eBay pilot: unpaid item feature fee credits

August 1, 2007

eBay in the US and Canada are launching an “Unpaid Item Protection Program”, designed to refund listing enhancement fees, if an auction results in an unpaid item. Losing feature fees has long been a bone of contention for sellers, listing fees… Read more

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PowerSellers’ Discussion Board to be split

June 24, 2007

There have often been calls on the PowerSeller Community Forum to split the board into different topics. The most common request on the UK PowerSeller Board has been for “Business” and “Chat” sections. Now on the US PowerSeller Board it may… Read more

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Have you phoned eBay yet?

May 1, 2007

It’s a new month, and for silver PowerSellers in the UK a new service level from eBay support. As of yesterday telephone support in the UK is extended to all PowerSellers of Silver and above. No longer will they have to wait for email responses, the… Read more

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Phone support for Silver PowerSellers update!

April 20, 2007

We have been contacted by eBay who wanted to inform us that Phone Support for Silver PowerSellers will be available to eBay.co.uk members from the 30th April and not as from today as the PowerSeller Portal would currently suggest. The new service… Read more

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Phone support extended to Silver PSs

April 19, 2007

eBay have announced that from 30th April, phone support will be extended to Silver Powersellers in the UK. Sellers who turn over £1,500 or 300 items per month qualify as Silver PSs. Those qualified can find the Support phone number by logging in… Read more

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Phone support extended to all Powersellers

January 10, 2007

In an announcement today, eBay France said that phone support has now been extended to all French Powersellers. Qualifying sellers can find the number through the PS Portal. With apologies to those Bronze and Silver UK PSs who still don’t have… Read more

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Going solo

January 2, 2007

Andrea has been an eBayer for over three years and recently took the step from part time eBay seller with full time employment to full time eBayer. Today she shares her story of how redundancy spurred her on to success. Andrea is a full time… Read more

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In the beginning, there was Graham…

December 6, 2006

Back in 1996, gf-attic registered on eBay, one of the earliest people in the UK to do so. He soon became the UK’s first powerseller, and he still trades on the site today. eBay celebrated his achievement with a birthday cake. Here he reflects on his… Read more

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BBC Watchdog delays answering PowerSeller concerns

November 22, 2006

Following on from the Watchdog program on 7th November this year the BBC are still being very coy regarding the content of the program. They have yet to come clean on how they purchased only a handful of goods from PowerSellers and yet 80% of them… Read more

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eBay.co.uk celebrates tenth anniversary of first powerseller

November 22, 2006

Richard from eBay points out that it “helps to put in context how long ago it was if we reflect that the Tories were in power and Diana was alive.” That’s when gf-attic, the first ever UK PowerSeller signed up to eBay. As far as we can tell the… Read more

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