I buy all my merchandise from the USA and a combination of the bad exchange rate and Ebay’s 10% selling fee means my business has tried up.

You ask Ebay for help and you get the standard no response.

Feedback is just as bad, how can sellers make Ebay a better place it you cannot tell other people of the non payers.

I will have my own website up and running within a couple of weeks.

I would like to hear other peoples opinions on these matters.

Thanks Cameron

eBay organising a plugin for osCommerce that would allow a single inventory record to have the inventory volume shared between eBay and the seller’s own site would be fantastic – it would be even better if the seller could allocate from the central inventory pool to each eBay site they want to list on.

e.g. 20 widgetisers in stock? Let’s put 3 on the UK, 3 on Belgium, 3 on Australia, 3 on Singapore, we’ll try 1 on Canada, then leave 5 on our own site and put the other 5 on eBay US … oh! We’ll have to rename them as Widgetizers for the US and only the US, therefore the original 20 on osCommerce will need to be split to 15 and 5 with different names and inventory codes.

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Joking and rib-poking aside … NYMarts – did you know? … In the late 1950′s, NATO agreed that all member countries would adopt the short-date code DD Mmm YYYY (e.g. 25 Dec 2008) and the USA actually initiated this.
In the early 1960′s, the UN thought this was a great idea and an accord was signed by all members (including the USA) that all countries would have universal adoption of this format, in all usage, before the mid 1970′s.
Today, 35-ish years after the deadline, the only country that has not adopted it … is the USA.
The USA is also the only country that evangelises the use of “ize” instead of “ise” in international English … apart from maybe the Caribbean Isthmus nation of Belize … or is that Belise?

Ed

http://www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/us/?view=uk
Verbs in British English that can be spelled with either -ize or -ise at the end (e.g. recognize/recognise) are always spelled with -ize in American English.

Here’s your own Merriam Webster one:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recognise
recognise
rec·og·nise
chiefly British variant of recognize

Shall we talk about proper use of capital letters now?

Please get cozy with a DICTIONARY .
it’s …recogniZed
it’s….realiZed
Children are watching.
Teach them WELL.
Not like Public School.

DSRs for example are totally slanted in favour of a large seller, anything that uses percentages is always going to be.

They also need to sort out best match, because you have sold one more widget than me should not be rewarded with higher search standing, it is a rediculous notion IMO.

They also need to bring the US policy on choice listings to the UK, I am totally baffled as to why this has not been done, I for one would quadruple the number of listing I had, and I am certain plenty of others would too.

Fee reductions although nice would not be necessary, a promise that they will simply stop changing things every 5 minutes and leave sellers alone to sell would probably be the best they could do to raise confidence.