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The Latest News On What's Selling on eBay & Amazon | Recent eBay & Amazon News and Updates
As of today, May 1st, eBay Stores owners can save money by changing to the new everyday rate plans. Get from up to 150 to 2,500 FREE listings* per month - no insertion fees, auction-style or fixed price with your eBay Stores subscription. Not certain which plan is best for you? Check out the Fee Illustrator to help you decide which plan you want. Read the announcement on eBay.
In the Fall eBay announced they were enhancing the site. One of those enhancements is a personalized eBay Homepage. You can set yours up now. By adding interests you will generate a constantly updating personalized homepage.
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eBay is launching some changes to their site. In an article released by eBay, entitled Welcome to the New eBay, the company talks about why they are coming out with some new features and enhancements. eBay wants to put forth a cleaner and more contemporary feel to the site, and provide a more convenient and intuitive browsing and buying experience. To go along with these changes eBay is also introducing a newly redesigned logo.
Here are some stats about eBay, from the article. You can read the full article here.
Coming soon: a new look for your MyWorld Page
Later this year, eBay will be updating the look and feel of the MyWorld page—a place where you can tell other eBay members about yourself and promote what you sell.
In this first phase of the MyWorld refresh project, eBay will be changing the name from ‘MyWorld’ to ‘(your eBay user ID) Profile’, so your visitors understand they’re viewing a profile page on eBay. We’ll also be making other updates to give viewers a better, more streamlined experience.
These updates will launch to a small percentage of MyWorld profiles in September with all MyWorld profiles updated by the end of October.
There is an eBay MyWorld Learning Course that outlines how important it is to keep up with updating your My World Page.
The Learning Course will show you how to:
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My World is another tool that allows you to represent your personality, interact with others, and display your listings, interests and more! You automatically get an eBay My World page when you become an eBay member. A My World page gives you different ways to create customizable, personal pages that feature content you create yourself. It is similar to your About Me page in that it is about you. However, the My World Page has different modules that will link you to other buyers/sellers who have similar interests. It does this by allowing you to link keywords (also known as search tags) that associate what you buy or sell, to others who buy or sell the same items or have the same interests! It is a nice compliment to your About Me page and a great cross sell opportunity.
Don’t miss this opportunity! Not only is it for a good cause, it is also an outstanding deal. A fellow online friend, The Menu Mom, is trying to raise money to help bring an orphan from Ukraine to the U.S. for the summer. She is raising money to cover the expenses of both getting him here, but also caring for him while he is here. Read all the details about this on her blog here: http://www.themenumom.com/
She and some other online friends have put together an incredible deal worth over $480. See all the products they have put together here. The “Fire Sale” includes 16 great products for just $15. It ends today, so don’t miss your chance to not only get a great deal but help out a good cause.
Link to the “Fire Sale” sales page is: http://www.menuplanningcentral.com/sergiy.html
Starting on Wednesday, May 16 2012, U.S. sellers will no longer be allowed to ship lithium batteries, or any items that contain the batteries, with the U.S. Postal Service to other locations outside the U.S. You can still mail lithium batteries and products that contain them outside the U.S. via FedEx, UPS, DHL and other mailing services.
Read an article about how this can affect you as an eBay seller here:
USPS Bans Lithium Shipments Outside US
Fire, explosion hazard sparked the unexpected policy change.
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One of the best ways to get buyers to pick your listing over the rest, is by including lots of great pictures of your item. By providing lots of quality pictures you are reinforcing to buyers that eBay is a great place to shop. To help you provide those pictures, starting July 2, pictures will be FREE for all sellers on eBay. eBay is doing this to help you sell and to encourage you to provide more pictures with your listings. The best part is that more pictures means that you will get more sales, and save money doing so. Think about it this way, if you’re paying for pictures now, this change can mean significant savings. For example, on Auction-style listings with 8 pictures, free pictures can mean a savings of 16% on an item that sells for $60.
So start getting ready to upload more pictures to showcase your item and show it from all angles. Buyers make faster purchase decisions when listings have more photos. Later this year, all eBay listings will be required to have at least one picture. Just remember the more quality pictures of an item the better chance it has to sell well.
Check out the links in this post to get more information on eBay’s updates. Keep yourself up to date on eBay’s features and know the best and most effective ways to sell on eBay.
My World is another tool that allows you to represent your personality, interact with others, and display your listings, interests and more! You automatically get an eBay My World page when you become an eBay member. A My World page gives you different ways to create customizable, personal pages that feature content you create yourself. It is similar to your About Me page in that it is about you. However, the My World Page has different modules that will link you to other buyers/sellers who have similar interests.
Learn more, dive in and go over the details so you know the different ways to customize this page just for you (and your eBay business). I can walk you through the best ways to utilize your My World space on eBay. Check out the eBay My World Course.
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