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TAGnotes Mon 16 Oct 2000 Vol 2 Number 149 Issue 231 |
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The
Auction Guild Notes for Monday 16 Oct 2000
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TOPICA WILL BE DOWN FOR 8 HOURS ON 17 OCT STARTING
AT 1900 PT. YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE TAG
ARCHIVES, and there will not be an issue of TAGnotes that night
unless something of essential time sensitive importance happens.
If it does, TAG will send the information out manually.
Support TAGnotes - get two of your friends or associates to subscribe.
If you have any comments, questions, information, ideas or
suggestions please email us at tag@theauctionguild.com
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ebaY on 16 Oct continued to have various problems. At 13:26:05 PT
users reported slow reloads of pages, particularly the chat boards. At
14:07:23 PT cgi 5 started to bog down preventing listing and relisting.
Users also complained that their bookmarked pages not working, and that
categories on the listing page were all mixed up - such as real estate
mixed in with antiques. Listing, relisting and revising were not
working at all. At 19:27:00 PT cgi 3 was reported as very slow. As of
this printing the listing problems have not been fixed.
At 20:48:55 PT ebaY announced that they were taking the
announcement board down at 22:00 PT for approx 30 minutes. It was
reported back up at 22:40:44 PT.
TAG strongly recommends that anyone who feels their auctions
were negatively impacted by the outages over the last few days
apply for credit. Request listing, special feature and Final
Value
Fees. Go to the form at
http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?
SendSupportEmailShow&subject=Credit%20--%20How%20can
%20I%20receive%20credit%20for%20insertion%20fees%3F%20
Send -
* The item number(s) of the ended auction(s)
* The specific fee(s) charged for them
* Your seller's email address or User ID
* The phrase, GIVE CREDIT in the Subject line
This can also be accessed from
http://pages.ebay.com/help/basics/select-support.html
PLEASE - IF YOU ARE DENIED REFUNDS LET US KNOW
TAG has had reports from members that repeated requests in the face
of denials has WORKED, so keep requesting refunds until you
receive them!!!
ebaY telephone numbers are posted on the TAG site at
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html;$sessionid$
RDYY0JYAAAV0JWGIHUWHBMWYZA4S1PX0?pid=17
TO SET YOUR EBAY PHOTO PREFERENCES
http://cgi5.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ShowPhotoOption
&item=0&category=1&oldstyle=0&page=2&showbillpoint=0¤cy=
(you will have to cut and paste this URL in pieces to get it to work)
TAG recommends you SAVE THIS LINK in a handy place as it
appears you will need it often, if you plan on doing any listing on ebaY
The ebaY Disney site is open, go to http://www.ebay.disney.com
ebaY has extended the time to leave feedback to 90 days from end of
the listing. You can leave Feedback comments for items older than 90
days by filling in the item number for each request.
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?LeaveFeedbackShow
ebaY plans on changing the real estate category in late Oct, adding
creating a search with item characteristics, creating a special Sell
Your Item form for real estate, and displaying a new view item,
which has maps and neighborhood information. They feel the
survey they conducted of the people who have used their real
estate sales section -which averages about 450 listings, approve
of these changes. To see changes go to
http://pages.ebay.com/realestate/realestate_preview_changes_2000.html
There is another post on the AB about listing in two categories
for twice the listing, special feature and reserve auction fee.
http://www.ebay.com/help/sellerguide/2category.html
ebaY is phasing in three stages the ability to add auction counter
from the list item page. Counters are now available in
Antiques & Art, Books,movies,music, Coins, and Computers
Third party service providers need to check to make sure their
programs work with these changes.
http://pages.ebay.com/help/sellerguide/counters.html
The counters are being provided by Andale/Honesty. Unfortunately
Honesty.Com, long time provider of the majority of counters on
ebaY, has been having severe site problems since the first
announcement of this venture with ebaY was made.
Approx 5.12 million current listing
MedVed shows 4.94 million
http://www.quotetracker.com/cgi-bin/cal.cgi?EIND
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
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Yahoo Auctions has added bidder insurance to their site
Protection is available to winning bidders only.
$25 will be deducted from the claim.
Standard maximum protection is $250 per item.
PayDirect maximum protection is $3,000 per item.
Protection covers auctions that start on or after 12 Oct 12:00 AM PT.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/ins/protectionpromo.html
Yahoo is letting sellers turn feedback into $$$$$. Sellers
can get paid in credits for their feedback ratings on other sites.
This allows sellers to pay for special features on Yahoo. You get
one dollar for every positive feedback you have. To get the
details and your credits go to
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/ratings_featured.html
Basic site information http://www.auctionguild.com
Go to OAI Site Basic Details from left side toolbar.
Yahoo site map
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/sitemap.html
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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Amazon Basic site information http://www.auctionguild.com
Go to OAI Site Basic Details from left side toolbar.
Amazon listing numbers for 26 Sep, 12 of 19 categories actual
counts, 7 of 19 extrapolated counts. Total listings 1,094,439
http://www.amazon.com
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SmoothSale has a new ebaY compliant button (88X33 pixels) for use
on ebaY auctions. Provides a way for you to get email from your
customers, talk to your customers online, or even run first bid win
auctions on ebaY, in addition to linking to your SmoothSale Store.
Currently 120 ebaY Auctions have SmoothSale buttons on them.
http://www.smoothsale.com
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Auctiva.Com is an online and software for fee service provider of
auction management products, pic hosting, free counters and the new
free Auctiva Showcase. Auctiva recently signed deals with ProPay,
SquareTrade, and U-PIC, to provide additional for fee services to the
OAI/OTI. Auctiva Poster (ePoster) 1 month $6.95
3 months $14.95 6 months $19.95 1 year $29.95 (price increase
to match eBud 1 Nov) and Auctiva Console (eBud) 3 months
$19.95 6 months $29.95 1 year $39.95 . Currently 9639 ebaY
auctions carry a links to the Auctiva Showcase, 39927 to
ePoster2000. http://www.auctiva.com
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*******VOTE******* VOTE******* VOTE********
The Million Auction March wants to move you to VOTE.
List your items on V enues O ther T han E bay
For more information go to http://www.millionauctionmarch.com
New Auction Houses, Sales Venues and Service Providers are
joining daily. All are offering incentives and specials to the OAI.
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If you would like an Auction House or Service Provider added to
this list, please email us at tag@theauctionguild.com
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