eBay’s top Chiang Mai sellers and their SE Asian seller management team met at the Chiang Mai Holiday Inn yesterday (23 Feb 2009) to exchange information about the marketplace, its policies, and current sales performance.

Presentations were also given by international courier DHL and a new service for sellers to manage their multi-national sales marketing – Global MerchantRun. PayPal SE Asia also attended and presented information. A buffet style dinner was provided by the Holiday Inn for early arrivers.

Of the 30 or so sellers in attendance, approximately half were foreign expatriates resident in Chiang Mai and trading from here. This is a stark contrast to the eBay team’s last visit to Chiang Mai, in 2006, when they held a seminar for all levels of buyers. That earlier meeting was predominantly Thai attendees with only a handful of foreigners. Could this disparity in ratio be indicative that Thai sellers are not succeeding on the platform?

It’s interesting that it’s taken almost a year before news-bloggers have noticed World of Good exists, given that it is an eBay-related program, and leaves a bitter taste in the mouth that eBay are insidiously pushing their charitable programs to the fore during this period of extreme unrest amongst their selling members.

After trying for a quiet February, and failing, the hope of a short break in March was high on the agenda. Seems eBay anticipated that too, because what they’ve thrown at us this month has certainly made that dream fade away into nothingness … in the nicest possible way. First the UK threw a Free [...]

Having got the Christmas & January Sales silly seasons out of the way, I was looking forward to a nice quiet February where I could dedicate some serious development time to my existing ecommerce website, plus start the build on the new site for the wargames models business, them WHAM! eBay turned the world upside [...]

We were rummaging in one of our favourite “pikey” type craft shops this week, and at the same time the staff were clearing our a storeroom off the main sales floor…… Lo, and behold, they shoved a big box of Christmas decorations out of the way and onto the sales floor, still marked up with [...]