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Book Selling on Amazon
If you’re running an online business on eBay or one of the other auction sites, you probably come across books everyonce in a while. Sometimes you can auction those books off, but you might make more money if you list them with Amazon. Listing a book is free on Amazon. When the the book sells, [...]
HP now accepts Paypal
The world’s largest computer manufacturer now accepts Paypal as a payment option. HP joins Barnes & Noble, Dell, iTunes, Starbucks, Buy.com, People and Walgreens as large retailers and organizations that offer PayPal. If these companies trust paypal, why shouldn’t you? It’s convienent and easy. Some have had problems with paypal in the past and no [...]
Amazon adds auto parts
Amazon announced that they have added an auto parts section to their already expansive website. We’re providing a broad selection of products for auto enthusiasts, who are passionate about the appearance and performance of their cars, but also making the Automotive Store convenient for the everyday motorist who is looking for basic car care and [...]
Keep the taxman happy
Marsha Collier has a great article with plenty of advice and information on the different tax responsibilities of the online auction business owner. If you run a small business on eBay, eBid, uBid, or any of the other myriad auction sites, make this article a must read. [tags]taxes,ebay,ebid,ubid,small business,online auction[/tags]
How to “sell” your items
It doesn’t matter where you do your auctions. It can be eBay, eBid, Wagglepop or any number of other sites that are springing up. One thing that they all have in common is the successfull sellers know how to sell. You may be thinking “duh, they wouldn’t be successfull if they didn’t sell.” I don’t [...]
eCrater
Chances are that if you’re an eBay seller and are currently looking for greener pastures, you’ve heard of eCrater more than once. What is eCrater.com? eCrater.com is both a free web store builder and a free online marketplace. Sellers can easily create their own free online store in minutes. Buyers can easily browse and compare [...]
Webuy offers free shares to users
Auction site Webuy, a relative newcomer to the scene, extended it’s offer of free shares to it’s users. McKenzie said the company was extending its offer of 50 free shares to the first 30,000 members, from 10,000 originally. The first 500,000 buyers would now also get five shares per purchase. That could be one heck [...]
Andale launches Shops UK
Andale, one of the largest and most well known of listing product companies, announced the launching of it’s UK Shops product last month. The Andale Shop is a comprehensive, easy-to-build storefront solution that allows Andale sellers to easily build and manage their own storefront. Pre-designed templates make it easy for a novice to have an [...]
Survey Says… 50% of eBay sellers leaving within 6 months
AuctionBytes did a pretty good survey of online sellers and some of the results may surprise you. Or, if you’re feeling the new store fees too, they may not. 50% of the eBay sellers said that they would be moving on from eBay within 6 months. That’s a pretty big number. There are some fairly [...]
Monster Commerce waives storefront fees
In what can only be called a response to the recent store fee hikes at ebay, MonsterCommerce has waived all of it’s fees for setup of one of it’s storefronts. Network solutions company, MonsterCommerce, is waiving its store setup fee for anyone who makes the switch from eBay Stores to its ecommerce software shopping cart. [...]
