Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au (14/08/2012)

[CmtyGuide@ebay.com]

This thread is to discuss the Changes coming soon to eBay.com.au

These changes include:

Enhanced functionality for multi-variation listings

Show your item location to increase buyer confidence

Greater 'Item Condition' clarity for buyers

Share your listings through your social network

Changes to Basic and Featured Store subscriptions

Please be advised, off-topic and/or disruptive posts may be deleted.

[thesoulyearns]

Thanks, ausfast. 🙂

[digital*ghost]

I didn't know ebay allowed you to cancel a partially refunded transaction.

I usually just don't bother getting FVF back with partially refunded transactions, Will look closer next time.

That was actually the first time I requested a cancellation after a refund - the few other times I've refunded it's been my fault or a faulty product, and I didn't bother those times. There's been a few threads over time where buyers have queried why a seller would send them a request to cancel a transaction a few weeks after receiving the item and leaving FB etc, so it seems it can be done without even issuing a cent in refund. (Presuming the purchases were paid for with PayPal, anyway, and that the payment status remains unchanged).

[i-once-was-bump]

Bump, I understood that sellers could not give discounts of more than the postage amount.

How could you give any discount if you are not showing a postage price at all.

I have been buying some items lately that sell for between $8 and $10 on average with about $7.50 postage.  Other sellers sell for $15 with free postage, which is fine if I buy only one. As I rarely buy one at a time it is better for me to go to a seller who will post 3 of the item with a combined postage rate of $7.50.

Lyndal maybe I am reading it incorrectly but I was under the impression that I could give my buyers a 10% off discount voucher and they would then use it to apply to the transaction.

(I have had a migraine for 3 days so comprehension is not my strong point at the moment.)

[izabsmiling]

I'm trying to understand it all.

As it is now Sellers aren't supposed to profit from P&H are they ?

[beanishells]

As for myself..a hobby seller....who doesnt buy any items wholesale... I am closing on 14 sept.  Its time to let it go...

So ebay its a shame...I would have stayed...but now, because you make me a powerseller, I dont get the free listings either...so I will never trade under this ID again, probably.

Bye

[beanishells]

About the Social Sharing Widget

eBay’s recently launched Social Sharing Widget lets you and your prospective buyers share your listings through social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. As a result, sellers no longer need to include references and links to social sites in item descriptions.

To comply with recent updates made to eBay.com.au’s Links Policy, sellers should remove any references and links to social sites in listing item descriptions.

The Social Sharing Widget automatically displays on all View Item Pages (item listing page) in the top right-hand corner (see image below).

I didnt know you were allowed to include references and links in your listings...who does that?

[susie_studio]

eBay Australia, the Westfield of online shopping.

Hmmm, I see a Medieval Overlord, gathering taxes from the serfs until they have outlived their usefulness...Limiting their choices until they have no room for freedom, individuality, expression. Entrepeneurship discouraged, conformity to various rules, 'models' , targets and products a condition of entry. You're workin' for THE MAN. Anything or anyone interesting or unique banished to midden raking outside of the impenetrable electronic Keep.

Ebay so wants to be an online shopping mall: but what they haven't considered is that once you have seen one, you've seen them ALL, electronic or real. Same products, same franchises, same business models, products all maufactured by the same sources. The Sheeple will LOVE it! Lots of baaa baaa baaagains! Lots of money will be made!

It's not the money itself that's bad- it's the unbridled love of money that begets the badness- an enervating and stupefying habit that exterminates creativity & so much more...

Having a store on ebay has now officially become a very disappointing experience. See ya in the midden.

[beanishells]

Susie I am impressed. Give up selling and just write full time. You are very good!

🙂

[digital*ghost]

I didnt know you were allowed to include references and links in your listings...who does that?

Quite a few sellers, Facebook is a really good promotional tool. The reasoning behind not even allowed to have a reference in listings makes just as much sense as the reason for the fee increase, though.

All the Facbook button does is post a link on the Facebook profile of the user - that can be done in two seconds with or without a button and doesn't let anyone on eBay know that they can keep up with product updates or other things on FB.

eBay are obviously fine with Facebookers being brought here but worried about buyers leaving this site and going to Facebook, which is quite strange considering they're fine for listings to have links to actual commercial websites that are in direct competition for the item that's being listed - growing a social network of of consumers interested in an eBay seller's products is obviously much worse for business than sending consumers (that are already here) away....

[go-tazz]

As it is now Sellers aren't supposed to profit from P&H are they ?

That could be one of the reasons they want the free postage.

Some sellers have been charging excessive postage and the free postage would fix that "little" problem,(eBay's analogy would be to clobber the many because of the wrong actions of a few),X-(

They main problems will be if the seller works out the wrong postage or combined postage as they wont be able to lower the end price, X-(