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Archive for May, 2008

eBay needs to improve “choice” implementation

Posted in eBay, tagged on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »

I research eBay changes. And boy have I been busy this year. I really can’t keep up. Here’s the latest policy announcement.
Yesterday, I researched the removal of the “Choice Policy” in depth. eBay used to prohibit sellers from offering a choice of colors or sizes in listings. It was banned [...]

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Another eBay Pulser Wanna be?

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s a new Pulser that has not been NARUed yet.

I think they must use the make track trick. It’s too random for the Pulser script.
See the latest watcher count here.

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New eBay Feedback Calculations

Posted in eBay, tagged on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Your eBay feedback percentage probably changed this week.
eBay made the announcement on the Feedback system back in February (see below) but failed to mention that the calculation would now count neutral feedbacks.
Here’s an example of the feedback change on Kekoa64. I’m not trying to pick on Kekoa64 - I just happen to [...]

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Mystery Auctions banned from eBay

Posted in eBay, tagged on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »

eBay announced their new Trust & Safety policies yesterday. Here’s a few that will affect some readers of this blog.
This one is going to bum out the Mystery Pulse List Auctions group. There were 729 Mystery Auction listings this morning.
Mystery Auctions prohibited:
Due to the high rate of claims and bad buying [...]

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Kekoa64 NARU again?

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on May 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Someone reported that Kekoa64 went NARU again. The last time was in February. I don’t know anything else. Anyone?

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eBay fast to NARU watcher manipulators

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on May 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

This 10 day listing was #1 on the Pulse with 965 watchers on Monday at 5 am eBay time. It was ended by eBay on Tuesday at 7:15 pm with 975 watchers.
It was removed from the eBay site but you can view it by using Google cache.

I guess they ran a script to add [...]

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eBay affiliate links within eBay listings

Posted in eBay, tagged , on May 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »

A developer complained on the eBay Developer’s forum about cookie stuffing using iframes. eBay’s response was they “have monitoring in place to capture suspicious behaviors and poor value traffic to help us quickly pin point questionable affiliate practices.” Here’s the link to the forum.
eBay affiliate links within eBay listings is prohibited in the [...]

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blog troll service

Posted in Quality of Life, tagged on May 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »

I got a new stalker who spews hate towards me yet obsessively visited this blog 55 times in the past day and a half. You don’t have to do much to pick one up, as the Pulsers know.
This is clearly a Blog Troll. I came across this blogging service - you [...]

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the.rich.boy is NARU

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This is old news. Sorry, I forgot to check on what happened to the.rich.boy until tonight. He went NARU some time in March.

the.rich.boy sold $6,900 in eBooks in February, 2007. I can’t see what’s in this listing (listings removed by eBay) but he sold 19 of them for $10K each: [...]

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Good speakers at the Dev Conf. No eBay Live! 2009

Posted in eBay, tagged , on May 6, 2008 | No Comments »

The good news is that my gamble paid off. At the last minute on Apr 30th, I signed up for the eBay Developers Conference at the reduced rate of $350 even though there were no announced guest speakers. I attended in 2005 and 2006 but skipped last year’s conf. There is a [...]

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Is the Guitar an eBay Pulsed auction?

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »

A reader pointed out the “ROLLING STONES Autographed Gibson Firebird V Guitar!” as a possible Pulser listing. So I tracked the number of watchers on this listing today using eSeller Street.

The increase in watchers is impressive. I started watching this morning at 5 am eBay time when it had 900 watchers. There [...]

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Top watched item today on eBay.com

Posted in eBay pulse, tagged , on May 2, 2008 | No Comments »

Here’s the top watched listing on eBay.com with 900 watchers. ROLLING STONES Autographed Gibson Firebird V Guitar! The proceeds go to charity.
Thanks for the tip, whoever you are!

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