Terapeak Research to Replace eBay Marketplace Research
August 19th, 2008
It was announced on Friday that eBay marketplace research would no longer exist. In it’s place, eBay has contracted with Terapeak to provide their excellent eBay Research product. The switch will be flipped on September 15, 2008.
From the press release:
Terapeak, an eBay Certified Provider,
today announced that Marketplace Research by Terapeak is being offered as an
alternative for eBay Marketplace Research, which eBay plans to retire as of
September 15th, 2008. Available to all existing eBay Marketplace Research
subscribers, and to all eBay users going forward, the tool will be
accessible from the eBay website, and Terapeak will provide dedicated
customer support.Fred Speckeen, CEO of Terapeak/AERS, says, “The transfer of research
responsibilities to Terapeak reflects our longstanding business relationship
with eBay, and our company’s commitment to providing the best market
research product possible. Although most eBay sellers know us for our
Terapeak product, AERS was the first licensee of eBay data, and also
provides e-commerce analytics based on eBay data to the larger Fortune 1000
community. We are proud and excited to be invited to offer Terapeak as an
alternative to eBay Marketplace Research.”
I’ve long thought that the Terapeak engine was much better than the marketplace research engine. This should be an interesting change however. Might take a few times around for users to get used to the software as well as differences in prices and such.
eBay Coupon for July 2008
July 20th, 2008
You’ll have to hurry to take advantage of this eBay Coupon. It’s another in a long string of eBay coupons that is tied to the people that it got mailed to. If you got one, congratulations!
The coupon is CJULYFUN0810P and it expires July 29 2008
These things keep coming directly after I buy something. It’s good for 10% off of a purchase!
Paypal Shipping Down?
July 7th, 2008
I’ve been unable to use the Paypal shipping service for almost 24 hours now. I only use the USPS, so it may be isolated to just that service, or it might be UPS and other foreign services as well. Anyone else having any problems?
I can’t find anything about this on either the eBay or Paypal websites. Here’s hoping it gets resolved soon. I doubt the Post Office is going to like me bringing in all my packages for postage again. Makes me realize just how dependent we are on the service. Of course, we could replace it, but since it’s essentially free, it’s still in the budget. 
Anyone have any other great services for shipping that they can recommend?
eBay Coupon for June 2008
June 20th, 2008
I just got emails from eBay on both of my eBay accounts with this coupon, so it may be pretty widely available. It expires on June 30, 2008. It is for 10% off of your purchase and has a maximum discount of $100.
The coupon code that you’ll need at checkout is: CJUNE0810P
Again, it expires on June 30,2008 and has a maximum discount of $100
If you didn’t get an email from eBay, it may not work, but it’s still worth a try in case it didn’t get to your email box. As far as I know it will only work for those that it was sent to, but again, give it a try and see.
Blocked Bidder List Resource for eBay Sellers
June 18th, 2008
With the new changes to the Feedback system on eBay, there are many sellers that are scrambling to find the best ways to not end up with malicious negative feedback from deadbeat buyers.
One way to do that is to maintain a very updated and extensive blocked bidder list. However, the problem with that is that maintaining it by hand is almost more work than the listing is. You end up taking up a spot on your list with buyers that are not registered any more. In the end, you can’t keep up and really don’t gain anything from your list.
Enter repxchange. It’s an online repository that allows you to report bad buyers to other sellers. The buyers get updated when they become no longer registered. And you can quickly throw together a list of the maximum 5000 blocked bidders. Registered sellers also get access to a search that allows for searching by eBay user id and reports back anything that has been reported on that user.
All in all, this could be a very valuable tool. At some point, eBay will have to find a better way or a new way to fix their feedback as the current system only seems to be getting more and more lopsided. And there doesn’t appear to be much help from eBay for jilted sellers. Maybe repxchange can help out with that.
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