QuikDrop, eBay, and the Coming Necessity of Translating Auction Listings

[mandy]

Article suggests that in the future all eBay sellers will need to translate their listings into foreign languages in order to stay competitive on eBay

...QuikDrop. The company is going to offer sellers free translation of auction listings in up to eight languages...

Jack says that translation is increasingly becoming a necessity: "eBay is growing internationally faster than it is domestically. Long term, all eBay sellers are going to have to use MT to stay competitive..."

full article: http://goingglobal.corante.com/archives/...d_ebay.php

To accommodate growth in the number of international shoppers on eBay, QuikDrop International is launching this week a feature that lets shoppers view QuikDrop's eBay listings in eight languages in addition to English, the company says...

To make international shoppers more comfortable about bidding on its listings, QuikDrop is launching a web-hosted language-translation service this week with Systran Software Inc. QuikDrop sends its web page content for each eBay listing across the Internet to Systran's language-translation system, which takes several minutes to translate the content into French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, Chinese and Japanese...

full article: http://www.internetretailer.com/dailyNews.asp?id=17657