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TAGnotes Tue 24 Oct 2000 Vol 2 Number 153 Issue 235
 

The Auction Guild Notes for Tue 24 Oct 2000
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ebaY posted at 14:36:19PT on 24 Oct, that seller search, view seller's
other auctions on the item page, and seller tab of the My ebaY page will
be intermittently down until 21:00. At 19:10:29 PT 24 Oct ebaY posted
that they were taking down the system from 12:00
midnight PT to 01:00 PT for emergency maintenance.
TAG strongly recommends that anyone who feels their auctions were
negatively impacted by these outages 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 continues to get reports from members that repeated requests
in the face of refund denials WORKS, so keep requesting and
re-requesting refunds until you get them.

Users are also reporting a problem with relisted auctions. No matter
how you set your payment options, it defaults to see item description.
Sellers should check their relisted auctions to make sure their payment
options are set as desired. If the auction has bids you can add the
payment information to your description.   

ebaY is going ahead with their plans to make changes to the real estate
category in late October. Go to
http://pages.ebay.com/realestate/realestate_preview_changes_2000.html

Effective 30 Oct ebaY is adding a 10 percent buyer’s premium on all
items sold on ebaY Great Collections.   This new fee will be added to
the winning bid price and will be paid directly to the sellers. ebaY
will calculate the total price, bid price plus the buyer’s premium.
http://www.ebaygreatcollections.com/

WEBTV users who have problems with using ebaY should contact
wec-@webtv.net for assistance with ebaY problems. They can
also call 1-800-gowebtv (469-3288). You might also find some help
here - http://help.webtv.net/latestnews/toobig.html or elsewhere
on the WebTV site - http://help.webtv.net

One workaround WebTV and sellers using Apple systems, can try is to
find the category number before listing and enter the category number
on the first sell your item page at the very bottom instead of selecting
a metacategory. The category numbers can be found at
http://listings.ebay.com/aw/listings/list/categories.html

ebaY back door workarounds for when you can't access plain
vanilla ebaY (ebaY USA). Try one of these URLs
http://www.ebay.aol.com
http://www.ebay.com.au/
http://www.ebay.co.uk/
http://www.ebay.compuserve.com
http://pages.ca.ebay.com/index.html
http://www.ebay.digitalcity.com
http://www.ebay.icq.com
http://www.ebay.netscape.com
http://www.ebay.go.com

Another suggestion is to put up an About Me page, and have your
current auction list on that page. Put a link in every auction to
your About Me page that says - to see my other auctions click here.
This will allow bidders to see your other auctions despite the fact
that ebaY has disconnected all the seller search functions.
http://members.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?AboutMeLogin

In addition, if you are having problems with the new ebay listing
pages, try this old listing page
http://cgi5.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ListItemFor
SaleShow&item=0&category=0&oldstyle=0&page=1&u=0

Approx 5.12 million current listing
MedVed is down
http://www.quotetracker.com/cgi-bin/cal.cgi?EIND
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
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Yahoo Auctions has an extrapolated calculated listing number of
3.9 million auctions. Yahoo is allowing sellers to turn their feedback
ratings on other sites into credits to pay for special features on
Yahoo. They give $1.00 in credit for every positive feedback point.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/ratings_featured.html
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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GoTo Auctions - formerly AuctionRover, is holding an ebaY listing
refund day. If you use their tools to list on ebaY they will reimburse
you for listing fees only, up to $2.00. This starts at 00:00:00ET
November 2nd and ends at 23:59:59 ET on 2 Nov. For details go to
http://auctions.goto.com/post-o-rama/
GoTo Auctions will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance
on 25 Oct from 04:00 ET to 06:00 ET.
http://auctions.goto.com/am/default.asp?gnjse=2
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Honesty.Com is still trying to work out its problems. Some
of the problems appear to be connected with ebaY, but there
are also problems such as logging in to Honesty and using
OneStepLister that appear to be a continuing pattern unresolved
issues. http://www.honesty.com
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