eBay 33% off Insertion Fee
Starting on Saturday, September 26, 2009, sellers who list Auction-style item(s), and have a 12 month Detailed Seller Rating of 4.5 or higher on all criteria, will receive 33% off the standard Insertion Fee per item listed.
New sellers who don’t yet have DSR ratings are also eligible.
DSR rating criteria for this promotion will be based on the previous 12 months.
More details at http://pages.ebay.com/33off/
The Evolution of eBay
As eBay’s senior manager of seller advocacy, Jim Griffith gets a daily earful about what’s wrong with his company’s online marketplace amid the ongoing wave of changes implemented there. But instead of discouraging or tuning out the feedback, Griffith is urging eBay members to keep it coming–as long as it’s constructive.
“I don’t want them to keep quiet,” says Griffith, who joined eBay in 1996, when its users numbered in the thousands, not the millions, and years before it began building a corporate empire that now includes the online payment processing system PayPal, the internet communications company Skype and others.
Postal strikes leave eBay users in limbo
Ebay sellers are worried they may suffer negative feedback from customers as buyers with goods caught up in the postal strike launch pre-emptive “dispute” claims in a bid to avoid being out of pocket. Many users of the online auction house have been left empty handed as the Royal Mail union snarl-up over job cuts and pay causes huge disruption at sorting offices across the country.
PayPal, eBay to Integrate Bill Me Later Into Sites
Almost a year after eBay purchased online billing company Bill Me Later, the company’s offerings will be integrated into eBay and PayPal in the coming weeks.
Bill Me Later will launch for a limited number of sellers and buyers on eBay and PayPal in the next few weeks, Sam Shrauger, PayPal’s vice president of global product strategy, wrote in a blog post.








