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eBay voucher event for Outlets
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:29:29 +0000 - eBay are running a voucher event that I've not seen publicised anywhere. There are discounts on a variety of goods from consumer electronics and computing to home and garden and clothing. Unsurprisingly the goods on offer are from eBay Outlets,... Read
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eBay to give £10,000 to our favourite charities
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:38:02 +0000 - To celebrate the launch of "My Favourite Charity" eBay are awarding three grants of £5000, £3000 and £2000 to the charities which are favourited the most during September. To nominate your favourite charity is simply, just visit the promotion... Read&#...

PayPal think I?m not a real person
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:34:51 +0000 - Following on from last week's request from PayPal for additional verification, to comply with EU law, they've now decided my name is not my name. Addressing me by email with my PayPal registered name "Chris Dawson", they say "After reviewing your... Read&...

5 things to think about before you buy a domain name
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:36:42 +0000 - Previously on 24 TameBay: How not to pick a domain name How to pick a domain name .com or .co.uk? People will argue about this, but here are my thoughts: .co.uk is fine if all your customers are UK based, and always will be.... Read more

Off-eBay sales to eBay buyers ? would you?
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:29:52 +0000 - . If you don't have PowerSeller Board access, here's the jist of the story: Buyer buys an item, buyer asks seller to add other items to order, seller says "go click BIN in my shop", buyer doesn't pay, seller files UID, buyer pays for original... Read ...

Selling Online, How To Sell On Ebay: Make Money At Home

Gearing Up For Christmas Sales 2010
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:27:35 +0000 - Christmas have always been the best period to experience sales peak, and it has always been like that every year. According to Comscore, Black Friday boasts $595 million in U.S. online holiday spending, Up 11% a year ago. I bet this year will be even high...

Windows 7 & Online Business. Should You Switch?
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:28:36 +0000 - As computers continue to age the technology behind them continues to change as a result. This many times leads a person to ask the question about windows 7 and your online business. Should i switch? You will be surprised that many companies are making the...

Numbers Of eBay Millionaires Doubled
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:11:27 +0000 - Guardian.co.uk released an important finding few days ago. According to data released by Ebay this month, it showed that 127 companies are on track to achieve a turnover of at least £1m during 2010, compared with 66 in 2009. Seven of the companies only s...

How To Sell More Online With WordPress Ecommerce
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:25:21 +0000 - Setting up an Ecommerce is a daunting task. Back then, there are only a few choices when you want to setup your Ecommerce site selling something – either you ask a designer to set it up for you which usually costs a bomb or you install program like ...

Launch A Storefront In Facebook With Payvment
Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:44:04 +0000 - Facebook has an app that allows you to open an ecommerce storefront called Payvment. Payvment uses a PayPal shopping cart for its app to work with Facebook Pages. Do you get annoyed by those people tagging you on their product photos? These sellers add ra...

The Chatter

Recent Auctions On eBay
- Auctions are still going strong on eBay as indicated by the following sampling of ten listings from across the spectrum of antiques and collectibles which sold on eBay in the last 30 days. Our lead story is a rare collectible album: Rare Beatles Album ...

The eBay/PayPal Bay Area GIVE Team Charity Auction
- Hi everyone! Just a quick note to tell y'all about the eBay/PayPal Bay Area GIVE Team's 2008 Holiday Charity Auction.  We're auctioning off some great items at unheard of prices (e.g. Breitling and Michele watches, Ray Ban sunglasses, Manolo Blahni...

Art Modern Era Furniture Strong on eBay
- The market on eBay for all-things-Modern continues to generate interest among collectors and designers as indicated by several recent successful listings for mid century designer furniture. In the last two weeks alone, several choice examples of Eames / ...

A Tribute to Bobal -- By Giraffer and Shipscript
- eBay lost a beloved Community member this week -- our dear friend Bobal. If you've been to an eBay Live (any of them but the very last one in Chicago), or if you've ever sought expert help on the Photos/HTML Discussion forum, then Bobal needs no introdu...

Introducing PayPal Micropayments
- Good news for sellers who sell low cost items on eBay (typically, $10 and below). PayPal has launched a special pricing solution called Micropayments that can save you money if you regularly accept payments with small total dollar amounts. The Micropa...

Dan Wilson

Brightoniana: Embassy Court
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:45:06 +0000 - I love a nosey behind closed doors and I was interested to take a tour around Embassy Court on Saturday. It's a fascinating and beautiful building from the 1930s. More Miami Beach than West Pier, and certainly a Brighton icon. Tales of Embassy Court's hey...

Brightoniana: London Brighton & South Coast Railway stone
Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:55:26 +0000 - I don't really know what this is, but I snapped it. It's a stone in the central reservation of the barrier at the west end of the railway bridge at the junction where New England and Old Shoreham Roads meet. I guess, technically, that it's on New England ...

The British Prime Minister isn?t a Community Manager
Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:41:41 +0000 - At the weekly ritual of Prime Minister?s Question Time, where Britain?s head of government is held to account, PM David Cameron condemned comments and pages on Facebook from users supporting murderer Raoul Moat. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, said...

Brightoniana: Aubrey Beardsley
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:37:01 +0000 - I'd never seen this plaque on Buckingham Road before yesterday. It's commemorates the all too brief life of the artist and illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley who was born at number 12. It's such a shame that it has a spray can squiggle on it. Not least because...

Brightoniana: Some links I?ve enjoyed
Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:56:11 +0000 - The Argus is the first for news. I particularly enjoyed this picture of the Mayor last week. What IS he doing? How to be a Retronaut is a superb compendium of old snaps and views. It's required reading in my personal blogosphere. Last week The Retronaut p...

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Mark Kenny's Blog

Four Wholesale Buying Myths ? BUSTED!
Tue, 18 May 2010 12:43:56 +0000 - It?s not your fault if you think that reselling wholesale items on eBay will be a ?make-a-million-dollars-in-a-month? scheme. When you expose yourself to the online retail industry, you open up the floodgates to a whole host of rumors and myths abou...

10 Ebay Selling Tips For 2010
Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:11:36 +0000 - We’ve been sellers on eBay since 2007 and it has always puzzled us why our eBay sales haven’t grown at the same rate as our website sales have. I mean, you just post a few products on eBay and sales should be pouring in, no? Well not really. O...

Transferring eBay feedback
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:37:09 +0000 - Back in 2007 I wrote this article about transferring your ebay feedback to alternative auction sites. The trend is still going, and more and more auction sites now offer you the chance to transfer your ebay feedback when you register as a seller with them...

Ebay alteratives
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:14:12 +0000 - Over at AuctionCUT we’ve recently added a category to discuss alternatives to eBay. Many sites have tried to challenge eBay over the years and the likes of QXL & Yahoo auctions led the way in offering an alterative for a while. However, there ar...

The Independent Guide to Ebay 2009
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:13:14 +0000 - It’s that time of year again, another twelve months have flown by & The Independent UK Guide to Ebay 2009 has hit the shops. I’m yet to see my copy, but I’ve been told it again contains featured reviews of the most popular eBay sites...

eBay Selling Coach

eBay Marketing Strategy - Multiple Listings for the Same Item
- If you are drop shipping, purchasing products wholesale, or other wise have multiples of the same exact item to sell on eBay, try this strategy.Create multiple listings for the same items using different listing durations, keyword combinations, and even p...

Amazon 90-Day Experiment Nets $80 Per Hour
- I have been a casual seller on Amazon for almost a year selling my own items including books, DVDs, CDs, and a few toys I found at clearance sales. My selling experience on Amazon was really only an informal venture to understand how Amazon works so that ...

Get Ideas for eBay Niche Products from Teen Magazines
- A challenge for eBay sellers is deciding what to sell or what the next hot item will be for a particular demographic group. This can take time to figure out and sometimes you might miss a selling opportunity but with a little research the information is ...

Storage Unit Auctions
- Finding items to sell on eBay can be challenging and sometimes sellers have to get creative. Another option for securing inventory is Storage Facility Auctions. Once a tenant has stopped paying rent for their unit the management auctions off the goods i...

Vintage Mickey Mouse Watches
- Mickey Mouse is one of the most recognized characters in the world - right up there with Santa Claus and Ronald McDonald. If you are lucky enough to score a vintage Mickey Mouse watch at a thrift store, estate sale, or through other means, you are looking...

Magic RSS

Magic RSS allows RSS feeds to be displayed anywhere
Mon, 18 April 2007 18:37:29 GMT - Magic RSS is a new service allowing easy presentation of RSS feeds on any website. A variety of formats are available including a scrolling feedbox. The service is free to all users.

Magic RSS a boon for affiliates
Mon, 14 April 2007 16:59:49 GMT - Imagine a scrolling feedbox featuring YOUR affiliate links! This is one of the promises of Magic RSS...

AuctionBytes Blog by Ina Steiner

Does Being an eBay Seller Prepare You for Other Careers?
Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:07:48 -500 - I ve always held that to be a successful online seller, you must be equal parts web designer, photographer, packer, shipper, customer service rep, accountant, sourcer,...the list goes on and on ...

TechCrunch Blows eBay Google Checkout Story
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 14:35:25 -500 - Four years after eBay banned sellers from offering Google Checkout, TechCrunch is unaware of the fact and incorrectly reported it as news today. A story went out over 3 hours ago, and other bloggers ...

AuctionBytes Poll: Meg Whitman versus Jerry Brown
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 11:32:20 -500 - Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is running for governor of California. We wondered what online sellers thought of Ms. Whitman making the leap from business to politics, especially since she has said ...

Boy Scout Uniforms a Six-Figure Business on eBay?
Tue, 31 Sep 2010 15:13:44 -500 - The new head of eBay s Developers Program wrote an interesting post about an opportunity for sellers and developers on eBay. Sparked by a conversation about Boy Scout uniforms for sale on eBay ...

Online Sellers: Beware the Shrinking Postage Label
Sun, 29 Sep 2010 20:46:06 -500 - Online sellers live and die by shipping, and the ability to print postage labels online has been a real benefit especially for small retailers and marketplace sellers. Often, however, sellers must ...

Bayraider

Swine Flu t-shirt
2009-07-16 13:09:02 - Swine flu is something that's gripping pretty much everyone in the Western World right now. People are convinced that every single ache and pain is potentially the dreaded pig bug.If you've got an irreverent sense of human and want to wind-up the termina...

Zara grey waistcoat dress (as worn by Alexa Chung)
2009-07-14 12:53:14 - First thing's first. This item here wasn't actually worn by Alexa Chung, but rather, she had a grey waistcoat dress from Zara as well. Okay? Okay.So, this lovely item comes complete with a free babydoll skirt and ties at the back, with concealed side zip....

Is Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' the most expensive album in the world?
2009-07-13 13:12:07 - Predictably, a lot of Michael Jackson memorabilia has shot up in price since the singer's untimely death. One startling jump was on a first pressing of the 'Thriller' LP. The seller states: "Original Michael Jackson Thriller LP! QE38112 first release! ...

Follow eBay For Charity on Twitter
2009-07-08 08:07:06 - eBay have loads of charity auctions, featuring some super rare and sought after stuff. It's great.If you want to be first in the know, then you should follow the eBay charity auctions on Twitter. What a great little tool for those who want to be ahead of...

eBay start petition to end unfair prices
2009-07-08 07:59:15 - eBay are calling for an end to 'unfair prices' and have sent out a petition. It reads:"eBay was built on a simple idea - that we could empower people by building a global trading platform where practically anyone could buy or sell practically anything. B...

AuctionInsights

Never Worn?
Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:53:32 +0000 - Never Worn? Something tells me they’re fibbing!

Ranking Well in Etsy?s Relevance Search & Sort
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:44:13 +0000 - Following eBay’s lead, Etsy has put its hat into the search-and-sort-by-”relevance” ring.  On Thursdays for the next three weeks, Etsy will be sorting their search results using algorithm that attempts to determine the relevancy of list...

Template-O-Matic Sold
Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:53:28 +0000 - I sold template-o-matic.com and relinquished control of it over the weekend. You can still find the same free auction templates here.

Experiment: Getting Your eBay Listing On the First Page of Google
Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:52:04 +0000 - I'm playing around with techniques to get your auction listings show up in the Google results. As such I'm including a link for a book that I have listed currently on eBay: Introduce Your Child to Classical Music 52 Easy Lessons. My listing is curr...

Magic RSS

Magic RSS allows RSS feeds to be displayed anywhere
Mon, 18 April 2007 18:37:29 GMT - Magic RSS is a new service allowing easy presentation of RSS feeds on any website. A variety of formats are available including a scrolling feedbox. The service is free to all users.

Magic RSS a boon for affiliates
Mon, 14 April 2007 16:59:49 GMT - Imagine a scrolling feedbox featuring YOUR affiliate links! This is one of the promises of Magic RSS...

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eBay Strategies

ChannelAdvisor's annual online consumer survey is available now!
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 07:23:09 -0700 - Every year we produce a survey of online consumer behaviors that provides huge insights into how average consumers shop online. If you sell online, regardless of channel (ebay, amazon, webstore, cse, search, all of the above), you should read this...

eBay fixes one of the biggest holes in DSR system
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:20:41 -0700 - When eBay launched the DSR system, we were always concerned with the fact that sellers that offer free shipping generally received 4.8 on the shipping and handling cost DSR. It proved that the system sets up unrealistic expectations with consumers....

Amazon is building the worlds largest database of...
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:46:15 -0700 - Over on sister-site, Amazon Strategies, we have a post about a new Amazon feature that surfaces the top products with lots of demand and little to no supply. This is a little view into a very powerful strategic advantage that...

eBay announces the end of third-party checkout (3PXO)- June 2011
Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:37:15 -0700 - Today, eBay's Todd Lutwak (looking quite tan, I might add!), announced today that in about nine months eBay will sunset eBay's third party checkout system. ChannelAdvisor (and our customers) are the largest user of the Third party checkout (we use...

Is eBay putting the (shopping) cart before the (search) horse?
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:58:48 -0700 - After taking the summer mostly off from blogging, there's a lot going on in the land of eBay I wanted to update everyone about. In this installment I wanted to take a deep dive into the much anticipated eBay Checkout...

Online Auction Blog

Web Page Traffic: Generate Web Traffic With Your Signature File
2008-10-18 23:04:28 - If you want your web page traffic to pick up, here's a tip from our 365 traffic tips ecourse: use a signature file or 'sig' file as a way to generate web page traffic. Every time you forward an eMail to your family or friends (or maybe even your ...

Is It Really GUARANTEED VISITORS You Want?
2008-10-18 20:13:07 - Do you want guaranteed visitors to your websites or web stores? If you answered, "Yes, of course", then you need to rethink your goals. What you really want is targeted hits or visitors. There are dozens and dozens of sites that will deliver gu...

Increase Traffic To Your Website: Get Traffic With Our 365 FREE Traffic Tips
2008-10-18 19:32:12 - If you want to increase traffic to your website, then you will need to become agressive about it, sort of like our two bikers to the left who look anything but passive. Well, OK, perhaps a better word is 'proactive', rather than aggressive, but le...

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 4
2008-10-08 18:50:42 - The membership website format that I prefer these days is infinitely easier than the ones in the past because the content for your members site can be created, put on autoresponder and sent out to your members - without attention on your part. It'...

The Membership Site: Using Member Sites To Increase eBay Profits, Part 4
2008-10-08 17:59:43 - The membership website format that I prefer these days is infinitely easier than the ones in the past because the content for your members site can be created, put on autoresponder and sent out to your members - without attention on your part. It'...

eBay.com

eBay Certified Provider Workshop - October 22, 2009
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:31:44 GMT -