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We heard your requests! Shopping API enhancements
As part of our continuous effort to support you better, we have made several enhancements to the Shopping API. Please continue to send us your feedback, so that we can improve the Shopping API to meet your needs!
The following calls have been updated:
For details about these changes, please see the 565 Release Notes.
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Developer Impact of May 2008 Listing Policy Changes
eBay announced a number of changes to our listing policies to benefit both buyers and sellers. These are the policy changes that were announced:
- Removal of the Choice Policy
- Removal of the Multiple Listings Policy
- New simplified Search & Browse Manipulation Policy
- Mystery Auctions prohibited
- Updated Links Policy
- Monitor your seller standing and increase visibility in Search
- Boost in search to sellers with 4.7 and above on all DSRs for the last 30 days
See the blog post for a full list of the announcements and the developer impact.
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Keynote Speaker Bios, Session Talks and Beer
We're just under a month away from DevCon, and there are more updates this week. Now is the time to register if you haven't done so yet - we're going to have a fantastic time in Chicago!
First, we've got our keynote speaker bios up, including industry speakers such as Mike Shaver, Chief Evangelist for Mozilla, Adam Gross, VP of Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce.com and Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com. Learn more about the background and experience behind the insights you'll hear in Chicago.
You'll also want to check out the complete list of sessions we're offering this year, including
- Anatomy of a Killer E-Commerce App
- Product Roadmaps for eBay, PayPal and Skype
- Top 10 Pitfalls for New eBay Developers
- Technical Integration of Shopping.com API
- Web 2.0: Lies, Mystery and Opportunity
- Using the eBay Accelerator Toolkit for PHP, PHP5 Editions
Now on to important things, like beer. That's right, the Beer Bash is back! Bring your business cards and your thirst on Monday, June 16th at 4:30 for a most excellent time. Come check out DevCon Sponsors, who will be hosting exhibitor tables with giveaways. Then, when the Beer Bash is over at 6:30PM, jump on the PayPal party bus for a short ride over to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry for a fun evening.
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eBay SDK 561 for .NET full release
Developers can download the latest full release of the eBay SDK for .NET. Before installation, please read about the changes to the SDK in the Readme file
and see the changes to the API in the Trading API Release Notes. The SDK contains user-authentication improvements released with Trading API version 557.
Among the new API features supported in this SDK release are features that enable you to:
- Make listings available by default on another site
- Provide more information about prospective buyers for classified vehicle listings
- Use new functionality to find out when items were administratively canceled, and relist them
- Search for featured charities
- Specify free shipping with a new solution for offering free shipping
- Use new platform notifications for buyers
- Specify the number of days' worth of new and modified transactions that you want to retrieve
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eBay SDK 561 for Java full release
Developers can download the latest full release of the eBay SDK for Java. Before installation, please read about the changes to the SDK in the Readme file
and see the changes to the API in the Trading API Release Notes. The SDK contains user-authentication improvements released with Trading API version 557.
The SDK also contains code that post-processes the stubs generated by the WSDL2Java tool, in order to help an application handle an unrecognized enum value received in a SOAP response.
Among the new API features supported in this SDK release are features that enable you to:
- Make listings available by default on another site
- Provide more information about prospective buyers for classified vehicle listings
- Use new functionality to find out when items were administratively canceled, and relist them
- Search for featured charities
- Specify free shipping with a new solution for offering free shipping
- Use new platform notifications for buyers
- Specify the number of days' worth of new and modified transactions that you want to retrieve
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eBay SDK for Java: Migrating to JAXB data binding in July
In a continuous effort to support you better and provide an improved product, we are excited to announce plans to migrate to the JAX-WS standard.
Starting with the July release, the eBay SDK will upgrade from the customized version of Axis 1.1 to JAXB data binding per the JAX-WS standard. This migration will give us advantages in terms of performance improvements, a standardized solution, parsing improvement, more stability, flexibility at transport level, and more.
Also, starting July, the eBay SDK for Java will support the following JDKs:
We will drop support for JDK 1.4 and Axis 1.1.
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PayPal To Be A Required Payment Option for AU Sellers
We're making it safer for all our members to trade on eBay.com.au. To ensure members use only the most secure payment methods, it will soon be required to offer PayPal on all listings on eBay.com.au.
Changes will be introduced in two stages:
- All items listed for sale on eBay.com.au on or after 21 May 2008 must offer PayPal as one of the payment methods.
- All items appearing on eBay.com.au as of 17 June 2008 must be paid for using one of the following:
- PayPal
- Pay on pick up (i.e., paid for when picking up the item)
- Visa/MasterCard (with transactions processed by PayPal).
eBay is making these changes to improve the buyer experience by ensuring buyers have a safer electronic form of payment available to them. In addition, it allows us to offer unprecedented levels of protection to buyers and sellers, including PayPal Buyer Protection up to AU$20,000.
For more information about safer payment requirements, please review the following announcement:
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GetMyeBayBuying works with FindItemsAdvanced
The GetMyeBayBuying API call has been enhanced to improve usability with translated filters from the saved search URL.
GetMyeBayBuying now returns each search element within a user's Favorite Searches.
The search elements that are returned by GetMyeBayBuying can be used as input for the
Shopping API FindItemsAdvanced request.
For details about these changes, please see the Release Notes.
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Update on Custom Item Specifics
We are working hard on rolling out Custom Item Specifics to all categories! The majority of categories will have Custom Item Specifics in place by the middle of next year.
A few categories will continue to use the older style of item specifics (attributes) through 2009. These include Cars, Trucks, Motorcycles, and Tickets. A complete list will be available later in the year.
For more information on Custom Item Specifics, see Working with Custom Item Specifics. For more information on attribute-style item specifics, see Working with Attribute-Based Features.
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Late May/June 2008 Item Specifics Changes
We plan to update the following eBay Item Specifics in late May/June:
- Digital Cameras
- Camcorders
- Camera Lenses
- Memory
- Gemstone Rings
- Diamond Solitaire Rings
- Diamond Solitaire with Accents Rings
- Diamond Three-Stone Rings
In addition, new eBay Item Specifics are planned for wedding & anniversary bands and CZ engagement rings in Jewelry & Watches. Please refer to Seller Central for upcoming Item Specifics changes.
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Media and Consumer Electronics Catalog Product Changes
Starting in mid-2008, the eBay Germany, Austria, and Switzerland sites,
the eBay US site, and Half.com will start migrating some catalogs to a
new data provider. Initially, you may see changes in Media and Consumer
Electronics catalogs.
As part of this process, some products will
undergo changes to their product details and pre-filled Item Specifics,
some will be mapped to different products with similar information, and
some will be deleted. Old catalog items will be automatically mapped to new ones as much as is possible.
See the Release Notes for more details on the changes.
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Get Your Press Release in by May 30th!
Calling all developers launching products that tap into the eBay Marketplace -- If you're planning to post a press release around eBay Live! and/or eBay Developers Conference 2008, you must first send your release to ebaypaypal@text100.com on or before Friday, May 30th to get it approved by eBay's legal team in time to issue it at the events.
Releases sent after May 30th; will not be approved in time for the conference. So don't miss the opportunity to get the most out of your upcoming eBay Marketplace products and announcements by highlighting your news at eBay Live! or eBay Developers Conference. All approved press releases will be included in eBay's on-site press room at eBay Developers Conference.
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ZinText Makes your Site an Affiliate Powerhouse!
ZinText is a free service that can be used on any website to automatically link keywords to products on eBay. The links look similar to other in-text advertising links, with a double underline. When a user hovers over the link, a window pops with live listings on eBay related to that keyword. You can try it out yourself on the ZinText demo page.
Here's the cool part: ZinText automatically picks out the keywords for you. Just drop the ZinText JavaScript into your page, and you get instant affiliate links. No thinking required. If you want to customize it more, you can include and exclude certain keywords using their whitelists and blacklists.
ZinText is able to offer this service for free because 10% of your clicks go under their campaign ID. This means ZinText makes money the same way you do - through the eBay Partner Network. Learn more about ZinText. Read founder Chris Hedgecock's blog.
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