eBay is lowering its fees U.S. sellers on its site pay to list fixed-price items in an effort to attract new buyers and better compete with rivals like Amazon.com.Sellers will now pay a flat rate of 35 cents for a 30-day listed period, up from the previous seven-day standard. Sellers will be able to list multiple quantities of the same item for a single 35-cent listing fee.
eBay Changes Feedback Policy For Sellers
Online auction site eBay has begun to introduce changes in the feedback that sellers can leave about buyers. The changes were first announced in January.Sellers on eBay are no longer allowed to leave neutral or negative comments about buyers on the site. eBay has also changed the way it calculates a member’s positive feedback percentage score.
Sellers Drop Military Gear On eBay, Craigslist
Items stolen from the military ended up being fenced through sales online, as GAO investigators handed a House Subcommittee a laundry list of sensitive items they purchased.
eBay Works To Keep Buyers, Sellers Interested
I’ve never had a serious grudge against eBay or complaint about its site. Nonetheless, it’s been months since I’ve visited an online auction for personal reasons, and eBay is trying hard to reverse this sort of behavior.
Product Sellers Should Focus On Online Reviews
More people are looking to online reviews, which are having a significant impact on their purchasing decision.
PageRank Update Another Message To Link Sellers?
Either the Google PageRank in your toolbar is officially meaningless, or Google just sent another message to link sellers. Once again, Google isn’t talking and we’re left to speculate.
Sellers Upset With eBay’s Off-Site Ads
eBay’s reintroduction of offsite advertising is a burr in the saddle to many e-tailers there. Though it was there once before, back in the late Nineties, Google and Yahoo’s contextual ads are so dead-on that sellers fear they are losing business because of them.
Five Tips for eBay Sellers
A Question and Answer session at eBay Live in Boston led by Bill Frischling, chief operating officer and co-founder of Dyscern, a brand name consumer electronics site, yield a few helpful hints for how sellers can build better relationships with their customers.
5 eBay Tips
EBay Sellers Get Some Help, Online and Off
The eBay Developers Conference in Boston offers up some juicy tidbits for online retailers, from forthcoming third-party applications and research tools to ways to hire certified developers to create widgets for your website.
Rate Hike Causes Sellers To Drop eBay
Frustrated customers often threaten that they’ll never shop at a store again. Now, a number of online retailers have become angry at eBay, and many of them claim they’ll never again sell on the site.