Ebay aims for Japan market
Watch out, Yahoo! Japan auctions, here comes Ebay:
…a translation service will provide Japanese sellers with English versions of their product descriptions within a day at rates of 700 yen ($7.20) for up to 100 Japanese characters and 1,200 yen for up to 200. “The cost will be less than half that of conventional services,” Nikkei said.
The service will also provide translations to Japanese from English to allow sellers to handle questions from buyers, Nikkei said.
It said explanations on how to list a product will be available in Japanese on a new web site.
The paper said: “By screening delivery options, eBay expects to keep shipping charges to roughly half of regular rates.”
Ebay is already reporting a 30% increase in the number of Japanese registered Japanese users since it began the new services on April 1st. FTV’s news report about Ebay (embedded above) is currently the most viewed news video on Yahoo! Japan News.
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