The total of International listing were 238.0 million which represented an increase of 13.2% but in the USA there were nearly 178 million listing which is 2.8% down on the same period last year.

Although total listings may be up this may be in part due to the increase of bulk listing of low priced items, which often do not sell. It is no secret that eBay are working hard to increase the number of listings that result in a sale rather than the mass listing of speculative low priced items.

There have been reports that items priced at 1 cent or 1p on ebay.co.uk are being refused in some cases as eBay considers them to be farming for feedbacks. I did even read that some 99c offers had been suspended for the same reason but I do not know it this is true or not. But perhaps it would not be a bad thing if some of this rubbish were cleared off of the site.
Congratulations to eBay.i.e the Irish auction site which has just announced it has reached ½ million registered users which represents 58%of all Irish internet users, and 16% of the over 18 population of Ireland.