Welcome to our July newsletter. To say we’ve been busy this month would be an understatement. The move to Dallas has gone as smoothly as can be expected, a few DNS hiccups but other than that we were down for a very limited amount of time.

Our move to Dallas has allowed us to upgrade our server hardware, upgrade our network and reduce our hosting costs. Take a look at the site and I hope you’ll agree it is running fast and smooth.

We are about 50% through our redesign build with the bulk of our time being spent building the new look design into our template system, our aim is to make the site simple, clean and effective giving both buyers and sellers a much better experience. The site’s a lot whiter with green and purple as the main colours.

Our uploads to Google Shopping are running smoothly and automatically. They are uploaded within a few minutes of auctions starting and appear in search results within a couple of hours. Don’t forget to add a BuyNow price to make sure your items are uploaded to get extra exposure.

Tip of the Month

Add your most commonly used auction data into “My Defaults”. Create “sets” of data that you can call into the listing form at the click of a button to save you copying and pasting over and over. Visit My eBid for more information.

Category Browse

eBid has nearly 10,000 categories to buy and sell in, here’s a few to wet your whistle.

* Clothing & Accessories > Fancy Dress
* Computing > Graphics Cards
* Music & CD > Vinyl
* Photography > Digital Cameras
* Books, Comics & Magazines > Magazines

Like shopping using our new “Showroom” view? Let us know.

Competition Time

Congratulations go out to our last newsletter competition winner JaBek1 who correctly identified the number of photos Seller+ users can upload for free as being 5. 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 20th August 2009. Email answers to competitions at ebid dot net

July’s Question
How may European countries will eBid operate in when Belgium and Austria are launched with our newly designed site?

Until next month,
Ed at the eBid Newsdesk