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Auction Guild Notes for Tue 16 Jan 2001
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ebaY posted on 16 Jan 01 at 16:24:15 PT that the feedback forum and
My ebaY was down. At 16:45:44 they stated that the problem lasted
from16:07 to 16:27 but was currently fixed. At 18:09:14 PT problems
with the feedback forum reoccurred, and at 18:38:47 PT they took them
both down for approximately 30 minutes, beginning at 18:40 PT for
emergency maintenance. At 19:47:58 ebaY posted that the feedback
forum and portions of My ebaY will be down from 00:01 PT to 02:00 PT
on Wednesday morning for emergency maintenance. Until then, the feedback
forum will be intermittently slow.
ebaY is increasing listing fees from 5 cents to $1.30 in the US and
on Canadian auctions listed in US dollars. Effective Wednesday,
31 January 2001, ebaY is increasing insertion fees and adding a
charge to the 10-day listing option. Final value fees, other feature
fees and insertion fees for vehicles, eBay Premier and Real Estate
remain unchanged.
These are the old and new price schedules for insertion fees:
Opening Current New
Value or Insertion Insertion
Reserve Fee Fee
Price
$0.01 - $9.99 $0.25 $0.30
$10.00 - $24.99 $0.50 $0.55
$25.00 - $49.99 $1.00 $1.10
$50.00 - $199.99 $2.00 $2.20
$200 and up $2.00 $3.30
ebaY will now charge a ten-cent ($0.10) fee for the 10-day listing
option. The three-day, five-day and seven-day auctions will not
have an additional fee. For more info go to
http://pages.ebay.com/community/news/price_increaseFAQ.html
Effective Wednesday, 31 January 2001, ebay.ca is also getting
increases for all items listed in US dollars and the addition of a
charge to the 10-day listing option for all items listed in US dollars.
Items listed in Canadian dollars will not be affected by the fee
changes. Final Value fees, other feature fees and insertion fees for
vehicles and real estate remain unchanged. For more info go to
http://pages.ca.ebay.com/community/news/price_increaseFAQ.html
TAG thinks this increase is not justified. ebaY continues to have
persistent ongoing problems that they have not fixed, and persistence
and ongoing reliability problems. Until ALL past problems are
resolved we do not feel ebaY can justify or is entitled to this, or any
increase. We are not currently getting what we pay for, and they now
want us to pay more for it. For the complete TAG editorial on this
subject go to http://www.auctionguild.com and
click on ebaY Increases
Fees on left hand toolbar or go to
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html?pid=37
http://www.ebay.com
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Yahoo Auctions
For those who use Yahoo's bulk uploader, you can still list auctions
for 14 days when using this utility, giving you 4 more days for
your listing fee that you don't get listing items individually.
If you want to contact Yahoo about the fees or any other issue,
you can try - Timothy Koogle, Chairman and CEO Yahoo! Inc.
3420 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051
408.731.3300 voice, 408.731.3301 fax
Or send e-mail to
investor_-@yahoo-inc.com
auctions_-@yahoo-inc.com
PayDirect Contact info
paydirect-@yahoo.inc.com
8AM-6PM PT 7 days a week 408-731-3335
3400 Central Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Yahoo site map.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/sitemap.html
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
Merchant Auctions Phone Number 408-616-3801
email http://store.yahoo.com/salesform.html
Current Auctions 2.14 mil extrapolated formula total
10 Jan count approx 2.83 mil by
http://www.dtmagazine.com/auctioncounts.html
http://list.auctions.yahoo.com/
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Amazon is requiring all merchants to register for
Amazon.com Payments. For more details go to
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/selling/payments-start.html/
Register for Amazon.Com Payments go to
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/easypay-login/
It appears that since Amazon payments are restricted to the US only
a seller must have a US based bank account in order to sell on Amazon.
http://auctions.amazon.com
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AuxPal.Com in their current newsletter is promising to be free
forever - in writing - for any member who joins prior to 1 Mar 01
and refers five other members who join before 1 Apr 01. They are
also offering to copy your items from another site to AuxPal, or, if
you have items in CSV (Comma Separated Value) format (which
is the format Yahoo uses) from another auction, one of their
technicians can post the auctions for you. Email AuxPal the file.
http://www.auxpal.com/newsletter/01.16.01.htm
http://www.auxpal.com/index.cfm
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Web TV users - some HTML tools that might be useful.
http://www.draac.com/webtvtopc.html
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OAUA Report on Online Auction Management
tools - http://www.auctionusers.org/eval/wbams.shtml
In TAG's opinion, this is well worth a read, and
of great value if you are considering auction management options.
Upcoming live chats -
Thur 25 Jan 21:00 ET Topic - Diversifying your sales - Where else
can you sell online?
http://www.auctionusers.org
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