Ebay have recently announced another ‘backtrack’ from the updated link policies that were mooted in May! This one covers the links policy that applies to the links that you are allowed to insert into your listings, reviews, guides, about me pages, ebay blogs and ebay forums.

Ebay was going to change the policy to allow you to only use links to:

1 Any page on eBay or an eBay property including PayPal, Half.com and StubHub.

2 Photos of the item for sale, as long as the page displaying the photos does not offer, or link to, a site that offers a product or service for sale off eBay

3 Embedded videos within a listing, as long as the content and format comply with all eBay policies for videos.

4 Third-party solutions and services directly related to the particular listing.

This meant that the biggest changes would be no linking to your websites and no inserting an auto responder sign up form on your About Me page. This, of course, did not go down too well with ebay sellers that  have their own websites or capture names and email addresses for the purpose of email marketing to potential customers through an auto responder series of emails.

Ebay have done the ‘about turn’ following feedback received from disgruntled ebay sellers at their recent Ebay Live event. They have announced that there will be no policy update at this time!

Click on the link below to see the announcement:

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200807.shtml#2008-07-31132029

Hats off and well done to Ebay again for not implementing the updated policies!

But, why don’t they ever admit to being wrong?

Colin (disgruntled ebay seller!)