Archive for the 'ebay' Category

An Ebay Auction went wrong- or right perhaps. A UK Teen bidding on a Sony Playstation opened the package that arrived and found no Sony Playstation. Instead, the equivalent of $90,000 in cash was found in the package. The money was turned over to police but the teen may get to keep it if it’s [...]

A while back a friend of mine had talked about starting one of those small local newspapers like the one pictured here.  He really didn’t have the 50,000 population required to make it work, but maybe there was enough. I didn’t have a packaged resource to send him to, but if he started talking about [...]

James Jones brought this to my attention, it’s a hot new source for products to sell on ebay. People are always asking me, “Where can I find products to sell on eBay?” (it was one of the most asked questions at eBay Live last month.) The answer is not in “worn out” wholesale lists that [...]

Here’s a way to possibly make money or save money. By frequently checking out the available gift certificates on Ebay. You’ll have to do your own due diligence, but I suspect most are completely legitimate and just special promotions. For instance, this auction tells you how to get coupons for discount gasoline.  If you investigate it and [...]

Is Ebay having a Mid Life Crisis? $60 Billion will change hands this year through the site, but could there be “too much” stuff to sort through? Even searching for misspellings of the search term “Calvin Klein” can turn up 71 things to buy and sort through! Some popular searches turn up thousands of items [...]

Did you know about this simple technique for finding bargains on Ebay? I decided to do a test with the search term “Calvin Klein” to prove to you it’s power. As I type this, the search term “Calvin Klein” has many variants you can search for: “aclvin klein”, “clavin klein”, “cavlin klein”, “calivn klein”, “calvni [...]

US Ebay Affiliates take note of the following changes that take place starting at midnight June 1. It will be nice to be paid $25 per active registration. This means that new people who register with ebay will only trigger a commission if they bid within a certain time frame. I wonder how many people [...]

Addicted to Ebay? Is your house filling up with stuff you bought on Ebay? Would you rather shop an Ebay auction than talk to your family? Maybe you just need some “Weird Al therapy” to help you laugh at yourself and get back into the real world. Here’s “Ebay” by Weird Al!

What do you do if you’re making a living online through auctions, but suddenly, you can’t stomach Ebay because of the constant price increases and the fact that you’re not getting the traffic you once were? Here’s what one former ebay auction seller has done: Leaving Ebay She’d sold through an ebay store since 2005, then, [...]

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 [...]