Time to change all your listings back to include all payment options? Today eBay announced it would postpone its (now) 15th July deadline for changes of listing payment options to PayPal only, citing its requirements to wait until the review process of the ACCC regarding its recent draft notice is complete. It seems fairly inevitable [...]
This afternoon the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, an independent statutory authority formed in 1995 to administer the Trade Practices Act 1974 and other acts in Australia, issued a press release regarding it’s intent toward the pending PayPal only policy change from eBay.com.au. The press release says: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a [...]
Seems that eBay Australia is offering some ‘eligible’ sellers some funding to assist in the modification of their listings prior to June 17th to remove any payment methods that will be disallowed after this date. I asked my TSAM (Top Seller Account Manager ) about it, but they did not know who was made eligible [...]
The Australian online auction space is a hive of activity at the moment. eBay Australia is making big site changes, Tradingpost Auctions launches and now we hear the second biggest online auction site in Australia, Oztion.com.au, has been acquired today by Jumbuck Entertainment for $1million in cash, and $1million in Jumbuck shares. Earn-out is based [...]
This morning tradingpost.com.au has become the newest Australian auction site, to compete head on with eBay Australia. Tradingpost.com.au (owned by Sensis) is a strong brand name with Australians and been around for many years as a classifieds print publication, and for some time now a website too. I have never much liked the tradingpost.com.au search [...]
Paypal has released a new product in the US, called Pay Me Later. According to the press release on May 15 2008, Starting today, eBay buyers in the United States can take advantage of Pay Later’s financing offer of no payments for 90 days for qualifying purchases between $50 and $199. With Pay Later, buyers [...]
OK, so the feedback system on eBay.com.au has now rolled out. The world is taking notice too, with some heated discussion on Ina’s blog AuctionBytes, and I am sure elsewhere too. Let me start by saying it’s never going to be a perfect system. Of course there was always going to be opportunity to abuse [...]
If your eBay seller feedback score has dropped, don’t be too alarmed as many other sellers will notice the same thing in Australia. eBay has just rolled out their feedback changes, now counting neutrals ‘as negatives’ when calculating your feedback, and ignoring feedback older than 12 months. See the full list of changes here. Most [...]
I have been catching up on the news this morning about eBay’s public meeting in Melbourne regarding the Paypal only changes coming in June. I wasn’t surprised to hear that there was quite an angry mob asking questions of Simon Smith, Andrew Pipolo and Alistair MacGibbon. I got invited to have an informal Q&A sessions [...]
PeSA Australia has released a press release today, in light of yesterday’s announcement from eBay Australia regarding the move to Paypal payment options on the site eBay.com.au. Seller anger as eBay narrows payment options Australian eBay sellers are angry at a policy change by eBay that will push transaction costs onto its sellers. The new [...]
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