Advertising banners that take users off of eBay are a long-standing sore spot for sellers
When eBay announces their new policy changes next week, part of the announcement will make sellers cheer.  I have confirmed with a source inside eBay that the advertising banners that appear at the top of search results will be curtailed beginning [...]

The trials and tribulations of an eBay PowerSeller trying to work WITH eBay and follow all the policies
This story is so typical of eBay’s seller service. I get emails from people constantly expressing the same frustration. This is by eBay Seller, Walt Auctionwally. Walt is a very interesting guy. He runs a website that provides [...]

eBay policy and site function changes announced on April 14th, take effect next week on June 15th
eBay will effect the changes they announced in April next Monday.  If you haven’t revised your listings by then you run the risk of your listings being cancelled and/or not found in search.
The two biggest changes are that all [...]

A look at the new eBay policy announcement and the likely effect on eBay sellers
The last few parts of the announcements include a new dispute resolution process, free access to eBay Selling Manager, moving the shipping process from PayPal to eBay and tools to bulk edit your listings.
The new Dispute Resolution Process will be the [...]

eBay latest announcement will have a large impact on eBay sellers. Here is my take on the new features and policies.
eBay latest announcements  cover a lot of ground –too much for one blog post, so I am going to break them down into three posts. today is part one of three.
I am going to try [...]

Changes to take place in June will include new item pages, new mandatory return policy enforcement and new dispute system
The announcement from Stephanie Tilenius, Senior VP & GM for eBay North America had been rumored for a while. As part of the announcement eBay stated a new policy that from here on they will give [...]

There has been a lot of confusion for sellers of toys and children’s clothing. eBay’s Uncle Griff posted a blog on eBay with some answers
Basically a lot of fear by sellers is overblown –but there are some new requirements to meet if you sell children’s clothing or toys on eBay.  Here is the link to [...]

eBay is removing auctions and suspending sellers who sell designer and famous name goods

Karen and I have been taking some vacation days this week and I haven’t been Blogging. So here is an old post that was highly popular.  Look for new content on Monday

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Recently I have received email from sellers who have run afoul [...]

Yesterday was the last day to accept checks and money orders on eBay. eBay starts cancelling reported auctions today.
About three days ago I received a phone call from eBay Seller Support reminding me that yesterday was the last day for eBay listings to appear with a statement that sellers will accept personal checks or money [...]

The government announced rules and clarification today regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) that exempts eBay sellers and other resellers from the regulations.
My inbox has been filled the past few weeks from eBay sellers of baby toys and clothing and homecrafters with questions and angry letters that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was [...]

The new fixed price listing policy goes into effect in a few days on September 16. What will the platform look like on September 17th.
The new Fixed Price (FP) listing policy has four major elements:

Listing fees are lowered to 35-cents for most products and 15-cents for Books, Movies and Media
The listing duration will be for 30-days [...]

Last week I released my free eBook, The Future of eBay. Today you can listen or download my interview on The Future of eBay with Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes
The Future of eBay is a 30-page completely FREE eBook, released to my readers last week that covers the latest policy and fee changes on eBay. 
A [...]

Forget the Tums and the Pepcid AC. The new Seller Standard 4.3 DSR need not give you heartburn.
I had the opportunity to spend most of last Tuesday on the eBay campus in San Jose where eBay offered in depth briefings to a small group of bloggers and newsletter writers. It was a very interesting day. [...]

eBay announced it will not start enforcing the new policy that prevents eBay sellers from putting links to outside website on eBay pages.
A posting on the eBay forum today announced that eBay is backing down on their draconian links policy. The forum post stated:
"We will not enforce the links policy in July as we originally [...]

Who is this seller and where did he (her, they?) come from? Where did 198,188 items listed since May 15th.?
Why did he start his eBay business by purchasing feedback? How is he getting away with violating eBay Policies?
I was first alerted to this seller by some curious postings on the eBay message boards, so [...]