Archive for May, 2007
Bid Groups using eBay’s Bid Assistant
eBay’s newest tool release gives us Bid Assistant. The tool works a lot like a sniping tool, but without the true sniping. In a true sniping function, a sniping tool will wait until the absolute last second to place your max bid in hopes of surprising the current high bidder and not giving them time [...]
Embed video in your eBay listings
Jeesh! You take one silly week off and eBay goes and does something big. Not super big, but big none the less. You can now embed videos into your eBay listings. We’re talking YouTube style videos. What an amazing way to advertise items. I can’t imagine every product being a good match for the tool, [...]
How much is your junk worth
According to a recent eBay survey run by Nielsen customized research, the average household has over 50 unused items that are worth over $3100 on eBay. I know that when my Wife and I first began selling we didn’t sell much from our own house but chose instead to sell items that we found at [...]
Time for Meg Whitman to move on?
Forbes had an article early last month about how it may be the sunset of Meg Whitman’s stay at eBay. Apparently she had said something about needing a “fresh pair of eyes” on a company. She’s been with the company 9 years and that has some speculating that she really might be getting ready to [...]
Spiderman 3 sweepstakes May 2 through May 8
eBay is running another parallel sweepstakes with the folks behind the Spiderman 3 release this month. You’ve got to register to participate and then each purchase you make through auctions or using buy it now counts as an entry. The contest has it’s own eBay site where you can bid on genuine Spiderman 3 items [...]
eBay Tip – Dare to Compare
As a buyer on eBay, I often got frustrated by the never ending struggle to add items to my watch list, remember shipping prices, return terms, etc. No More. I discovered the Compare function in eBay search results and you should too! It’s a lifesaver. With the compare function, you can select as many items [...]
