eBay Announcements - Big News
July 15, 2008
eBay Neutral Feedback
I guess that everyone yelling about feedback issues at eBay Live finally hit home. Lorrie Norrington announced that in late August neutral feedback ratings will no longer count against sellers. Additionally, in October, there will be a new method in which buyers and sellers can resolve their negative feedback issues together and have negative feedback scores reviewed.
eBay Link Policy
One of the other huge issues that people were complaining about was the new links policy. This policy stated that eBay members could no longer link to external websites from their auctions and ME pages. In the past, ME pages were one of the best ways to attract customers to your off eBay sites for more information and details. eBay has decided to not enforce the links policy in July and has instead decided to revise the policy.
The new policy will allow some offsite links which is good news for everyone who knows how to take advantage of the ME page. Further, eBay will allow 4 weeks for everyone to become compliant after the new policy is announced.
eBay Search Experience
Jeff King also announced that eBay will begin to direct more users to the new eBay search interface. The new search experience does have some nice features and I personally don’t mind the change. It does take some getting used to. If you would like to check it out for yourself, the link is http://playground.ebay.com/
Until next time…
Jeff
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