For a much larger fee, you can place your listing in a special
???featured items??? category, which appears at the top of every search. Any of these
options may or may not be appropriate, and reporting can help you decide which
options to use.
Of course, there are many other reasons why you might want to produce reports
based on your eBay-driven initiatives. For example, you may have hired an intern to list a
certain number of items per day, and you want to ensure that the intern is actually doing
her job. Or you may not choose to sell on eBay at all, but rather want to make sure that no
competitor is selling inferior goods on eBay and claiming they are yours.
Fortunately, the work of creating eBay reports does not have to be done by hand, as
you??™ll learn in this chapter.
Using eBay APIs
eBay devotes an entire site to its various developer APIs. Although a Ruby example isn??™t
available on eBay??™s site, it??™s reasonably easy to write Ruby code that accesses the APIs.
eBay offers several different APIs.
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