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• 1. Thought for the Day
• 2. Let's Not be Negative!
• 3. Google Gatecrashes eBay Live!
• 4. News & Views
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  eBay To Go
  eBay Store/Shop Tune-up
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If you're like me, you sometimes research a seller by looking at their feedbacks. What you're really interested in are those negatives!

If the seller has pages and pages of feedback, you could waste lots of time in scrolling through until you find each negative.

Here's a tool you can use to instantly find the negatives and neutral feedbacks for any seller.

All you need to tell it is the seller's eBay ID.

http://toolhaus.org/

You might want to try it out on your own eBay ID!

The Toolhaus page has some other useful feedback searches you can do. And it's all at zero cost.

Don't you love it when the big boys have a shoot out?

The annual jamboree that is eBay Live took place in Boston from 14th to 16th June this year.

Some bright spark at Google thought it would be a clever idea to invite eBay Live attendees to attend a Google event which was taking place in Boston on 14th June. Normally this would have been seen as an enterprising marketing coup.

And, normally it would have been - except that the Google party in question was to promote Google Checkout. If you didn't know, Google Checkout is a web payment system and direct rival of eBay's PayPal!

eBay wasn't best pleased.

In fact it was downright mad!

eBay was so mad that it announced an review of it's advertising spend with Google. And the review started with an immediate suspension of their advertising with Google.

Google, showing uncanny perception, cancelled their Google Checkout promotion event. Nothing to do with the fact that eBay currently spend around $25 million per year advertising on Google.

An eBay spokesman, sensing they had the better hand, said "We are pleased the Google recognised their inappropriate actions and chose to cancel the event." However, she would not comment on when or if eBay advertising on Google's US site would be reinstated.

Ouch!

Your intrepid reporter has not been able to determine what has happened to the genius in Google who originally had this marketing brainwave!

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If you use eBay.co.uk, be aware that the Home Page Featured promotion option has been removed. eBay say they have done this, "as part of our ongoing efforts to keep the home page as relevant and useful as possible for all our members."

Strange how eBay's biggest site, ebay.com, don't feel the need to remove Home Page Featured to keep their home page "as relevant and useful as possible for all our members." !!!


eBay To Go

Here's a nice new facility from eBay. It allows you to instantly create the HTML code to showcase any eBay auction or auctions on your website or blog. Called eBay To Go it's really simple and fun to use. You can try it yourself here:

http://togo.ebay.com/

eBay Store/Shop Tune-up

If you have an eBay Store or Shop, I would bet that once you set it up you've never reviewed whether you're getting the most from it.

Here is an excellent ebook which shows you how to tune-up your eBay Store or Shop, and make more from your investment. The ebook costs you nothing, but is worth reading. You can download it from here:

http://www.workwinners.com/nl160607.htm