Check Your Stores – New eBay Stores Upgrade + News About Searching Feature

If you haven’t already opted in to the new eBay Stores experience, here are some things to look forward to:

The new eBay Stores Experience offers many key advantages:

Improved in-store search ability and merchandise suggestions for misspellings and low results.
Improved look and feel
- The eBay Stores Experience gives your store a face lift by bringing the design more in line with the rest of eBay, which makes it less confusing to buyers when they land in your store.
- We’ve enhanced our promotion boxes to better showcase your items, for instance, the new promotion box filmstrip.
- We’ve updated the eBay themes so you can set up a professional-looking store without using HTML and start selling right away.
Improved buyer features
- Buyers now can refine their search preferences within your store to make it easier to find exactly what they’re looking for.
- Our new Gallery View showcases your items to make it easier for buyers to see what your store has in stock.
Future flexibility
- With this new version, we can continue to build enhancements to eBay Stores quickly.

You can manage this new feature through your “Manage My Store” option. eBay will begin to upgrade those who haven’t opted in – in early May. Check out the full announcement here:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200904221355142.html

Also included with this announcement is the new Search Technology. The old technology will now be pushed back and retired in June.

New features include:

Results are returned faster than ever

You see more of the items you want

You can now customize your preferences for the left side of the page

Window shopping in the snapshot view makes shopping even more fun

“Related searches” and “exclude in category” searches are back!

If you haven’t taken it for a test drive, just click the “Try it now” link at the top the search page. Check out the full announcement here:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200904221355142.html

Happy Selling!