I’m pleased to let you know about ‘PowerSeller Pointers,’ a series of five online workshops to help you start, or grow your eBay business. All workshops are written and hosted by eBay PowerSellers.

The first webinar workshop date is Friday 28th April at 2pm and is entitled ‘Setting Up Shop’

This webinar workshop will cover:

• Opening your shop and Branding your eBay Identity
• Shop Inventory Format (SIF) Listings
• Shop Categories
• Item Display
• Cross Promotions
• Keywords

You can find out more here, on the Workshop Discussion Board.

This is the first in a programme of member-led education workshops and I’m sure that many of you will find the events useful and entertaining.

Cheers,
Dan
Community Relations, eBay.co.uk

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My name’s Matt and I am the Events and Education Manager at eBay.co.uk. I wanted to let you know that eBay University will be visiting Bristol next Saturday, the 6th of May 2006.

eBay University is a chance to learn about eBay, meet eBay staff and network with other sellers. For full course details and to book a place, click here.

This Saturday we’ll be leading three courses. The ‘Basics’ course is ideal for beginners who want to master the basics of eBay selling. ‘Beyond the Basics’ is for people who have some eBay selling experience but want to take their sales to the next level and the ‘Top Seller’ course will suit advanced and business sellers.

If you can’t join us in Bristol, don’t worry. eBay University will be visiting Nottingham and London between now and the end of June.

Regards,
Matt
Events and Education, eBay.co.uk

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The eBay system will be undergoing maintenance from about 07:00 to 09:00 BST on Friday 28th April 2006.

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.

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

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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.

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

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PayPal is pleased to announce the launch a stand-alone UK credit card with leading finance provider, GE Money. The new credit card makes it easy to shop on the web and on the high street and has a typical 12.9% APR.

The PayPal Mastercard comes with a six month 0% p.a. balance transfer offer and carries no annual fee. The card also offers a free ID theft helpline and an internet fraud guarantee. Applicants also benefit from an instant decision.

Credit Card customers will be able to use their cards to make payments through PayPal’s online money transfer services although customers’ card accounts will stand-alone and separate from users’ existing online PayPal electronic money accounts*.

The first 1,000 customers will also receive entry to the PayPal Vault, with the chance to win one of 1,000 specially created prizes to mark the launch of the product.

For more information on the PayPal Credit Card and to apply for the PayPal Credit Card please visit: http://www.paypalcreditcard.co.uk

For more information on the PayPal Credit Card vault please visit: https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/cps/general/UKCreditCard-outside

* Please note that when making purchases online using PayPal (with any registered Credit Card details, including the PayPal Credit Card), you are not protected by Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act although you may be able to initiate a chargeback through the card issuer, qualify for protection under the PayPal Buyer Protection Policy or be able to invoke the PayPal Buyer Complaints Policy.
The PayPal Credit Card is issued by GE Capital Bank Ltd trading as GE Money. Registered in England 1456283. Registered Office: 6 Agar Street, London, WC2N 4HR.
The advertiser is PayPal (Europe) Ltd. Registered in England 4056498.

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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.

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

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With effect from 10 April 2006, in addition to the current prohibition on listings for tickets to English or Welsh matches, all listings for tickets to football matches occurring anywhere in the world that are part of a tournament or competition organised by FIFA or UEFA are also prohibited.

This prohibition includes the following matches:

• World Cup and European Championships matches (including qualifying rounds and the finals)
• English Premiership, Football League, Football Conference and League of Wales matches
• Champions League, UEFA Cup, Super Cup and Intertoto Cup matches
• International matches played in England or Wales (including friendlies)
• Friendlies involving England or Wales

Please note that eBay will remove any items that it becomes aware of that breach this policy with effect from 10 April.

If you are thinking of selling a football ticket, we encourage you to read the full Football Tickets policy before listing your item, available at http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/football-tickets.html.

In addition you should also review our Contracts and Tickets policy for further information on the resale of tickets, available at http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/contracts.html.

Regards,
The eBay team

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My name’s Matt and I am the Events and Education Manager at eBay.co.uk. I wanted to let you know that eBay University will be visiting Newcastle this Saturday, the 8th of April 2006.

eBay University is a chance to learn about eBay, meet eBay staff and network with other sellers. For full course details and to book a place, click here.

This Saturday we’ll be leading two courses. The ‘Basics’ course is ideal for beginners who want to master the basics of eBay selling. ‘Beyond the Basics’ is for people who have some eBay selling experience but want to take their sales to the next level.

If you can’t join us in Newcastle, don’t worry. eBay University will be visiting Bristol, Nottingham and London between now and the end of June.

Cheers,
Matt
Events and Education, eBay.co.uk

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My name’s Jay and I work in the eBay.co.uk Finding team. The Finding team aims to make it easy to find items on and off eBay. Each month search engines are used by 9 out of 10 UK internet users. That’s why we’ve developed new help pages to provide hints and tips to help sellers maximise the visibility of their eBay Shops and eBay listings in search engines.

At the Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) hub you’ll find:

• An Introduction search engine optimisation & basic tips
• How you can optimise your eBay Shop
• The Dos & Don’ts of SEO
• On and off eBay SEO resources

You will find the hub at www.ebay.co.uk/seo.

Search engines are a great way to source buyers. At no additional cost you can follow our tips and bring additional buyers to your listings and shop.

I hope you find these pages useful.

Thanks
Jay
The eBay.co.uk Finding 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.

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

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Make your item available to buyers in any country outside Ireland and offer PayPal when you list on eBay.ie this weekend and it will only cost you EUR 0.05 to list.

Terms and conditions apply. Click here for more details

Regards,
The eBay.ie team

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