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Best Made Made Simple Updated – Free Download

Doug Feiring — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:06:36 +0000

I’ve just completed the third edition of my free eBook, Best Match Made Simple. This edition includes everything eBay sellers need to know about the significant changes to Best Match introduced last month. This edition has grown to 131 pages in length. Download your copy now at http://auctioninsights.info/bestmatchbook.

The Return of the Auction Format

Doug Feiring — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:20:40 +0000

The auction format is experiencing a renaissance of sorts on eBay. For several years, eBay has been depreciating the auction style format in favor of the fixed-price format (Buy It Now and Stores inventory) through various incentives such as listing fee discounts, extended durations, and favorable treatment under the Best Match. Recently, however, this trend [...]

On eBay Bid Retractions

Doug Feiring — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:40:56 +0000

eBay recently notified me that a user had retracted a bid they placed on one of my auction-style listings. The justification provided was that “the bidder was unable to contact the seller”. According to eBay, there are only three valid reasons a bidder can retract a bid: You accidentally entered the wrong bid amount due to a [...]

Free Shipping & Best Match: An Advantage for Fixed Price Listings Only

Doug Feiring — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:11:29 +0000

With the roll out of the Fall 2009 changes to Best Match, eBay has provided more transparency than ever before into the inner workings of that algorythim. One of the aspects eBay has clarified pertains to the advantages of offering free shipping when competing for visibility and placement in the Best Match search result pages.