Increase in price of listings will no longer affect recent sales score for Best Match
We’ve listened to seller feedback and understand that with current economic conditions sellers need to be more nimble than ever with their pricing. Sellers can now move their prices up or down without losing their popularity/recent sales score in Best Match.
The recent sales score will be lost when you relist if you:
- Change the category
- Change the title of the listing
- Change the condition (eg: from ‘New with tags’ to ‘New without tags’ or ‘Used’)
To find out more about Best Match, visit http://pages.ebay.de/help/search/bestmatch.html
Postage time required for all listings
From mid-June 2009 all sellers will need to indicate how long it will take to post an item to a buyer. The postage time is used in combination with the selected postage service to calculate a delivery estimate. This is done to highlight important information to buyers and to help set their expectations in relation to delivery. For more details see the Frequently Asked Questions.
For registered business sellers, there is now a default postage time of 2 days if none has been specified by the seller.
Changes to Categories
The category structure will be updated the week commencing 15th June 2009.
Cars, Parts & Vehicles
The ‘Cars, Parts & Vehicles’ category will be split into two categories: ‘Vehicles’ and ‘Parts’. There is no other change in this area, and you should keep selecting the same categories as before; you only need to ensure that you select the correct top level category (Vehicles or Parts).
Other category changes
If you sell in the areas below, more details will be found in the new category structure that will be available from mid-June 2009.
Clothes, Shoes & Accessories:
Boys’ clothing
Fancy Dress
Girls’ Clothing
Men’s Accessories
Men’s Clothing
Vintage Clothing & Accessories
Wedding Clothing
Women’s Accessories
Women’s Clothing
Women’s Underwear
Home & Garden:
Food & Drink
Garden & Plants
Major Appliances
Collectables:
Militaria
Policy changes to choice, multiple listings fees avoidance and circumventing fees
The introduction of our new multi-variation listings means that we need to revise policies relating to listing items that are identical (or vary in characteristics such as size or colour) to ensure that sellers can take full advantage of this development. During the week commencing 15th June 2009, we’ll remove the policies relating to: Choice and Multiple Listings Fees Avoidance. We’ll also revise the Circumventing Fees policy to allow sellers to offer a choice of sizes, colours and configurations of a particular item within a listing (but not offer buyers a choice of completely different items).
Regards,
The eBay Team
