Archive for December, 2006
Red Roller: Shipping gone comparitive
I’m always looking for something better than what I use. At the moment, I use shipping through eBay and Paypal because it is most convenient for me and because I’m familiar with it. I got pointed to Red Roller today and just might have to switch. It will automatically allow you to compare shipping costs [...]
Domino’s Pizza Huge promotion with eBay
Dubbed the Anything Goes Deal, Domino’s is selling a Large pizza any way you want it. Yep, that includes any crust type and any toppings. All for $9.99. But that’s not the huge part. The huge part is what they are planning on doing on eBay. Beginning on January 1, 2007, Domino’s will be doing [...]
eBay Watch for Google Desktop
I recently was pointed to the google desktop eBay Watch plugin. And boy oh boy is it a doozy. It won the eBay developers award in the eBay developers challenge in 2006 and since has added several new tools. (They are FREE!) There’s one for the MSN live system as well as a an extension [...]
Study on eBay sales growth
HammerTap.com along with WorldwideBrands started a study with eBay sellers to try and uncover a streamlined method to eBay profits. It follows the toils of three eBay sellers who surprisingly have met all their goals with a little help from the HammerTap eBay research software. It is a bit of a blatant advertisement for the [...]
eBay express is a dissapointment
eBay express, the shining new site that eBay has been pushing for nearly a year is a struggling disappointment to sellers. Despite eBay’s extensive marketing push for the site, buyer adoption hasn’t ever reached anything more than a trickle. The site was designed to increase the number of sales that went for the buy it [...]
Pricing your online auction items
Unless you have one product that has a clear and cut price margin and selling point, you most likely struggle with the pricing of your online auction items. You don’t want to start the auction too low and you don’t want to start it too high either. How do you do it? Do you just [...]
eBay stops Pre-Approved bidder program
Even though they haven’t made an official announcement on the announcement board, eBay is set to eliminate the pre-approved bidder program as of January of 2007. Attention: Beginning in January 2007 access to this feature will be restricted. Prior to the restriction time you will be able to use the feature, but once the restriction [...]
Does your eBay company need employees?
Have you put in long hours developing your eBay business only to find that as it grows there is too much work to do at the end of the day? Is it time to find someone to help you out? Before you do, there are lots of things to think about. There are state and [...]
My Store Maps
Like many eBay sellers, you probably have heard that offering to sell and ship internationally can really boost your sales. However, if your sales are anything like mine, only about 2 in 50 actually go out of country. It becomes a little harder to find and show evidence of happy international customers to reassure other [...]
PricePlay: Play games to determine price
Tired of the mundane and boring bidding process that you’ve become used to on online auction websites? Wishing someone would come up with a different and exciting way to buy items? PricePlay thinks they have that different and exciting method. Rather than setting the price of an item by bidding at auction, at PricePlay you [...]
