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eBay Germany head Stefan Groß-Selbeck announced on Tuesday «the most far-reaching and fundamental changes to date» on the German marketplace.
Alongside the online appearance, revised in terms of content and graphics, the most important innovations include new search functions and a «sell-in-three-minutes» form. Customer inquiries are also to be answered increasingly via the telephone hotline. Capacities there would be quadrupled.
A new community offering is intended to support communication between the platform’s eBay users. The price for listing an item with a starting price of one euro starting price with a so-called gallery image is being reduced to 49 cents. Previously, 25 cents was due for the item and 75 cents for the image that appears in the search-results overview.
According to its own information, eBay has around 24 million members in Germany. That is around 13 percent more than in the previous year, Groß-Selbeck said at the company headquarters in Dreilinden near Berlin. According to its own information, eBay currently has around 24 million members in Germany. That is around 13 percent more than in the previous year, Groß-Selbeck said.
