2008 eBay Changes - Seller Dashboard

Today, we are wrapping up our series on the 2008 eBay changes and how they affect your ability to make money on eBay. The last topic we are going to cover is that of the upcoming eBay Seller Dashboard.

We have done our best to analyze and give you our thoughts on the 2008 eBay changes, and how we feel they will affect your ability to sell on eBay. Let’s run down what we have covered up to this point:

• The eBay feedback changes, which is one of the biggest, most controversial changes.
• The eBay PowerSeller program changes.
• The eBay Safer Payments Policy.
• The changes to the eBay Search Visibility/eBay Best Match search results.
• And we also touched on the eBay Sellers Strike that was a direct result of the 2008 eBay changes.

To wrap up our discussion on the 2008 eBay changes and how they will affect your ability to make money on eBay, we are going to talk briefly about the upcoming Seller Dashboard.

This May, eBay will introduce what they are calling a personalized Seller Dashboard. This will be a new tool that will let you monitor your eBay account performance, and thus your ability to sell on eBay, in the following categories:

• PowerSeller status
• Account billing status
• Final value fee discount qualification
• Policy violations and risk of restriction
• Buyer satisfaction (based on feedback, DSRs and complaints)

It will be very important to have this above information at your fingertips, as some of these factors directly affect your ability to sell on eBay through search visibility, eligibility for PowerSeller discounts, whether you will fall under the new Safer Payments Policy, etc.

eBay describes the upcoming Seller Dashboard in the following way:

“This Dashboard will give you an at-a-glance look at your standing, and should help you manage your business more efficiently. You’ll basically have the same view as customer support, so there should be no more complaints about not knowing where you stand at eBay.”

Let’s hope that the eBay Seller Dashboard is an easy to understand and useful tool that lets the eBay Seller get a grip on how they stand statistics wise. It is going to be of the utmost importance to keep on top of your standings, as they affect your ability to sell on eBay with all of the new changes.

We are looking forward to seeing how the eBay Seller Dashboard shapes up. We have said it before, and we will say it again: Anything to make our job selling on eBay easier is something that we welcome with open arms.

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