eBay UK have announced an extended cheap fees promotion for private sellers in the media categories, but beware the terms and conditions.
The folks at Richmond must have been drinking a lot of the corporate Kool Aid with the new give away of free insertion fees for auctions starting at under GB £5.00, which runs from [...]

I keep a close eye on the topics that readers search for that bring them to the BuildaSkill blog and forums. Over the last few weeks there has been a growing trend in the number of searches with key words such as “eBay forced business registration” and “eBay private seller listings blocked”.
I know all [...]

Tipped off on Wednesday by a quick message from a fellow seller, I went in search of information concerning a supposedly benign bug that had appeared in the latest version of Turbo Lister for eBay UK sellers. What I discovered through trial and error has left me horrified … and seriously out of pocket.
Updated [...]

For some time now, eBay sites around the world have been offering fee promotions, and up until around the time that John Donahoe first joined the company, those promotions offered genuine discounts for sellers.
However, over the last few years, the nature of those promotions have increasingly become disingenuous attempts to fleece additional fees from sellers.  [...]

eBay UK have announced off their site that this summer will feature two rounds of major changes immediately after major seasonal marketing campaigns begin for sellers.
Showing scant, or no, regard for the business planning their sellers undertake annually, two announcements in two days have revealed that this year’s “two changes per year” will take place [...]

eBay UK announced Thursday, on their general Announcements Board, that the AdCommerce service is now live for the site.
Confusingly, the announcement points to a UK registered domain (www.adcommerce.co.uk), which then redirects to the US eBay Partner Network site, and a generic landing page for the USA AdCommerce service.
I make no secret that I am against [...]

eBay UK are caught between a rock and a hard place.  On one hand they are frequently accused of failing to listen to sellers.  Yet when they do reach out for opinions, the opinions they receive are perceived as not listened to, or are wildly off-topic despite being relevant to other areas of the site’s [...]

After an extended period of no announcements (the calm before the storm?) eBay UK and eBay IE have posted several new policy notices, including that all bladed products except cutlery are to be banned for sale on the site, further decreasing their market opportunities for sellers.
In a main Announcement Board (AB) post yesterday, the justification [...]

eBay UK have released news concerning the updating of listings that have had recent sales.
Recent sales from a multi-item listing are factored into visibility under the eBay “Best Match” search results system, and therefore have a direct bearing on a seller’s potential future sales success and profitability.
The topic of being able to remove subtitles added [...]

eBay.co.uk will be making changes to the Postage and Packaging (P&P) Policy go into effect next Tuesday (27th January).
Originally announced last year, the revised policy summarises as follows -

All sellers listing on eBay.co.uk have to specify at least one domestic postage service and P&P cost from 27 January (some categories are excluded).
eBay UK will set [...]

Just a quick reminder that next Tuesday, eBay UK will only allow one Buy Now listing per seller per SKU.  Sellers will be allowed to run up to 15 identical listings, but only one can be in Buy Now format, the other 14 must be in Auction Format.
The policy was announced in December and appears [...]

Even before the start date for adding a free subtitle as part of eBay UK’s pre-Christmas promotions, seller’s were asking if they would be able to edit it out after the promotion period, without the edit counting in the amended listing rules that strip the listing of accumulated prior sales benefits for improved visibility under [...]

eBay UK, never the politest or most diplomatic in their messaging to sellers since Richard Ambrose took over top spot in Trust & Safety, have ended the year with a message where changing one word could have made all the difference.
In a 30 December 2008 announcement, “The eBay Team” have stated (bold is mine) -

eBay UK has announced a cheap listing weekend for private sellers this weekend.
Saturday and Sunday 27th & 28th December offers 5p insertion fees to non-business sellers and non-Powersellers (i.e. private sellers only).  The offer is for auction format and auction with BIN upgrade only (no BIN-only listings) and is for single item listings only (no [...]

I’ve just had three emails in quick succession – two from eBay and one from Google – that knocked me clean off my chair each time.  Each of them was such a nice little surprise that I’m thinking today must be Christmas Party day in their offices and someone is a little too full of [...]