Looking for Complete Archive of Seller Updates
I am looking for a complete archive of eBay Seller Updates from when they were first issued.
Many seem to be missing or if you can find them they link to current pages which have nothing to do with the actual update.
Some years have a Spring and Fall update while other years these titles are not used and instead they are simply called the First, Second or Third Seller Update.
Some years only one update such as the Fall can be found while the Spring update can't be found.
Anyone have a list of these updates so I know what is missing?
23 comments
mam98031
·2 years agoWhile this by no stretch of the imagination all things that have changed over the years, maybe this will help you accomplish whatever it is you are trying to accomplish.
https://www.ebay.com/sellercenter/resources/seller-updates
axmas_50
OP2 years agoI previously checked that, but it only goes back a few years.
mam98031
·2 years agoI'm not sure what it is you are trying to accomplish but it is unlikely that what you are seeking is the best way to learn about changes. Ebay has never announced all their changes. Over the years something that was changed a few years ago gets changed again a few years later. So studying the older changes will likely be just a waste of time and only cause confusion.
What are you trying to accomplish? If we understood that, it would be easier to help you.
lotzofuniquegoodies
·2 years ago@mam98031
Re: Seasonal announcements
From a personal perspective I just preview those announcements to see what is "possibly" coming down the pikes. I know once/if/when it arrives in Canada it will be a shadow of how it was described. In many cases they are like carrots being dangled in front of us totally out of reach. Canadian's are still waiting for the option to offer coupons. We just keep hearing it's in the works with no timeline for it to magically appear. It took as over a month to get the option to show discounted shipping. (In comparison to dot com.) The eBay calculator is still not fully functional on ca and we didn't get the option to select services we wanted to apply. (For some sellers they may have a different(better) discount for a courier compared to what eBay can offer).
When you see those announcements the first question to ask is will something be useful or applicable to your business? When they do arrive the most important thing to do is test. Second is test. After that test further...Just to be sure it is working as intended.
As for historically my guess some users review for entertainment value. Basically to see what we got and if it does/did work as intended. Or never actually did arrive.
-Lotz
lotzofuniquegoodies
·2 years agoPS. One other reason someone may be curious what was in a past announcement is to confirm what they previously read so they know they are not losing their mind. I know I have done that on wayyyy too many occasions. In my almost 20 years of eBay I have gone from Afro to cue ball in the hair department scratching my head trying to stay current with "eBay's tinkering under the hood."
axmas_50
OP2 years agoJust looking for some sources to reference to document the date of certain practices being implemented, which usually tied to one of their infamous updates.
valueaddedresource
·2 years ago@axmas_50 honestly, your best bet would probably be to ask here about whatever certain practices you are interested in or do specific searches on Google or here in the community on those subjects to try to narrow in on when they were implemented (which may or may not necessarily be as part of an update).
The only other thing I can suggest if you specifically want info related to past seller update announcements would be to search the community or Google for something like "eBay Seller Update [Year] [Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall]" and then try to backtrack links from there.
The difficulty is going to be that eBay hasn't kept the same format for those URLS over the years and some pages may still be active while others may not.
For example searching for eBay Seller Update 2016 Spring pulls up a still active link with details about what was in that update - https://pages.ebay.com/sellerinformation/news/sprupd16/index.html
Searching for eBay Seller Update 2017 Spring doesn't bring up a direct link, but it does bring up a link to an old community post.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Announcements/2017-Spring-Seller-Update/ba-p/26628426
That post does include a link, but it's dead and leads to a page not found message if you click on it.
However, if you hover over the link, and right click to copy the link address, you can then take it over to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to see if there is an archived version of that page.
https://archive.org/web/
Just click on the date you want to see and it will load whatever it has archived on that date - for example, here's what that page looked like on March 8, 2017.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170308050046/http://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/seller-updates/2017spring/index.html
You can see how that would be a lot of manual work so...like I said, it would probably just be easier to ask about whatever is on your mind and I bet the many helpful members here in the community can probably steer you in the right direction much faster than trying to find all the past updates. 😉
axmas_50
OP2 years agoMy search were much more simple such as just the year to bring up all articles pertaining to 2011 but of course that shows no results.
In a conversation with a eBay rep about the exact seller update that introduced fvf on shipping the rep replied there has always been fvf on shipping.
I cancel the conversation the same rep says the same thing.
Then changes his story when I say there are news articles discussing it.
Then he tries to says its 2012.
I ask him for the seller update even though I know that is wrong as I know it was 2011, but don't have a copy of the actual seller update.
Then he tries to state they have been removed by ebay but are just inaccessible this moment.
Then he changes it to they have archived.
Before this I was told it was due to the seller updates being hosted on PayPal.
A company of compulsive liars!
valueaddedresource
·2 years ago@axmas_50 I just Googled "ebay seller update 2011"
https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+seller+update+2011&oq=ebay+seller&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDsyBggCEEUYOzINCAMQABiDARixAxiABDIMCAQQRRg5GLEDGIAEMgYIBRBFGEEyBggGEEUYPDIGCAcQRRg80gEIMzIzM2owajeoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://pages.ebay.com.sg/sellerinformation/2011news/FirstSellerUpdate2011.html
https://pages.ebay.com.sg/sellerinformation/2011news/KeyDifferences2011.html
https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/video-post-ebay-seller-release-spring-2011-ebaynews-ebaysr11/
mam98031
·2 years agoI honestly don't see what is to be gained from spending all this time researching this stuff. But it is your time and you have every right to spend it the way you wish.
FVF on shipping happened in 2011. It is was then and is now a standard in the industry. Ebay was a little slow to adopt it, but they got around to it.
What is gained by knowing when a decade plus policy started? I understand on more current changes, but something this old??
mam98031
·2 years agoIt is unlikely that historical announcements will tell you much of anything about what is to come. Now more current announcements could.
Ebay offers incentives for sellers to use certain tools, but they aren't required. They also offer certain incentives for sellers that reach certain milestones in our stats. All pretty normal stuff and part of a companies structure to inspire their work force [not that we are employees]. It isn't solely an Ebay thing.
As fast as things change around here and many with no announcement at all, old info is likely more confusing as ever as it doesn't represent current Ebay.
axmas_50
OP2 years agoWho said I was interested in what was to come?
Just interested in the date certain policies were put into place.
kensgiftshop
·2 years agoWhat policies are you wanting to know about?
buyselljack2016
·2 years agothat response was not to "you" unless you are using 2 ID's to post in this thread 😂
axmas_50
OP2 years ago"that response was not to "you" unless you are using 2 ID's to post in this thread "
What response would that be?
You have no previous post in this thread.
Anything written in this thread is a reply to me as I originated the thread.
eBay has gotten much worse than before.
Lost 12% of all buyers in one quarter and another 9% in the next quarter.
Now #2 behind Shopify.
The first thing customer service does to a new account is lie to its owner, not once, but three times using the same copy and paste script.
buyselljack2016
·2 years agoWhat response............... The one that I replied to. What/who is being responded to is shown right under a reply with the arrow pointing to it. mam was responding to lotzofuniquegoodies as indicated by the arrow.
Anything written in this thread.................. is not necessarily a response to you😂 These are open "community boards", and a thread started by someone is not just "theirs" 😂 Not how it works here.
mam98031
·2 years agoBut the older the policy you are looking at on these updates, the higher the chances are they are no longer the same and some don't even exist anymore from the older updates.
mam98031
·2 years agoThe post of mine you are commenting about was not directed to you but to a different poster.
lotzofuniquegoodies
·2 years ago@axmas_50
There is a partial list here. See drop down. Seller update goes back to 2021
I think in some cases it's a bit of getting rid of the evidence when older ones that were never implemented fully happen. Something that happens on dot ca as a matter of routine. You can try a google search but you may run across the same thing with links not functional.
-Lotz
As a side I have had former buyers returning, looking for more inventory. They were able to send me a link to my original listing from several years ago. When I go through my history of old listings would get the error message. eBay and historical data are 2 things I have learned not to use with total optimism!!! 😉
axmas_50
OP2 years agoWhen eBay customer service was asked why these updates have been deleted from eBay they replied that this was due to the updates being hosted on PayPal.
Yeah Right!
mam98031
·2 years agoThat is simply BAD information. Paypal has never ran Ebay. In fact it was Ebay that owned PayPal until June of 2015.
axmas_50
OP2 years agoActually it was your typical scripted lie eBay customer service routinely deals out to its users.
Three different reps from three different accounts used the exact same copy and paste answer.
Having nearly 25 years online sales has made me quite familiar with eBay lies.