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***eBay Giving Works: Faster Fee Credit & Other Improvements***

November 13, 2007 | 09:44AM PST/PT

Kristin Cunningham

Hi everyone, this is Kristin Cunningham with eBay Giving Works, our dedicated program for charity listings. eBay Giving Works allows you to donate part or all of your final sale price to a certified nonprofit organization, and our Community has used it as a powerful force for good. Earlier this year we welcomed our 10,000th nonprofit to the program (we now have close to 12,000!), and to date you’ve donated over $118 million globally for a wide variety of great causes.

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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