Several European eBay sites announced mid-month that from this coming Monday (2nd March) sellers who have uploaded listings with a version of TurboLister prior to v6.5 will have those listings removed. No mention of insertion fee rebates or listing upgrade fee refunds were made.

eBay France have announced updated rules for the sale of tickets on the site where those tickets have “public subsidies”.  I’m not sure if this is a bad translation and it actually means “charitable benefit”.
Last week’s announcement states -
The Regulation on Tickets (shows, performances and sports events) has been changed.
Now, sellers offering one or more [...]

eBay France are holding a Free Listing Day this Thursday (15 Jan 2009) for sellers registered on the French site and resident in France.
The promotion is for Auctions and BIN listings, including multiple quantity listings.  Listing in 2 categories is permitted.  It is open to both PowerSellers and non-PowerSellers.
Automobiles Accessories, Baby Gear, Sea-Doo, Jet Ski, [...]

eBay France must be suffering from seller attrition, they’ve just announced a 3-month extension to promotional cheaper fees.
At the front end, insertion fees for fixed price listings are to be kept at 15 Euro-cents regardless of the product start price and tranche value.  This applies only for business registered sellers resident within France, and registered [...]

eBay France are testing a new search feature based on image keywords.
The test is limited to a narrow selection of subcategories in the Clothing and Accessories category, and in the initial incarnation is based around the initial letter of the product being searched for (makes me wonder if baby bonnets, bags, and blouses will all [...]

Members of the BuildaSkill forums already know that we bring a lot of non-English announcements from the online sales and marketing world into the news boards, and translate them to English before posting them.  Google’s online translator has been invaluable in assisting with this since BuildaSkill started.
Until last month, we were able to translate all [...]

eBay France are running a 2-day Free Listing Day (FLD) on Monday 8th and Tuesday 9th December for Business Sellers registered on the site and resident within France.  Minimum Despatch Time DSRs (30-day) of 4.5 are are required, and listings must offer PayPal, although it does not state immediate payment is required.
Full details (in English) [...]

eBay.fr announced a Free Listing Day, for today 2 December, very late last night.
Auction and BIN insertion fees are free for the DVD Movies and Console Games categories (only those, no other categories).  We’ve translated the announcement, and terms & conditions, to English in our BuildaSkill forums’ Cheap Listing Days board (forum login & minimum [...]

eBay FR tightened the requisites for Business Seller Registration last September, and this month has issued a reminder announcement to clarify seller statuses for buyers and sellers alike.
In essence, if a seller has a GMV sales volume of Euro 2,000 for three consecutive months, then in the fourth month they must register their account as [...]

France has released a mini-announcement stating they are rolling increased visibility based on previous sales, for Buy Now listings.
Whilst they refer to it as “Sorting by Relevance”, it is essentially better visibility if items have previously sold from the same listing.  Weighting is given to the number of items bought from a core Buy Now [...]

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.