Sell on eBay with greater confidence! Starting on June 15th, when you get paid with PayPal, you’ll automatically receive Seller Protection coverage for your eligible items sold on eBay1.

With PayPal’s new Seller Protection, you’ll have help to better manage your risks - at no cost. Here’s what you’ll get:

• Unlimited annual coverage for unauthorised payments and items not received claims, chargebacks or reversals.
• Worldwide coverage in 190 approved PayPal markets, on over 20 eBay sites.
• New Payment Review feature to notify you of high-risk payments before you ship.
• Automatic integration No set-up required; no change to your eBay listings.

To be covered, simply:

• Sell eligible items on eBay and receive payments through PayPal.
• Ship to the address shown on PayPal’s Transaction Details page.
• Provide shipping documentation if a claim, chargeback or reversal arises.

For more details please visit PayPal’s FAQs section

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Benefits
Get maximum differentiation for your products by promoting them on eBay’s search results page.

Get double attention and increase your chance of sales!

When is it?
The promotion starts on Monday 22nd June, 2009 between 00:00:01 IST (12:00 AM plus 1 second) and ends 23:59:59 IST on Friday, 26th June 2009 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

What is it?
Buy 1 Bold and get 1 Border at Rs. 3/- only. That’s 40% discount on Border There is no limit to the number of listings that a seller can make during the offer period with the above combination of features.

Who is eligible?
Sellers who have not used Bold or Border in the past 2 months and list items on eBay.in during the offer period are eligible for the promotion.

The following are also included under the promotion:

• The Online Auction and Fixed Price formats.
• Listings in the below categories.
  1. Cameras & Optics
  2. Coins and Notes
  3. Mobiles & Accessories
  4. Health & Beauty
• Listings created before the offer period and going live during the offer period.
• Multiple quantity listings are also included in the promotion.

What are the Benefits?

Feature	Regular Fee / Listing	Promotional Fee
Bold + Border	Rs. 5 + Rs. 5 = Rs. 10/-	Rs. 8/-

All other charges, FVF, and other Feature fees on the listings will be charged as applicable.

What do you need to do?
Choose Bold Feature with your listings and also choose Border feature to avail of the offer.

What is excluded?

• Shop Format and Ad Format Listings.
• Listings created during the promotion period and going live after the promotion period.
• Listings that go live before the promotion period and are revised during the promotion period to include a Bold feature will be excluded from the promotion.
• Listings in other categories than mentioned in the above list.
• Sellers who have used Bold or Border in the past 2 months.

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Dear Sellers,

As part of our constant effort to improve buyers’ ability to find what they are looking for and sellers’ ability to list in the right categories towards improving their sales, we are pleased to announce that we have made changes to the category structure on eBay.in. Many of these changes are driven by community suggestions, so a big thank you to all those members who wrote in!

Some of the other important changes are:

The category ‘Coins & Stamps’ has been split into ‘Coins & Notes’ and ‘Stamps’ taking into account the inputs we have received from both Community members. Listings of Stamps that are currently live on the Site in ‘Coins & Stamps’ will automatically move into this newly created ‘Stamps’ category. Listings of Stamps that are currently listed in other sub-categories will NOT automatically move into ‘Stamps’. Sellers are requested to move their listings currently live on the Site into this newly created category. Sellers are also requested to list all Stamps hereon in this sub-category. All those using Turbo Lister to list on the Site, please sync your Turbo Lister as explained below. For information on what sub-categories under ‘Coins & Stamps’ have been moved into the newly created category ‘Stamps’, please refer to the link below.

More sub-categories have been added under the category ‘Cars, Bikes & CVs’ to help Sellers list their varied Items under appropriate sub-categories and to help Buyers find what they are looking for better.

‘0-4.9 Mega Pixel Digital Cameras have been combined into the sub-category ‘5-6.9 Mega Pixel’ to create ‘0-6.9 Mega Pixel’ category under Digital Cameras. Further, the ‘7-9.9 Mega Pixel’ sub-category has been split into ‘6-7.9 Mega Pixel’ and ‘8-9.9 Mega Pixel’ sub-categories on the basis of feedback received from eBay community members and also keep in mind trends in the Digital Cameras market. Greater detail has also been added under the ’10.0 Mega Pixel and Above’ sub-category by splitting it into ’10-11.9 Mega Pixel’ and ’12.0 Mega Pixel and Above’ sub-categories.

Extra sub-categories ‘Flash Memory (SD)’ and ‘High Definition’ have been added under ‘Camcorders’ under ‘Cameras & Optics’.

Considering the increasing demand for mini-laptops amongst eBay Buyers, a new sub-category has been created for ‘Mini Laptops’ (less than 12” screen laptops) under the ‘Laptops’ sub-category.

Further detail has been added under the LCD TVs’ sub-category as well. Sellers can now choose from 6 different sub-categories (from 19 inch to 42 inch) while Listing.

On the back of recent launches in the Mobile Handsets segment, new sub-categories have been created under the same.

The category ‘Flights, Hotels & Holidays’ has been renamed to ‘Travel’.

All those using Turbo Lister to list on the Site, please sync your Turbo Lister as explained below.

Sellers are advised to actively make use of these detailed sub-categories while listing as this can only increase the visibility of your listings and thereby the success rate.

To view the present category structure, with category numbers, click on the 'Buy' link at the top of almost every page. Click on the 'See all categories' link towards the bottom of the page. You will reach the Category index page. Select the 'Show category numbers' radio button, and then click 'Show'. You can now view all the categories, with their respective category numbers.

To view the detailed changes in the category structures, please click here.

As always, you can move your item to another category by revising your listing as long as it has not received a bid and there are more than 12 hours left in the listing. Click here for details on how to revise your item.

These changes are live on site and visible. We strongly encourage members to pay careful attention to which categories have changed and to update their listings as appropriate.

We always welcome community suggestions and we shall strive to incorporate them wherever possible. To submit a suggestion to eBay, click here.

Sellers using Turbo Lister are advised to update their tool by following the below steps:

1. Open your Turbo Lister tool and from the Menu bar on the top select 'Tools'.
2. From the dropdown options, please select 'Check for program updates' and wait for the tool to perform updates.
3. Once the tool completes the updation process, a dialog box appears which says 'Install Now'. Click on the same and the new category structure will reflect in the tool.

Happy Buying & Selling!

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Benefits

Get greater exposure for your products by promoting them on eBay’s search results page. Buy Featured Plus at 30% off.

Get more attention and increase your chance of sales!

When is it?
The promotion starts on Monday 01st June, 2009 between 00:00:01 IST (12:00 AM plus 1 second) and ends 23:59:59 IST on Friday, 05th June 2009 (11:59 PM plus 59 seconds).

What is it?
Buy Featured Plus at 30% off in selected categories. There is no limit to the number of listings that a seller can make during the offer period with the above combination of features.

Who is eligible?
Sellers who list items on eBay.in during the offer period in the selected categories as mentioned below are eligible for the promotion.

Categories included in the promotion are:

Mobiles & Accessories
Computers & Peripherals
Cameras & Optics
Memory cards & storage devices
Consumer electronics
Video & Computer games

The following are also included under the promotion:
- The Online Auction and Fixed Price formats.
- Listings created before the offer period and going live during the offer period.
- Multiple quantity listings are also included in the promotion.

All other charges, FVF, and other Feature fees on the listings will be charged as applicable.

What do you need to do?
Choose Featured Plus Feature with your listings to avail of the offer and list in the above mentioned selected categories.

What is excluded?
▪ Shop Format and Ad Format Listings.
▪ Listings created during the promotion period and going live after the promotion period.
▪ Listings that go live before the promotion period and are revised during the promotion period to include a HomePage feature will be excluded from the promotion.

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