About TameBay


Sue & Chris

TameBay is owned and written by Chris Dawson and Sue Bailey, two British PowerSellers. Between us we have been trading on eBay for nearly two decades, and have more than 50,000 positive feedback comments (and just 2 negs!).

Chris and Sue met on eBay UK’s PowerSeller forum longer ago than either of them like to admit. By October 2006, both had become frustrated with eBay’s inability to keep their users informed of new features on the site, with the impenetrability of eBay’s Help pages, and with the lack of a UK- and Europe-centred news site for all things ecommercial. In a moment between classes at eBay University, Dan Wilson said what were to be fatal words: “you need a blog”. TameBay is the result.

What’s in a name?

The name is a contraction of “tame eBay” - as in, to make eBay manageable. It’s not tam-bay, or tammy-bay, or (as Google wanted for a long time) anything to do with Tampa Bay in Florida!

TameBay in the media

  • The Daily Telegraph: Chris, Sue, and TameBay itself were all featured in the Telegraph’s “How to eBay” series of articles.
  • The Guardian quoted both Sue and Chris in a piece about the 2008 eBay sellers’ strike.
  • Chris in The Times on eBay Live Chicago.

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    • TameBay is not owned, controlled by or affiliated with eBay or any of the eBay family of companies, or any of the other companies and organisations we feature.



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