Miscellaneous
eBay buys MicroPlace
This one slipped through my radar for a while, but eBay announced that they had purchased the micro finance company MicroPlace back towards the beginning of the month in a TownHall. MicroPlace allows for micro finance loans. At the moment, nearly a month later, there doesn’t seem to be any real way to see what [...]
eBay millionaire shares secrets
Corey Kossack is the founder of Koss DVD on eBay. He currently has revenue of over $500,000 a year with that company. In his first year, he sold over 25,000 DVDs. He is a genuine eBay success story. And he’s sharing his story in a new book. “eBay Millionaire or Bust: Hidden strategies that maximize [...]
Jamestown College uses online auction for fund raiser
Jamestown College (my alma mater) has held the annual Dine and Bid fundraiser for years. This year, they are using software called cMarket to run an online auction before the live auction. Items include golf packages, Nintendo Wii, candles, Bose speakers, a pizza a month for 12 months, and much, much more. Yet another great [...]
March and April 2007 PayPal coupon codes
Coupon codes for PayPal are few and far between, but we’ve managed to track a few of them down for you. Not sure how long the coupons are good for, but I would guess they expire March 31st. C7J3M6L for $10 off of $40 at Barnes and Noble PYAPC for 20% off at AllPosters.com PPAL1GB [...]
Topps’ Jeter/Bush/Mantle error card stirs collectors
Topps trading card company stopped the presses to fix it, but many escaped into the wild before they could. Someone digitally altered a Derek Jeter card to feature Mickey Mantle in the dugout and George Bush in the stands. Of course, as you can probably imagine, these cards are fetching a premium on eBay. Many [...]
Auction Ads: eBay affiliate ads all grown up
If you have a website that you use to push your eBay wares, you most likely have tried to monetize it in other ways as well. Whether you use Adsense, Adbrite, Text Link Ads, or any of the other myriad services that are available, you’ll want to check out Auction Ads. They function(and look) a [...]
Why PayPal Coupon codes are so hard to find
When you shop at nearly any online retail outlet, it is beneficial to do a quick search for any coupons before you finish paying for your items. I’ve used it multiple times to save a quick 10% or take a quick $5 of my $25 purchase. It’s downright easy to find coupon codes for most [...]
Agloco: Get paid to surf the web
Agloco is a new and improved company that pays you to surf the web. You download a toolbar (still in beta) and surf for a maximum of 5 hours a month. Everybody in your downline does the same. Everybody gets paid. It’s not a new idea, but it is an improvement on the ones that [...]
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 [...]
PS3 market begins deflation
All the frenzy surrounding the Sony Playstation 3(PS3) seems to have begun to wear off. I sort of assumed that it would right away. It may pick back up sometime around Christmas, but not much. Initially the systems were selling for in the range of $1400 for the 20GB core system. Now, they are selling [...]
