eBay Australia
Online Retailer 2009 in Sydney – the State of Online Retail in Australia
I just got back from Online Retailer in Sydney. It was the first event of it’s type in Australia, attracting over 2500 attendees and a good number of exhibitors. I had opportunity to talk to many of the attendees, catch up with many other online retailers and also interviewed people like Armand , VP of [...]
A Quick Summary of PeSA 2009 in Sydney (+ some pics)
PeSA Sydney 2009 was a great event. A full attendee list of 300+ eBay sellers were there. Here is a brief summary of the event from my perspective. (for more info on the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, click here). Well, what a great conference. PeSA conferences are usually a focused get together of like minded [...]
eBay Australia Pricing Changes – a Positive Move!
eBay this morning released some news regarding their upcoming pricing chances. In summary, no changes will be made to auction fees but store fees and insertion/final value fees will change. Also, store listings will again appear in core search (mixed in with auction listings) using Bestmatch, eBay’s search algorithm in use in various ways around [...]
Want to grow your eBay business?
Want to grow your eBay business? Then consider attending this years PeSA event in Sydney, called ‘Survive & Thrive’. PeSA is the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the Australian arm is holding this year’s seller event in Sydney. Last years was a great success with hundreds otf attendees, and I think this years will be [...]
eBay Australia to Allow Feedback Revision
eBay has announced a new feedback revision process to launch in the week commencing 13th October. This has been sorely needed since they banned feedback removal a while ago, especially when there had only been some miscommunication with a customer for example, and the seller was able to provide them a satisfactory sale at the [...]
PeSA Australia Summit Wrap-up
Back on deck at work this morning, following up a few people that I met at the Pesa Summit over the last few days. It was great to meet some readers of my blog, and talk to a lot of sellers. After my panel session on Business Automation my 15 min one on one blocks [...]
PeSA Australia Summit Day 1
I just got home from the PeSA Australia summit, Navigating Success for Change. A good turnout with close to 300 signups,s to the Flemington staff were kept busy with coffee and snacks during breaks. Keynote this morning was from Jonathan Garriss (of Gotham City Online) who has flown in from the US and talked about [...]
One of the biggest eBay sellers in Oz gone bust?
Some news this morning that eBay seller ebusiness supplies (eBay account, website) is now NARU on eBay, not answering customer emails and seems to have stopped trading. This article from The Age sheds a little more light on the situation. These guys have been in business for many years now and moved a lot of [...]
eBay Australia Backs Down on PayPal Push
eBay.com.au released a statement yesterday notifying of their intent to withdraw its notification to the ACCC regarding the removal of other payment options from the eBay.com.au website. This didn’t come as a big surprise. Going to court over the matter would indeed have been a long and painful process, not to mention the amount of [...]
eBay Australia In Lose/Lose Situation
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 [...]
