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We’ve been quietly working on some new features for the last couple of months, and we are finally ready to unveil them.

New Premium eBay Templates!
We have added a new section to the template area. You can now choose from our “premium” templates area for 14 amazing new designs that each has multiple color choices. We have also added 3 new FREE templates!

For 50 cents, List’d users can choose from 14 “premium” templates, each with multiple color choices, in themes ranging from technology to baby clothes. Users can also choose to pay $5.00 for 30-day unlimited use of any of the premium templates. They also have three new free templates to choose from.

As always, all of the features that you’ve grown to love about List’d are still free to use. Premium templates are our first stab at creating a value added feature that we think you would be willing to pay for. These payment will be made through PayPal, since 85% of you have that capability. Thanks for giving them a try!

Default Your Favorite Settings
You can now go into your profile page to save your favorite settings. We had a lot of heavy users asking us for this ability, and we think it will really make your lives easier. All you need to do is login and click on the “Profile” link where you can:

• Add a default “boilerplate” text area into each listing
• Change your password
• Set your shipping options
• Pick a default template

Login and try out the new features. Tell us what you think, that’s how we’ve been able to get List’d to where it is already. Your feedback is what made this tool great

Here’s some interesting news. It looks like eBay is selling out to Tom.com – PayPal at the least. Read more:

Auctionbytes and here

TechCrunch

Shanghai Daily

Blogging Stocks

Looks to be an interesting road ahead for us third-party developers!

The Washington Post has an interesting article covering fraud on eBay, and what eBay is doing/not doing about it. Though it’s not news to many heavy eBay users, it does give some solid advice for new people.

There is a whole section dedicated to “charge backs” either throug your credit card or PayPal. It’s a serious issue that has no easy answer.

(Read the article)

Some big news rolled out today. It looks like Google has finally gotten around to releasing their payment product. It’s a pretty interesting one too, that I think can be leveraged by eBay sellers as well as most other eCommerce stores.

The standard rate for Checkout merchants will be 2% of the sale plus 20 cents – compare that to Paypal’s standard rate of 30 cents plus 2.9% of the transaction. Google is hoping that this will encourage people to buy from smaller merchants, and give them more access to information on both the buyer and seller.

What’s even better is that Google will waive some or all of the transaction fees for companies that buy advertising from it. What is more, for every $1 a company spends on search advertising, Google will waive the fees on $10 worth of purchases. Factoring in the 2 percent fee, that represents a rebate of at least 20 percent of advertising spending. (Source: NY Times)

So, as an eBay merchant I doubt eBay and Yahoo will play kindly with Google. However, if you have an off-eBay store, you can now offer an additional way to pay, and also cover a lot of your Google AdWords advertising costs. It’s a great deal for online merchants, something worth testing.

Bill Cobb, President of eBay North America, has a couple things to say about the following:

• eBay’s size (200 million!)
• Skype integration
• PayPal
• eBay blogs
• eBay wiki
• New Trust & Safety Policy
• Crack down on Excessive Shipping
• Cross-Border Trade – A Privilege, Not a Right
• Grand Opening for eBay Express

You can read the full report here.