did your eBay fees rise unexpectedly?

Chris Dawson — Wed, 09 May 2012 12:00:36 +0000

Following the category changes announced in the Spring Seller release some sellers will have suddenly been paying higher eBay Final Value fees than expected. As a result of categories being moved they now reside in a different fee tranche, but the... Read more

eBay iPhone app now includes swatch matching

Chris Dawson — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:49:23 +0000

eBay have released a new version of the eBay iPhone and iPod app, which now includes a compelling swatch matching feature. You can take a photo of your favourite fabric and the app will then match the colour and pattern from the image to … [visit site to read more]

eBay open New York and Bangalore Tech Centers

Chris Dawson — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:34:08 +0000

eBay have announced two new technology centers to be set up this year, one in New York and the second in Bangalore, India.

The New York center will grow to around 200 people starting with 25 moving over from Hunch which eBay recently acquired. This site will be headed up by Chris Dixon, the founder of Hunch, and will be dedicated to improving eBay’s recommendations technology. eBay really need to crack … [visit site to read more]

Four practical ways to use Social Media to sell

Chris Dawson — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:03:29 +0000

I’ve been thinking back over the years to when I was active on the PowerSeller board on eBay UK. At the time my main income was from selling 2nd hand laser printers and before the days that people called it “Social Media”, I was busily selling online socially.

I asked Social Media expert John Hayes of iContact what are his top four ways for a company to use social media and he told me:

To distribute information about their … [visit site to read more]

iwoca to host panel of commercial eBay sellers at Catalyst

Chris Dawson — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:45:42 +0000

There are only a couple of weeks left until the biggest marketplaces/ecommerce conference in the UK this year. ChannelAdvisor Catalyst is on the 28th – 29th May in London and news is just in of a panel discussion where some of the fastest growing eBay businesses will share the secrets of their success.

John Pemberton, founder & CEO of GMDC Global, a leading online seller of … [visit site to read more]

How many digital wallets do I need to sign up to?

Chris Dawson — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:05:49 +0000

I can remember a time when Voice over IP (VoIP) was the most heavily fought over service on the Internet. Companies like Cisco and Motorola sold hardware costing tens of thousands of pounds and they had a ton of competition from smaller manufacturers. Consumers happily used instant messengers with voice capabilities from the likes of Yahoo!, AOL, ICQ and Microsoft. None of these solutions could talk to a competing client because every company wanted to win the market.

They all lost, years … [visit site to read more]

1 week, 50,000 free listings on eBay.com

Chris Dawson — Mon, 07 May 2012 13:50:08 +0000

There’s another weeks free auction listings for eBay.com sellers with an eBay shop, and the maximum number of free listings is once again 50,000. The promotion applies to all durations apart from 1 day listings.

Unlike the UK, for the eBay.com promotions you can use listing tools, but unless you’ve a huge inventory 50,000 listings is a lot. Don’t forget there’s a duplicate listings policy so you can’t simply list the same items multiple times.

The promotion runs from today, the 7th May … [visit site to read more]

Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s Corvette for sale on eBay

Chris Dawson — Sun, 06 May 2012 11:14:55 +0000

It's not been to the moon and back, but Neil Armstrong has and it's his car that's up for sale on eBay. The 1967 Chevrolet once owned by astronaut Neil Armstrong has bids over $250,000 and the auction closes later today. The Corvette was a... Read more

Rummage brings picture based results to eBay.com

Chris Dawson — Sun, 06 May 2012 10:30:30 +0000

There aren’t many ways of doing something new on eBay in terms of search, but a new website Rummage aims to bring a new option to buyers. It gives big picture based search results enabling you to see the product first and foremost giving less emphasis to titles, condition, item specifics and all the other things eBay put in front of you.

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