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The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION Wed 17 Jan 2007

THIS ISSUE -
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20 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
ON EBAY US ON THU 18 JAN 2007
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EBAY PROBLEM LIST
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20 CENT AUCTION AND FIXED PRICE LISTING DAY
ON EBAY US ON WED 27 DEC 2006
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ebaY US is holding a 20 cent auction style and fixed price listing day
on Thursday 18 January 2007 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one
second on THU 18 JAN 2007and ending that same day, 18 Jan 2007 at
23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

The listing fee for all auction style and fixed price listings is 20
cents on the U.S. site (www.ebay.com). This includes listings created
before 18 Jan 2007 but that are scheduled to start on 18 Jan 2007.

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 buy it now upgrades, ebaY Motors vehicles and parts
and accessories, International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Ad
Format, Real Estate and Store Inventory listings, from the 20 cent
promotion. Additionally, they are excluding business and industrial
categories: tractors & farm machinery (91952), heavy equipment (25249),
concession trailers, carts (67145), imaging and aesthetics equipment
(92035), forklifts and other lifts (97185), manufacturing equipment
(92080), metalworking equipment (92082) and commercial printing presses
(26247) and store inventory listings. The promotional rate does not
apply to listings with a start date prior to 18 Jan 2007- including
those listings revised during the promotional period. The promotional
rate also does not apply to listings created on 18 Jan 2007and scheduled
to start after the promotion ends.

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

In order to use a fixed price listing with a quantity of one, you must
either have 10 or
more feedback or be ID verified. If you have a PayPal account you need
to have 5 or more feedback and accept PayPal as a payment method in the
listing.

Anyone can participate in this promotion, but they must list on ebaY US
and be willing to ship to the US and accept payment in US dollars.

For more info go to -
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/20centpromotion07/

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EBAY PROBLEM LIST
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Unfortunately we need to get this special edition out ASAP, so we are
just going to list some of the problems ebaY is having without expanding
too much on them right now.

HIDDEN BIDDERS - ebaY claims this is to protect buyers from fake second
chance offers (SCO's). This is a lie - all it does is increase shill
bidding. See the open back door articles for more on SCOs

PROXY BIDS EXPOSED TO SELLER DURING BIDDING - TAG has seen reports from
sellers where they are able to see a bidders proxy bid during the course
of an auction. Add this to the hidden bidders and you have the perfect
shill bidding environment.

SEARCH - Search has been broken since ebaY changed it several months
ago. There does not appear to be any effort on ebaY's part to fix the
search mess. Add to that the fact that indexing a listing can take
hours to days, and sellers are getting royally screwed.

OPEN BACK DOOR - It appears that ebaY is completely accessible to
scammers and that the scammers have unlimited access to and are able to
manipulate without restriction every ebaY users account. The Chinese
sellers who are now banned from selling their counterfeit merchandise on
ebaY are selling it through these hijacked accounts. For more info see
- http://www.auctionguild.com/generic146.html

NO MORE BUYER PROTECTION - ebaY has cancelled their buyer protection
program (not that it ever amounted to much). The only way a buyer might
be able to get money back from a fraudulent or otherwise problematical
transaction on ebaY, is if they use PayPal. BUT - be warned - the ONLY
way a buyer can make sure they are fully protected is to use their
charge card (after having checked with their charge card company on its
charge back policy). A buyer should NOT keep a balance in PayPal - they
should keep their PayPal account empty and only use a charge card to pay
for purchases - either through PayPal or directly with those sellers who
have Merchant Accounts - or through some other payment system like
Google's.

SCAM BY BUYERS AGAINST COIN SELLERS - There is a scam that has caught
several ebaY coin sellers, where a seemingly legitimate buyer (account
in US - possibly hijacked) purchases coins on ebaY, and uses a
fraudulent/stolen charge card through PayPal. The items are shipped to
a non-US destination, so PayPal's seller protection program does not
protect the seller. As always, sellers need to read the fine print on
PayPal and know exactly how PayPal can sleaze its way out of protecting
the seller.

EBAY FEE INCREASE - It is not hard to guess that TAG feels that any fee
increase is outrageous, since ebaY does not provide the service sellers
currently pay for. The only way ebaY will cut back on their excessive
fees is when sellers stop using the site as their main business venue
and start to use ebaY the way it should be used, as just another search
engine to bring buyers to the SELLERS site.

EBAY GAINING THE REPUTATION AS THE WORLD BIGGEST FENCE - As a place to
sell stolen and fake merchandise, ebaY tops the list. ebaY has quite a
reputation amongst law enforcement folks and amongst the people who run
loss prevention for their companies, as being uncooperative when it
comes to trying to nail the thieves selling on ebaY's site. ebaY does
little to try to control their site being used to fence goods, does not
even take the most basic steps to assist the folks who find their stolen
goods on ebaY, and does nothing to monitor or control those goods that
are obviously stolen, fraudulent or counterfeit

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