Limited Ebay U.S. Listing Promotion

Ebay is holding a listing sale for auction style listings on March 25, 2008. A number of restrictions apply.

Listed items must have a starting price between $0.01 and $0.99, shipping charges must be specified, and sellers must have Detailed Seller Rating of 4.5 or higher on all criteria or be a new seller with no DFSR rating.

Details may be found at: http://pages.ebay.com/promo/startlow08/

Ebay Announces New Partner Network; Dumps Commission Junction

Effective April 1st 2008 Ebay will no longer be running its afiliate program through the Commission Junction / Valueclick system. Ebay will be running the program in parallal with CJ from that date until May 1st, at which time they plan to completely run the program in house.

Affiliates will be able to register for the Ebay Partner Network on April 1. Ebay claims that access to the Editor Kit and affiliate API, the flexible destination tool, and the payout structure will remain the same under the new system.

Ebay Suffers Traffic Drop but Remains #1 Shopping Destination

A report posted by Internet Retailer indicates that although Ebay continued to suffer a decline in traffic in February, it remained as the top online shopping destination as reported by Nielsen Online.

According to Nielson Online unique traffic to eBay.com slipped 5% in February from February a year ago, to 56.6 million. But by unique visitors, eBay still outnumbered No. 2 Amazon by 19%. Amazon, where traffic grew by a healthy 17% in February, hosted 47.7 unique visitors in February.

Another eBay Boycott Planned for May Day (?)

The extended eBay boycott that concluded Sunday will not be the last hurrah for sellers angry about recent policy changes. Organizers are gearing up for a May Day strike of the online auction site.

"We have picked the date of May 1 [because] it gives us time to organize and spread the word, [and] it coincides with the month the new feedback changes go into effect," Mary Killion, a seller who has been organizing boycott efforts through eBay's forums, wrote in a recent post. "And personally, I always think of May as the month when things really begin to grow."

complete post at: PCMag.com