Month long cheap listing with gallery for eBay.com and ebay.ca

August 29, 2007

This post was written in August 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Philipp Justus has just announced a month long cheap listing promotion for eBay.com. The promotion is duplicated on eBay Canada and runs from August 29th to September 30th.

The promotion which is based on the last eBay.com cheap listing day waives listing fees for items with a start price under $10.00. For items over $10.00 insertion fees are discounted by 25%.

This promotion has to be a precursor to all eBay sites world wide having gallery included in the basic listing price, a move which ebay France has already made. Gallery pictures are such an important enhancement to eBay search that some third party tools such as the MyEBayFox plugin for the Firefox browser show gallery pictures even if the seller didn’t pay for them.

Justus states that buyers benefit from a richer shopping experience with gallery pictures and can shop in a more visually appealing way. This being the case just why do eBay allow listings without gallery pictures? eBay is all about buyers and anything not designed to give the best buyer experience possible just isn’t good enough.

Competitors such as Amazon have gallery pictures as default, it’s time eBay followed suit.

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“Tell Doug McCallum and tell him I told you to tell him”

June 16, 2007

This post was written in June 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

That’s the answer Bill Cobb gave at the eBay Live! Town Hall meeting when Sue asked if we could have eBay Live! in London, Paris or another European destination. Philipp Justus formerly Senior Vice President, eBay Europe was also on the stage and looked to Bill to answer the question.

Bill’s answer was straight forward and to the point “Tell Doug McCallum and tell him I told you to tell him”. Doug can look forward to hearing from Sue when she returns from the US ;-)

Doug if you’re looking for Bill because he’s put the pressure on, you’ll find him in Michigan with his family probably playing golf - he’s taking some time out soon so you’re in charge of organising eBay Live! (Europe) :-D

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All you need is love and lower eBay fees

February 14, 2007

This post was written in February 2007; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Philipp JustusToday’s world outbreak of tackiness has reached even San Jose California, with a Valentine’s Day treat from Philipp Justus: 50% off auction insertion fees on the .com site.

This is Justus’ first time on the .com Announcements board, and it’s interesting to see him very much playing second fiddle to his boss: “…working for Bill Cobb. … As Bill has said…” We do hope they’ll continue to be happy together.

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