eBay Incorporated plans to lower fees for listing items, raise minimum selling standards, and offer its best sellers incentives and discounts. To improve the buying experience, the company announced it is making changes in three major areas that influence seller behaviour: fee structure, seller incentives and standards, and feedback. The fee changes, which vary by country, are intended to encourage sellers to list more items and use more pictures in listings. The online auction leader is also setting the bar higher for sellers who aspire to its PowerSeller program: qualified PowerSellers will receive valuable fee discounts and better payment protection from PayPal.

Starting February 20 in the U.S., eBay is reducing its fees to list items (called “Insertion” fees) by 25-50%. eBay is balancing that change by increasing the fees it charges when an item is sold (called “Final Value” fees). Sellers prefer this structure, as it lowers their risk if an item doesn’t sell. The company is also eliminating fees in the U.S. for its Gallery option, which should spur sellers to include more photos of the item for sale.

The company is also making its minimum standards more stringent for anyone who sells on the site and will begin requiring a safe payment option, such as PayPal or a major credit card, for sellers who have lower rates of customer satisfaction or who sell in categories that have a high number of buyer complaints.

eBay will begin decreasing search exposure for the listings of sellers who have high rates of customer dissatisfaction, while increasing search exposure for the listings of sellers with the best buyer satisfaction ratings. As well, the company plans to update its feedback system to reinforce healthy, vibrant trading and keep bringing buyers back to eBay.

“Consumers have more choices than ever, and they expect more when they shop online today. We’re serious about making eBay easier and safer to shop. It is our intention to reward great sellers. Sellers that describe items accurately, ship on time, and ship at a fair price will enjoy preferential pricing and discounts on eBay. We think this will significantly improve the buyer experience overall,” said John Donahoe, the President and CEO-elect of eBay.

The Mozilla Mobile team has posted two prototype mobile user-interfaces for you to play with, one for button-driven devices, and one for touch screen devices. Now is a great time to get involved with the mobile project, as the team would like feedback on these UIs. More information is available on Doug Turner’s weblog, and Ars Technica has published a short article about the prototypes.

Just a reminder that the Firefox 3 Beta 3 code freeze is today, with the string freeze for localization last Friday. The plan is to have a quiet freeze for the rest of the week before starting builds, on the same timeline as used for Beta 2. With this schedule, builds should begin the morning of Monday, February 4th. For further information see Mike Connor’s and Mike Beltzner’s posts to mozilla.dev.planning.

On January 22nd 1998, Netscape first announced plans to release the source code for Netscape Communicator, laying the foundation for the Mozilla Project. Now, ten years later, Mitchell Baker writes, “2008 is a year to celebrate — Mozilla turns 10 this year. 10 years of open source history, commitment, product development, community building and accomplishments. An open source project of astonishing scope and diversity. A portion of the Internet that is more open and participatory than almost anyone imagined. A strong voice for what the Internet can be. That’s 10 amazing years.” Read the rest of Mitchell’s post on her blog.

OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. OpenOffice.org is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, which is the primary contributor of code to the Project. Over 180,000 people from every nearly every curve of the globe have joined this Project with the idea of creating the best possible office suite that all can use. They do so under the auspices of “open source.”
Release Schedule:

• first translation handover: January 18th, 2008
• UI and Feature_freeze: March 6th, 2008
• Translation update 3.0 start: March 13th, 2008
• Translation update 3.0 delivery: April 3rd, 2008, code freeze for Beta
• begin TCM testing: April 10th, 2008
• “last cws integration” for Beta: April 17th, 2008
• OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta: April 30th, 2008
• code_freeze, last regular translation delivery: July 4th, 2008
• Last cws integration for fixes: July 18th, 2008
• release candidate for all languages: July 25th, 2008, begin of TCM testing
• Product release: September 2nd, 2008 or OOoCon 2008 mid September ?

 

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