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***Important Information eBay.co.uk Shop Sellers*** |
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19 January, 2006 | 07:00AM GMT
Dear eBay Shop Sellers,
Members who sell using an eBay Shop are an important part of the eBay.co.uk Community. Since the feature was launched, eBay Shops have proved very popular with buyers and are a significant source of fixed price, new and in season merchandise on the site. The commitment, high standards and professionalism of Shop sellers has been key to the success of eBay Shops over the years and we want to let you know that we appreciate your efforts and your business as you build your sales.
Fee Adjustments
We are announcing today that from 22nd February 2006 we will be changing Insertion and Final Value Fees for Shop Inventory Format listings. The standard Insertion Fee will be lowered from 5p to 3p per listing. The Final Value Fee for the amount of the selling price up to £29.99 will be increased from 5.25% to 6.75%. For the amount of the selling prices between £30.00-599.99, the Final Value Fee will be increased from 3.25% to 3.75%. Final Value Fees for amounts over £600 will remain unchanged at 1.75%.
You can find out full details on this page.
Shops subscription fees and Feature fees for Shops items will remain unchanged. This change only affects Insertion and Final Value Fees for Shop Inventory Format items listed in an eBay Shop. Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees for all other listings are unaffected.
Increased Visibility for Shop Inventory Format Listings
We want the eBay Shops offering to be profitable for you as well as providing a dynamic, comprehensive, and scalable platform on which to sell. In addition to the existing benefits available to Shop owners, such as the opportunity to use the cheaper Shops format listings, free access to Sales Reports Plus and Traffic reports, email marketing options and tools for optimising your presence in search engines, we will be making changes to the eBay search facility to ensure your Shop items are found more easily by buyers.
We will be adding Shops items to the main eBay search. This means that at the end of any eBay search, all matching Shop inventory format listings will be displayed. For sellers, this means much more exposure for your Shop and Shop items – for buyers, every search will return many more qualified listings. Currently, if a search has relevant Shop items they are shown 22% of the time. After the change when there are relevant Shops items they will be returned and visible to potential buyers in search results 100% of the time. This change will be made in late February.
You can click here for more details on the change to add Shop Inventory items in Search.
Shops Functionality Improvements
Over the course of this year we will be making a number of other improvements to the Shops functionality. For instance, in March we’ll be giving you greater flexibility when it comes to creating an intuitive and comprehensive category structure to help your buyers navigate the items in your Shop. We’ll also be giving you more opportunities to customise the Custom Listings Header and draw attention to your Shop in all your listings and drive sales. We’ll keep you informed of other changes as they come.
Thank You
eBay knows that as a seller you have a choice of outlets through which to sell your products. We appreciate that you choose eBay and take our responsibility to you seriously.
Regards,
eBay International AG
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***Important Information eBay.ie Shop Sellers*** |
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19 January, 2006 | 07:00AM GMT
Dear eBay Shop Sellers,
Members who sell using an eBay Shop are an important part of the eBay.ie Community. Since the feature was launched, eBay Shops have proved very popular with buyers and are a significant source of fixed price, new and in season merchandise on the site. The commitment, high standards and professionalism of Shop sellers has been key to the success of eBay Shops over the years and we want to let you know that we appreciate your efforts and your business as you build your sales.
Fee Adjustments
We are announcing today that from 22nd February 2006 we will be changing Insertion and Final Value Fees for Shop Inventory Format listings. The standard Insertion Fee will be lowered from €0.10 to €0.05 per listing. The Final Value Fee for the amount of the selling price up to €49.99 will be increased from 5.25% to 6.75%. For the amount of the selling prices between €50.00 - €849.99, the Final Value Fee will be increased from 3.25% to 3.75%. Final Value Fees for amounts over €850 will remain unchanged at 1.75%.
You can find out full details on this page.
Shops subscription fees and Feature fees for Shops items will remain unchanged. This change only affects Insertion and Final Value Fees for Shop Inventory Format items listed in an eBay Shop. Insertion Fees and Final Value Fees for all other listings are unaffected.
Increased Visibility for Shop Inventory Format Listings
We want the eBay Shops offering to be profitable for you as well as providing a dynamic, comprehensive, and scalable platform on which to sell. In addition to the existing benefits available to Shop owners, such as the opportunity to use the cheaper Shops format listings, free access to Sales Reports Plus and Traffic reports, email marketing options and tools for optimising your presence in search engines, we will be making changes to the eBay search facility to ensure your Shop items are found more easily by buyers.
We will be adding Shops items to the main eBay search. This means that at the end of any eBay search, all matching Shop inventory format listings will be displayed. For sellers, this means much more exposure for your Shop and Shop items – for buyers, every search will return many more qualified listings. Currently, if a search has relevant Shop items they are shown 22% of the time. After the change when there are relevant Shops items they will be returned and visible to potential buyers in search results 100% of the time. This change will be made in late February.
You can click here for more details on the change to add Shop Inventory items in Search.
Shops Functionality Improvements
Over the course of this year we will be making a number of other improvements to the Shops functionality. For instance, in March we’ll be giving you greater flexibility when it comes to creating an intuitive and comprehensive category structure to help your buyers navigate the items in your Shop. We’ll also be giving you more opportunities to customise the Custom Listings Header and draw attention to your Shop in all your listings and drive sales. We’ll keep you informed of other changes as they come.
Thank You
eBay knows that as a seller you have a choice of outlets through which to sell your products. We appreciate that you choose eBay and take our responsibility to you seriously.
Regards,
eBay International AG
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***Coming Soon: Category Changes*** |
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09 January, 2006 | 06:33PM GMT
We are pleased to announce that we are making a number of category changes during the week beginning 16th January 2006.
The changes are necessary to accommodate the continuing growth of eBay.co.uk and to help buyers and sellers trade more effectively and efficiently. There will be changes made to a number of categories, including expansion of the following:
Antiques & Art
Baby
Books, Comics and Magazines
Coins
Collectables
Computing
Consumer Electronics
Craft
Dolls and Bears
Jewellery & Watches
Mobile & Home Phones
Music
Musical Instruments
PC & Video Gaming
Pottery, Porcelain & Glass
Sports Memorabilia
Tickets & Travel
Toys & Games
More significant changes have been made in the following categories, in addition to expansion, as described below:
Business, Office and Industrial
New Level 2 categories:
- Business Services
- Commercial Property
Clothes, Shoes & Accessories
New Level 2 categories:
- Boys’ Accessories
- Girls’ Accessories
Remove Sizes:
- Girls’ Shoes
- Boys’ Shoes
Home & Garden
New Level 2 categories added:
- Celebrations & Occasions
- Curtains & Blinds
- Home Office/ Study
- Metaphysical & New Age
- Storage
- Bedroom renamed Bedroom Furniture
- Plants/Seeds/Bulbs category expanded
Photography
New Level 2 categories added:
- Digital Camera Batteries
- Digital Camera Chargers
Sporting Goods
Changes to Level 2 categories:
- Ice Hockey added
- Ice Skating added
- Rugby renamed Rugby Union
- Rugby League added as a separate category
By 20th January 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 and eBay.ie Team
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