eBay News
eBay Fees Changes for February 2008, Sellers Getting Hosed
Bill Cobb, who happens to be about to retire right along with Meg Whitman, announced earlier today the new changes that will take into effect on February 20, 2008. A quick overview: Lower Insertion Fees! Free Gallery! Lower Fees for Enhancement packages Increased usage of Detailed Seller Ratings: More Search Exposure with Best Match Fee [...]
Meg Whitman Readying for Retirement
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that eBay CEO Meg Whitman is readying herself and eBay for her retirement. In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing her succession planning, say people [...]
Free Gallery for Holidays
If you’re in the U.S. or list on ebay.com, you’ve gotten an early Christmas present from eBay. All gallery fees for auction and fixed price listings are going to be waived from November 6 to December 12. What a great deal. If you aren’t already using Gallery on all your listings, this is the perfect [...]
OUCH! eBay loses $938 Million in Q3
eBay announced their earnings yesterday and what a whammy that was. They lost $938 Million in the third quarter. That’s nearly a Billion dollars. Enough to cut the Federal Deficit by what? 1/80th? Part of the loss is the markdown of Skype, but what about the other 40 Million? Could it be that the number [...]
eBay introduces “Neighborhoods”
eBay released their newest addition, “neighborhoods“, recently. I’ve taken a quick look around and it’s actually a pretty good start. Neighborhoods – which aggregates postings from eBay blogs, guides and reviews – was the brainchild of an “engagement” subgroup of the buyer-experience team. Among the 600 new neighborhoods is “Shoe Heads,” intended as a haven [...]
Was eBay Hacked Today?
Slashdot is reporting and it has been confirmed on eBay’s blog “The Chatter” that posts were made today to the Trust and Safety forum on eBay. Currently the Trust and Safety forum is offline until further notice. Apparently, eBay wasn’t really hacked as most of the actual financial information isn’t correct. What was correct was [...]
eBay Faves: Contest for eBay’s Faves?
Perhaps you received a catalog in the mail this week. Much like the normal catalog that eBay sends out regularly it has a pretty large list of items that are available on eBay. One thing different is that it’s slightly personalized with a web address that goes something like http://ebayfaves.com/userID . When you go there, [...]
eBay Answers Questions on Seller Non-Performance Policy
Back in the beginning of the month (August 13th, 2007) Philipp Justus of eBay announced the enhanced attention that eBay would be paying to the Seller Non-Performance Policy. I think it’s pretty safe to say that it caused a bit of an uproar. All of a sudden, many sellers were finding themselves victim to the [...]
Another Listing Fee Promotion through September 30
eBay just announced another listing fee promotion that will run through September 30th. It features free listing fees if the listing starts at $9.99 or less and has gallery and 25% off of all listings that start at $10 or more and have gallery. Like the one earlier this fall, you have got to add [...]
Be a Champion Seeker with a Nimbus 2000!
As I’m sure you are aware, the Nimbus 2000 is the newest, top of the line broom that Harry Potter gets to fly around on for Quidditch. In the books, they are very expensive and only the more well to do wizards and witches can afford to have one. In our Muggle world, they are [...]
