Tag: Shops

There’s a new eBay design solution called WIDshops on the market. WIDshops are the creation of long term German based Create Your Template who are known for their ChannelAdvisor tailored design offerings. WIDshops is a different proposition to Create Your Template though, it’s not flash based, you don’t need ChannelAdvisor to have a WIDshops design [...]

The March 2012 edition of .net magazine is out and the headline story is how to “Improve your eBay Store today!” written by eBay education specialist, SEO specialist and eBay business consultant Mark Buckingham of Netseek. Within the article Mark discusses both the mechanics of eBay retailing such as eBay Top Rated Seller Status and [...]

The Guardian reports that eBay UK will be pushing its Fashion Outlet harder than ever in the run up to Christmas. As well as the current billboard campaign, adverts will appear in glossy women’s magazines including Vogue, OK!, Grazia, Look and Elle. Angus McCarey, director of eBay Enterprise, said “The Fashion Outlet is our fastest [...]

eBay.com have announced that in line with the UK they are going to dump the Stores link in the navigation header. The reasoning is like the UK that there’s no point searching eBay Stores now that all listings are viewable in core search results, and that the link is little used by buyers anyway. If [...]

If you’ve spotted some things on eBay UK looking a bit different in the last few days, you’re not (necessarily) going mad. Lots of users are reporting seeing a variety of different things, some staying put and some disappearing with a refresh of the page. Here are some of the changes we’ve seen. Most significant [...]

eBay UK are testing the removal of the Matching eBay Shops module from search results. If you’re in the test group you’ll be seeing a text link which reads “See all matching eBay shops” instead of the module which previously carried the same link but also displayed the four eBay shops with the most items [...]

eBay shop owners in the US are up in arms about what’s perceived as lower visibility for eBay.com stores. eBay are due to remove two Stores promotions from the search results page today – removing the “Get More Results module” at the bottom of search results which will be reduced to a “See additional items [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about Frooition recently, especially in connection with the new shops experience. We’ve taken some of the most asked questions by our readers and put them directly to Frooition and they were delighted to have the opportunity to respond: What do the monthly subscriptions for “shop & template” and “image [...]

Do you remember opening a new eBay ID? It’s a while since I’ve done so but some consultancy today reminded me just how exciting buying on eBay can be. A company is looking to set up their first shop on eBay and like everyone else have started out with zero feedback. They need to open [...]

I’ve always believed that an eBay shop was worth more than the ability to use SIF listings, so the announcement that SIFs are to be retired in September is not going to convince me to close my shop. In view of the fee changes and possible discounts which level eBay shop should you subscribe to? [...]