During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow. The Community Discussion Boards may also be unavailable at this time.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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The acquisition helps Kijiji expand its global network of websites, and allows Gumtree to further scale its business with the resources and expertise of Kijiji and eBay. Designed to connect people in local communities, Kijiji is a start-up business created by a small team of entrepreneurs inside eBay.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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From time to time we will also use this page to provide helpful information about events and features around the site.

Please look for important announcements and exciting events about eBay on this page.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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We realise that thousands of Irish people are already happily trading on other eBay sites. The new eBay.ie site will offer them, as well as new members, an alternative that is specifically targeted to their needs. It will make it easier for Irish buyers to find items available to them while also helping sellers who want to sell to Irish buyers.

We look forward to officially welcoming and growing the Irish eBay community in the coming months with the launch of eBay.ie.

Regards,
The eBay.ie Team

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Item Specifics is available in 42 categories. Click here to see a list of eligible categories as well as other terms and conditions.

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The eBay.co.uk team

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As part of this effort, we are making changes to the Compilation and Informational Media Policy on all eBay sites. Effective immediately, we will now require all sellers to list their informational items in the Everything Else > Information Products category on the site they choose to list.

Listings found outside this category will be considered in breach of this policy and those listings will be cancelled. Additionally, sellers who repeatedly breach this policy may be subject to suspension.

You can view the Compilation and Informational Media policy here.

All policies can be viewed here.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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Later this month users receiving member to member communications will notice that the FROM field no longer displays the email address of the other member, and instead displays eBay Member: userid . Should you wish to reply directly to the member via your email programme, the REPLY-TO field will contain the appropriate email address of the member wishing to contact you, as long as the sending member did not choose to hide their email address.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow. The Community Discussion Boards may also be unavailable at this time.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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During the week beginning 23rd May, we will begin testing a new way to find items. The test will last for around one month and will be confined to the Men’s Shoes and Women’s Shoes categories only. The test will be shown to a random sample of visitors to those categories, as well as any user who chooses to opt in to it. We will be soliciting voluntary feedback from everyone who participates. Information and links to the test will be posted in the week of the 23rd May.

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eBay will be issuing credits and listing extensions, per our Outage Policy.

The listings on eBay’s sites around the world sit on 21 complex databases. Today’s outage affected the listings on those databases in two ways:

One group of databases was unavailable from 03:33 BST until 06:10 BST. Since the items in these databases were unavailable for more than 2 hours, eBay will credit all fees associated with these listings. In addition, eBay has extended these listings by 24 hours and added an additional two hours to the credit and extension period.

The second group of databases was unavailable for less than 2 hours, from 03:33 BST until 05 :15 BST. Since these items were unavailable for less than 2 hours, eBay will credit all listing fees associated with these listings, but will not extend the listings. We will also add two hours to the credit period for these listings.

We thank you for your patience, and we apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused. We will provide additional information on this situation later today.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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We will keep you updated on progress, and we appreciate your patience.

Regards,
The eBay.co.uk Team

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Antiques & Art
-Silver

Books, Comics, Magazines
-Accessories
- Non-Fiction > Sports

BOI
-Restaurant & Catering

Clothes, Shoes and Accessories
- Boys’ Clothing
-Girls’ Clothing
-Shoe Care
-Wedding

Collectables
-Animation
-Jukeboxes

Consumer Electronics
-Gadgets

Health & Beauty
- Category Expansion through the whole category

Home & Garden
- Cards/ Stationery
- Patio & Barbeque

Mobile & Home Phones
-Bluetooth Accessories
-Home Phones
-Mobile Phone Accessories
-Mobile Phone Cases & Pouches

Sporting Goods
-American Football
-Badminton
-Baseball
-Basketball
-Canoeing & Kayaking
-Football

Sports Memorabilia
- Football Programmes
-Olympic Memorabilia

Toys & Games
- Games

Wholesale & Job Lots
-Business, Office & Industrial
-Clothes, Shoes & Accessories
-Computing

Late this week you will be able to see the new and changed category IDs on the All Categories Page.

We would like to thank all the members who took the time to contribute the thousands of ideas and suggestions that have helped to shape these changes.

Regards,
The eBay.co.uk Team

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During this maintenance period, certain eBay site features may be intermittently unavailable or slow. The Community Discussion Boards may also be unavailable at this time.

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We are delighted to announce that in May 2005 eBay.co.uk will be advertising again, this time with the intention of increasing bidding and listing activity by encouraging people to explore categories that they have not before.

eBay.co.uk will be sponsoring over 40 of your favourite satellite/cable television programmes, highlighting the range of products available on the site, everything from Golf Clubs to Cars. The sponsorship will run continuously from 4th May until the end of June, giving people consistent reminders of what they can buy and sell and the benefits of doing so on eBay.co.uk

We know that the categories featured within last year’s advertising campaign saw strong growth and so we expect the same will happen this year. These categories are: Sport & Fitness, Golf, Fishing, Cars, Bikes, Clothing & Accessories, Home, Garden, Baby, DIY, Technology, Collectibles, Entertainment and Music.

If you sell or have a business in these areas, you might want to prepare for the increase in demand from early May.

We hope that you will be as excited about this new campaign as we are. We firmly believe that this exciting investment in building eBay’s brand in the UK will benefit buyers and sellers alike by further developing the vibrancy of the site and driving buyer demand.

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