August 13, 2013
Hello eBay Trading Assistants,
Thank you for your participation in the Trading Assistant program and the work you have done to help others sell their items on eBay. We’ve been listening to feedback from many of you and have heard that the program is not meeting expectations or delivering a significant number of sales leads. As a result, on September 20, 2013, the Trading Assistant program will be retired. Please note, this decision has no impact on your eBay account or your ability to buy and sell on eBay.
Here’s what it means to you:
eBay will no longer host a Trading Assistant directory or provide sellers with Trading Assistant program leads
eBay sellers can no longer use “eBay Trading Assistant Program” logos or other marketing materials referring to the Trading Assistant programTo allow time for processing any remaining leads, the Trading Assistant portal will be available until October 18, 2013 to all registered program members.
For eBay sellers who are “Registered eBay Drop-off Locations” or any other sellers who have physical program marketing materials (flyers, cards, signage, etc.), the deadline to discontinue all usage of these items is October 31, 2013. As stated above, use of digital logos, marketing materials or other program marks will be prohibited as of September 20, 2013.
Note: all eBay sellers may however continue to use the eBay brand within the guidelines of the eBay seller agreement. Click here for more details.
Today’s announcement has no impact on the eBay Education Specialist program.
We appreciate all of our eBay sellers and the work you do in your local communities. Our strategy at eBay is simple: provide our customers the best possible selling and buying experience. We are committed to your success. As new programs and initiatives continue to be developed, eBay will make every effort to find more compelling ways to engage with our sellers.
If you have any additional questions, please contact us.
Sincerely,
The eBay Seller Program Team
Important Dates/Actions Needed:
September 20 – Trading Assistant program is discontinued, public access to Trading Assistant portal/directory is suspended, all digital program logos and other marketing materials must be taken down
October 18 – Registered program members must process all remaining leads from within the Trading Assistant portal queue as access to the portal will be discontinued on this date.
October 31 – Any physical program signage or other program marketing materials may no longer be used
End Of An Era At eBay: Trading Assistant Program To End
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It’d be hard to disagree with ’em, it wasn’t a viable program way back when. But I hate it when “we’ve been listening” directly preceeds “program will be retired”.
complicated? Oh no, eBay is something you can do while cooking dinner or maybe while you’re watching television after that.
exactly; you point your phone at something, snap a photo of it and its surroundings, call up your eBay app and tell it how much extra cash you’d like and push a button. Then I assume you get the extra cash-I have not tried this.
I’m cooling my heels; lost my TRS rating on both IDs (not enough tracking according to “them”, only 89.xx% and must be 90%) and sales did what they did last time that happened. So I’m working on my own site; it comes to our attention that it isn’t very friendly to “smart” phones so I’m trying to fix that as much as I can and I’m trying to add a lot of original content. I just noticed that a record I listed there for around six bucks goes for more like 15 on eBay, so I’ve got some price adjustments to make……..nothing like working too cheap after 14 years of working too cheap………
oh, no more Discussion Boards either? Wow.
You know, if you have the right stuff, Thailand can be very lucrative.
I’m really trying to come up with a Plan that I can show people. In the next couple of months I’d like to really change some stuff around, but I’m not quite ready yet. I’d kind of like to zero in on ten particular years of record albums (1969-1979) and move a certain amount of former eBay items (about 80) to I-don’t-know-where. Kind of Mr. 1970s Things And eBay Fails, but I can’t seem to work that into a logical slogan…..
Sounds like John Bodine had a grand scheme indeed. Heh, lately we’ve sold a lot of antique watch chains, many of which we just buy at eBay from sellers who give them away, and one thing they often miss are tiny marks that give away who the maker was. Lately, we’ve had several which bear the mark S.O.B. (can’t remember offhand, but it’s a guy’s name) and I often wonder when I start those if there’ll be trouble…….
interestingly, there’s an S.O.B. chain at Etsy……… http://www.etsy.com/listing/54397966/sob-and-co-so-bigney-and-co-vintage