New eBay Survey Asks Sellers About Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Posted on November 9, 2009. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , , , , |

This past week I received a survey from eBay that was sent to each of my three selling IDs.  The survey was the most lengthy survey yet that I have received from eBay and the questions covered a wide variety of topics from sales channels to feedback to the Top Rated seller program to selling tools [...]

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Find What You Want Faster on eBay…. HUH?

Posted on March 5, 2009. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , , |

I received an email today from eBay that has me stumped.  I admit that in 10 years I haven’t bought more than about a dozen things on eBay so one could not consider me a Power Buyer by any means.     
EMAIL from eBay: 
Find what you want faster on eBay
You may have noticed we’ve been working on [...]

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How to Engage in Keyword Spamming without Violating eBay Policy

Posted on November 5, 2008. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , , |

For years, eBay removed seller’s listings that violated the keyword spamming policy.  An explanation of keyword spamming comes directly from the eBay website (click HERE):
Examples of listing practices that are not allowed on eBay include:

Using brand names or other words inappropriately for the purpose of attracting buyers to a listing (called keyword spamming).

So, just to reiterate [...]

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And so the Amazonification of eBay Continues

Posted on September 14, 2008. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , , |

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Because I manage seller accounts on both eBay and Amazon, I often go back and forth between the two sites several times in an hour.  Imagine my surprise today when I was goofing around on eBay and typed in the search term ” Chitty ” and the when the results were returned, I thought for [...]

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eBay Ignores Sellers’ Complaints and Then Claims Sellers are Ignorant of the Best Match System

Posted on September 11, 2008. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , |

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The eBay Best Match System has been broken… for days… or possibly weeks.  And despite many complaints about the system being broken, eBay chose to dismiss sellers’ complaints as being nothing more than the ramblings of ignorant or disgruntled sellers.  Noone at eBay took the matter seriously for days, if not weeks.
As an example of the [...]

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One Seller’s New Search to Find the Fun on eBay

Posted on July 7, 2008. Filed under: eBay | Tags: , , , , , , |

I remember thinking how “fun” it was to sell on eBay back in 2002.  Buying and selling on eBay was considered to be “fun” by a lot of folks back then.  But buying and selling on eBay has become anything but fun and it has been quite a long time since I have heard any [...]

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