We have launched the Top Seller Contest for the period 15th March, 2006 to 13th May 2006. The Seller who has the highest Fulfilled GMV & Highest Fulfilled quantity sold in this period will be selected as the Top Seller for the period.

The winner for a category will be promoted in the category page for a period of one month post the contest and would be given 15 Featured Plus listings absolutely free.

Click here to know more and participate in the contest.

To know more about improving your sales, Click Here

For other information about the contest, Click Here.

We wish you all the best. Have Fun!!!

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Display your item on the top of listing and search pages with Featured Plus or Homepage Featured and get Gallery absolutely FREE!

What are the benefits?

• Display a thumb nail image for all your listings on Search and Category pages absolutely FREE with Featured Plus! and Homepage Featured.
• Attract more bidders and buyers.

When is it?

Starting Saturday, 1st April, 2006 at 00:00:01 IST (12:00 AM plus 1 seconds on April 1st, 2006) and ending 23:59:59 IST on Friday, June 30, 2006 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

Who is eligible?

All registered sellers on eBay.in and whose country of residence is India and meet the eligibility criteria for Featured Plus and / or Homepage Featured are eligible for the promotion. Formats included are Auction, Fixed Price and Ad format. All categories are included. Listing in 2 categories is included. All listings created on or before the promotion period and scheduled to go live during the promotion period will be included in the promotion.

What is it?

All listers who list an item with Featured Plus or Homepage Featured during the Promotion Period will get Gallery absolutely FREE for that listing. i.e., on every listing with an upgrade of Featured Plus or Homepage Featured the fee for Gallery for that listing would be waived off.

Note: All other charges - FVF and feature fees will be charged as applicable.

What is excluded?

• Store format listings are excluded.
• Listings created during the promotion and going live after the promotion period are excluded. Listings revised during the promotion are excluded.

IMPORTANT

Users whose items qualify under the promotion will see that they are charged at the time of listing and they will be credited for all qualifying items 45 days from the month end date. i.e.,

• All Listings qualifying in April will be credited by 15th June '06.
• All Listings qualifying in May will be credited by 15th July '06
• All Listings qualifying in June will be credited by 15th Aug '06.

Happy Selling!

Regards,
The eBay Team

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In order to help you find all selling related information at one place, we have launched a new and improved version of Seller Central. The new Seller Central contains visual tutorials, easy navigation, that will help you sell more effectively. Click here to visit Seller Central.

Seller Central includes the following tutorials:

Basic Selling

Basic Selling includes information on how to create a Seller's Account, List a product for sale and complete transactions with your buyers.

Advanced Selling Tips

Get advanced selling tips on how to scale your eBay business such as:

- Ideas on what to sell

- Where to sell

- Category Tips

- How to promote your eBay business

- How to manage your eBay business effectively

- Tips to scale and expand your business and more

We hope to improve this over time with information that will help our user community grow their business.

We would appreciate your views on the tutorials and suggestions on how we can improve. If there is some specific information you are looking for please let us know. Click Here to post your views.

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Dear Sellers,

We have postponed the launch of the Listing Designer Fee of 20 paise per listing. This fee will not be charged from the 1st of April, as was communicated earlier. We shall inform you about the new date for the launch of this fee shortly.

All other fee changes mentioned in our earlier announcement will come into effect from the 1st of April.

Regards,
The eBay Team

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Hello members,

Over the next few days, we shall be making some changes to the way information is displayed on the 'Item Page' (the page where you find details of a listing). These changes will help our members, especially new members, to more easily find some of the important information on this page.

Here are the details of the changes you'll see in the next few days:

"Meet The Seller” Section - We are renaming the Seller Information area on the item page to "Meet The Seller." Most of the information will remain the same, except for a few visual changes to make it easier to read.

New "Buy Safely" area - Directly below Meet The Seller will be a Buy Safely section. Buyers expect to find trust-related information in one place, so here we'll list the seller's feedback information, any applicable protection programs, and the seller's return policy, if specified.

Shipping Information Higher on the Page - To make it easier to quickly determine the total cost of the item, we're moving the shipping information up on the page, closer to the current item price.

Relocated Links - The Watch This Item and Email to a Friend links will be moved into the center of the "blue" section. They’ll still work exactly as they do today – they are just in a different location.

Show/Hide Additional Listing Details - Additional listing details, such as the Starting Time and Duration, have been moved underneath the Watch This Item and Email to a Friend links. These will be hidden by default, but you can easily choose to display them if you wish. Plus, your choice will be "sticky," meaning that these will display (or stay hidden) as you move from item to item.

View the Changes in Advance
To become familiar with the new page layout, we encourage you to check out this screenshot so you can see exactly how it will look.

Regards,
The eBay Team

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Dear Sellers,

Our earlier announcement on the fee revision has received a lot of response from our members. We appreciate the feedback from you and look forward to your continued support in building a vibrant marketplace.

We expect that the fee revisions will actually lead to many members increasing their usage of certain features on the site and thus improving upon their conversion rates. While there might be a marginal increase in cost for some members, we feel that this is required in order to build a popular & thriving marketplace.

In view of the above, we would like to remind & confirm on:

2006 Fee Changes Applicable from 1st April 2006

At the outset there are no changes in Final Value Fees, Seller Tools Subscription Fees (apart from the Sales Report change as mentioned earlier) and eBay Shops subscription fees.

Feature Plus will be charged at Rs. 60 per listing. This will mean a reduction of 20 % from the earlier pricing of Rs. 75 per listing. This is a very effective & popular feature with a success rate of 20 times higher than a regular listing. Formats Included - Auction, Fixed Price & Ad Format. Store Inventory Format is excluded.

Gallery Feature will be reduced by 33 % & will be charged Rs. 50 per listing as compared to Rs. 75 per listing. It is an effective & heavily promoted feature whose returns are 15 times better than a regular listing. Formats Included - Auction, Fixed Price & Ad Format. Store Inventory Format is excluded.

Highlight will be charged 25 % less at Rs. 15 per listing from current fee of Rs. 20 per listing. Formats Included - Auction, Fixed Price & Ad Format. Store Inventory Format is excluded.

Gallery - This feature, which displays a thumbnail image of your product next to the listing, will be charged at 25 paise per listing from no fees currently. Formats Included - Auction, Fixed Price & Ad Format. Store Inventory Format is excluded.

Listing Designer - This feature, which enhances the visual appeal & provides the right ambience to your listing, will be charged at 20 paise per listing from no Fees currently. Formats Included - Auction, Fixed Price & Ad Format. Store Inventory Format is excluded.

All other Feature Fees for regular & store formats remain unchanged.

Happy Selling!

Regards,
The eBay Team

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To help you understand ODR INDIA process and to clarify your concerns, ODR team members will be conducting Online Workshop.

Host: ODR INDIA
Date: Thursday, 23rd March 2006
Time: 4.00 PM to 5.00 PM (IST)

Post your question in advance on this thread, or join us in this workshop on 23rd March.

Click Here to go to the Workshop

Hope to see you there!

Regards,
eBay Team

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	***Original: Launch of Third Party Online Dispute Resolution Mechanisam ***
	08 March, 2006 | 02:25 PM IST Dear Members, We have often heard from our community the need to have a Third Party Online Dispute resolution mechanism that could assist our users in the Online Dispute Resolution process. Based on your feedback, eBay is happy to announce the launch of third Party Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) on the Security and Resolution Centre. ODR INDIA is an ODR service provider designed to aid in dispute resolution. At ODR INDIA any type of dispute can be resolved through -Assisted Negotiation -Automated Negotiation -Mediation -Arbitration If you have any dispute on eBay, which you are unable to solve to your satisfaction after you lodge a complaint using eBay Dispute Resolution Console, you may take assistance of ODR INDIA. It is easy, convenient and also has a special promotional offer exclusive for eBay users. We hope you will find the above services useful. If you have any questions or clarifications, feel free to post on this Thread Regards, Sharat Digumarti Senior Manager – Trust and Safety
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I am Bhuvan Bhushan, Manager for Seller Product marketing, and I will like to share with you an interesting development on eBay shops.

You can now create up to 300 custom categories in your eBay Shop.

As an eBay shop owner, you can now define and create categories the way you would like them to be within your shop. Currently, you can create only 19 custom categories in your shop to the extent of one level.

Starting last week of March, you will be able to create up to 300 categories at all top-level categories or two or three levels of categories. E.g. Apparel & Accessories – Men’s Accessories – Leather Belts. This category expansion will allow you to create an extensive category structure that is customized for the items you sell and for the buyers to browse for your products.

We're excited about this new feature, and we hope you are too. We will keep you updated with more details as we launch the feature end March.

Thanks,
Bhuvan
eBay Seller Product Marketing Team

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We would like to inform that PaisaPay credit card transactions were not going through from yesterday afternoon (15 Mar 2006) due to a technical problem.

The problem has been resolved and the users would now be able to make credit card payments as earlier.

We regret the inconvenience caused to you!

Regards,
PaisaPay Team

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We wish to remind you of the upcoming 'Open House on Trust and Safety with Sharat Digumarti' (Sr. Manager, Trust and Safety). This workshop will be conducted on Thursday, the 16th of March, from 4 PM to 5 PM.

Sharat will be discussing with you the initiatives taken by TnS to keep the site safe and future plans. He will also be answering your TnS related concerns.

Please join us in this Open House session by Clicking Here.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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