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EcommerceBytes-NewsFlash, Number 1491 - March 09, 2007 - ISSN 1539-5065     | Next
eBay UK Sellers Face More Competition and Less Exposure
By Ina Steiner
EcommerceBytes.com
March 09, 2007




eBay users in the UK got more bad news on Thursday when eBay announced more details about its tests of the way listings appear on non-domestic sites. In February, eBay changed the way British listings appear on the US eBay.com website: previously, items listed on eBay.co.uk also appeared in the default search results on eBay.com, but now, they are no longer guaranteed to appear there. Yesterday, eBay announced that US listings would appear on the UK site in certain categories.

That means UK sellers are getting less exposure because their listings do not appear on the US site, but face added competition from US sellers whose items will appear on the UK site by default in some cases, if they specify worldwide shipping.

Reaction from users in the eBay UK Forum can be seen here:
http://forums.ebay.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=1200095850

And UK Blogger Tamebay reacts here:
http://www.tamebay.com/2007/03/com-listings-to-appear-by-default-on-couk.html

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/uk/200703081148112.html

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