Depending on when you start the clock, eBay Express is or will be a year old.
- eBay Express, The Preview Mode, opened 24 April 2006.
- eBay Express was brought out of Preview Mode on 14 June 2006.
Here's a look back at the announcements leading up to the 14 June 2006 official opening.
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***A Message from Bill Cobb*** | |||
January 18, 2006 | 01:27PM PST/PT
I’d like to start the year by making some announcements and filling you in on exciting new developments at eBay. Thanks to the continuing input and innovations of our Community, the eBay marketplace keeps evolving -- creating new opportunities for buyers and sellers alike. 2006 Fee Adjustments
I encourage you to take a moment to learn more about the upcoming fee adjustments here. Investments in Advertising Also in 2005, with internet advertising costs spiraling, we put considerable effort behind developing new ways to bring more buyers to your listings who use search engines like Google and Yahoo. Behind the scenes, we’ve been optimizing our site content for this unpaid or "natural" search. We’ve encouraged the Community to use About Me pages and a few months ago, we launched Reviews & Guides. The content members create through these features not only makes the site a richer experience -- these pages get picked up by search engines. This means buyers searching the internet for product information or other keywords are naturally driven to eBay. Product Innovations This year, we’ll continue to stay focused on products and features to help you grow your business and improve your buying experience. For instance, for eBay Stores, you’ve told us that 19 categories and only one level is not enough. So this spring, we’ll be releasing a new structure that allows you to have up to 300 custom categories in three levels of categories and sub-categories. I’m also pleased to tell you that we’re soon introducing something many of you have wanted for a long time: At the end of any eBay search, all matching Store inventory listings will be displayed. For sellers, this means much more exposure for your eBay Stores and Store items – for buyers, every search will return many more qualified listings. It’s a win/win for everyone. You can read here for more details on the change to add Store Inventory items in Search which will launch in a few weeks. Introducing eBay Express While eBay Express will be a specialty site, it’ll be part of the eBay marketplace, so Store and Fixed Price listings that qualify will automatically appear on both eBay.com and eBay Express – at no additional cost. Many sellers will benefit from the additional exposure without having to list their inventory twice, or change the way they sell. eBay Express will offer quick and easy ways to search and browse, a shopping cart (yes, at last!), and payments via credit card or PayPal. And because payments are made at the point of purchase, sellers will not experience unpaid items. We’re consciously making the buying experience on eBay Express different. And to deliver that experience, we’ll be opening eBay Express to sellers who have a positive track record on the site and who list items that are available for immediate purchase. Only sellers with 98 percent positive feedback or better – and a feedback score of at least 100 – will be eligible to sell on eBay Express. Sellers must also accept PayPal. There are a few other requirements for selling on eBay Express. To learn more now, please click here. eBay Express is a complicated undertaking; we’re now finalizing our planning and development work, and we’ll have more details to share in the months ahead. At launch, eBay Express will be available only for US-based sellers, although we have plans to expand in the future to our international sellers on eBay.com. I hope this gives you a sense of what we’re focused on as we head into the new year. On behalf of everyone at eBay, thanks for being part of the eBay Community. As e-commerce continues to grow and evolve, we look forward to continuing to shape the future together. Please join me for my first Town Hall event in 2006 next week – Thursday, January 26 at 2 pm Pacific time. My North American leadership team and I will be answering questions about whatever is on your mind. I always look forward to these sessions, and I hope you’ll join us. Sincerely, Bill Cobb |
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***eBay Express Brown Bag Lunch Event on Thursday, January 26th*** | ||||||
January 23, 2006 | 04:22PM PST/PT
We’d like to share more details about eBay Express and help answer many of your questions. We’re inviting everyone to a Brown Bag Lunch event on the Seller Central discussion board on Thursday, January 26th from Noon to 1pm PT. We hope to see you there. Sincerely, Chung Cheong and Adam Nash |
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***eBay Express – Supported Categories and Item Condition Details*** | ||||
March 02, 2006 | 03:54PM PST/PT
Many of the categories on eBay.com will be available on eBay Express at launch, but not all of them. We've also stated in earlier messages that Item Condition will be a listing requirement for your item to appear on eBay Express. This is true for many, but not all, categories that will appear. I want to clarify these points below:
To provide more information about which categories will and will not be included in eBay Express at launch, we've put together two different lists: Click here to see which categories will not included at launch. Click here to see categories that will be included at launch. As you'll notice, the Collectibles categories make up a large share of these categories. We have started a thread on the Collectibles discussion board to provide further information about which categories in Collectibles will and will not be included in eBay Express at launch, and whether Item Condition will be available. Sincerely, Adam Nash |
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***Lifting the Preview on eBay Express!*** | ||||||
June 14, 2006 | 02:06PM PST/PT
We owe a lot of thanks to the many sellers and buyers who have helped us "kick the tires" over the last few weeks. We've heard from many of you about what works well and what has needed some improvement. We've already released several rounds of enhancements, with more on the way in coming weeks. Here's a summary of some of the highlights we’ve been working on: For sellers:
For buyers:
Finally, as Bill mentioned at the keynote, and as we committed to you earlier, we're launching a major integrated eBay Express marketing campaign for the back-to-school selling season. The centerpiece of the campaign will be TV commercials that build on the strength of our highly successful "it" campaign. Stay tuned for more details on the General Announcements Board. So we'll keep working hard on more enhancements to eBay Express over the summer, and I encourage YOU to keep telling us what you think! The Comments on eBay Express survey is available on the eBay Express homepage, and we're actively monitoring the eBay Express discussion board. Sincerely, Lara Bridges http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200706081016052.html ***Updates on eBay Express*** June 08, 2007 | 10:16AM PST/PT
Did you know that on eBay Express an item of clothing is sold every 67 seconds, a piece of jewelry every 2.3 minutes, and a DVD every 4 minutes? The word is building that eBay Express is THE place for buyers who want that great eBay deal and who at times prefer fixed-price items. Furthermore, 9 out of 10 buyers have told us they love the shopping experience that eBay Express offers. This is all excellent news for a site that's barely one year old, and we want to thank the eBay Community for all your support in helping to make eBay Express's first year a success. If you haven't visited eBay Express lately, I invite you to come check it out. We�ve added a host of new features recently to make it even easier to buy and sell. Here�s a quick rundown of what's new:
A note to our sellers � Remember that getting your listings included on eBay Express requires no additional work beyond what you're already doing to sell on eBay.com! (For more information about qualification, read our eBay Express Selling Checklist.) Stay tuned for more improvements in the future. And if you're heading out to Boston for eBay Live! next week, make sure to stop by the eBay Express booth so we can meet you. Sincerely, Lara Housser |
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