eBay Shipping is one of the most controversial topics discussed on the eBay forums. And, shipping issues are the number one source of complaints and negative feedback, so this is one area where you want to get it right. Packing your goods If you are going to run a profitable and professional eBay business, you [...]

I get this question all the time.  If you sell on eBay or sell on Amazon, then you are always on the hunt for new wholesale sources. Here are some of the places where you can find reliable eBay wholesale sourcing information and where I find mine. Wholesale Search Engines Wholesale Trade Shows and Merchandise [...]

There is a cool tool right on your My eBay page that can help you make more money on eBay.  It is called the Search Visibility Tool. To find it go you your My eBay Page and hover your cursor over the My Account Tab.  The fifth or sixth item down says Search Visibility Analysis. [...]

eBay announced a new promotion today, but only non-store sellers received the announcement –it was not listed on the regular announcements page. eBay did not explain why store sellers were excluded. But for those of you who are not eBay Store subscribers, this is a pretty good deal! Starting August 3, 2010, list your items [...]

eBay is working very hard to help stop the internet tax. Here is a message they sent out last week that everyone should read and respond to. Internet Sales Tax On July 1, a bill was introduced in the United States House of Representatives that would impose complex sales tax collecting requirements on internet retailers [...]

Magnitize is a free service where you can get a personal website to act as your home base for connections to Twitter, Facebook and any other websites you have.  Its sort of like having an online business card. Karen was sitting in a workshop at the Amazon conference and asked if anyone knew of a [...]

2010 eBay Fall Seller Update eBay announced major changes to the platform and new selling policies changes  today that will roll out in September. Most of the changes will launch between September 7 and September 13.  eBay is calling the changes Seller Release 3. As usual eBay is putting a positive spin on the announcement.  [...]

BOOCOO is a new auction site that takes direct aim at eBay auction.  Alternative eBay sites are not new and most of them continue to struggle, but BOOCOO has a big advantage – Money.  Boocoo was started by a coalition of over 300 media partners including newspapers, radio and TV stations.  The impetus for the [...]

I have just written a lengthy article about making money with storage locker auctions.  Storage locker auctions have been around a long time. Flea market and second-hand store dealers have used them as a source of profits and eBay sellers jumped on them shortly after eBay was founded.  Although they have been around for years, [...]

I got an email from a reader today who alerted me to a new stealth shipping policy. Maybe eBay announced it somewhere but I can’t find it. This particular seller shipped an item to a buyer who claimed they did not receive it even though the seller’s tracking info showed it had been delivered. The [...]

At eBay’s annual meeting, CEO John Donohoe said that auctions now make up less than half of all listings on the site. And he predicted it would drop to 30% by 2011.   Just a few years ago, auctions made up around 70 percent of the listings on the site but in the last quarter they [...]

Here is an email I received today from one of my readers. Since eBay moved to  include all store listings in search, I have been getting one or two emails like this every day: “I just wanted to comment that my Ebay business has all but dried up since Ebay enacted their new system where [...]

Do you have things you want to do that could be making you more money, but just don’t have the time.  Ask Sunday is probably the most popular and successful Virtual Assistant Company. They were popularized in the book, The 4-Day Work Week. What is a Virtual Assistant? A VA is actually not one person. [...]

An announcement from eBay today talks about eBay.eu.  eBay.eu is eBay’s European shopping site. When a buyer goes on eBay.eu, they see listings in their own language. So if you go on eBay.eu from here in the states, you will see English. But if someone in Germany for example, went on eBay.eu they would see [...]

Everyone’s business is slow. Unemployment shows no signs of abating. Consumer confidence is down and everyone is being cautious.  Everyone wants to sell the newest, latest hottest product –but that business is cratering. My eBay sales are off over 50% from the same time last year.  We are still making money –just not as much [...]