Fixed price listings are excluded from the promotion, as are Classified Ads and some eBay Motors, Business and Industrial categories. For full details see the eBay announcement page.

As soon as we saw that this promotion was taking place, we checked to see if there is a similar promotion for eBay sellers in other countries, but unfortunately it looks like it’s just for USA and Canada at the moment. This seems very unfair, and it is to be hoped that a similar promotion will be soon be available to sellers across all eBay’s sites.

CEO Bill Harding has every right to be proud of what he and his team have achieved so far. Setting up a new online marketplace on a shoestring budget was never going to be easy, but just two years after its launch, and after attracting $1,000,000 from prominent investors, Bonanza now has 300,000 registered users with over 3.4 million items for sale, and sales have increased by 150% this year.

Although it’s likely to be some time before they reach a point where they can compete head to head with the likes of eBay and Amazon, Bonanza could be a useful additional selling platform as we enter the busy holiday selling season.

We at Online Auction Ideas wish Bill and the team every success as they enter into this exciting new phase in their development

Keith Purkiss and Michael Ottman’s St Swithin’s Giveaway has launched!

Keith and Michael know a LOT of marketers from networking events, forums, coaching courses etc and have persuaded them to give away some of their best original products and services in this huge event!

I’ve had a sneak preview and some of these are paid products that have NEVER been given away before, and some are being specially created just for this event.

We have contributed a gift of our own – our brand new report “12 Easy-to-Source Low-Cost Things to Sell on eBay” which we only completed a couple of days ago is exclusively available for immediate download from this amazing giveaway event, and it won’t cost you a penny!

Just sign up using this VIP link and enjoy a ton of valuable gifts that you can download at zero cost!

Oh, and by the way, this giveaway is only open until St Swithin’s day (July 15) so be sure to sign up now and download all of the free gifts while you can!

Keith Purkiss and Michael Ottoman have convinced hundreds of their contacts to submit thousands of dollars worth of original ebooks, software, scripts and more to the Giveaway so you can download them all for FREE!

The event launches at 10am EDT this coming Friday (I believe that is 3pm UK time) and I will be posting an exclusive VIP access link here on the blog so that you can grab all of those valuable free gifts!

Remember, these are all original products, not tired old out-of-date resell rights products that have been doing the rounds for years, so be sure to drop by on Friday and get your link.

Check out the full terms and conditions at http://pages.ebay.co.uk/promos/0IF_100606/index.html.

Some sellers dislike free listing days because they feel that their online auctions get buried amongst all the junk that gets listed during these promotions, and maybe they do have a point.

However, I take advantage of the opportunity to relist items that have previously gone unsold without risking more listing fees, and I always get enough sales to make it worthwhile.

Free listing days on eBay UK seem to have become more frequent over the past few months. There was the one which began on 9th December last year for listings under £4.99 and was scheduled to run until 24th January, but was subsequently extended until 7th February. Then there was free listing with any starting price on 18th and 19th February. And now, just a month later, we have another one to look forward to (or not, depending on whether you are in the love them or hate them camp).

So what’s it all about? Is this another step towards what many see as the “Amazonification” of eBay? Are all listing fees going to be scrapped eventually and replaced by higher final value fees? Only time will tell.