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 and eBay.ie Teams

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The programme supports charitable fundraising by allowing:

* Charities direct access to over 10 million eBay traders in the UK and more than 168m potential buyers worldwide by receiving sellers' donations or by selling their own items.

* Individual sellers or businesses to donate all or a percentage of their sales to verified charitable organisations.

* Buyers to bid on eBay for Charity items knowing they are helping a worthy cause.

You can find out more information about the programme on the eBay for Charity home page.

Please note that we are still in the process of rolling out all of the supporting content, and a few features, such as the A-Z list of participating charities, will be coming soon.

Regards,
The eBay for Charity Team

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Tickets Item Specifics will include Venue, Event Type, Date, Section, Number of Tickets and Ticket Face Value. Sellers can choose to include any of these Item Specifics in their listing or not, and buyers can choose whether or not to search for these details.

For more information about Item Specifics, please refer to our FAQs:

Item Specifics FAQ
Item Specifics Overview
Item Specifics Product Finder
Item Specifics View Item Page Example

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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The Great British Stocking Filler will help you make your Christmas list on eBay, compare your list with the nation's top 10 and see what's hot this Christmas on eBay.co.uk. If you buy or list with PayPal between the 24th November and the 18th December you could win cash prizes worth thousands of pounds or win instant prizes just for adding presents to your Christmas list.

Find out more about The Great British Stocking Filler.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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List items in any category including motors on Thursday 24th November using the auction-style, auction with Buy It Now or Buy It Now formats and pay only 10p insertion fee.

Every time you list, you’ll also have a chance to win a fantastic prize in eBay’s Great British Stocking Filler competition.

Terms and conditions apply. Click here for full details.

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The eBay.co.uk team

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List items in any category including motors on Thursday 24th November using the auction-style, auction with Buy It Now or Buy It Now formats and pay only a 10 cent insertion fee.

Terms and conditions apply. Click here for full details.

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The eBay.ie 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 and eBay.ie Teams

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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	***Original: Site Issue: ‘Contact Us’ Form Unavailable***
	14 November, 2005 | 10:38AM GMT We wanted to let you know that the Customer Support ‘Contact Us’ webforms are currently unavailable. We are aware of this issue and working hard to resolve it as quickly as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this might cause you, Regards, The eBay.co.uk Team
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For this reason we are inviting a selection of members to participate in a simple online survey. If you receive this invitation, you will be invited to participate through a link to a third party site hosted for us by Insight Express. You will not be asked for your eBay password or personal finacial information such as Credit Card details.

Rest assured that this is not a spoof or scam email, and we would greatly value your opinions if you can spare the time to share your opinions.

For more information about online safety and spoof emails, click here.

Regards,
The eBay.co.uk Team

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Currently, when a member searches or browses the site and there are ten or fewer results, up to ten SIF listings will be displayed. The SIF items appear in a separate section at the bottom of the page, below a section showing any relevant international items.

From November 9th 2005 we will be making two changes to the way search and browse results are viewed:

1- The SIF items section will move above any 'International Items'
2- The number of SIF items shown will increase from 10 to 30.

For the time being we are viewing these changes as a trial. We will be monitoring how these changes affect buyers and sellers on the main site and, depending on the outcome, may implement these changes permanently.

Regards,

The eBay.co.uk Team

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The course is called 'Beyond the Basics' and is aimed at sellers who have sold a few things on eBay but would like to improve their selling skills. The day looks at marketing yourself on eBay, how to scale and then how to manage your eBay trading efficiently. You will also have the opportunity to meet eBay staff and fellow eBay sellers over lunch.

You can find out more about the courses and book a place here.

We look forward to seeing many of you on Saturday!

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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If you are in a trading relationship with someone who might be affected by this action, please be mindful that payments being sent by post or items dispatched by post will probably be delayed while this action continues. It is advisable to inform your trading partner if you are aware there are problems in your area.

If you are awaiting a payment or delivery of an item, please be patient.

For further information and updates we advise you consult the An Post website as well as our eBay Ireland Trading Board.

Regards,
The eBay.ie and eBay.co.uk teams

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Until the 12th December we will be running a national television advertising campaign on terrestrial, cable and satellite channels. To catch the first of these ads tune into ITV’s X Factor this Saturday.

Over the next five weeks eBay.co.uk will have a consistent presence on the nation’s screens with other highlights including the TV Premiere of Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers, The Bourne Identity, The Bill and The Simpsons as well as family favourites such as Emmerdale and Home & Away.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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On Thursday 3rd November 2005 (GMT), sellers listing in Auction-style format in an eligible category, will pay 5 cents (€0.05 EUR) insertion fee.

Terms and conditions apply. Click here for full details

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The eBay.co.uk team

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The Guardian newspaper is running a challenge on eBay.co.uk and the Guardian's small business supplement is searching for five people who will each get £1,500 to start their business on eBay. You can find out all about the challenge here and the terms and conditions: at www.guardian.co.uk/sme.

The Business Sense eBay Challenge entrants will have three months to make as much money as they can by trading on eBay. There will also be some special challenges thrown in as the contest progresses. Entrants will be allowed to keep whatever money they make as part of the challenge. Closing date for entries is November 4th 2005.

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The eBay.co.uk Team

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On Thursday 3rd November 2005 (GMT), sellers listing in Auction-style format in an eligible category will pay 5 pence (£0.05 GBP) insertion fee.

Terms and conditions apply. Click here for full details.

Regards,
The eBay.co.uk team

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