Archive for March, 2009

Teacher in eBay football shirt scam

Here’s the latest story to hit the news concerning transactions on eBay, feel free to add your comment.
Quoted from BBC News :
A Flintshire teacher who duped 200 people into buying fake football shirts on the auction website eBay has received a suspended prison sentence.
Paul Davies, 34, of Mold, admitted four charges of fraud and [...]

eBay Introduce Their Own Version of Adwords

eBay have just announced their own version of Pay-Per-Click advertising, it’s just like google adwords where you will bid for certain keywords, & your adverts will appear on ebay’s search results page when the keyword is searched for. Here’s the announcement quoted from ebay.co.uk:
19 March, 2009 | 01:16PM GMT
If you’re a seller on eBay.co.uk looking [...]

Latest eBay News

Some good news in March for private sellers (that’s any seller that has not registered thier ebay account as a business account)
This is quoted from the ebay.co.uk website:
From 12th March 2009, there’s no Insertion Fee if you’re a private seller and you list your item in the auction-style format with a starting price of up [...]