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Welcome to our June newsletter. It’s been a very busy month for us, so much going on it seems to have flown by in a flash.

In the coming week we will be moving our operations to our new Dallas data centre. In testing we’re seeing over 250% improvement in page load times for our US users and over 200% for the rest of the world.

Moving to the States works out a lot more economical than hosting in London. We are able to host up to 4 times the number of servers in Dallas than in London for the same cost. A much more reliable 24hr data centre support will see a faster and more reliable eBid very shortly.

We will also see an end to our us.three/four/nine/ten.ebid.net URLs. From the changeover everything will be www.ebid.net or uk.ebid.net and so on. EDIT: The old url’s will still work so no need to change.

At the same time as installing and setting up everything in Dallas we’ve started work on building the newly designed site. Our design company finished work about 2 weeks ago and we have taken receipt of the final proofs. These will now be built into our templates over the coming weeks.

Our apologies for the late arrival of the Ninja Lister. I know a lot of you have been asking where it is. Once we have all the bugs licked we will put it up straight away.

We are now up and running with our new system of uploading your items to Google Products. You can expect your items to be showing within a couple of hours now instead of days. You will also see them being sold by your eBid Store or your individual eBid username instead of just a generic “eBid.net”.

Tip of the Month

Started a lot of Run Until Sold or On First Bid sales? Why not put them on for an immediate start with 10 auto-reposts to get them working their way to the top of the results pages.

Competition Time

Congratulations go out to our last newsletter competition winner stevehills64 who correctly identified the number of eBid Stores currently open as 7777. You have won yourself the much sought after selection of official eBid merchandise.

Would all entrants please note that in order to take part in our free competitions, your entries must include the following details:

  • 1) Answer to the competition question
  • 2) Your eBid username
  • 3) Name and address for sending out any prizes

Incomplete entries are automatically deleted.
Closing date 10th July 2009. Email answers to competitions mmebid.net

June’s Question

How many free photos can be added to an auction by Seller+ users?

Until next month,
Ed at the eBid Newsdesk