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TameBay welcomes its one millionth reader

Today at 7.34am an unknown Internet user, from North Carolina USA, typed a query into Google and became the 1,000,000th person to visit TameBay. As with many of our readers we know nothing about them, not even their name but would like to thank them… Read more

Hello Everyone

Dan Wilson reporting for duty. I’m TameBay’s ‘guest editor’ for March 2009. I know some of you. But then again there are lots of TameBay people I haven’t met, read comments from, chatted with over the years. I’d say, for a starter, I’d… Read more

Scheduled maintenance…

If you can see this message, you’re looking at the new server. Both the domain name and the site may be a little erratic today, as we are moving servers. I apologise for any inconvenience this causes anyone. I’m also aware that avatars are not… Read more

Going Live

So like the rest of the eBay-blogosphere, today I’m writing a post about how I’m leaving for eBay Live in rather less than 24 hours. I’m getting a little concerned at the number of people who’ve said things like “I’ll miss you”: we’re only going to… Read more

TameBay gets a new look

If you’re a regular visitor to TameBay you’ve probably noticed the site has just changed as our sparkly new design went live at a minute past midnight today! We’ve listened to loads of our regular readers and what they want from the site and how… Read more

Have your say with Skribit

Our more scrolly readers may have noticed that for the last few days, there’s been a new widget in the sidebar. This box from start-up Skribit allows you to post questions or topics that you’d like to see covered round here. You can also vote up… Read more

An apology

Well, that was a fun twenty-four hours. I apologise to anyone who’s tried to get in here in the last day or so; as you saw, TameBay was down. Commenting is currently disabled on all posts. We do hope to restore that as soon as possible, but in the… Read more

Editing comments

Just a quick note to say that as requested by Lynne, Jade and others, it’s now possible to edit comments. You have two three minutes (approximately) from leaving your comment in which you can edit it: after that time, the edit function will not be… Read more

Avatars for blog comments

Amongst other bits of fiddling about today, I’ve installed support for gravatars, that is, avatars to go with your blog comments. Gravatars can appear next to your comments on any site that has them available, not just on TameBay – and if you have… Read more

Friday maintenance

If it all goes a bit wonky round here, it’s because I’m just upgrading Wordpress. Please go play in the forum for a while. Update: Everything working *except* what happens when you leave a comment. The comment posts, but the pages don’t behave… Read more

50,000 reasons to congratulate Sue

It’s a busy time of year and most sellers are run off their feet packing orders, but imagine packing 50,000 orders on your own. That’s what Sue has just achieved, and at the same time has just received her 10,000th unique feedback becoming a… Read more

Have you got something to say?

Have you got something to say? Something you want to tell the rest of the eBaying world? Now you can. We’ll shortly be introducing a new, regular feature on TameBay: “Have Your Say”. Like our guest posts, this gives people other than Chris or myself… Read more

Move over, Scorsese

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TameBay’s 1st Birthday Party

Thank you vzaar for a fantastic party! Last night TameBay held their first Birthday Party in Manchester, following a great day at eBay University. I didn’t manage to count how many people turned up, but the bar was pretty full and it took about… Read more

TameBay are having a party!

It’s coming up to a year since TameBay launched so we’ve decided to throw a party, and everyone who reads TameBay is invited. The venue is Bar 38 in Manchester, the date is 10th November, the time is 6.30pm onwards. TameBay will be providing… Read more

Watching them, watching us watching them

Yay, those lovely people over at The Chatter just linked us! Thanks,… Read more

You and Yours and yours truly

Today I went to the BBC to answer questions on “You and Yours”. I went because I disagree with the court case which the program discussed. At times I’ve had plenty of niggles with eBay and I’ve often voiced my concerns quite vociferiously. This… Read more

One of ours on You & Yours

Make sure you listen to Radio 4’s You & Yours today, which will be featuring a certain Chris Dawson not unknown around here. It’s on today at 12.04pm: you can listen live via the Radio 4 website, or “listen again” if you miss it the first time… Read more

VAT on Paypal fees?

I like looking at the Google search strings that have led people to TameBay: it’s interesting to watch the trends come and go, seeing WAGs hoodies replaced with Webkinz at the moment, for example. Then there are the questions that come up again and… Read more

Media tarts

Mountie and I, and TameBay itself, along with our chums from Postal Supplies, are all featured in the Telegraph this morning as part of Dan’s “How to eBay” series. Many thanks to Dan for an excellent series…. Read more

Introducing TameBay’s forum

We’ve had more than a few people ask over the last months why there isn’t a TameBay forum to go with the blog. We’re happy to be able to announce that now, there is. We hope to have a frank and positive discussion about the online auction industry… Read more

New payouts for eBay Affiliates

If you’re an eBay UK affiliate, you should have received an email today notifying you of some major changes to affiliate revenues, starting March 1st. For most people, these should be good news, as the old flat fees, starting at 10p for a bid… Read more

Four comments about comments

I want just to mention a couple of things about comments on TameBay. This isn’t a “comments policy” as such: I don’t want to do anything so formal. But when the gentleman from eBay Motors Suck accuses us of “sensorship” because his post got held… Read more

Moving from Blogger to Wordpress

Well that was surprisingly painless. For those who care about such things, TameBay is now running on Wordpress. I wanted to move to gain a variety of fun new functionality, most of which I’ve now forgotten, but there is a search box over there on… Read more

Old news is no news

ebaypaypalblog reported the opening of Paypal’s new UK office and a reduction in the withdrawl fee for amounts under £50, quoting a Paypal spokesperson’s statement that this would increase trust and comfort for UK buyers. Such a great story was… Read more

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