08-14-2006, 02:24 PM
Quote:Tell me why there is no ebay search in the upper right hand corner of his landing page?
Because he is either a Featured or Anchor store and has minimized the header, which removes the eBay search box.
Quote:Tell me why there is no ebay search in the upper right hand corner of his landing page?
Quote:Now, I did a search for a specific item that I know a competitor sells in Store. Sure enough, the 25th item down the listings, showed that item by that competitor and it was NOT an auction, just a Store Listing.
Quote:We've tested several alternatives and these tests showed the ideal approach is how we're doing it today that is, when a buyer's search returns 30 or less core listings, we display up to 30 Store Inventory listings. This is what we'll stick with going forward.
Quote:eBay has said it does not expect a proposed strike by some of its sellers to cause any major disruption on Tuesday...
eBay has played down the strike. In a statement the auction site said: "The changes only affect those sellers who have shops on eBay.co.uk and we do not anticipate that this shop owner protest will disrupt the buying and selling activity of the vast majority of our more than 15 million customers."
"We consulted with a number of both buyers and sellers prior to the announcements being made and the changes were clearly communicated on the eBay website and via email/phone communication to all affected sellers; however, a small but vocal group of our eBay.co.uk shop owners are dissatisfied with these changes which they believe may affect their businesses on eBay." ...
Quote:"I only just opened my shop... and now the fees, and this way they have changed the order of the auctions, is going to wipe out any little profit we make," wrote one user."We will be closing our shops next month and as a result listing less in the normal auctions due to the high fees."
Another user warned that: "For sellers it will cost us more, and for buyers they will end up having to pay more as sellers put fees up to compensate."
Rosie Johnson of the eBay PowerSeller Team responded to these complaints by explaining that: "The reason they [the seller fees] have increased is not to increase eBay's revenue but to encourage members to move from using shop listings to using the normal core listings. This is because around 90 percent of all successful listings are core listings, however around 80 percent of all listings on the site are shop listings. This is a lot of wasted space on the site."...
Quote:Shop owners voice fury at rise in eBay chargesarticle: http://money.guardian.co.uk/businessnews...69,00.html
Guardian Unlimited, UK
Disgruntled UK shop owners who use eBay today appealed to Google to launch a rival auction site after an increase in fees and a reduction in onsite visibility. ...
Quote: Traders boycott eBay over fee risearticle: http://www.itv.com/news/britain_54c5ab2e...30d7d.html
ITV.com, UK -
More than 450 professional eBay users have staged a boycott of the auction site in protest at fee hikes. The disgruntled traders ...
Quote: eBay sellers hacked offarticle and video: http://www.channel4.com/news/special-rep...sp?id=3012
Channel 4 News, UK
The site has spawned internet millionaires the world over. But today hacked-off eBay sellers in the UK are on strike in protest ...
Quote: Angry eBayers go out on strikearticle: http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,3...420,00.htm
Silicon.com, UK
A group of eBay traders are staging a one-day strike on Tuesday 15 August claiming the auction site has made listings less visible and raised fees for bulk ...
Quote: eBay sellers go on strikearticle: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=356&blogid=4
PC Advisor, UK -
It's one out, all out in cyberspace. According to reports, disgruntled eBay sellers in the UK are on strike. The strikers are unhappy ...
Quote: Retailers boycott Ebay over rising feesarticle: http://www.retail-week.com/nav?page=reta...ise.detail&resource=5383689
Retail Week , UK -
By Katie Kilgallen. Shops and businesses that sell on Ebay are due to boycott the site today in protest against rising fees. They ...
Quote:eBay traders boycott site over higher chargesarticle: http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=192229680&p=y9zz3x386
Ireland Online, Ireland -
Disgruntled eBay traders today staged a boycott of the auction site in protest at fee hikes. More than 450 professional users formed ...
Quote:Angry sellers boycott eBayarticle: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money-saver..._id=411727&in_page_id=5
This is Money, UK - 5 hours ago
TRADERS who use eBay are due to boycott the internet auction site today in protest at an increase in fees and a change in the way search results are displayed. ...
Quote:This is from BBC Radio 5 Live this morning. Fast forward to 17 minutes to hear the ebay piece.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/wakeup.shtml
The strike also got TV mentions on BBC News 24 and Sky News.
Other broadcasts in the pipeline today include the BBC World Service, the BBC Asian Network and Radio Manchester. We will post links if we can get them.
National newspapers that mentioned the strike this week include The Financial Times, The Times and The Guardian.