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  • Welcome to the eBid June 2018 Newsletter


    4,101,011 Live Listings
    24,413 Categories
    $3,553,471,445 Gross Listing Value

    Welcome to the eBid June 2018 Newsletter


    News from Gazza


    A warm welcome to our June newsletter. As spring gradually changes to summer, here in the UK we have witnessed some mesmeric lightning storms over the last few days. I'm glad to say eBid didn't take a hit so our 99.9% up-time this month has been maintained. The only downtime was a few seconds to place our GDPR site updates live. The areas affected are our Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions, we've added clearer explanations of how we handle your data. We are always proud to say eBid has never and never will sell any personal data to third parties, we have always given all our users full control over which messages they receive from us in our "My eBid > My Emails" section. Even this newsletter can be unsubscribed from with a single click at the bottom.

    Those of you who use our mobile app a lot will have noticed a reduction in in-app notices you were receiving during May, this was a technical issue with our push provider that has now been rectified. We would advise all our app users to just logout and then login to the app again to ensure you are correctly registered for those notifications which come in very handy when you are not near your email. Don't forget, in order to receive these notifications of sales, offers, bids and Q&A you will need to have permitted them when you first installed the app. If you declined by mistake when installing the app just head to your SETTINGS > NOTIFICATIONS area on your phone or tablet and find the eBid app, just switch them on there.


    A few more changes to the eBid website have been made including a top level category list on the homepage, this has been requested by quite a few eBidders recently. The full category list has always been available under the START SHOPPING button but adding it to the homepage should help a few newcomers out.

    Bing Shopping is currently sending us thousands of new shoppers per week and promoting your listings via hundreds of thousands of ad impressions on Bing.com and their partner websites. Bing Shopping uploads are still in Beta and are available to all SELLER+ Lifetime users in the UK and US.
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    At eBid our main aim is always to give you a great value trading platform. One of the ways in which we are able to pay for all the promotional costs we incur are the banners we show on our website. We understand that ads on a website can be an annoyance and ad-blockers are becoming more and more prominent, but to help keep eBid costs at their current low levels we do ask that you whitelist "eBid.net" in your ad-blocker to allow us to show you ads while you are on our website and to allow you to follow any ads that may be of interest to you. Don't forget, every single penny we receive from on-site ads is put straight into our advertising budget to promote your listings.

    Updates this month :

    BUGFIX - Small thumbnails were being used instead of large photos when importing from other marketplaces
    UPDATE - eBid Spreadsheet upload GALLERY listings referring to images that should be in the zip file which are not present will now error out instead of being started as FREE listings
    UPDATE - Improved homepage for smaller screen layouts
    UPDATE - Improved My Bulk Edit confirmation messages when zero items added to bucket
    UPDATE - Mass-repost/Mass-delete confirmation page improved to highlight errors more
    UPDATE - My eBid > Dashboard > Q&A > Recent Answers ... added button to add more replies to a question that was asked to you ... and .. added button to ask a follow-up question to an answer you have just received
    BUGFIX - eBid Store top level pages were not showing category in header
    BUGFIX - Calculated Shipping imports that included Local Pickup were not being accepted
    BUGFIX - Register link added to footer of mobile forums pages

    Competition Time


    Last Newsletter's Question :

    What is the abbreviation for the new EU regulations on data protection?

    a) GPRS
    b) GDPR
    c) USSR

    The correct answer was (b) GDPR.

    Congratulations to eBidder SupaSavers from Powys, UK. Your goodybag prize will be on its way very shortly.

    This Month's Question :

    What is the action you can take on ad-blocker software to help eBid promote listings more on Google and Bing Shopping engines?

    a) Bluelist ebid.net?
    b) Blacklist ebid.net?
    c) Whitelist ebid.net?

    To enter send us :

    Answer to the competition question
    Your eBid username
    Name and address for sending out any prizes

    Incomplete entries will be automatically deleted. Closing date 20th June 2018. Email answers to competitions @ ebid.net
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