eBay Australia have, this week, announced the replacement for the eBay Education Specialist program, which is no longer available down-under.
eBay’s announcement states the new training opportunity and materials would be available from mid-April.
Once again eBay have farmed out the task to a 3rd-party firm – stokesmischewski.com.au based in Surry Hills, New South Wales.
Stokes Mischewski is [...]

eBay Australia have announced that they too are dropping the Dutch Auction listing format, citing that buyers found the system too confusing and claiming that sellers used it very little.
The Dutch Auction system essentially allows for inventory multiples to be listed in an auction format.  Buyers then bid on a single piece or on several.  [...]

eBay Australia have announced a 3-week free listing period for Auctions with a starting price under AU $1.00, the promotion runs from 2 March to 22 March inclusive and overlaps the recent announcement of free Auctions with 99p or lower starts for all UK non-Business sellers, that will be a permanent price change … maybe, [...]

eBay Australia have revealed they goofed last Sunday, 22nd February, when they emailed out discount vouchers to thank buyers, and forgot to include the vouchers in the emails.
The vouchers should have been for 10% discount coupons and replacement emails are stated to have been sent out quickly.  Still, they admit some people may have purchased [...]

eBay users in Australia have pushed eBay into offering services to assist with fundraising to help victims of the Victoria State bushfires that have left many dead, and many more homeless.  They have also leapt to the aid of the victims of the floods in the State of Queensland that have had similar consequences.
eBay AU [...]

eBay Australia today (3 Feb) begins following the format used by other eBay sites to mask the identity of bidders in auction format listings.
A brief recent announcement justifies this as -
We are pleased to announce today that from next Tuesday 3 February,

eBay Australia have announced four significant changes to policy that take effect in March 2009.  Broadly speaking, the changes bring the Antipodes in line with North Atlantic sites, although there are some localised variations.
The first two changes take effect on March 1st …

For a site that saw its seller base decimated in 2008, eBay Australia is doing a good job of deterring international sellers.
A quick and dirty comparison of fees across English-speaking eBay sites shows the team from down-under advertising the highest auction-format insertion fees and Gallery image fees on planet eBay.  Their fees for Shop Inventory [...]

The man who accused eBay users of being like drug addicts, is to leave eBay.
Simon Smith, who enraged sellers and buyers during the failed PayPal-only debacle, has decided it’s time to quit, and appears to have given a false reasoning for his leaving.  A brief announcement on the Australian site’s announcement board states -
eBay Vice [...]

Still smarting from the slap issued by the ACCC case earlier this year, eBay Australia have fallen back on the route to PayPal-only that has worked so duplicitously well in the UK – incentivising buyers to insist the seller accepts payment through the service.
An announcement yesterday on the eBay Oz Announcement Board heralds the chance [...]

eBay Australia is providing specially discounted fees for six SE Asian eBay countries from 4th November to 20th December.  Flat-rate insertion fees of AU$ 0.20 across all price tranches are available if you use the “free shipping” pricing model that eBay are pushing globally, and have 4.0 or higher DSRs on all four criteria.  (See [...]

Starting next week, 3 November 2008, all new sellers on eBay AU who are listing for the first time will be required to specify their postage costs using the Postage Details section of the Sell Your Item form.
I’m surprised that eBay feel the need to make such rules.
In my experience, any seller not quoting P&P [...]

I’ve previously blogged how eBay India has been used before, for testing controversial or radical eBay systems. Less than a week after Australia announced exclusive implementation of their feedback revision system, eBay India is rolling a system first proposed in the UK last year (or was it the year before?).

The eBay India Community Court system as announced so close to the Oz system could be seen as a test for which method gains the most traction with users, prior to choosing one of them for global implementation. Perhaps there is even plans to run both side-by-side? Remember that, since eBay Live this summer, we have been promised a global ability to have feedback revised or withdrawn if problems perceived by a buyer are rectified…

eBay Australia is the latest site to attempt luring sellers into believing that buyers want “Free” shipping rolled into the selling price. All listings must start between the 8th and 14th October (inclusive).

Offering 50% off final value fees for Auction and Fixed Price listings, but only to Australian residents, and only for goods shipped to Australian destinations – oh wow! How generous eBay! – other terms and conditions apply too – see the full announcement and links in our eBay Cheap Listing Days news board (forum registration required).

Eligibility includes -

Continuing eBay’s push towards free or inclusive postage on all listings, the four South East Asian eBay countries are offering all their resident PowerSellers 50% off final value fees (FVFs) when they list with “free” P&P on dot com, UK, Germany, Oz, France & Italy until October 9th.

The offer is good for auction and fixed price format and sellers must have DSRs of at least 4.0 across all four criteria, and applies to sellers resident in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, or Thailand.

These discounts are also on top of existing PowerSeller Performance discounts on FVF, which PS’s in those four SE Asian countries receive from the same list of six western countries, and on top of other discounts available to some groups of sellers.