ebaY - No Holiday Free Listing Day, just a 10 Cent Promo

The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION 26 Dec 2004
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10 CENT LISTING DAY EBAY US ON MON 27 DEC 2004
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10 CENT LISTING DAY EBAY CA ON MON 27 DEC 2004
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10 CENT LISTING DAY EBAY US ON MON 27 DEC 2004
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ebaY is obviously not doing as well as it tries to appear, since for
the first time ever, ebaY is NOT giving their users their annual
holiday gift of a free listing day, but are making it a 10 cent
listing promotion instead. Though this is better than nothing, it is
not what it should be.

ebaY US is holding a 10 cent listing day on Monday 27 Dec 2004
between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on Mon 27 Dec 2004 and
ending that same day, 27 Dec 2004 at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59
seconds).

The listing fee for all regular auction-style, Fixed Price, and Store
Inventory listings is10 cents on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com) and on
ebaY Motors for Non-Vehicles listings. This includes listings
created before 27 Dec 2004 but that are scheduled to start on 27 Dec
2004.

ebaY will still charge all other fees including final value
fees, listing upgrade fees, such as Buy It Now, featured plus,
subtitle, highlight, bold, gallery, gift services, scheduled
listings, gallery featured, homepage featured, reserve fees,
ebaY Picture Services, duration fees, etc.

ebaY is excluding ebaY Motors vehicle listings, international, live
auction, professional services, real estate, ad format and store
inventory listings. The promotional rate does not apply to listings
with a start date prior to 27 Dec 2004- including those listings
revised during the promotional period. The promotional rate also
does not apply to listings created on 27 Dec 2004 and scheduled to
start after the promotion ends.

List auction style and fixed price items through the Sell Your Item
Form, ebaY Seller Tools, and most third-party tools.


For more info go to -
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/10centevent/


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10 CENT LISTING DAY EBAY CA ON MON 27 DEC 2004
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Starting Monday 27 Dec 2004 at 00:00:01 EST (12:00 AM plus one second
on 27 Dec 2004) and ending that same day Mon 27 Dec 2004 23:59:59
EST (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

The rules, exclusions etc are the same as those for ebaY US (see
above)

http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/10cEvent/

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Will ebaY have a 2004 Free Listing Day?

If ebaY is going to have a free listing day after Christmas, they will not announce it until late on the night before the FLD. We are watching, and will send a notice as soon as we hear about it.

In 2003 ebaY had this promotion on Fri 26 Dec.
2002 - Thurs 26 DEC 2002
2001 - Thurs 20 DEC 2001

This year the 26th IS a problematical date, as ebaY has never held an FLD or other promotion on a Sunday. Usually it is on a Tue or Thurs with the rare different week day thrown in. They have had a FLD as a “christmas” present for their sellers every year since they started the site, so it is hard to believe they would break with their tradition. When they had it has varied, sometimes before, sometimes after Christmas, so all we can do is watch and wait, and let you all know as soon as we can. Our best guess is Tues 28 Dec.

Our advice is to prepare your listings for an FLD, so you will be ready when and if it comes.

TAGnotes Special Edition Overstock Auctions FLD on 26 Dec 04

The Auction Guild Notes Special Edition Overstock Auctions
Free Listing Day 23 Dec 04
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OVERSTOCK AUCTIONS FREE LISTING DAY SUN 26 DEC 2004
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OVERSTOCK AUCTIONS FREE LISTING DAY SUN 26 DEC 2004
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Overstock Auctions is having a Free Listing Day on Sun 26 Dec 2004
from 12:01 am EST to 11:59 pm PST Sun 26 Dec. Please note they are
starting at Eastern Standard Time and ending at Pacific Standard
Time. Overstock says this unusual move is to give all listers in the
US a full day on which to list no matter where in the country they
live.

This FLD is for insertion fees only. Overstock will still charge
reserve fees, any upgrade fees and final value fees associated with
all auctions listed during the free listing period. The insertion fee
for listing an item in a second category is free, but all other fees
are doubled when listing in a second category. The Free Listing Day
does not apply to Real Estate Auctions.

During the first Overstock FLD, there were lots of outages and
breakdowns, so many sellers were not able to list. It remains to be
seen if Overstock has made any improvements to prevent these
problems. Overstock currently has approx 89,000 auction listings.

If you have any questions you can call Overstock Auctions at
1-800-843-2446 and choose option 3

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The head of the ebaY India site Baazee.com, was arrested and jailed
in mid December, when someone used the site to sell illegal porn in
India. ebaY US has managed to get their employee out on bail, and
obviously money talks and influence may be purchased, as even Condi
Rice (otherwise known as the US Secretary of State) was involved. It
looks as if the Indian government has not yet bought into the
"venue only" argument ebaY has used so successfully in the
US, to shirk all responsibility for what goes wrong on their site.
What is interesting is that the Indian government did not shut
the ebaY India site down altogether.
http://snipurl.com/bkg1

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In January, ebaY is going to stop sending the PayPal winning bidder
notifications.

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ebaY 50 Cents off Fixed Price Promotion - not worth a Special Edition

ebaY is giving 50% off fixed price listings on ebaY US, CA and ebaY Motors (non-vehicle listings) on Wed 15 Dec 04. They are also allowing sellers to add but it now to auction listings for free (5 cent refund). promotion runs from 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second) and to 23:59:59 PT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds on Wed 15 Dec.

http://pages.ebay.com/promo/fpandbin/?ssPageName=CMDV:AB1000

The Scots go after ebaY for Ticket Sales, Free Listing on ebaY Malasia

The Glasgow City Council is trying to get ebaY stop the sale of Hogmanay party tickets on their site. ebaY said they will not do anything unless the Council can show them a law making this resale of ticketes illegal. The Council claims that by selling them on-line, ticket holders are breaking the terms of agreement which apply to them. Normally tickets cost £2.50, but are selling on ebaY for £70 to £300.
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=137772200 to disallow sales of tickets to 4


ebaY Malaysian Website is completely free to list on, and very simple. It is like pre IPO ebaY in it’s basic simplicity. Unfortunately the listings only show up on ebaY Malaysia in MYR currency, though the would show up in a sellers list of items in the US.
http://www.ebay.com.my/

International Strike against ebaY

International ebaY users in the UK, France Spain and other countries are grumbling about ebaY’s lack of service and responsiveness to their users. This is nothing new to US users, who have long sought a viable alternative to ebaY. There is a plan afoot to boycott ebaY through 31 Dec. US users have long since learned the futility of such an action, when the simple act of listing on other sites to move a significant amount of business off ebaY, would be the final solution. Once another site gets a sufficient number of listings (in the range of 3 million listings) the buyers will follow. Only when there is true competition in the online auction and trading industry, will ebaY be forced to provide customer service, and actually listen to their customers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/23/ebay_spain_strike/

Misc ebaY related

ebaY, the largest stockholder in South Korea’s Internet Auction Co, has requested that the company delist from the KOSDAQ stock exchange. This despite what has reportedly been a profitable enterprise with $939 million dollars gross value of goods sold through the site.
http://english.yna.co.kr/Engnews/20041116/300700000020041116143715E2.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/041122/3/ru7j.html

ebaY continues to censor terminology on their site, now prohibiting any descriptions that might be considered a slur or offensive term. This will be true even if the description is appropriate for the time/era of the item.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041118/wr_nm/tech_racism_dc_2