Home   |  TAGnotes   |   TAGblog   |   TAGchat   |   Services   |   Fraud   |  Contact Us   |   Site Map
 
 
Back
TAGnotes Thu 15 Mar 2001 Vol 3 Number 35 Issue 296
 

The Auction Guild Notes for Thu 15 Mar 2001
************************************************************
Do you find TAGnotes useful? Please share this knowledge and get
an associate or two to sign up today. http://www.theauctionguild.com
Using TAGnotes for research or as a source document? Please
respect our copyright, and give credit where credit is due.
View the TAGnotes archives in a searchable format at
http://www.escribe.com/business/TAGnotes/
************************************************************
ebaY users reported problems again with About Me pages on
14 Mar at 19:11:05 PT. ebaY has yet to report the function restored
since they posted the problem on 13 Mar at 17:37:52 PT. On 15 Mar,
users reported a problem with relisting an item that did not sell the
first time. Normally a post comes up telling you that the listing fee
will be refunded if the item sells the second time. Users theorized
that this might be a changing code presaging a removal of the one
free relist. Sonny@ebaY when asked about this on 15 Mar at
22:10:34 PT said, " as far as I know, there has been no talk of
phasing out the relist credit. ebaY reported the Honesty counters
were down at 15:37:23 PT. ebaY reported them back at
16:16:23 PT. ebaY will conduct regularly scheduled
maintenance on Friday 16 Mar between 01:00 PT and 03:00 PT.

For information and links to request refunds on ebaY go to
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html?pid=33

Pink Quotes of the Day Meg Whitman, on the future of ebaY
http://www.cnbc.com/cnbctv/video/videohighlights.html
And, when asked why users who have used BIN in the past
are suddenly being required to provide verification - which was
supposed to be in place when BIN started in December -
Claire@ebaY said, " well actually, it isn't yet working quite
correctly. :-( They are working on a fix as quickly as possible,
and that should help ease some of this" (ed. - angry comments on
the boards about suddenly needing a charge card or pay $5. for
verification to use BIN), so TAG wants to know why this known
problem is not posted on the AB.

ebaY is changing the End My Auction Early feature. A seller will
have to select a reason for ending their listing early. This reason
will be posted to the closed View Item page. ebaY will automatically
cancel all bids for sellers if the item being ended is no longer
available to sell. ebaY says it will take a couple of days until the
changes have been completely released to the site.

Upcoming changes to the collectibles categories include three
Household categories, Houseware & Kitchenware; Hardware,
Furniture & Fixtures; and Vintage Clothing & Accessories. Banks
has moved to Coin-Op, Banks & Casino; Breyer has moved to
Animals under Horses; and Photographic Images has moved to the
newly proposed Art, Animation & Photo Images category.
The revised 16 category structure is scheduled to rollout in April 2001.
To preview the new sub-category pages and provide comments go to
Advertising: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-advertising.html
Animals: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-animals.html
Disneyana: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-disneyana.html
Art, Animation & Photo Images:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-animation.html
Houseware & Kitchenware:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-household.html
Coin-Op, Banks & Casino:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-casino.html
Cultures & Religions: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-cultures.html
Decorative & Holiday:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-decorative.html
Hardware, Furniture & Fixtures:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-hardware.html
Historical Memorabilia:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-historical.html
Militaria: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-militaria.html
Paper & Writing Instruments:
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-paper.html
Pop Culture: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-popculture.html
Science: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-science.html
Transportation: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-transportation.html
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
http://pages.ebay.com/preview/chg-vintclothing.html
Moving Out: http://pages.ebay.com/preview/collect_movingout.html
The Town Square Discussion Board has a thread titled
"New Collectibles Sub-Categories" at
http://remarq.ebay.com/ebay/threads.asp?g=discuss%2Eebay%2Ethe
%2Debay&nav=LAST

ebaY Workshop Calendar can be found at
http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/workshopevents/

ebaY University schedule and registration can be found at
http://pages.ebay.com/university/

ebaY will now change some feedback or remove feedback IF users
pay the $15.00 to go through ebaY partner Square Trade and agree
on the feedback change.
http://www.squaretrade.com/eb/ebay_nf_020801.html

Title search approx 2 hours and Title and Description search approx
15 hours search indexing lag times.
http://www.geocities.com/codclass/content/lag.html

For workarounds to ebaY's email system and attempt at exclusive
agency go to http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html?pid=50

ebaY Contact Information, analog mail and email addresses and
phone numbers, regular and toll free, refund info and insider
trading info go to http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html?pid=17

Approx 5.5 mil auctions inflated by approx 6% due to double
category listings yielding 5.2 mil auctions
* * * * *
Amazon Auctions, zShops and Marketplace -
The link to leave feedback for bidders continues to be missing
from zShops.

Amazon is adding address components to the "Please Ship Now"
notification e-mail format, for transactions completed with Amazon
Payments. To receive an example of the new format, send a blank
e-mail message to new-shipn-@amazon.com and an
example message will be sent to you.

Announcements board
http://amazon.remarq.com/list/16791839
Amazon User chat board
http://amazon.remarq.com/amazon/threads.asp?g=discuss%2
Eamazon%2Eseller%2Econnection&nav=LAST

Amazon live telephone customer service 16 hours a day Toll-free
in U.S. and Canada: (800)201-7575
http://auctions.amazon.com
* * * * *
Yahoo Auction http://user.auctions.yahoo.com/html/guidelines.html

Yahoo announcement board
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/announcements.html

Yahoo site map.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/sitemap.html
http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Contact Information
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html?pid=38

Actual auction count 15 Mar 327,942 of all auctions available via
the Yahoo category page. Spot check yields a 5% bid rate
http://list.auctions.yahoo.com/
* * * * *
eWanted a site where users post items they want and sellers offer
them items they have, has joined forces with Yahoo.
http://www.ewanted.com
* * * * *
Andale/Honesty continues to have intermittent problems, particularly
with the counters used on ebaY. They had another network outage
on 15 Mar. Users have also reported ongoing problems with the
Honesty Gallery, but it appears Honesty is getting those problems
resolved.       http://www.andale.com   http://www.honesty.com
* * * * *
PayPal many months after their first announcement, has finally put
their PayPal shops in place.
https://secure.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_shop-ext
http://www.paypal.com
* * * * *
Free Image Hosting
http://www.photopoint.com/
WebSpace provided by most ISPs with your account. You upload
the photos using FTP software such as Fetch for the MAC or CuteFTP
or WS FTP for PC based computers or WebTV. Many of these type
programs are available as freeware or shareware form Zdnet.

Free Site for Storefront and Customer List
http://www.bigstep.com

Free Auction Management Tools
http://www.vrane.com
http://www.auctionflow.com/
http://www.collectoronline.com/manage/
* * * * *
Online Auction Users Association
The March newsletter is out and can be viewed at
http://www.auctionusers.org/newsletter/

Chat Schedule
Monday, March 19, 9:30 or 10:00 p.m. EST - Trivia Night with
Trivia Master Steve
Thursday, March 22, 9 p.m. EST - Chat with eDeal
(rescheduled from February)
Thursday, March 29, 9 p.m. EST - Chat with Joe Force from
Bargin and Haggle. com (tentative, waiting for confirmation)
OAUA live chat http://www.auctionusers.org/chat.shtml

Interested in volunteering and serving the Online Auction Community?
Check out http://www.auctionusers.org/volunteerop.shtml
http://www.auctionusers.org
* * * * *
Online Auction & Trading Site Co-op
Interested in an OAT Site Co-op?
Interested in getting involved?
Information on co-ops -
http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/cir55/cir55rpt.htm
http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/
Ideas for co-ops continue to develop
http://pub51.ezboard.com/bletsbuildacoop
To participate in weekly live co-op chats go to
http://pages.zdnet.com/labellebooks/OnlineSellersCoop/
Every Sunday Night at 8:00 PM EST.
*********************************************************
***PLEASE NOTE: Many long links we post in TAGnotes must be
copy/pasted into your browsers URL/Address box in pieces, with no
extra spaces, to get them to work due to HTML limitations****
*********************************************************
If you would like an Auction House or Service Provider added to
this list, please email us at ta-@theauctionguild.com
Have any information for us? email us at ta-@theauctionguild.com
TAG Subscribers have often contributed to information reported on in
TAGnotes. Visit their auctions.
         TAGassist Contributors -
http://www.321gone.com/member/FBNeNotes

http://cgi6.ebaY.com/aw-cgi/ebaYISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=
ViewListedItems&userid=aj14+&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=200

http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/user-glance/
A5TGMPMTNX03S/058-9601249-4312563

http://www.dandelionfarms.com

http://cgi6.ebaY.com.au/aw-cgi/ebaYISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=
ViewListedItems&-@natronics.com.au+&include=0&
since=-1&sort=3&rows=200

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=
ViewListedItems&userid=amunre&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=200
***********************************************************
THE AUCTION GUILD
and eTRADERS GUILD
www.auctionguild.com
Not just a venue
877-SAFETAG
READ TAGnotes
Have the most current information at your fingertips through
our almost daily email synopsis of announcements and changes from
the Online Auction Industry. Subscribe today at-
http://www.auctionguild.com
or email us - tag@theauctionguild.com
***********************************************************
All trademarks and brands are the property of their respective owners
Copyright 1999 - 2001 The Auction Guild Inc All rights reserved