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The Auction Guild Notes SPECIAL EDITION Tue 13 Feb 2007

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50% OFF AUCTION LISTING DAY
ON EBAY US ON WED 14 FEB 2007
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50% OFF AUCTION LISTING DAY
ON EBAY CA ON WED 14 FEB 2007
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EBAY PROBLEM AND ISSUES
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50% OFF AUCTION LISTING DAY EBAY US ON WED 14 FEB 2007
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ebaY US is holding a 50% OFF auction style listing day on WED 14 FEB 2007 between 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second on WED 14 FEB 2007 and ending that same day, 14 Feb 2007 at 23:59:59 PT(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

 The listing fee for all auction style listings is 50% off on the U.S. site
(www.ebay.com).  This includes listings created before 14 Feb 2007 but that are scheduled to start on  14 Feb 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 fixed price, 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 50% OFF 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 14 Feb 2007- including those listings revised
during the promotional period.  The promotional rate also does not apply
to listings created on 14 Feb 2007 and scheduled to start after the promotion
ends.  

 List  auction items through the Sell Your Item Form, ebaY Seller Tools, and most third-party tools.
 
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/50offlistings/

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50% OFF AUCTION LISTING DAY
ON EBAY CA ON WED 14 FEB 2007
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ebaY CA is holding a 50% OFF auction style listing day on WED 14 Feb 2007
between 00:00:01 ET (12:00 AM plus one second on Wednesday, February 14, 2007)
and ending Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at 23:59:59 ET(11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

ebay is excluding fixed price listings, motor vehicles, buy it now feature upgrade,
business and industrial capital equipment, store inventory format, real estate
auction format listings and real estate ad format listings.  

For more info -
 http://pages.ebay.ca/promo/LD50PCTAFP0214/

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EBAY PROBLEMS AND ISSUES
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At the end of January, ebaY raised their fees. This fee increase is not justified, as the site problems continue unabated, with broken search engines, back doors wide open to counterfeiters and other scammers, server pool outages, items not indexing in a timely manner, and the list goes on and on.

 ebaY categorically denies there is an open back door, despite all proof to the contrary.

Read articles on this here -
http://www.auctionguild.com/generic148.html

 ebaY's shill bidder protection policy is firmly in place.  ebaY now requires users to be signed in to view bidders on listings under $200, and has completely hidden user IDs bidding on items $200 or over.  ebaY is now allowing and even encouraging shill bidding on the core ebaY sites, something they have long allowed on ebaY Live.  ebaY has given shill bidders the seal of approval and protection through ebaY's policy of hiding bidder IDs.  ebaY says that they have both programs and shill hunting employees to crack down on shilling, but as usual, there is no evidence of anything but an ever increasing number of shillers.  Sellers have even been discussing the ubiquitous shilling on ebaY with the main stream media.  Given ebaY's new program of trying to increase profitability through higher selling prices on items sold on their site, what easier way to increase those prices than by making shill bidding "ebaY legal".  ebaY claims that this policy of hiding bidder IDs is to prevent second chance offer scams, but since the scammers appear to have full access to ebaY's account controls, they can see all the required information needed to scam users anyway.

 ebaY is decreasing some of the listing fees and increasing the final value fees on the ebaY UK and IE sites, and also increasing fees on ebaY Motors UK, effective 1 March.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200701.shtml#2007-01-29102007
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/sell/importantinfo/
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/sell/importantinfo/FAQs/

 In a move that does not bode well for the US site, ebaY will no longer refund the reserve listing fees on ebaY UK and IE, if an item sells.  Sellers will be charged the reserve listing fee of 2% of the reserve price over 50 GBP, with a maximum reserve fee of 100 GBP.

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