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My Best Tips For Improving Your eBay DSRs
If you are an eBay seller, Detailed Seller Ratings are going to become pretty important very soon.
eBay are introducing a raft of changes under new leadership including Finding changes (search), fee changes and more.
Detailed Seller Ratings are going to matter to you. If you haven’t been concerned about your ratings, and you take your business [...]
ChannelAdvisor Australia Holding Catalyst, for Multi-Channel eCommerce Strategies
For the first time, ChannelAdvisor is holding a Catalyst event in Australia, following the launch of their Australian office last year.
I haven’t been to a Catalyst before, but by all accounts they are well worth going if you want some good analysis of the online retail marketplace, and a chance to network with lots of [...]
eBay Announces Fee Changes & More for US/UK/DE
Great news, eBay has announced the rumoured site changes and fee changes for 2008. Bad news for Aussies, these changes are initially for US/UK/DE markets it seems…
Scott from ChannelAdvisor has been taking notes and blogging from the eBay conference in the USA about is (thanks Scot!)
The brief summary:
FREE gallery pics
Final Value fees increase (for [...]
No eBay fee changes in 2008 for Australia?
Most eBay sellers keeping track of the new would know now that eBay is going to announce fee changes this week, in summary (most likely):
reduction in listing fees
increase in final value fees
some sort of bulk discount for volume sellers
But, I have only seen mention of US, DE and UK markets in news and blogs around [...]
eBay Australia Improves Search Results
eBay Australia today announced that they have made improvements to their search.
eBay’s searching has annoyed me for ages. It never made suggestions, it showed far too ’specific’ results, didn’t suggest correct or alternate spellings (I love you Google) etc.
Now says eBay, “clever new algorithms mean the system can automatically link certain keywords within categories.”
Does it [...]
DSRWatch : View Detailed Seller Ratings, In Detail!
Detailed Seller Ratings were brought in by eBay some time ago now to allow buyers to rate sellers in more detail.
These ratings are a vote out of 5 on the following topics:
Item as described
Communication
Shipping time
Shipping/Handling Charges
Now, ChannelAdvisor Labs have released a free tool called DSRWatch for you to look at Detailed Seller Ratings for any [...]
Do your product photos need ‘Bling!’?
Tamebay.com in conjunction with Bling! It are running a great little competition together.
Bling! It is a neat little image editor to help you get much more professional product photos for your online ads or eBay listings.
If you are eBay seller you know how important good product shots are. Taking a great product photo not only [...]
ChannelAdvisor Australia giving away free beer?
It is nice that ChannelAdvisor has an office here in Melbourne. Even nicer is that they aren’t far away, and they are a bunch of generous folk who have just held some Christmas drinks for a few important clients (oh, and they also invited us along after some arm twisting).
Heck, there was some free wine [...]
Aussie eBay Powersellers Get a Bonus!
Wow,
eBay Australia just announced, for Powersellers only, 3 days of free listings if you start them at 99c (or less).
Is the playing field ‘unlevelling’?!
This is the closest thing to a discount in fees for large sellers that I have seen, and it will be interesting to see what sort of reaction there will be [...]
Is Biggest Always Best?
Thats right. You don’t necessarily want to be the biggest Powerseller, or the biggest seller in your category.
Size doesn’t have to be a goal. Some eBay sellers forget, turnover in itself is not a measure of success.
