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Posted by Laurel Kline in Developer Community & Developers Conference
Friday, May.16.2008, 3:16 PM
Calling all developers launching products that tap into the eBay Marketplace -- If you're planning to post a press release around eBay Live! and/or eBay Developers Conference 2008, you must first send your release to ebaypaypal@text100.com on or before Friday, May 30th to get it approved by eBay's legal team in time to issue it at the events.
Releases sent after May 30th; will not be approved in time for the conference. So don't miss the opportunity to get the most out of your upcoming eBay Marketplace products and announcements by highlighting your news at eBay Live! or eBay Developers Conference. All approved press releases will be included in eBay's on-site press room at eBay Developers Conference.
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Product News
Friday, May.16.2008, 9:16 AM
Starting in mid-2008, the eBay Germany, Austria, and Switzerland sites,
the eBay US site, and Half.com will start migrating some catalogs to a
new data provider. Initially, you may see changes in Media and Consumer
Electronics catalogs.
As part of this process, some products will
undergo changes to their product details and pre-filled Item Specifics,
some will be mapped to different products with similar information, and
some will be deleted. Old catalog items will be automatically mapped to new ones as much as is possible.
See the Release Notes for more details on the changes.
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Friday, May.16.2008, 7:59 AM
The 565 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
Changed Functionality
- Enhanced Search Options for Shopping Calls
Change Requests
eBay Shopping API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.
John Darrow
API Tech Docs and Tools
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Friday, May.16.2008, 7:59 AM
The 565 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
Announcements
- Payment Methods for AU Sellers
New Features
- Changes to Fixed Price Listing Types on Italy Site
- Duration Can Be Specified for Items that Are Gallery Featured
Changed Functionality
- More Options for Tracking Buyer Accountability
- Buyer Protection Information Returned in Search Results
Documentation Changes and Errata
- Fields Returned by GetMyeBaySelling
- Improvement of and Migration of Samples
Change Requests
eBay Trading API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.
John Darrow
API Tech Docs and Tools
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Developer Education
Wednesday, May.14.2008, 12:04 PM
eBay is offering the following workshops next week. Both you and your customers might find them helpful!
Turning Unhappy Customers into Loyal Buyers
This workshop will be held on Tuesday, May 13th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.
In this workshop, Jerad Schempp, Chief Operating Officer of Certified Solution Provider HostedSupport will explain an approach for turning unhappy customers into loyal, long-term buyers!
Understanding Safer Payment Requirements and eBay Item Holds
This workshop will be held on Thursday, May 15th from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Pacific time.
Join eBay and PayPal staffers to learn more about the goals of safer payments and eBay item holds. Learn how to avoid having your funds held and what to do if your funds are held to release them as quickly as possible. We will also answer your questions about how holds work, what happens to your funds while they are being held, interest payments, shipping confirmation, communication, and dispute resolution.
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Categories and Item Specifics
Wednesday, May.14.2008, 10:37 AM
We are working hard on rolling out Custom Item Specifics to all categories! The majority of categories will have Custom Item Specifics in place by the middle of next year.
A few categories will continue to use the older style of item specifics (attributes) through 2009. These include Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, and Tickets. A complete list will be available later in the year.
For more information on Custom Item Specifics, see Working with Custom Item Specifics. For more information on attribute-style item specifics, see Working with Attribute-Based Features.
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Cool Tools
Wednesday, May.14.2008, 7:31 AM
ZinText is a free service that can be used on any website to automatically link keywords to products on eBay. The links look similar to other in-text advertising links, with a double underline. When a user hovers over the link, a window pops with live listings on eBay related to that keyword.
You can try it out yourself on the ZinText demo page.
Here's the cool part: ZinText automatically picks out the keywords for you. Just drop the ZinText JavaScript into your page, and you get instant affiliate links. No thinking required. If you want to customize it more, you can include and exclude certain keywords using their whitelists and blacklists.
ZinText uses your existing eBay Partner Network campaign ID, so you will see the clicks showing up in your normal eBay Partner Network reports.
ZinText is able to offer this service for free because 10% of your clicks go under their campaign ID. This means ZinText makes money the same way you do - through the eBay Partner Network.
Learn more about ZinText. Read founder Chris Hedgecock's blog.
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Business News & International
Thursday, May.08.2008, 10:35 AM
We're making it safer for all our members to trade on eBay.com.au. To ensure members use only the most secure payment methods, it will soon be required to offer PayPal on all listings on eBay.com.au.
Changes will be introduced in two stages:
- All items listed for sale on eBay.com.au on or after 21 May 2008 must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods.
- All items appearing on eBay.com.au as of 17 June 2008 must be paid for using one of the following:
- PayPal
- Pay on pick up (i.e., paid for when picking up the item)
- Visa/MasterCard (with transactions processed by PayPal).
No other payment methods will be permitted.
eBay is making these changes to improve the buyer experience by ensuring buyers have a safer electronic form of payment available to them. Giving buyers safer payment options on eBay will help increase buyer satisfaction and improve the marketplace overall. In addition, it allows us to offer unprecedented levels of protection to buyers and sellers, including PayPal Buyer Protection up to AU$20,000.
For more information about safer payment requirements, please review the following announcement:
Please note a small number of categories are excluded from these changes. Find out about these exclusions.
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Monday, May.05.2008, 3:07 PM
The 563 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
New Features
- Promotional Sales Support for Auctions and Auction/Buy It Now Formats via Free Shipping
- Enhancements to PayPal Buyer Protection
- Preview: Use Your Seller Dashboard To Check Your Selling Performance
Changed Functionality
- Changes to the eBay Feedback System
- New Creation Time Filter for GetAdFormatLeads
- Specifying Freight Shipping when Listing
- GetMyeBayBuying Allows You to Use the Trading and Shopping APIs Together
- Items Under Minimum Not Returned In Searches
- ReviseItem: Shipping Details and Multi-Quantity Listings
Documentation Changes and Errata
- eBay Web Site Differences for Third Party Checkout
- Improvement of and Migration of Samples
Change Requests
eBay Trading API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the
eBay Developer Documentation Center.
John Darrow
API Tech Docs and Tools
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Monday, May.05.2008, 3:04 PM
The 563 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
Changed Functionality
- Items Under Minimum Listing Amount Not Returned In Searches
Change Requests
eBay Shopping API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.
John Darrow
API Tech Docs and Tools
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Posted by Delyn Simons in Developer Community
Sunday, May.04.2008, 8:56 PM
Top 5 Developer Forum threads (by # of posts) from the last two weeks:
- Where is the affiliate id in the ebay Partner Network
- Getting Average BidCount
- Error 21915461 using GetBestOffers
- FindPopularItems: Most Popular Across All of eBay
- Listing Icons
- Delyn
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Posted by Delyn Simons in Developers Conference
Sunday, May.04.2008, 7:57 PM
We're 6 weeks out from the event, and we've made some recent additions to our keynote line-up for eBay Developers Conference 2008, the must attend e-commerce technology industry event of the year.
- Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist for Mozilla Corporation
- Adam Gross, Vice President, Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com
- Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com
- John Donahoe, CEO and president of eBay Inc.
- Rajiv Dutta, president of eBay Marketplaces
- Max Mancini, Senior Director of Platform and Disruptive Innovation at eBay
Speakers will be addressing the importance of open platforms in improving user experiences, boosting customer loyalty and engagement, and helping entrepreneurial developers monetize their applications by taking advantage of the leading e-commerce API platforms on the Web. You won't want to miss the opening keynote demo featuring Project Echo for the eBay platform.
Next, if you are planning on launching an application built on the eBay platform that you'd like to announce around eBay Live! or eBay Developers Conference -- make sure to get your press release approved by eBay in time to issue it at the events. Send your press release to ebaypaypal AT text100.com and they'll respond to your request quickly.
In addition to our eBay Developers Conference 2008 Facebook Event, where people are already connecting with familiar faces and arranging to meet in Chicago, we've started an ebaydevcon08 twitter, where you can get real-time updates from the show. When you Follow the ebaydevcon08 twitter, followers of ebaydevcon08 will have their messages appear on plasma display screens in the Developer Lounge in Chicago.
All for now. Register Now to get in on all the fun!
- Delyn
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Developer Community
Wednesday, Apr.23.2008, 5:56 PM
Top 5 Developer News (by # of clicks) from the last two weeks:
- Offering Safe Payment and Buyer Protection
- New Pricing Model for eBay.co.uk
- eBay Partner Network
- eBay Partner Network site live - Get your new ID now!
- Send us your Nominations for Star Developer Awards by Friday, April 11th
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Business News
Wednesday, Apr.23.2008, 1:53 PM
In May 2008, existing charity sellers will no longer be considered registered charity sellers until they agree to the new Terms & Conditions and create a donation account on eBay. After this date, any charity seller that tries to sell an item as a donation will be taken to the new Terms & Conditions page. When accepted, sellers will be marked as accepted and can continue being registered charity sellers as before.
Please let your customers who sell items for Charity know about this change, as it will block their listings until they agree to the new Terms & Conditions.
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Posted by Laurel Kline in Business News
Wednesday, Apr.23.2008, 12:24 PM
At the end of April 2008, UK and Germany eBay Express sites will be shut down. The sites will no longer be accessible, and you will not be able to list items on these sites via the website or the API.
Active Express-only items will be ended and moved to a seller's unsold items folder and a full insertion fee credit will be issued. Scheduled Express only items will be also moved to the unsold items folder, but not credited since the items were never charged. All other listings in any other format will remain on the site as they are.
For more information on the API impact, see the Release Notes.
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Posted by Delyn Simons in Developers Conference
Tuesday, Apr.22.2008, 8:48 PM
Look out - I'm back, and I've got lots of exciting updates about eBay Developers Conference 2008.
First off - don't miss out on your last chance to save $245 by registering for DevCon by April 30th. Register now so you can relax and make plans to enjoy all Chicago has to offer.
Next, thanks to all of you who were behind the record number of Star Developer Award nominations this year that were due by Friday, April 11th. We were flooded with both nominations and customer testimonials telling us about their favorite eBay tools. eBay, PayPal, Skype, Shopping.com -- I was completely energized by all the activity. We were struggling to keep up! Stay tuned about the winners and runner-ups from each category.
Due to popular demand, we are adding a Day One, hands-on eBay Web Services B.Y.O.L. Code Lab on Monday afternoon, June 16th. If you want to roll up your sleeves and get neck deep in code, this is the session for you. This two hour Code Lab will be a deep dive into our Shopping Web Services, Trading Web Services and Client Alerts. Bring your own laptop, and eBay engineers will help guide you through the detailed steps needed to create three demo applications from scratch. And because you are using your own set-up, you can bookmark all the key information you need to be able to recreate the steps when you get back home.
Now let's talk fun. Fun is staying in downtown Chicago during the conference, so you can enjoy all that this great city has to offer. We're offering a free shuttle over to the McCormick Place West Convention Center throughout DevCon, from the Hyatt Regency Chicago. You don't need to stay at the Hyatt Regency Chicago to take advantage of the DevCon Shuttle, so check out the Shuttle information and nearby hotels on the Hotels/Shuttle page of our DevCon website.
Fun is also joining our eBay Developers Conference 2008 Facebook Event, so you can connect with familiar faces and arrange to meet in Chicago. Check out some of the event photos, videos and links people are sharing, including information about upcoming sessions from the speakers who are giving the talks.
I think that's enough for now. Check back in a couple of weeks for our next DevCon update. Get ready for Chicago!
- Delyn
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Posted by Janet Major in Documentation
Monday, Apr.21.2008, 3:34 PM
Developers who design with the Flex/Flash SDK 2.2 can now take advantage of two new tutorials for use with Adobe's Flash CS3 - a basic search tutorial, and a more advanced search tutorial.
The basic-level tutorial takes Flash CS3 developers through the steps needed to create a successful search application using the FindItemsAdvanced Shopping web service call.
The more advanced tutorial combines the results of the FindItemsAdvanced and the GetUserProfile Shopping web service calls to create an application that retrieves both item and user data.
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Posted by Janet Major in Product News
Monday, Apr.21.2008, 1:43 PM
All of the SDKs (JavaScript, Flex, and Flash) that help you build applications with eBay Shopping API calls have been updated to include the following calls:
FindPopularItems
FindPopularSearches
FindReviewsAndGuides
GetCategoryInfo
GeteBayTime
In addition, the SDKs include a new timeout retry feature, and samples for FindPopularItems
and FindReviewsAndGuides.
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Friday, Apr.18.2008, 1:23 PM
The 561 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
Announcements
- Retiring UK and Germany eBay Express
- Existing Charity Sellers Are No Longer Considered Registered
New Features
- Improved Lead Gathering
- PayPal Integration on HK, SG, MY, and PH Sites
Changed Functionality
- Changes to Charity Seller Details for eBay Giving Works
Documentation Changes and Errata
- Improvement of and Migration of Samples
- BuyItNowAvailable Field for Chinese Auctions
Change Requests
eBay Trading API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.
John Darrow
API Tech Docs and Tools
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Posted by John Darrow in Documentation
Friday, Apr.18.2008, 1:20 PM
The 561 version of the API documentation is now available. Please note that updates to applications using new schema versions should always be done in a test environment.
Release Highlights
New Features
- FindHalfProducts Enhancements
Change Requests
eBay Shopping API Documentation
Please refer to table at the top of the Release Notes for when each version of the API will be available.
Keep up to date with the latest API documentation at the eBay Developer Documentation Center.
