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***Coming Soon: Item Specifics and Pre-Filled Item Information to Expand within Computers & Networking*** |
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February 28, 2006 | 01:16PM PST/PT

In early March, we will be introducing Item Specifics and Pre-Filled Item Information in the Monitors & Projectors and Printer Supplies & Accessories categories within Computers & Networking. Pre-Filled Item Information is a feature for sellers to easily add product information such as brand, model, storage capacity, and color to their listing, along with an optional stock photo.
If you list items through an eBay seller tool (e.g. Sell Your Item form, Turbo Lister, Selling Manager) or the eBay API, these Item Specifics will be available in the next few weeks. If you use a 3rd party listing service (e.g., Andale, Marketworks, etc.), please contact them to verify that they will offer the Item Specifics functionality in the above categories.
To learn more about Pre-Filled Item Information, please see our information page. You can also check out Seller Central for details on upcoming changes to Item Specifics. If you have any comments or feedback about the Item Specifics in these categories, please email them to computers@ebay.com for future consideration.
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***Join Us For Pinks Day Today, February 28th*** |
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February 28, 2006 | 09:19AM PST/PT


Rachel Makool
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Hi everyone, I’m Rachel Makool, Director of Community Development. Have you ever talked with an eBay "Pink"? I’d like to invite you to join us for Pinks Day on the discussion boards today, February 28th. A number of eBay staff members, also known as "Pinks" for the pink header that shows when an employee posts, will be participating in discussions on a variety of boards throughout the day. I'd like to highlight a few in particular for you:
Learn About the New Versions of the Sell Your Item Form and Turbo Lister
The teams working on the new Sell Your Item form and on the next version of Turbo Lister will be visiting our Seller Central and Auction Listings discussion boards from 9:00 to 11:00am PT. Stop by to learn more about these projects, ask questions, and provide your feedback.
Discuss eBay Live!
Have questions or comments about eBay Live! 2006, or just want to learn more? Our event planning team will be dropping in on the eBay Live! board from 10:00am to Noon PT.
Meet our Policy Management Team
Following up on today's Trust & Safety Town Hall, our Policy Management team will be jumping around answering questions on the Seller Central, Professional Buying, Policies/User Agreement, and Trust & Safety (Safeharbor) boards from 4:00 to 5:00pm PT.
As always, other Pinks from around the company will also be checking in on various boards throughout the day. And make sure you stop by one of my favorite threads: the Pinks Game on the New to eBay board. We'll be asking eBay-related questions and you can win prizes for your answers.
We hope you enjoy Pinks Day!
Sincerely,
Rachel Makool
Director, Community Development
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***eBay Radio: Call In Today at 11:00 PT*** |
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February 28, 2006 | 09:06AM PST/PT

Jim "Griff" Griffith
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Call in to eBay Radio today, February 28, with your host Jim "Griff" Griffith, Dean of eBay University, live from 11:00am to 1:00pm PT. Guests this week include:
- Barbara Weltman, author of "The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting an eBay Business," with advice and tips for tax time.
- Greg Cole, President of HammerTapnow.com, with "What’s Hot on eBay" and what you can learn from holiday buying trends.
- Julian Green, Director of ProStores, an eBay Company, with news about ProStores and their eBusiness Boost contest.
- Jason Miner from PayPal, who will answer your PayPal questions.
And as always we'll have "The News" with Lee Mirabal, as well as the most important feature on eBay Radio: your calls! Call in during the show at 877-474-3302 (USA) or 001-858-678-8958 (Internationally) to talk with Griff and his guests or to ask a question and share your voice with the rest of the eBay Community. Remember, one lucky caller per week, selected at random, will receive an autographed copy of Griff's book, "The Official eBay Bible".
If you can't catch the live show you can always select and listen to any past eBay Radio broadcast, listed by topic and date, in the eBay Radio archives. And don't forget to tune in to our "Ask Griff" edition of eBay Radio on Sunday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm PT. Visit www.wsradio.com/ebayradio for more information and to listen to eBay Radio on your computer.
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***10¢ Fixed Price Listing Day Tomorrow, February 28th*** |
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February 27, 2006 | 05:00PM PST/PT

As a special offer to our sellers, we are pleased to announce a one-day promotion for www.ebay.com, www.ebay.ca and www.ebaymotors.com (for non-vehicles listings), where the insertion fees for Fixed Price listings will be 10¢!
The promotion starts on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second) and ends that same day, Tuesday, February 28, 2006 at 23:59:59 PT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds). Listings which were created prior to February 28, 2006 and scheduled to start during the promotional period will also be eligible for the special promotional rate.
The 10¢ Fixed Price Sale will not apply to eBay Motors vehicles, International, Live Auction, Professional Services, Real Estate/Ad Format, and Store Inventory listings. Also, the following Business & Industrial categories are excluded from this promotion: tractors & farm machinery (category #91952), heavy equipment (25249), concession trailers, carts (67145), imaging and aesthetics equipment (92035), forklifts and other lifts (97185), manufacturing equipment (92080), metalworking equipment (92082), and commercial printing presses (26247). Please click here for more details.
For full promotion details, please click here.
We hope you enjoy the one-day 10¢ Fixed Price Insertion Fee Sale!
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***A Message from Bill Cobb: eBay Live! Registration Now Open*** |
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February 27, 2006 | 04:00PM PST/PT


Bill Cobb
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Hello everyone. As you probably know, our annual eBay Live! event has come to signify the fun and camaraderie of the eBay Community. Since our first eBay Live! in 2001, thousands of eBay members like you have gathered once a year for learning, networking and entertainment.
Registration is now open for eBay Live! 2006. And on top of the huge variety of learning and networking opportunities, this year's eBay Live could be the most fun-packed yet...because we’ll be gathering in Las Vegas! Thousands of us will come together at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on June 13-15.
This year's eBay Live! will feature:
- More than 180 seminars, labs and discussions tailored for every kind of eBay seller and buyer.
- The massive Solutions Center floor, offering a wealth of new ideas for accelerating your online sales.
- A keynote address from me and our CEO, Meg Whitman.
- Our traditional eBay Live! Gala, which this year will welcome Huey Lewis & The News as our musical guest.
- Loads of opportunities to spend time with eBay friends, make new ones, and share ideas for success on eBay.
If you sign up before April 15, you’ll save $20 off the regular registration fee. Please go to www.ebay.com/ebaylive for all the details on eBay Live! 2006. I hope to see you at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas!
Sincerely,
Bill Cobb
President, eBay North America
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***eBay Motors CARad Express Free Trial Offer*** |
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February 26, 2006 | 05:19PM PST/PT

eBay Motors is holding a free trial offer of the CARad Express listing tool for passenger vehicle and motorcycle listings from Monday, February 27, 2006 at 00:00:01 PT (12:00 AM plus one second) through Sunday, March 5, 2006 at 23:59:59 PT (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).
CARad Express is an easy-to-use listing tool to help sellers create professional-looking and effective eBay Motors listings. Normally offered for $9.95 per listing, CARad Express will be free during this trial period.
During the CARad Express Free Trial Offer:
For auction-style and Fixed Price eBay Motors passenger vehicle and motorcycle listings on the US eBay Motors site (www.ebaymotors.com), use of the CARad Express listing tool will be free. This promotion will not apply to non-passenger vehicle/non-motorcycle listings, or for International, Live Auction, Professional Services, and Store Inventory listings. Listings on www.ebay.com are also not eligible for this promotion. For full promotion details, please click here.
We hope you enjoy the CARad Express Free Trial Offer!
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***Upcoming Workshop: Spot Hot Selling Items & Categories Using Research*** |
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February 24, 2006 | 04:39PM PST/PT

We would like to invite you to attend the following workshop:
$pot Hot Selling Items & Categories Using Research This workshop will be held on Friday, March 3rd from 10:00 PT to 11:00 PT. Sara Taheri and Dave Frey, Brand Managers from eBay Certified Provider Terapeak, will explain how to analyze and incorporate market research to find emerging opportunities so you know what to sell. They will walk you through a number of examples of research tools and show you how to use research in your sales strategies to discover niche markets.
Workshops are hosted in discussion threads on the Workshops Board. To get to the Workshops Board:
- Click on Community at the top of almost any eBay page
- Click on "Discussion Boards" in the "Connect" Section
- Click on "Workshops" underneath the category-specific boards on the right-hand side of the page
- This will bring you to the threaded Workshops Board.
To view archived workshops or to learn more about future workshop events, please check our Workshop Calendar.
Want timely reminders about workshops?
To make sure you never miss an important workshop topics, sign up for the Workshops Information Group! By joining this group, you will receive an email notification reminding you about upcoming eBay Workshops. Each notification will include the time and date, a brief description of the event, and a link to the discussion thread where the actual workshop will be held. To sign up for the Workshops Information Group, please click here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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***ProStores Launches an Affiliate Program*** |
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February 24, 2006 | 04:09PM PST/PT


Julian Green
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Hi, everyone. This is Julian Green, Director of ProStores, back here again to introduce our new ProStores Affiliate Program. As you know, ProStores is a full-featured ecommerce solution, independent of the eBay marketplace, that helps small to medium businesses sell online through a fully customized web store at their own web address. And now we’ve teamed up with Commission Junction to give all of you a chance to both add value to your website, and help you earn a little money at the same time. For those of you that have your own website, simply add a ProStores affiliate button to your site, and whenever one of your users signs up through you and creates their own ProStore, you’ll get paid!
To get started, follow the instructions we’ve provided here.
To learn more about ProStores, visit our information pages at www.prostores.com.
Sincerely,
Julian Green
Director, ProStores
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***Online Safety: Protect Yourself from Spoof (Phishing) Email and Websites*** |
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February 24, 2006 | 01:24PM PST/PT

Dave Steer
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Hi, I'm Dave Steer, and I work on the Trust and Safety team at PayPal. My team's responsibility is to raise awareness within the eBay and PayPal Community about the ways you can stay safe when buying and selling online.
Identity theft continues to be a fast growing crime that affects consumers wherever they are. We're committed to helping you protect your privacy and, specifically, to help protect you from spoof (also called phishing) emails and websites. I'd like to reiterate some basic tips to make sure that you are keeping your accounts and personal information secure:
- Be suspicious of any email that requests personal information – Be cautious of emails that request you to click a link and submit your financial or personal information.
- Look for cues to verify the authenticity of emails – Any email that PayPal sends you will include your first and last name in the greeting. For all eBay emails, check My Messages (located in My eBay). Any email eBay sends you about your account or requesting personal information will also be in My Messages. If you receive an email asking for information about your account or requesting personal information and it's not in My Messages, it's a fake email.
- Report suspicious emails to us – In case you receive a suspicious email and you're not sure if it's really from eBay or PayPal, please forward it to spoof@ebay.com or spoof@paypal.com. We will respond (usually within minutes) to tell you whether or not the email is authentic.
- Download the eBay Toolbar and the PayPal SafetyBar – The eBay Toolbar includes Account Guard which indicates when you are on a legitimate eBay or PayPal site, and alerts you when you are on a known fraudulent site. PayPal's SafetyBar detects fraudulent emails in your email program and puts them in the spam folder.
- Monitor your account for suspicious activity – The best way to prevent damage from identity theft is to stay alert and catch any suspicious activity early. I strongly recommend that you log into your eBay and PayPal accounts frequently to ensure that all the transactions listed are legitimate.
- Pay safely and securely – Only enter your financial information on secure websites. Check that a website is secure by looking for the closed lock symbol (
) near the bottom of your browser window. And, of course, use a safe payment method such as PayPal, which lets you pay without sharing your financial information with the person receiving your money. PayPal also covers you 100% against unauthorized money sent from your account.
- Stay informed – You can find out the latest information on safety, security and identity theft protection by visiting the PayPal Identity Protection pages and the eBay Security & Resolution Center.
Sincerely,
Dave Steer
Sr. Manager, PayPal Trust & Safety
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