The announcement Boards at eBay Malaysia and Singapore revealed an ominous amendment to the eBay user agreement late last week.
Some will view it as positive news, but it will send a chill down the spine of any (like me) who have been sent to the dolphinarium for a holiday at any time. I’ve not found [...]

eBay SE Asia, headquartered in Singapore and overseen by eBay UK, have joined the march of eBay colonialism by introducing policy to move sellers’ legal compliance requirements out of the countries where sellers operate, and into the countries where they list items.

The World Wide Web is supposed to mean that a supplier can create an advertising/sales channel from their own territory, available to all other territories, and even when the server and code is not located in their own territory, the seller is supposed to be able to state in their terms of sale, which territorial jurisdiction applies to transactions – eBay does this in Europe via eBay S.a.r.l. in Luxembourg, and in North America via eBay Inc. in San Jose …. but they are now removing the same privilege from their own paying customer merchants.

eBay SE Asia have promulgated an offer for eBay PowerSellers residing in Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Japan or Korea that provides for the Highlight listing enhancement at half price until the end of the month for all listings placed onto the US site (eBay.com).
The offer applies to any listing that adopts the Highlight [...]

Another promotion has emerged from the SE Asian team at eBay Singapore.  This offer runs until the end of March and yields up to 60% off FVFs in return for designating shipping (P&P) as free.
Simply offer free postage on at least 10 items listed on eBay.com and eBay.co.uk and enjoy 60% (1) and 30% (2) [...]

The eBay Singapore team have emailed eBay PowerSellers residing in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam, advising of a special promotion on the USA site valid until the end of March.
PowerSellers listing on eBay.com and using the Highlight and / or Subtitle (see ambiguity problem below) feature, will immediately enjoy a 50% fee [...]

eBay Malaysia and eBay Singapore have announced to their buyers that those are now fully covered for purchases on eBay.co.uk and eBay.com
The announcement follows on from an initial extension of buyer protections announced in September, and the current announcement cautions -
Coverage and amounts of the PayPal Buyer Protection Programme are based on the eBay site [...]

Is it a glitch, or is it a new policy?  Turbo Lister (TL) is telling me it’s a new policy (as the screen shots below prove) that PayPal is no longer available for listings on the Malaysian and Philippines eBay sites.
Yet, when I click through to the Malaysian and Filipino eBay sites, all appears normal [...]

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 [...]