eBay Live! online booking now open
March 14, 2008
The wait is over and booking is now open for eBay Live! scheduled for 19th – 21st June this year. If you’ve not booked your place get online and book it fast, until April 30th you’ll save $45 on your registration cost. Unlike last year you can… Read more
First eBay Live! party announced
March 13, 2008
Bookings open tomorrow for eBay Live! 2008 in Chicago and whilst the schedule is yet to be published there’s at least one peripheral event I’ll be making certain to attend – vzaar, the guys that put the video into eBay, will be organising a vzaar… Read more
Is this the last eBay Live?
March 12, 2008
photo credit: pmoSkip McGrath is obviously hearing the same rumours I am, that this year’s eBay Live in Chicago may be the last. I hope it’s not true, but I wouldn’t be surprised: collecting pins, the clapping tunnel and dancing to Weird Al… Read more
Hot dates for eBay Live
January 20, 2008
eBay have announced the dates for booking eBay Live in Chicago,which takes place between Thursday June 19th and Saturday June 21st: Early Bird Registration: $75.00 March 14 – April 30 Final Discounted Registration: $100.00 May 1 – May 31 Standard… Read more
Suggest a class, win a pass!
January 13, 2008
Do you have an idea for a class you’d like to teach at eBay Live? eBay are offering a free priority pass to the event for anyone who submits a session idea which is accepted, who participates in the session presentation. Even if you can’t or don’t… Read more
eBay Charity Seller of the year
October 6, 2007
Lynne Beckett is a busy lady! After a ten year career in nursing, ill health forced her to give up work in 2001. But it’s not what most people would term as “retirement”. She found more time for her hobby, cross stitching, and channeled her efforts… Read more
And the winner is…
October 6, 2007
One of the highlights of Thursday’s eBay Backstage party was the community awards. eBay UK MD Doug McCallum gave out seven awards to members who’ve achieved some great things in 2007: Auction Seller of the Year 2007: Schuh Store, represented by… Read more
TameBay goes Backstage
October 5, 2007
One of the great things about eBay events is the realisation that eBay employees are real people. At Live, you can be haggling over a badge with someone one day, only to realise the next that they’re the head of security for eBay North America…. Read more
eBay Belgium take 8000 users out for the day
October 4, 2007
Last Saturday more than 8.000 Belgian eBay users were invited together with their family to come to the Walibi amusement park, close to Brussels. Despite the rainy weather, it was a great day, with lots of fun. The Belgian eBay team had invited its… Read more
Make up your own item specifics
August 1, 2007
eBay.com are about to start testing the most radical change on the site ever! Up until now whenever eBay have made a category change, introduced item specifics for a product set, or in fact made any change which buyer could search on bar keywords… Read more
eBay stole my made up word (or maybe not)
June 20, 2007
When Bill Cobb originally announced eBay’s new advertising campaign, it seemed a bit bizarre: the word “endorphin” is surely too obscure to make a good portmanteau word, and I could imagine millions of people looking at the advertising, going “huh?”… Read more
Thrown out of Live! Gala for wearing a Google shirt?
June 20, 2007
So a few days after the end of eBay Live!, we’ve all got used to the “lower fees” and other promises, and so the gossip starts. One of the stories doing the rounds concerns two guys in Google shirts, apparently escorted from the final Gala by eBay’s… Read more
Lower FVFs for Canada too
June 19, 2007
The reduction in core FVFs announced by Bill Cobb last week is valid on eBay Canada too. The eBay Live! speech was very careful to make it crystal clear that his announcements related only to the .com site, but it seems that eBay’s President for… Read more
PayPal gave me something for free!
June 18, 2007
At the eBay Live! closing gala Bill Cobb and Meg Whitman presented eBay community awards to five eBayers and then Bill announced that PayPal wanted to give a present too – a $10 prepaid PayPal credit card. Unfortunately Bill didn’t get the huge… Read more
“Tell Doug McCallum and tell him I told you to tell him”
June 16, 2007
That’s the answer Bill Cobb gave at the eBay Live! Town Hall meeting when Sue asked if we could have eBay Live! in London, Paris or another European destination. Philipp Justus formerly Senior Vice President, eBay Europe was also on the stage and… Read more
eBay fight back against spoof emails
June 16, 2007
Rob Chesnut had some interesting news today, eBay are fighting back with new technology to step the tide of phishing emails. In a session at eBay Live! he confirmed that Domain Key Signatures are being introduced to all eBay emails. Domain Key… Read more
PESA late in calling for eBay change
June 16, 2007
PESA have posted a position statement on the health of the eBay marketplace. Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes describes it as “almost brutally critical” of eBay, but it’s key recommendations have been undermined at eBay Live! this week. PESA make three… Read more
Feedback changes coming soon
June 16, 2007
Feedback used to be the one unchangeable aspect of eBay. Everybody hates it, everybody loves it, but no one wants it to change. Today Pierre Omidyar himself revealed that he never foresaw just how central to the eBay phenomenon feedback would… Read more
USPS advise Royal Mail at eBay Live!
June 15, 2007
The Royal Mail are visiting eBay Live! to discuss ways to improve printing of postage labels through eBay and PayPal. The United States Postal Service handle postal deliveries differently. Robert Kopczynski, the Senior Business Service Network… Read more
Working with the VeRO programme
June 15, 2007
I suddenly wondered what on earth I was doing here: a VeRO seminar at nine in the morning? I must have been crazy. And then it turned out to be rather interesting. Yeah, I know. Freak. 
Because I’m a seller, who hangs around eBay seller boards… Read more
Finding it on eBay
June 15, 2007
Finding will fundamentally change with the introduction of Finding 2.0 which is in a test phase. The importance of the auction title will lesson as new ways for search results to be presented to buyers comes to the fore. The single biggest change… Read more
Keynote: Bill Cobb
June 15, 2007
Bill Cobb brought his mum and dad to eBay Live this year, but he was in avuncular mood, announcing a raft of changes for later this year which should please sellers and buyers alike. Bill, or rather a “lawyer” from behind the scenes, was keen to… Read more
Keynote: Rajiv Dutta on PayPal
June 15, 2007
Rajiv Dutta who leads PayPal had great news as the company turns 100 months old. They’re now the second most preferred method of payment in the US, second only to Visa but ahead of Mastercard and American Express. PayPal is investing heavily in… Read more
Keynote: Gary Briggs
June 15, 2007
eBay’s Chief Marketing Officer had a few nice announcements to make this evening. First up was the eBay Mastercard, available in three cute designs. One lucky applicant received a gift token for $5000; the rest of those who signed up could content… Read more
Keynote: Griff and Meg
June 15, 2007
They keynote speech kicked off in spectacular style with the much awaited live debut of Twisted Lister – eBay’s very own band. Bryan Wright, Steve Corral, Steve Slater, Brandon Jones, and Domenic Paolo are eBay employees by day and musicians by… Read more
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