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eBay Improves Digital Goods Policy For Sellers

"You can now list your digital items in our auction-style, auction-with-Buy It Now, and Fixed Price formats. And while payment still needs to be by either credit card or balance transfer through PayPal, you no longer need to use Immediate Payment (where the item doesn’t close until the payment has been processed)."

Update: Support for Digitally Delivered Goods

Bob

fyiAds eBay Contextual Ad System

Putting the eBay affiliate program on steroids!

fyiAds Launches eBay Contextual Ad System and Shopping Engine

fyiAds - Find-Your-Item

Bob

Flipping Your New Xbox 360 On eBay?

The freshly delivered game consoles are Out Of Stock.
The shelves and websites are void of the new Xbox 360's.
Empty nationwide...

They're all on eBay!
The eBay Buyers Union (aka sellers) bought up the supply.

Quote from the following Yahoo News article:
"Microsoft has conceded that an ambitious plan to launch the console worldwide within a few weeks — rather than staggering releases over months and months, as is typical — will mean fewer consoles initially in North America."

Xbox 360 Buyers Resell Product on EBay - Yahoo! News

Bob

Super Deal! eBid US Gold Lifetime Accounts Nearly Free

Act fast and get in on this limited time offer from eBid USA! Get your Gold Lifetime eBid US account for almost nothing! Even if you don't need it at this moment in time, I suggest signing up and upgrading to Gold today while the special is in effect.

At the time of this posting I got my Gold Lifetime account for $1.20
Listing Fee $0.00
Reserve Fee $0.00
Buy Now Fee $0.00
Final Value Fee $0.00
Store Cost Per Month $0.00

When you get to the US site, US.eBid.net
Click the "Compare Gold" link at the top right to see the low fees.
Then, also at top right, click "Register For Free".
After signing up and confirming your email address by clicking the link in your welcome email that contains your password, Be Sure to "Upgrade to Silver or Gold status".
When you login, you'll see a row of Upgrade buttons.
Silver Lifetime is free, but you want the Gold Lifetime option at the far right.
Get a load of the savings (and they will be going higher): (also, notice the chart showing the extra features with Gold)
Gold 7 days $1.99
Gold 30 Days $3.99
Gold 90 Days $9.99
Gold 365 Days $39.99
Gold Lifetime $1.20

$1.20 and that's it! Forever!
Wishing you great profits from your your new Gold Lifetime eBid account!

eBid United States : Auction House - Zero Fee Online Auctions for United States

Bob

Beware eBay's Giving Works Donation Program

This article details the nightmare of eBay's Giving Works.

The Screwing Of The Good Samaritan

Bob

Great (needed) eBay Feedback System Changes

From The eBay Announcements Board:

Neutralizing feedback left by members who don't participate in issue resolution processes. We believe that members unwilling to participate in processes designed to help resolve issues, such as the Unpaid Item process or the Item Not Received process, shouldn't be able to impact another member's reputation. After this change is implemented, if a member leaves feedback for a transaction and does not participate in these processes, eBay will neutralize their feedback. This means the rating (whether positive or negative) will not affect the recipient's feedback score. While the feedback comment itself will remain, it will include an administrative note from eBay indicating that the feedback doesn't count towards the member's total score.

Removing feedback from users who are indefinitely suspended within 90 days of registration. We believe that members who are indefinitely suspended within 90 days of registering on eBay were never truly members of the Community, and so their feedback comments and ratings should not count. We will automatically remove feedback (positive, neutral, and negative) left by such users.

Requiring new members to complete a tutorial before leaving neutral or negative feedback. This change will require all new users (members with a feedback score of less than 10) to complete a short tutorial before leaving neutral or negative feedback. We hope that the tutorial will educate new members about the feedback system as well as ensure that they are aware of the various communication tools available to them prior to leaving feedback for their trading partner.

From eBay Live! Keynote Address: Feedback System Changes

Bob

Auctiva Offers Free eBay Services

Sign up free at Auctiva and get Listing Designer(Auctiva templates), Scheduled Listings, Picture Hosting, and Supersize Pictures.
The fees for these features using eBay are $1.25 per listing.

Auctiva is Free

Bob

eBay Launches ProStores Web Store Builder

We all assumed this was coming a while back when eBay bought Kurant Corporation back in January.
Impact of Kurant Acquisition

ProStores from eBay:
If you want to run a web store with no more than 10 items, it's not a bad setup.
It gets a little costly(debateable) beyond that point though.

You don't have to be an eBay seller but sellers get a 30% discount.

eBay Announcement Page

Live from San Jose: eBay Launches ProStores for SMBs

EBay Launches Web Store-Building Service - Yahoo! News

EBay starts online-store-building service

ALSO, a new Reseller Marketplace for PowerSellers:
eBay Announcement Page

Bob

Yahoo Auctions Goes Totally Free - No Listing Or Final Value Fees

It's now completely free to post auctions at Yahoo Auctions.

Yesterday they eliminated listing fees.
Today they have eliminated final value fees.

Yahoo Auctions Eliminates All Fees

Yahoo Newsboard Announcement

Bob

eBay's Declining Popularity Among Buyers And Sellers

eBay is approaching a pivotal point in it's life cycle.
Fees go up.
Sales go down.
Fraud is increasing.

Read this in-depth 5 page article to get the scoop.
eBay's joy ride: Going once... | CNET News.com

Bob

Best Day And Time To End An Auction

For the sixth straight year survey results show the same best night and hours to end your auctions.

The Results are in: The Most Popular Day to End an eBay Auction

Bob

Good eBay News! Dropping Listing Fee To .25

Finally, a little good news from eBay!

eBay is lowering the minimum insertion fees for auction-style listings and fixed price categories, among others, from 30 cents to 25 cents.

eBay Store owners will get a 15.95 credit in May.

Canned email responses are being dropped. You'll be getting personal replies.

Good Changes Coming To eBay - Yahoo News

Bob

Terapeak: eBay Marketplace Research

Research top performing categories and products.
Terapeak is using the eBay Data Licensing Program to gather results.

Terapeak: eBay Marketplace Research

Read Review By AuctionBytes

Bob

eBay Pulse - : Trends, Hot Picks, Cool Stuff

Use the category dropdown and keep using it to
drill down deeper.
Scroll down to see the top products.

eBay Pulse - : Trends, Hot Picks, Cool Stuff

Bob

Instant Shipping Cost Comparisons At iShip.com

On the homepage , you can run a quick shipping cost check.
Or go to the Price It page for a very detailed cost estimate comparison.

iShip.com

Price It

Bob

Go straight To The Negative/Neutral Feedbacks

eBay has no way for you to see a seller's negative feedbacks without wading through ALL the feedbacks.
This can result in page after page of positives to get to the negatives.
Well, here's the tool that solves the problem...

Negative/Neutral Feedback

Bob

Site Finds Misspelled Keyword Deals on eBay FREE

Wow!
It's amazing how many main keywords are spelled wrong in product titles at eBay.
You can find bargains because most people are obviously searching using the proper spelling.
So, less eyeballs are seeing the misspelled listings and you can snag a deal!

I'm sure a lot of sellers list on purpose this way, just to pull in a sale from someone searching with a misspelled search keyword.
But a lot of them are genuine screwups that mean savings for you.

Here's how to use the site below:
Use the dropdown box to select which eBay site you want to search. (ebay.com, ebay.co.uk, ebay.com.au, QXL.com, ebid.co.uk)
Just enter a keyword that applies to a product you want (spelled properly).
It even works with multiple keywords.
The screen will refresh and you'll see a link just below the same box you entered the keyword in.
Click that link and it will open to the eBay site of your choice in a new window.
You just completed an eBay search using a ton of misspellings for your keyword(s).
Good luck and Enjoy the savings!

Fat Fingers Misspelled eBay Search

P.S. - This is a pretty darn good misspelling generator you can use for your keyword marketing.

P.P.S. - You can add the search box to your site using an i-frame:
Add Searchbox To Your Site

Bob

AdWizard FREE Auction Ad Builder Software

This lttle piece of free software makes some really decent ads for your auctions. Simple to use too.

AdWizard

Adwizard Backgrounds

Sample Ad 1     Sample Ad 2

ALSO, if you do a lot of buying at auctions, get a free bid timer that alerts you to approaching closing auctions. Always bid as late as possible to keep those prices down!

Closing Auctions Timer

Bob

eBay Offers FREE Co-Branded Priority Mail Shipping Supplies

The free Priority Mail boxes and tape distributed by the USPS gets an upgrade for eBay sellers.

FREE eBay and Priority Mail Co-Branded Shipping Supplies

Bob

Heavy Hitter eBay Sellers Can Add AuctionRemote

This tool looks very good for auction sellers that have a lot of products in several categories.
The monthly fee is low and it looks like you could get a lot of cross sales between items if you apply this cool tool.
Just go to the site below and demo their Remote.

AuctionRemote.com - FEEL THE POWER!

Bob

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