Archive for the 'Auctions' Category

June 16th will be the last day you can run a Yahoo Auction. Evidently they’re trying to get out of businesses where they’re not in the top tier of competitors to focus on where they are already strong and, in this instance, to joint venture with Ebay on projects that play to their strengths.  From Web [...]

I’ve blogged about folks being able to use Amazon’s “underutilized assets” before to help run your business. Here’s how you may see that work – coming to an auction near you. From the Business Opportunities weblog The New York Times: Your next eBay purchase could arrive at your door in a brown Amazon.com box. Amazon.com, [...]

Would you like to get 300 targeted we visitors to your site weekly? How much would this cost “per click” if you were on a publisher’s network? $500? $150? $1.50 sounds pretty good by comparison. But the problem with any tool like ebay is that we see it as an end in itself instead of [...]

Tuesday, April 24 = $.20 eBay Listing Fees Even On eBay Motors Tomorrow, eBay listing fees for auctions will be only $.20. The sale starts on Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 00:00:01 Pacific time (12:00 a.m. plus one second) and ends that same day, Tuesday, April 24, 2007 at 23:59:59 Pacific time (11:59 p.m. plus [...]

What are the Top 10 locations (Zip Codes) for “Ebay Density” in the US? That means the total number of ebayers divided by the total population… the higher the density, the more that ebay has become a part of “daily life”. Ebay did a count and decided to contribute to a local charity in that [...]

If you want to know what’s “hot” as a clue for your own marketing, you need to monitor what’s selling on an infomercial near you. What sells well on the infomercial may also sell well for you online, at flea markets, or on ebay. The spring infomercial season is upon us one site worth checking [...]

The Silicon Valley Business Journal reports that a program set up by Ebay to auction advertising has prompted an unhappy response from cable TV systems who don’t like what’s going on.  Now that Google’s auctioning off Satellite TV ad space, this is likely what they’re up against when they try to get into cable TV [...]

You can run across interesting resources wherever you go. Today, I was driving by a place I’d passed a million times. But today there was a huge sign “Online Auction” and then a website address. It turns out this municipality is auctioning off their seized vehicles online at a site called GovDeals.com, and it’s specifically [...]

Are You Identifying Local Sources Of Surplus Merchandise For Resale to help you work from home? Unless you’re creating digital products to sell on ebay (a good thing if you can!) you need to find another way to find a steady supply of hot merchandise that sells at a price that lets you make some [...]

Here’s a free online video by Chris Malta on the right way to find legitimate product sources for you to sell on stuff on Ebay.Don’t cheat yourself by selling junk. Instead, find out what Chris had to say about not getting scammed and losing profits by being exploited by “middle men” who pretend they’re the [...]