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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:44:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/12/24/ec-wants-removed-hidden-and-non-tariff-barriers/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/12/24/ec-wants-removed-hidden-and-non-tariff-barriers/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:00:09 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=1500 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/12/24/ec-wants-removed-hidden-and-non-tariff-barriers/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/28/ec-president-extends-sound-advice-for-ebay-policy/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/28/ec-president-extends-sound-advice-for-ebay-policy/#comments Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:00:19 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=1237 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/28/ec-president-extends-sound-advice-for-ebay-policy/feed/ 1 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/24/marketing-refresher-all-websites-are-international/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/24/marketing-refresher-all-websites-are-international/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:49 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=1198 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/24/marketing-refresher-all-websites-are-international/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/21/paypal-sites-expansion-is-ebays-smoke-starting-to-clear/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/21/paypal-sites-expansion-is-ebays-smoke-starting-to-clear/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:00:02 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=1172 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/21/paypal-sites-expansion-is-ebays-smoke-starting-to-clear/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/19/selling-globally-paypal-opens-doors-in-ebays-ring-fence/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/19/selling-globally-paypal-opens-doors-in-ebays-ring-fence/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:00:33 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=1154 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/11/19/selling-globally-paypal-opens-doors-in-ebays-ring-fence/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/10/05/se-asia-offers-50-fvfs-on-6-western-ebays/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/10/05/se-asia-offers-50-fvfs-on-6-western-ebays/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:41:41 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=755 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/10/05/se-asia-offers-50-fvfs-on-6-western-ebays/feed/ 2 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/12/icpno-global-banking-rises-to-challenge-paypal/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/12/icpno-global-banking-rises-to-challenge-paypal/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:45:48 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=641 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/12/icpno-global-banking-rises-to-challenge-paypal/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/02/unanswered-questions-dog-besieged-ebay-uk-staff/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/02/unanswered-questions-dog-besieged-ebay-uk-staff/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:00:21 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=597 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/09/02/unanswered-questions-dog-besieged-ebay-uk-staff/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/25/north-america-core-changes-for-autumn-winter-2008/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/25/north-america-core-changes-for-autumn-winter-2008/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:26:14 +0000 Ed http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=544 The late summer change announcements for the North American eBay sites are radically different to those with major effects in Europe. The NAFTA-zone sites are keeping traditional eBay Stores and SIF format, but adding new listing durations and fee structures for the existing Fixed Price/BIN format in core. Specifically this means that they will retain the ultra-cheap, but restricted visibility, store listing option, and sellers using it will still need listings in Auction and BIN format to drive buyers to their shop inventory. The BIN format listings also get a single unified insertion fee, which remains the same regardless of unit price or quantity in the listing, and also get several eBay-authorised methods to manipulate Best Match search ranking for their listings. The primary kick-in-the-nuts for sellers comes with the new "electronic payments" only policy, that has potential to slide-in a PayPal-only North America via the back door.]]> http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/25/north-america-core-changes-for-autumn-winter-2008/feed/ 0 http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/07/ebay-management-program-location-abuse-into-systems/ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/07/ebay-management-program-location-abuse-into-systems/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:45:42 +0000 Garry HJ http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/?p=475 There are two forms of item location abuse on all eBay sites - the intentional, and the institutionally created. Intentional item location abuse is performed by sellers for a number of reasons, and in a variety of ways. For example, a seller might seek to game the internal eBay search mechanisms by stating an item is in the domestic country of the site on which they are listing, when in fact it is located continents away. Those intentional abuses are easily spotted if you're experienced and observant, but it's the institutionally created location abuse that is more insidious, more stressful for the honest seller, and the result of criminal negligence by the eBay programmers, not to mention having the same appearance as the intentional location abuse to the casual user.]]> http://www.buildaskill.com/blog/2008/08/07/ebay-management-program-location-abuse-into-systems/feed/ 0