eBay Blogs

eBay Blogs: Who knew. Also available now in the UK, which is how I found it.

Right now it is early days, but eBay seems to be tapping into a group of people that are fairly new to writing blogs. Time will tell whether this works or not – I just see lots of opportunities for both increasing perception of trust for potential buyers, but also for creating havoc.

Interestingly the eBay content policy states:

“Members publishing Blogs may include links to sites that offer goods for sale off eBay, as long as they do not promote outside-of-eBay sales or prohibited items”

There’s lots of room within that statement, and it is going to be awfully hard for eBay to police.

I wonder what this will do to the community message board? Blogs are in one sense an improved MB, so while I’m sure there will be a reduction of volume of message on the MB (assuming blogs work out),  one future could see the integration of the two, with all or selected MB comments appearing on ones blog.