It is looking good for eBay on the run up to Christmas

It is looking good for eBay on the run up to Christmas

High Street retailers appear to be lining up to report poor trading figures and sales projections for the Christmas period. In fact retail groups have predicted a “bloody Christmas” for traditional sellers.

Compared to this Internet retailers are still seeing a rise in sales. According to the latest figures from IMRG, the Internet retail monitoring group online sales have risen by 31% last month. In August, a traditionally slow retail month UK, online sales reached £1.54 billion, the second highest ever-recorded figure.
This can only bode well for eBay sales on the run up to the festive season. Experts are forecasting record online sales for the last quarter of the year and eBay have always featured high up on the top online sales lists.

Computer Active plugs eBay

The cover story on the 29^th Sept issue of the computer magazine, Computer Active
is on entitled “Money Makers” How to make money on eBay, Amazon, Exchange & Mart, Loot and More”

Like many articles that discuss eBay it is at a superficial level. Ok if you know absolutely nothing about eBay the article might be of interest but how many people who read computer magazines would be in that position. Also it is not all that long ago that Computer Active had another cover story about eBay. One wonders whether it might be the fact that by having the eBay logo appear on the magazines cover helps boost sales. If you have ever thought of using Amazons Marketplace it is worth taking a look to see what they have to say about that. If you are trading on eBay as opposed to selling you might want to read a side piece about the Sale
of Goods act and how it could effect you. This could become very relevent with eBays introduction of Business Identification.
For more information visit www.computeractive.co.uk

Morph sells on eBay

An original model of Morph the plastacine character has been sold on eBay.
The model was made by Peter Lord co -founder with Nick Parks of Ardman
Animations the Bristol based company famous for their Wallace and Grommet
films.
The Morph model first appeared in the Take Hart childrens TV show and sold
last week for £1411. The money raised is going to the Bristol based charity
Childrens Scrapstore.

Audio Posts

I have had several people contact me and ask why we no longer include
an audio article in the uk auctionline newsletter. Basically, when we
ask subscribers for there thoughts on the audio section we got very
little feed back. However, once we stopped everyone started asking
"Where is the audio?"

What I have decided is rather than include it as part of the newsletter
I will place a monthly 15 minute audio letter on the web site. This will
start next month and hopefully over time cover most topics of interest to
eBay users.

If you would like to hear some of the previous audio news pieces you will
find them in the archive section of www.ukauctionline.co.uk

eBay Pay $4.1 billion for Skype

No one can accuse eBay of being slow. It was only late last week that most people learnt that eBay was interested in the Internet communication company Skype. By Monday they had paid a combination of cash and shares to the value of $4.1 billion and were the new owners of Skype.

As you an imagine the net is alive with articles and comments about this move. To read what the likes of Dave Bromley, Ina Steiner and others have to say go to http://www.ukaucctionline.co.uk
and b
rowse the news page.

UKAuctionline

More and more reports are coming in of both car boot and eBay sellers being trackedd down by the Inland Revenue. I have been told that the Inland Revenue have set up a special section to track down
regular eBayerrs who have not declared their additonal income. For mmore information visit http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9559-1763248,00.html

eBay Fee Increase

eBay have announced increase in some fees for eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie If you use Dutch or Multiple auctions the maximum charge is goingup from £2 to £3 (E3 to E4.50).
Buy It Now option fee currently at 6p (E0.10) is now going to be based on the starting price and will range from 5p to 25p (E0.10 to E0.30)

Slightly worrying is the fact that at the end of the announcement ebay ask the question
"Can members expect additional fee increases later this year?" They then take 60 words to say something which sounds awfully like "Yes"