Tag: Checkout

I don’t often open a new eBay account, I’ve got more than enough to last me a life time, both business seller accounts and personal eBay accounts, but this week I had need of just one more. It’s always interesting to see things from a new eBay user’s perspective and as a buyer it’s a [...]

eBay seem to be taking steps to help some sellers in a test on eBay.com to get around pricing requirements by sellers. Instead of showing buyers the actual price they can buy an item at they’re teasing them with a crossed out “Regular Price” with a message saying that the price they’ll pay will be [...]

If you’re trying to buy something on eBay at the moment you may be unable to pay for it. Apparently some users are unable to complete payments with PayPal and there are some errors and slowness when users are going through checkout with other payment methods. eBay are aware of the problem and working on [...]

If you have ever ticked the box to donate to your favourite charity when buying on eBay then you can now boost your donation by 25%. You’ll need to confirm that you’re a UK tax payer but then MissionFish will claim Gift Aid on the eBay Checkout donations you have made, and pass it on [...]

There is currently an issue with PayPal payments on eBay which is preventing buyers from paying for their purchases. eBay are aware of the problem and say that it’s affecting 25% of buyers with the message “Sorry, we could not complete your request at this time. Please try again in a few minutes. If this [...]

eBay have announced that the Shopping Basket which is currently in Beta is to be rolled out across the site. They say that recent tests suggest shopping basket will be popular with buyers, and that they expect it to result in larger orders and fewer unpaid items. The shopping basket will automatically replace the eBay [...]

Your buyers might be having problems buying from you this morning. There’s a problem with eBay checkout which is currently being worked on. eBay say they are “currently experiencing checkout problems. Community members may see errors or timeouts when attempting to pay for an item. We are working on the problem and apologise for the [...]

ChannelAdvisor have quietly revamped their 3rd party eBay checkout which is now a single page four tabbed process. There’s a pre-populated address check tab, followed by shipping method, payment option and final order confirmation tabs. As you go through the process a sliding sidebar showing your order total is on the right hand side of [...]

eBay are now telling buyers when their items should be expected to arrive, based on delivery time estimates and the shipping service they’ve selected. Here’s what I just got on checkout: A couple of people have mentioned this, but I hadn’t seen it before today; I’m not absolutely sure if it’s a staggered roll-out, or [...]

eBay have announced that as of the 30th June 2011 they will be closing all 3rd party checkouts and the only checkout available on eBay will be eBay’s own checkout. This will impact 3rd party solution provides such as ChannelAdvisor, eSellerPro and 4Sellers and the companies will have to rejig their software solutions to use [...]