People who have not yet registered will now be able to watch up to 10 items in a very basic version of My eBay. They can also sign up for email reminders that will notify them a few hours prior to an item's ending (just like registered members).

Please note that this will not affect My eBay for registered members. Guests will have to register for an eBay account prior to bidding, listing, and accessing all other registration-required features. If they choose to register, their Watched items will be transferred to their regular My eBay automatically.

For more information about My eBay for Guests, please visit this Help page.

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Due to changes being made by email service providers to combat spam and spoof, eBay has changed the FROM address of member to member messages (Ask Seller A Question, Contact eBay Member, Reply to Question, etc.) to comply with emerging sender authentication standards and ensure delivery of these important messages into your inbox.

To learn more about this change, please read this discussion thread in the Technical Issues board on eBay.com.

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In mid-July, we will be changing the eBay Stores logo that is displayed next to the eBay Store name of Store sellers on item pages and elsewhere on eBay.ca. The same change is being made on the US eBay site in mid-June.

Based on extensive buyer and seller research over the past year, we’ve found that the current “red-tag” logo inaccurately reflected what an eBay Store is today. We’ll be replacing it with a design that better represents what eBay Stores has to offer. To see a preview of the new logo, please click here.

We have made the logo available now so you can begin updating any of your printed materials, listings or other collateral pieces. Click here to go to the logo download page.

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We are pleased to announce that eBay's General Announcement Board has a new look. The General Announcement Board is the Community's source for daily news and events on the eBay marketplace. You'll find letters from eBay staff, news about upcoming site changes, notices about policy updates, marketplace events, and more!

Two changes that make the General Announcement Board easier to use include:

• Quickly Scan Posts by Title - To help make sure you see the news that is most important to you, you can quickly scan the board for titles that interest you. Click the titles of your choice to view the full text.
• Monthly Archives Now Available - To make it easy for you to refer back to past announcements, we will archive announcements by month. You can get to these archives from links in the left navigation bar.

Would you like to get your eBay news delivered to you? You can use our RSS Feed to get your eBay's news delivered to your RSS Reader on your desktop. Click this RSS Feed link to learn more.

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We are pleased to announce that the Community Answer Centre is now available. The Answer Centre is where you will find a list of question and answer forums for a variety of topics.

This is a space for eBay users to ask questions and receive answers from other experienced eBay users. Any user can post questions but only users with 10 or more Feedback can answer them. Each question and answer thread is limited to a maximum of 10 answers in order to maintain the focus on answering questions.

For more frequently asked questions about the Community Answer Centre, please visit the FAQ page.

We will hold a Workshop on how to use the Community Answer Centre on June 3rd at 1-2 PM ET. Please refer to the Workshop Calendar for more details. We hope you will find the Community Answer Centre to be a valuable and effective source of user-to-user help.

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We are pleased to announce that we will soon be making enhancements to several features within My eBay.

Favourite Sellers

In the next few weeks, we will add a "Most Recent Sellers" feature to your Favourite Sellers section in My eBay. Here you will see the sellers you have had activity with in the past 60 days, and you will be able to add any of these sellers to your Favourite Sellers list in bulk.

In June, you will also be able to add Notes to your Favourite Sellers.

Favourite Search Emails

The number of items shown in the Favourite Search email will be increased from 10 to 20 in the coming weeks. You will also start to receive a reminder email when one of your Favourite Searches is about to expire.

Adding/Removing Status Icon Columns

Also in June, you will be able to add or remove the status icon columns within My eBay if you would like. The status icons are the symbols on the right-hand side of each transaction that "light up" when certain actions have taken place (for example, when your buyer has paid, or your seller has left feedback for you).

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10 cent Fixed Price Listing Day - May 12

Thursday, May 12 is 10 cent Fixed Price Listing day on eBay.ca! Get the price you want without the wait, for only 10 cents per listing.

It all starts Thursday, May 12, 2005 at 00:00:01 EDT and ends the same day at 23:59:59 EDT.

Insertion fees for Fixed Price listings will be revised to $0.10 CDN and US when you list on May 12, 2005.

This promotion is open to all users who list their items in Fixed Price format on eBay.ca. eBay.com will be having a similar promotion on May 12, 2005 with slightly different conditions. Click here to learn more about the US promotion.

Excluded from this promotion are Auction-style listings, Auction-style with the Buy It Now upgrade, Motors vehicles, Motors parts and accessories, Business and Industrial Capital Equipment, Stores Inventory Format and Real Estate Ad Format listings. The promotional rate does not apply to listings with a start date before May 12, 2005 (including those listings revised during the promotional period). The promotional rate also does not apply to listings created during the promotion May 12, 2005, but scheduled to start after the promotion ends.

Click here for full details of the promotion, including an FAQ.

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• One group of databases was unavailable from 22:33 ET, May 9, until 01:10 ET on May 10. Since the items in these databases were unavailable for more than 2 hours, eBay will credit all fees associated with these listings. In addition, eBay has extended these listings by 24 hours and added an additional two hours to the credit and extension period.
  
  
• The second group of databases was unavailable for less than 2 hours, from 22:33 ET, May 9, until 00:15 ET, May 10. Since these items were unavailable for less than 2 hours, eBay will credit all listing fees associated with these listings, but will not extend the listings. We will also add two hours to the credit period for these listings.
  
  Credits for both groups will include the .40 fee for any 10-day auctions that were active at 22:33 ET.

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	***Original: eBay Site Issues Update***
	10 May, 2005 | 10:46 Last evening a primary hosting provider for eBay in the San Francisco Bay Area experienced a power outage, and all site functions were temporarily down. eBay has been working with our hosting vendor to fully restore the site. As of 01:10 ET, May 10, all listings were available to view and bid on, however, some other site functions remained intermittently available. We will work to resolve these remaining issues during the next several hours. eBay will be issuing credits and listing extensions, per our outage policy. The listings on eBay’s sites around the world sit on 21 complex databases. Today’s outage affected the listings on those databases in two ways: One group of databases was unavailable from 22:33 ET, May 9, until 01:10 ET on May 10. Since the items in these databases were unavailable for more than 2 hours, eBay will credit all fees associated with these listings. In addition, eBay has extended these listings by 24 hours and added an additional two hours to the credit and extension period. The second group of databases was unavailable for less than 2 hours, from 22:33 ET, May 9, until 00:15 ET, May 10. Since these items were unavailable for less than 2 hours, eBay will credit all listing fees associated with these listings, but will not extend the listings. We will also add two hours to the credit period for these listings. Credits for both groups will include the .40 fee for any 10-day auctions that were active at 22:33 ET. We thank you for your patience, and we apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused. We will provide additional information on this situation later today.
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