eBay.com is holding a sale on certain optional upgrades. Sellers can save 33 percent on Feature Packs, which combine several listing upgrades at a discounted price. The Value Pack includes Gallery, Subtitle and Listing Designer, and the Pro Pack includes Bold, Border, Highlight, Gallery Featured, and Featured Plus. The promotion runs May 16 -17, 2006. All other fees apply, see website for details and restrictions (http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200605151700092.html and http://pages.ebay.com/promo/featurepacks).

eBay Australia (eBay.com.au) is running a free Gallery promotion for three days, beginning on May 18, 2006. See website for details and restrictions (http://www2.ebay.com/aw/au/200605161259482.html).

eBay also announced US and Canadian-based Skype customers can now make free SkypeOut calls to traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada. Previously, Skype users in both countries were required to pay for Skype calls from their PCs to traditional telephones. Free SkypeOut calls to the US or Canada will be available to US and Canadian-based Skype users until the end of the year. eBay acquired the VoIP telecommunications service last year (http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200605151328502.html).