All About Sales and Use Taxes
This workshop will be held on Monday, November 19th from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific time.

How to Increase Your Sales with Email Relationship Marketing
This workshop will be held on Tuesday, November 20th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pacific time.

In the vast expanse of the Internet, the online shopping experience frequently feels impersonal and generic to your buyers. In 2008 small business owners who invest time in building a relationship with their customers will come out the clear winners. Please join Lisa Suttora Founder/CEO of Certified Provider WhatDoISell.com and best-selling author of "What to Sell on eBay and Where to Get It" (from McGraw-Hill publishers) as she discusses how to use Email Relationship Marketing to engage your customers, foster buyer loyalty, and grow your business to new heights.

The shipping section in the Sell Your Item Form
This workshop will be held on Tuesday, November 20th from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. . Pacific time.

Shipping is one of the most critical elements in your eBay listing. Please join the seller experience product management team as they review the recent changes to the shipping section, explain the various tools we provide so sellers can estimate shipping costs, and answer any questions concerning shipping and the sell your item form.

Workshops are hosted in discussion threads on the Workshops Board. To get to the Workshops Board:

• Go to www.ebay.com
• Click on Community at the top of the page
• Click on "Workshops" in the "Events" section
• This will bring you to the threaded Workshops Board

To view archived workshops or to learn more about future workshop events, please check our Workshops Calendar.

Want timely reminders about workshops? We recommend two ways to make sure you never miss an important workshop:

• Sign up for the Workshops Information Group! By joining this group, you will receive an email notification reminding you about upcoming eBay Workshops. (To sign up for the Workshops Information Group, please click here.)
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We look forward to seeing you there!

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Jennifer Ibarra

As Kristin mentioned in her previous announcement we have several exciting campaigns that I want to tell you about. As you contemplate this holiday season of giving, I'd like to share with you information about an exciting contest we're kicking off this week!

Spotlight on a Cause
Throughout the year, we rally the Community around various causes to raise money and awareness – you may know these as our regular Spotlight on a Cause campaigns. We're featuring several worthy causes right now through the months of November and December. Please visit Spotlight on Children in Need, Spotlight on Global Poverty, and Spotlight on Fighting AIDS, to buy and sell items to support certified nonprofit organizations doing very important work in these areas.

7th on Sale charity auction
We are also incredibly happy to welcome back the 7th on Sale charity auction as part of the Spotlight on Fighting AIDS campaign. More than 6,000 one-of-a-kind -- and often celebrity-owned -- clothing and other fabulous finds will be included in 7th on Sale this year. The items are available online on eBay, beginning November 15, and at the public sale slated for November 16, 17 and 18 in New York City.

Similar to the event held on eBay in 2005, these luxury items donated directly from celebrities and designers will be listed and available for you to bid on, with 100% of the proceeds being distributed by the New York City AIDS Fund to various HIV and AIDS organizations.

Beneficiaries over the years have included dozens of worthy organizations, including AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA), Alpha Workshops, amfAR, Gay Men's Health Crisis, God's Love We Deliver, Greenhope Services for Women, Harlem United Community AIDS Center, HIV Law Project, and the Latino Commission on AIDS.

"Shoot. Share. Win!" video contest
Since 2003, eBay Giving Works has helped thousands in the eBay Community raise funds for a wide variety of incredible causes. Together, we have helped rescue animals, rebuild homes for disaster survivors, fund research to find cures for diseases, provide food and shelter for those struggling to make ends meet, give children hope for a brighter future, and much more.

Are you one of the many people who has made a lasting impact on your community or the world around you with eBay Giving Works? Share your story and you could win $5,000!

The eBay Giving Works "Shoot. Share. Win!" video contest will run from November 15 to December 5. Simply submit a 30-60 second video testimonial telling us how eBay Giving Works has helped you make a difference for your organization, or an organization you support. The Community will vote for one grand prize winner in three categories (Buyer, Seller, and Nonprofit), with each grand prize winner winning $5,000.

Don't have a video to submit? Share in the fun by voting for the winners between December 20 to January 2, and you could be one of five lucky voters will win a $1,000 shopping spree on eBay!

For more details on how to submit a video, or participate in the voting sweepstakes, please visit http://www.ebay.com/shootsharewin.

We appreciate all your support this holiday season, and wish you happy bidding (and filming)!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Ibarra
eBay Giving Works

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Blair Hamilton

We've received some great feedback, and have incorporated several suggestions that we think will make the new version of My eBay an even more powerful tool for our members. We're also going to start transitioning our newer members to the new version of My eBay in the next few days.

New features
Here are some of the key improvements we've made recently:

• More watched items are displayed on the My eBay Today page.
• A new item preview layer. Just hover with your mouse over the item picture or Enlarge link to see the preview.
• New Shortcuts module. This new area contains links to important eBay pages. Even better, you can customize this list any way you want, or even create your own shortcuts.

What happens next?
In the next few days, we're going to make the new My eBay the default view for about 25% of our members, most of whom will be relatively new to eBay. You’ll still be able to opt-out and use the current version if you wish. In 2008, we'll begin making the new My eBay the default for more of our members.

Sincerely,

Blair Hamilton
My eBay

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	***Original: The New My eBay - Initial Beta Invitation***
	August 29, 2007 | 03:08PM PST/PT Blair Hamilton Hello everyone...I'm Blair Hamilton, a product manager for My eBay. It's a big week around here for the My eBay team! We're thrilled to announce the beta launch of the new My eBay. (You may have read about the new My eBay at www.ebay.com/sneakpeek or seen our eBay Chatter blog post.) After months and months of research, product design and development, and many discussions with buyers and sellers, we're excited for members to start kicking the tires. Over the next few days, we'll be inviting a small percentage of Community members to experience the new My eBay beta. People in this randomly selected group should receive an email in My Messages very soon. This beta invitation is completely optional, and you can enter and leave the new beta at any time. However, your participation in the beta is really important to us, and we hope you will use the new functionality, and let us know what you think. Didn't receive an invitation? Don't worry – you can join the beta soon! We'll be extending our invitation to join the beta to more members in the next several weeks. As I said, we really want and need your input and feedback! Plus, we hope you are excited to try this new experience, too. Some of the more noteworthy and exciting features of the new My eBay that I hope inspire you include: Item Preview – View pertinent details and larger pictures of an item you are watching or bidding on without going to the view item page. Re-bid from My eBay - Increase your max bid without leaving My eBay. Meet the Seller - See a snapshot of critical seller information such as Detailed Seller Ratings, and links to a Seller's eBay Store or other items. Personal notes for all your items - Leave yourself helpful reminders, such as "this is the size I need" or "this is the color Mom wants." Personalized item recommendations - Based on your previous activity, eBay will offer new suggestions for items you might like. Tentative Launch Plans Everyone at eBay understands how important My eBay is to buyers and sellers. For many people, My eBay is the hub of their daily eBay activity. Because it's so central, we want to make sure you know what to expect during the launch. We're taking a slow, cautious approach to testing and rolling this out to the Community. We've shared our tentative timeline below, although these times and plans can change if we encounter unexpected issues: Next few days - Less than 1% of our members will be invited to opt in to our Beta. Early September - An increased number of eBay members will be able to opt-in to see the new My eBay beta. You will be able to "opt-out," or switch back to the current My eBay experience, as often and whenever you like. End of October - Additional features will be added to the new My eBay. Early 2008 – Start to migrate buyers and sellers to the new My eBay. As always, your feedback and support is appreciated. Stay tuned for upcoming workshops and more My eBay news. And please send us your thoughts, comments, ideas at myebaybeta@ebay.com. Sincerely, Blair Hamilton Product Manager, My eBay
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Edurne Jorda

If you are a PowerSeller, register now for the eBay PowerSeller Challenge & Sweepstakes to receive your personalized sales target for the 6-week challenge period (November 15 - December 26, 2007). Your personalized sales target is based on your previous sales history over the last 12 months.

Grow your business – and earn money back!
Beat your personalized sales target and get 1% back – or get 1.5% back if your Detailed Seller Ratings meet certain thresholds – on the difference between your target and your eligible sales during the challenge period. Plus, all participants will be entered for a chance to win one of ten $1,500 cash prizes!

I’m pleased to let you know that this year’s challenge considers sales on eBay.com, eBay Express, Half.com, eBay Motors Parts & Accessories and eBay.ca in both the calculation of sales targets and eligible sales towards the target. The following listings are excluded: Live Auctions, Ad Format, Vehicles, Real Estate and Business & Industrial Capital Equipment. (Get full terms and conditions for the Challenge and official rules for the Sweepstakes.)

PowerSellers rank among the most successful eBay sellers in terms of product sales volume and customer satisfaction on eBay. We're proud to recognize and reward their significant contributions to the success of the eBay Community and want to reward them for growing their business while creating excellent buyer experiences. (Learn more about the eligibility requirements.)

Do you qualify to be a PowerSeller? It's not too late to join!
If you qualify to be a PowerSeller, but haven't yet accepted your invitation to the PowerSeller Program, it's not too late. We encourage you to do so at the PowerSeller portal. Members of the PowerSeller Program receive many benefits all year round – from recognition, priority customer support, and other offers. To participate in the PowerSeller Challenge & Sweepstakes, invitations to the PowerSeller program must be accepted by November 30, 2007.

Sincerely,

Edurne Jorda
Seller Development

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Evan Liang

To learn more about Guest Buying, see my original announcement directly below. We will be hosting a workshop on November 28th at 11 am PT if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Evan Liang
Buyer Experience

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	***Original: Introducing: Guest Buying***
	November 05, 2007 | 02:56PM PST/PT Evan Liang Hello...I'm Evan Liang with eBay's Buyer Experience team. With the busy holiday season rapidly approaching, I'm excited to announce that we're launching Guest Buying, a new feature that we believe will help increase the number of new buyers who purchase sellers' Fixed Price and Store Inventory listings. Why Guest Buying? We've done a lot of research about buying habits as the Internet has evolved, and have been told repeatedly that requiring new buyers to register before they have a chance to really interact with eBay is a barrier to them taking the plunge (this is the same reason we introduced My eBay for Guests awhile back). Today many online buyers expect to be able to visit a site and simply purchase and pay for an item with minimum hassle. Introducing Guest Buying will help encourage more first purchases by new buyers. Here's how it works: Guest buyers will be able to use Buy It Now to purchase eligible Fixed Price and Store Inventory items. Guest buyers need to complete their payment through PayPal before the item is theirs, similar to Immediate Payment. Your current PayPal settings will apply – if you require buyers to pay with a confirmed address, your Guest Buyers will need to do so as well. Which listings are eligible for Guest Buying? Your listings will be eligible to be purchased by Guest Buyers if you meet the following criteria: You must have a premier/business PayPal account in order to accept credit card payments. Shipping costs must be specified on your listing. You must qualify for the top tier of buyer protection of $2,000. The item price must be less than $2,000. You must use eBay's checkout system. Third-party checkout will not be supported at this time. Can Guest Buyers leave feedback? No – at least not until they register. eBay will encourage Guest Buyers to register once they make a purchase. Once they do, they'll be able to use all the same features and programs our current buyers do, such as Feedback, Buyer Protection, access to Customer Support, etc. The Launch Plan We're going to introduce Guest Buying slowly over the next few weeks. We're going to start by making it available in our Music, Books, DVDs & Movies, and Consumer Electronics categories in the next few days, and will add more categories shortly thereafter. Within a few weeks, Guest Buying should be available sitewide. Sincerely, Evan Liang Buyer Experience
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Valerie Rozycki

Over the next few weeks, we'll add a few new tools to help you more easily find items near you.

Recommendations in Search Results
You've probably seen the recommendations we'll show occasionally at the top of search results to help you find more items. For example, if you search on "shirt button" we'll probably show you a message to also try searching on "button" in the Clothing, Shoes & Accessories category. We're now going to add a new recommendation when we think it might be helpful to you to search for your item locally.

This new recommendation will tell you how many items for your search are located near you (you can also see it automatically by including your ZIP Code in your search). Simply click the link if you'd like to narrow down your results to just these items.

New Local page
We're creating a new local page that will give you the ability to quickly search and browse for local items. You can get to it by clicking the new "Search Locally: link that will be added to the Buy hub, or directly there by plugging your ZIP Code into this URL: http://local.ebay.com/ZIP. For example, if I wanted to search for items near our headquarters here in San Jose I'd use http://local.ebay.com/95125.

Sellers - How to make sure your items are appearing in local searches
To make sure your items appear when buyers look for items locally, simply list with your ZIP or postal code in your Item Location. If you don't want your items to appear in local search results, simply list without your ZIP or postal code in your Item Location.

We'll update you when these new features and the new Local pages are fully functional. Thanks for your support!

Sincerely,

Valerie Rozycki
Buyer Experience

NOTE: This post was originally posted November 13, 2007 and has been updated and reposted with corrections.

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Jim "Griff" Griffith

If you can't catch the live show, you can always subscribe to the podcast , or access any past broadcast from the eBay Radio Archives. To subscribe to the podcast all you need is an reader (a portable MP3 player is optional).

Visit www.wsradio.com/ebay radio for more information about subscribing to the podcasts and to listen to eBay Radio on your computer.

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Kristin Cunningham

I’m here now to introduce two improvements that will make it even easier to use eBay Giving Works.

Faster Fee Credit
When you create an eBay Giving Works listing and it sells, we'll credit your Insertion and Final Value Fees back to you, equal to the percentage of the sale price that you chose to donate. (For example, if you donated 30%, you'd get 30% of your fees back.)

In the past, it's taken 6-8 weeks for the credit to be manually processed, but no more. As of Monday, November 5th, credits will be automatically applied when your listing sells and reflected on your next invoice! (All listings that sold prior to the 5th will have the fees credited through our old process.)

To learn more about how listings quality for the eBay Giving Works fee credit, visit givingworks.ebay.com/feecredit.

New ribbon in My eBay
Our sellers have asked us for a way to distinguish their eBay Giving Works listings from their other listings within My eBay. Starting in the next few weeks, we’ll show the charity ribbon () in the Selling section of My eBay so you can see at a glance which items you’ve listed for a cause.

New lower minimum donation percentage for Motors Vehicles category
Due to the often high average selling prices of items sold in the eBay Motors Vehicles category, sellers in this category have told us that the 10% minimum donation sometimes prevents them from creating eBay Giving Works listings. To give Motors Vehicles sellers the opportunity to support their favorite causes more often, we have lowered the minimum donation percentage to 5% for this category. Please note, the 10% minimum donation will still be in place for all other categories (including Parts and Accessories in eBay Motors).

We hope these changes will encourage you to use eBay Giving Works more often and continue making a difference – your generosity and passion is truly making an impact! (And stay tuned for more information coming soon about several exciting charitable campaigns we have coming up.)

Sincerely,

Kristin Cunningham
eBay Giving Works

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Jim "Griff" Griffith

If you can't catch the live show, you can always subscribe to the podcast , or access any past broadcast from the eBay Radio Archives. To subscribe to the podcast all you need is an reader (a portable MP3 player is optional).

Visit www.wsradio.com/ebay radio for more information about subscribing to the podcasts and to listen to eBay Radio on your computer.

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5 Essentials to Prepare Your Store for 2008
This workshop will be held on Monday, November 12th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Selling with Best Offer and its latest enhancement - Auto Accept
This workshop will be held on Monday, November 12th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Best Offer is the eBay selling format that allows sellers to accept offers from buyers or negotiate a price, all online via eBay. Best Offer gives you a better chance to sell your items, added visibility in search and browse, and the ability to determine the right market value for an item using the Fixed Price format. And did we mention that this is a free feature? Come learn how to sell with Best Offer and its latest enhancement - Auto Accept.

Avoid Holiday Headaches with Customer Support Tools
This workshop will be held on Tuesday, November 13th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Steve Yeich, CEO of Certified Solution Provider HostedSupport, will discuss how sellers can avoid many of the headaches that arise during the peak holiday sales season by using customer support tools. Learn how to automate tasks such as answering email and buyer questions. Customer support tools can also help you avoid post-holiday headaches related to handling returns.

Accounting Made Easy
This workshop will be held on Wednesday, November 14th from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Pacific time.

Perhaps the single most important aspect of your business is the part that no one ever sees - unless you do it wrong. We're talking about your accounting and record-keeping. Good accounting helps keep your business on track, and provides the back-up you need in case the IRS ever audits you. Please join best selling-author and CPA Diane Kennedy for an information-packed hour to learn how to make accounting easier.

How to win more auctions with eBay Countdown
This workshop will be held on Thursday, November 15th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.

Please join the eBay Countdown team to learn about this new buyer tool from eBay. They'll introduce eBay Countdown and provide details about to utilize this tool to win more auctions. The team will also explain how to utilize item alerts for your watch and bid list items, how to leverage one-click bidding, and how to use the deal search to find relevant items of interest.

Tips to Maximize your eBay Business This Holiday Season
This workshop will be held on Friday, November 16th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Pacific time.

The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicted that "spending will be a bit restrained this holiday season" and that over 68% of consumers will be looking to discounters for their gifting needs. This amounts to a huge opportunity for eBay sellers to significantly increase holiday sales and gain new customers. To maximize this opportunity, sellers need to think strategically about their holiday plan, starting with the first critical step of inventory sourcing. Please join Julie Davis and Steve Kuertz of Liquidation.com as they discuss tips to finding the right inventory at the right price this holiday season.

Workshops are hosted in discussion threads on the Workshops Board. To get to the Workshops Board:

• Go to www.ebay.com
• Click on Community at the top of the page
• Click on "Workshops" in the "Events" section
• This will bring you to the threaded Workshops Board

To view archived workshops or to learn more about future workshop events, please check our Workshops Calendar.

Want timely reminders about workshops? We recommend two ways to make sure you never miss an important workshop:

• Sign up for the Workshops Information Group! By joining this group, you will receive an email notification reminding you about upcoming eBay Workshops. (To sign up for the Workshops Information Group, please click here.)
• Subscribe to the RSS feed for the Workshop board. When a new workshop becomes active, your RSS reader will be updated. (You can also subscribe to just the specific topic thread that interests you.) To subscribe, click on the button at the bottom of the Workshop board or thread. Copy and paste the feed URL into your reader to subscribe. For more information on RSS, please read our RSS Help page.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Edurne Jorda

To recap, we're expanding the program to include both high volume "seasonal" sellers and sellers who move a high volume, but with a low average sales price. In addition, Bronze PowerSellers who meet our annual sales requirements will have access to phone support, just like Silver PowerSellers. For more details, please go to the PowerSeller Portal.

These are all part of our ongoing effort to provide more service and support to our PowerSellers, for the vital role you play in keeping buyers happy and coming back to eBay.

Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,

Edurne Jorda
Seller Development

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	***Original: News From eBay Live! – Updates to the PowerSeller Program***
	June 15, 2007 | 03:12PM PST/PT Edurne Jorda Hi...this is Edurne Jorda with our Seller Development team, and I'm having a great time in Boston getting to know many of our best sellers who are part of the PowerSeller program. As Bill Cobb mentioned, last night we shared some good news for our PowerSellers, and I'd like to provide a few more details. The PowerSeller program is a vital part of the marketplace. As we work to improve the buyer experience, we're shifting the focus of the PowerSeller program so that it offers more value to our best sellers who consistently deliver a great buyer experience. While more changes will be coming over the next several months, Bill introduced several important initiatives we're ready to launch this fall. "Seasonal" sellers to be eligible. This long-requested change is finally happening! If you sell a high volume, but just during your particular selling season (such as if you’re selling skis, golf clubs, etc.), we want to recognize your contributions. We know you work incredibly hard, so soon you’ll have access to phone support and the PowerSeller icon heading into your peak selling season, right when you need it most. High-volume, Low-Average Selling Price sellers to be eligible. Sellers who list items like trading cards or media or other items with low average prices will now be eligible for the PowerSeller program. Just like seasonal sellers, you work extremely hard selling a lot of product, and it's time to recognize your efforts. We'll be adjusting our eligibility requirements so each PowerSeller level can be obtained based on dollar OR unit volume. Enhanced PowerSeller support for Bronze level. Later this year, Bronze PowerSellers that meet the annual sales requirement, either through consistent monthly sales or high-volume seasonal sales, will have access to phone support just like Silver PowerSellers. "Unpaid Item Insurance" for PowerSellers following best practices. You've often asked us for protection against losses from non-paying bidders, and we’ve listened. I'm pleased to let you know that by August 1st, PowerSellers will get their money back for any listing feature fees when the buyer doesn’t pay for the item and you file an Unpaid Item claim. You simply need to follow these selling best-practices: List in the auction format (since you don’t have the option of requiring Immediate Payment for auctions). Specify reasonable shipping & handling charges. Accept PayPal. We'll have more information on this rebate available soon. Those are the highlights – keep an eye out for more information about these, and other, changes to the PowerSeller program coming soon! Sincerely, Edurne Jorda Seller Development
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eBay takes recalled items very seriously, and we work closely with the Consumer Product Safety Commission on these issues. We encourage buyers and sellers to visit http://www.cpsc.gov (See the Recent Recalls section) for more details about the products and model numbers included in this recall. You may also wish to visit our Recalled Items policy at http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/recalled.html

For Sellers: Please check your product model numbers and refrain from listing any items that are part of this recall. Any currently listed items that are included in the recall should be ended.

For Buyers: If you believe an item you are interested in bidding on or purchasing may be part of this recall, we encourage you to use the Ask Seller a Question feature to verify the model number.

As a service to our Community, eBay announces some product recalls, like this one, when we believe the marketplace will be impacted. To stay informed about all CPSC recalls, please bookmark http://www.cpsc.gov and visit regularly.

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Jeff Loui

For the past few months, we've been testing eBay Countdown as a limited beta. After a lot of great feedback from our members, we're now ready to make eBay Countdown widely available. You can check out the tool at http://countdown.ebay.com.

We think you'll find this new tool extremely helpful (and did I already mention fun?). Some highlights include:

• Real time updates. See the time remaining and current bid (no need to hit 'Refresh'!)
• Visual and voice alerts. Get helpful reminders before the items that you're bidding on, or watching, end.
• Fast and easy bidding. Bid with just one click.
• Quick access to last minute deals. Find those great steals - items ending soon with no bids.

Ready to win your next item with eBay Countdown? Click here.

To learn more, check out our Frequently Asked Questions. My team is also hosting an online workshop on eBay Countdown on November 15th. Come learn how eBay Countdown can help you win more auctions!

Regards,

Jeff Loui
Buyer Experience

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Sohil Gilani

Sellers can already use our free Best Offer feature to accept offers from buyers on designated items, or to negotiate a mutually-acceptable price. In the next few days, we'll make Best Offer even more useful for sellers with a new "auto-accept" option. It works just like it sounds – sellers can set rules to automatically accept offers above a certain price for each of their items. Using this in combination with the "auto-decline" option will help you manage offers much more efficiently. You can even edit your auto-accept or auto-decline levels directly within your deal sheet at any time.

Learn about auto-accept at our workshop
My team is hosting a workshop on November 12th from 1-2p.m. PT where we'll be reviewing how you can use Best Offer and the new auto-accept feature to juice your holiday sales. Come join us, and bring your questions!

In the meantime, you can learn more about Best Offer on our information page.

Sincerely,

Sohil Gilani
Buyer Experience

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We have made one more change that was not included in the message below. We're happy to announce that we've made changes to the "make and model" categories in the Motors category. This change is already live on the site for you to use.

We appreciate your input and hope the changes will benefit everyone. If you have a category suggestion you can send it to us here on the Sending Suggestions to eBay page, located in the Help section.

Thanks again to all our members who contributed to these trade-enhancing changes!

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	***Original: Coming Soon - Category Changes***
	October 30, 2007 | 10:58AM PST/PT eBay will be making the following changes in early November based upon input received from members of the eBay Community, along with category experts in their respective fields. You can provide category structure feedback at any time by visiting our Sending Suggestions to eBay page. To see a complete list of the new category structure, please visit our Category Changes page found within Seller Central. Here are the changes to the updated categories: COLLECTIBLES We’re adding categories under a number of sections, including: Animation Characters Autographs Modern Clocks Decorative Collectibles Shells Science Fiction CRAFTS In Rug Hooking, we’re separating Latch Hooking from Primitive Hand Hooking. HOME & GARDEN Electric Teakettles are growing in popularity so we've created a new category for them under Small Kitchen Appliances. SPORTING GOODS In compliance with our guidelines for gun parts, we’re removing the Choke Tubes category under Shotguns. Do you want to change categories? As long as your item has not received a bid and there are more than 12 hours remaining in the listing you are allowed to move your item to another category by using the Revise Your Item link. All suggestions on how to improve categories for everyone are appreciated. As always, thanks to all our members who contributed to these changes!
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Jim "Griff" Griffith

• Rob Cross, Senior Manager with eBay’s Developer’s Program and Antoine Hall, VP of MyStoreCredit, Inc with news about their recently launched eBay seller tool, MyStoreMaps.com.
• Steve Mohr and “bubblepackmachine.com” with valuable tips for saving money on packaging and shipping materials.
• Roman Garcia, Marketing Specialist for eBay Giving Works brings Eric Gazin, President of Auction Cause, a premiere auction management company to show how choosing the right charities can do wonders for your customer relations.
• Barbara Weltman, author and publisher of Big Ideas for Small Businesses, and the Complete Idiot’s Guide to Starting an eBay Business with advice on how to turn a hobby into a business.
• Ina Steiner, editor and founder of AuctionBytes. Ina will share her unique perspective on all things eBay including her own thoughts on some of the recent site changes.

Plus 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 subscribe to the podcast , or access any past broadcast from the eBay Radio Archives. To subscribe to the podcast all you need is an reader (a portable MP3 player is optional). Visit www.wsradio.com/ebayradio for more information about subscribing to the podcasts and to listen to eBay Radio on your computer.

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Philipp Justus

As you know, our "at least 33% off" insertion fees promotion ends today, and we hope you've enjoyed the savings. I'm pleased to let you know there is more good news in store that should help keep your holiday selling season jolly.

FREE Gallery for core listings
Starting tomorrow through December 12th, all your auction-style and fixed price listings will automatically get Gallery for FREE! That's right - you list with an image, and we'll do the rest!

We all know that a picture is worth a thousand words. Now you can show off your item right from the search results page - without spending a penny out of your own pocket. Check out all the details of the promo here.

Store Inventory Expansion - More Store Inventory listings, plus Gallery image exposure
Our Store sellers who use the Store Inventory listing format option will be pleased to know that - through mid-December - we are increasing the number of Store Inventory listings that display in the Store Inventory Expansion area in core search results. Now, when a buyer's keyword search returns fewer than 30 auction-style or fixed price listings, we will display up to 50 Store Inventory items (an increase from our current max of 30 listings.)

What's more - if those Store Inventory listings have Gallery images, we'll display those in the Store Inventory expansion area, too. (Store Inventory Gallery remains 1 cent and is not included as part of the Gallery promotion for auction-style and fixed price listings.)

Here's to a great holiday selling (and buying) season!

Sincerely,

Philipp Justus
Senior Vice President, Auctions

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Jim "Griff" Griffith

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