By now, most eBay sellers are sick to the back teeth of hearing about DSRs and the way they are used for the sole purpose of punishing sellers, robbing them of fee discounts, having them suspended from selling, or worse.
I know there’s a minority of sellers who think they’re the best thing since sliced bread, [...]

eBay US announced Tuesday that sellers on the dot com site could get five free auction listings per month, and eBay CA followed with the same announcement on Wednesday.
Between the two announcements, a lot of sellers “did the maths” and discovered several cautionary points -

eBay North America have just announced that from next week all sellers will be moved to the new item view page when viewing their own listings.
I have mixed feelings about the new page style, and thus far have always opted out of it on each site that has presented it to me.  This is mainly [...]

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 [...]

This week, according to an announcement by Jeff King, eBay’s Senior Director of Finding, eBay will remove the restriction of sellers having no more than 10 listings returned on search and browse results pages.
According to interviews reported on AuctionBytes, this is due to the new FP30 recent sales weighting in Best Match achieving the desired [...]

eBay US have lowered the price of the International Site Visibility listing upgrade to 1-cent for 10 days starting today, but for auction format only.
The announcement is a little disingenuous in that it contains only one link to the promotion terms and conditions, but then those lengthy T’s and C’s contain several links to other [...]

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 [...]

Existing eBay media category sellers are to face further mass competition for buyer attention and action, come May this year.
An Announcement Board post by Dinesh Lathi, yesterday, details that Half.com listings will be appearing on the eBay.com site in what is described as a test of a “product based buying experience”.  The announcement was sweetened [...]

John McDonald, eBay’s Senior Director of Seller Experience has announced that MoneyBookers and PayMate are added to the Permitted Payments Policy list and integrated into listings tools and eBay checkout.
To assist users who are unfamiliar with the companies, there will be a Q&A session with representatives from both companies (should it actually be referred to [...]

eBay.com is introducing free additional picture usage in the four categories of Collectibles, Art, Antiques and Pottery & Glass.
This change for eBay hosted pictures comes into effect on February 18th, although based on the history of site changes over the last year, I’d expect it to be ineffective and glitchy until at least the 20th.
Greg [...]

Ram Rampalli from the eBay North America Catalog Team has announced the availability of Classical Music catalogues on the eBay US and Half.com sites effective immediately.
The classical music catalogue is stated to include over 140,000 products.  Sellers can now leverage this catalogue to list their items using eBay’s listing tools, as well as some popular [...]

eBay.com have announced their forums will be off-line between 4pm and midnight Pacific Time today for upgrades that are surely a decade overdue, and will bring overall user features to about the standard that was leading edge eight years ago.
I have a couple of issues with this round of upgrades (the first I can remember [...]

Nick Donelson of eBay’s Seller Experience team has announced changes are forthcoming for eBay Stores presentation and several back-end functions, including how “Search” works.
Improvements include new store front templates and enhancements to Stores search results. These changes are stated as improving the look of Stores, while enhancing customers’ shopping experience.  Included with the changes are [...]

Better late than never, Dinesh Lathi has posted details of the eBay North America January Sales CLD today.
For the remainder of January, insertion fees on 1 and 3 day Auction Listings are half price, IF your 12-month DSRs are 4.5 or higher.  New sellers without any accumulated DSRs are also eligible.  Throughout the month, the [...]

Dinesh Lathi has announced the extension of four fee promotions to run concurrently on eBay.com until 31 March 2009.
Two of the promotions are targeted at extending the period for which sellers offer “free” shipping, the other two are intended to boost the number of listings switching from seller selected Item Specifics, to eBay’s pre-filled item [...]