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Date: Fri Nov 19, 1999 4:44am
Subject: TAGnotes Thurs 18 Nov 1999 Vol 1 Number 58
The Auction Guild Notes for Thursday 18 Nov 1999
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eBay - has launched a pilot program allowing eBay sellers to accept
charge cards as payment. Ebay purchased Billpoint
earlier this year,
and feel that with Billpoint Online Payments,
payment will be easy,
convenient and secure. The pilot program will last approximately
three
months. Early next year, eBay will make the
service available to
more of eBay sellers in gradual, limited releases. There are
no set-up
fees, no monthly fees, and no minimum charge requirements. Pilot
program fees are 75 cents per transaction plus 4.5% of total
amount
charged to buyer. Buyer Guide -
http://www.billpoint.com/help/buyerguide/index.html Seller Guide
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http://www.billpoint.com/help/sellerguide/new.html
Ebay will be down for regularly scheduled maintainance November 19,
between 01:00 PST and 05:00 PST.
The email we sent yesterday finally got some result, though limitedÉ
Quote -the logs in question have been moved out of disks and are on
tapes. So when they get a chance to look at this, they will have to
recall the tapes, reload the data from backups, etc. In other
words,
they won't be able to give out detailed logs for quite a while. End
Quote We did get a log summary and this will
go to our ISP tomorrow,
and we hope to have some initial analysis as soon as possible.
* * *
Amazon Auctions and zShops Ð has finally officially launched the
sothebys.amazon.com site. The first auction is a first edition
of
Harry Potter and The Philosophers Stone. The
Halperin Collection,
and a quilt collection are coming up later this winter. There
is a
buyer's premium of 10% of the successful bid price will be added to the
successful bid price and is payable by the Buyer as part of the Total
Purchase Price. Buyers must use the Amazon payment system, or
occassionally via wire transfer. Sellers get the remains after
deducting the Buyer's Premium and payment processing feesfor
each
transaction.
10cent listings until 31Dec99, free crosslinks to books or retail items,
Pro merchant discounts, bulk lister tool, zShops,One Click payment
options, Gift list giveaways
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/home/happenings.html/
ref%3Da%5Fh%5Fcc%5Fc%5F3/002-2432003-9821847 customer service with any
questions - Toll-free in U.S. and Canada: (800) 201-7575
* * *
Yahoo Auctions - is a sponsor of charity auctions every day. There is no
fee to place your auctions and all proceeds go directly to the
charities. Still no update on site calendar
or newsletter, since
Aug99. Approx 1,110,300 auctions currently listed.
http://auctions.yahoo.com/auction/
* * *
Golds Auction - Golds currently has approx 13,498 auctions listed, and
209,075 Auctions since 6/20/99. Free basic listings through
November.
http://www.goldsauction.com/apps/viewAnnouncements.html
* * *
Andale - a new service provider has been brought to our notice by one of
our subscribers. They offer an online management tool, that
allows
universal inventory, listing creation, monitoring of auctions,
post
sale shipping calculator and financial calculator, status of
repeat
buyers, and a business showcase. This site
appears to be well laid
out, and has some interesting management tools. Our
biggest concern,
is that they require your online auction Ids and passwords, but donÕt
provide information on how those are utilized. For comparison,
see
Honesty.Com. We have an email into them asking for clarification
as
to how this will be handled. * * *
Honesty.Com - will be hosting a face to face Ôuser focus workshopÕ with
8 to 10 Chicago area users. Services now available on Honesty, Counters,
Image hosting, One Step Lister, and Multi bid tool. Auction
site
passwords are invisible to Honesty personnel. Scott has a reminder on
the site that NOW is prime auction christmas rush time for auctions,
because the time lag makes it earlier than analog sales.
http://www.honesty.com/
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