eBay Product Roadmap

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Product Changes -

Overall Goals for Product Changes:
Making eBay Better: Create a first-class buyer experience and trusted marketplace

Improving the Buyer Experience: Number of recent policy changes to improve the overall buyer experience

    * Shipping: all items must specify at least one domestic shipping service.   We strongly suggest you pass weight and dimensions for our shipping calculator
    * Handling time: All sellers must include a handling time on how long it will take for item to be shipped to the customer in the listing
    * Return Policy: All sellers must specify in your listings whether or not you offer a return policy
    * Payments: Provide buyers with a consistent, safe checkout experience every time they shop to increase buyer confidence and decrease online fraud

Making eBay Safer

    * Anonymous Member E-mail Addresses: 'Anonymize' email addresses sent through the Member-to-Member communication system
    * Item Templates and Description: Improve the safety of View Item pages by not allowing unsafe code in the page (will impact JS and Flash widgets)
    * Links Policy: No links off eBay
    * Trusted Selling With Identity Confirmation

full article: http://developer.ebay.com/community/blog....Developer&name=http%3a%2f%2febaydeveloper.typepad.com%2fdev%2f2008%2f06%2febay-product--1.html