Australia has long been eBay’s test bed for major changes to the platform. eBay tries things out there to see how they work and how loud members howl before rolling them out in the US. Here is an interesting email I received from one of my readers. Hi Skip Just on the odd chance another Aussie [...]

New fee-based service can help eBay sellers sell more in the UK At the present time if you offer worldwide shipping and check the box to add a country, you listings will show up on that country’s site –but not very well. In May, eBay will offer sellers who list on US and Canada sites a better [...]

Rumors about a Yahoo/eBay deal in Japan have been around for a while. AuctionBytes has broken the story Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes has a story today about the new deal between Yahoo Japan and eBay.  Japan and China are the two overseas markets where eBay failed to get traction and was beaten out by competitors.  But eBay’s growing [...]

When eBay first decided to remove eBay UK items from automatically showing up on the US site, many UK sellers were distraught. This effectively took them out of the biggest buyers market and many said their sales plummeted. They now had to list on eBay US to get visibility on the site. US sellers have [...]

I’ve been covering some of the eBay UK information because I have many readers from the UK, also many US eBay sellers also sell on the UK site so the information is relevant to them too. eBay UK has made a good functionality change which I haven’t seen on the US site yet, but I [...]

eBay’s reducing the number of UK listings on eBay.com is good news for eBay sellers in the US. Over the next few weeks you will likely notice a reduction in eBay UK listings in your search results pages. For the past few years eBay sellers who list on eBay.co.uk also had their listings show on [...]

The drop of the US dollar versus the British Pound and the Euro makes eBay US goods a bargain for Europeans. My daughter-in-law just returned to England to visit her parents for the holidays.  I got an email from her and she was complaining at how expensive everything was because the US dollar has fallen [...]

Skip McGrath has just launched a UK – based internet site. Go to Skip McGrath.co.uk to see the British version of The Complete eBay Marketing System Since I introduced The Complete eBay Marketing System in 2004, we have sold over 5000 copies in the US and Canada.  Every month I manage to sell two or [...]