Archive for March, 2009

Free listings on eBay.co.uk

March 16, 2009

Ebay

Items listed for sale with a starting bid under 99p are now free to list on eBay.co.uk meaning if it doesn’t sell – you won’t pay a penny.

Sellers also get the first photo free in the free listing.

This change is in response to restructuring the closing fees. Every auction sale on eBay.co.uk will now be subject to 10% ‘Final Value Fees’, rather than the confusing tiered structure before. This means that anything sold over £10 will now cost more in fees.

The free listings do not apply to motors vehicles, mobile phones with contracts, and property or eBay Business Sellers.

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New design for Craigslist?

March 13, 2009

craigslist

Smashing Magazine have an interesting article about redesigning Craigslist to make it easier to use.

Craigslist’s design has become quite stubbornly iconic in it’s simplicity but that doesn’t mean that it’s actually easy to use.

A few simple design changes could make Craigslist even more appealing to its buyers and sellers, possibly increasing the chance of a sale.

Craigslist is actually in quite  a unique position as it has hundreds of local sites so could conduct some useful small-scale user testing to see if improvements could be made.

Posted in classifieds, craigslist, search, shopping | 1 Comment »

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