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Users can now set up an online store with Google Checkout online payment service. Google Labs announced recently the launch of a new widget (or gadget, as Google calls it) to allow sellers to embed a large version of the Google Checkout store gadget on their own website or on Google Sites a free webhosting service - to act as the user's ecommerce store.

On Tuesday an ecommerce giant eBay posted its quarterly results with a net profit exceeding the expectations of the Wall Street, reports Reuters. Besides it also gave its forecast for the third quarter. Apart from connecting sellers and buyers online through auctions and fixed-price sales eBay also includes Web payments unit PayPal and Internet telephone company Skype.

On the official blog of the company Robbert de Haan, Marketing Director of PayPal Benelux, announced that PayPal has expanses its buyer protection to over 900 categories on Marktplaats.nl, a popular classified site in the Netherlands and an eBay Inc company. 

As it was reported earlier on May 12th, PayPal was integrated in the books, CD/ DVD and telecommunications groups on Marktplaats.nl.

This week an online payment system AlertPay made a short announcement to its clients about the refunds program. On the official blog the company said: “Sellers can now issue refunds up to 14 days after the transaction's creation date! It used to be only 7 days, but due to a rising demand to increase this time frame, Sellers now have an additional 7 days to refund their customers, if necessary.”

An editor at AuctionBytes Ina Steiner was clarifying the question about the difference between eBay’s Payflow Gateway Service and the same Payflow gateway at PayPal. As it is known eBay requires sellers who have credit card merchant accounts to use its Payflow Gateway Service (at no extra cost) to allow buyers to enter their credit card information directly and securely in eBay checkout.

As eBay earlier announced to its sellers now through the end of 2009 they can pay only 5 cents when they list books, music, movies, and video games on eBay.com in Fixed Price with product details. Their listings will be shown on both the new eBay product pages and in search results. Besides, sellers can also get Subtitle free with Fixed Price and Auction-style listings in these categories when they list with product details.

eBay Motors, a part of eBay Inc. and the Internet's largest marketplace for buying and selling all things automotive, announced that it launched eBay Motors Local Classifieds for individual sellers. This new online classified listing feature enables connection of car buyers and sellers within a 100 mile radius of their local market and is offered for free to sellers for a limited time.

Online payment processor Google Checkout, which was initially launched by Google as an alternative to eBay’s payment processor PayPal, has announced the coming increase of fees to become effective on May 05, 2009. Currently Google Checkout charged rates as low as 1.9% + $0.30 per transaction, depending on the monthly sales volume. And there are no monthly, setup or gateway fees.

Online marketplace eBay temporally renamed its yellow stars that were used to mark those sellers with the lowest of the 12-point scale. The rename was applied only to French site where a one of the customers sent a complaint that claimed the symbol had anti-semitic connotations.

eBay online auction has announced new updates in their policies regarding regarding the sale of knives. According to the official statement now all knives except cutlery will be banned from sale on eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie. This will impact UK, Irish and international sellers who currently list knives for sale to buyers on the eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie sites.

eBay online auction has announced the availability of its eBay Global Buying Hub in 13 languages, including English, Spanish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Japanese, Chinese, and Norwegian. From the eBay Global Buying Hub, buyers from any country can search sellers’ listings from any of the 16 local eBay sites throughout the world—from one convenient location.

eBay Australia has announced that from next Tuesday 3 February eBay.com.au will change the way it displays the bidders’ IDs to align with other eBay sites (e.g. a***b). The online auction has explained its decision by the willingness of the auction users to stay informed: “We’ve received plenty of feedback from our community about the way bidders IDs are displayed and we know many of you prefer the transparency that the aliases used on other eBay sites offers.”