August 01, 2007 | 09:23AM PST/PT
| Benjamin Shapiro |
Hi Everyone… I'm Benjamin Shapiro, from eBay's Internet Marketing team. We've been working with our friends at Skype (which is part of the eBay family) on ways in which people can benefit from Skype products in their eBay activities.
Now you can get alerts about your eBay activities on your desktop through your Skype instant messenger. (Skype joins the list of instant messenger programs through which eBay members can choose to receive alerts – AOL Instant Messenger, MSN/Live Messenger, and Yahoo! Instant Messenger.)
If you have Skype version 3.1 or above (it's free to download), you can get:
- Watched Item reminders – Skype will remind you 15 minutes before a listing you're watching in My eBay is about to end.
- Outbid alerts – if you're outbid on a listing, you can still keep the item from getting away, because Skype will instantly let you know.
You can sign up for alerts on your Skype account, either from the Notifications Tab under the Preferences section in My eBay, or directly from an item page. Just find the text about getting alerts on the item page (it's towards the center), and click the "IM" link.
You only have to sign up for Skype Alerts once – after you sign up to receive a Skype alert for one item, you'll get them for all your Watched Items or for items you've been outbid on. I hope Skype Alerts will make using eBay more convenient for you (and more fun too!).
Sincerely,
Benjamin Shapiro
Internet Marketing
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