eBay News
eBay cracking down on excessive shipping
As Bill Cobb announced at the end of June, eBay has begun cracking down on excessive shipping fees. What that could mean is that no longer will there be a $.01 buy it now with a $20 shipping charge. What it could also mean is just another thing for eBay to not do perfectly and [...]
eBay testing Gallery Plus today
eBay will be testing the new Gallery Plus listing upgrade today August 29th 2006. Try the new Gallery Plus listing upgrade for 35¢ during this 1-day special offer on www.ebay.com. With Gallery Plus, an “enlarge” icon will appear next to your Gallery photo on search results pages. Buyers can then click the icon, or simply [...]
List of Cancelled eBay Stores
Springlering has a fairly extensive list of the eBay stores that have either confirmed their closing or have confirmed that they will. The table has 5 columns and it’s a little complex to understand at first. The first column is the Store Name, the second the number of store listings cancelled, the third the number [...]
eBay Brown Bag lunch on Store fees
eBay held a brown bag lunch on the recent eBay store fee increases. Trading assistant Bob Willey was there to ask some questions and was kind enough to share the questions and answers with the eBay establishings group. Below are the questions and the answers directly from Chris Tsakalakis, Vice President of Advanced Solutions with [...]
eBay 2006 Holiday Selling Guide released
The 2006 Holiday Selling Guide is out on eBay in all it’s generic wonder. While it does have some value as a very simple hot list and reminder to check the marketing calendar, it’s most prevalent use is for eBay to try and sell you more services. Add this! Add that! All of the really [...]
Fun eBay statistics
Want to know what the most popular category is on eBay? How about average number of bids on an item or the number of auctions won in the last minute? Well, look no further. Auction software review has a neato article that has those numbers and some rather indepth looks at the why’s and how’s [...]
eBay spurs growth of self employed
Inc. is reporting that the number of sole proprietorships grew by over 1 million between 2003 and 2004. The usage of eBay is claimed as one of the leading factors for that growth. An individual working alone can create a global businesses using eBay,” Pires added. “Sellers can turn over their inventory much faster. They [...]
eBay Keywords to be discontinued
From an eBay announcement: eBay will be discontinuing the eBay Keywords program at the end of September. The program will be phased out rather than just completely shut off. Appearantly, the usage was far less than what eBay had previously thought it would be. Beginning the week of September 5th, the ads will be removed [...]
Do eBay stores really hurt Core listings?
If you’re familiar with eBay at all as a seller, you’re aware that eBay recently announced a pretty stiff price hike for the eBay Store listings. It’s gotten the ire up of a lot of the eBay sellers, myself included. Ira Steiner of AuctionBytes makes a good point in her recent post “Why eBay is [...]
