eBay Trading Assistants Smiling. Consignment selling on eBay is a bright spot in a slow economy
It wasn’t that long ago that the consignment business model was considered pretty much dead.  That was never really the case, but consignment selling did take a big hit when hundreds of eBay drop-off store franchise stores went out of business. It [...]

Get some exposure for your eBay listings and win a free copy of my latest book to be released next week
The Prize:  After the July 4th Holiday Weekend I will be releasing my latest book, Making Money With an Online Consignment Business ~ An eBay consignment business operations manual. The book will sell for $47 [...]

eBay Drop-off Stores and liquidation consignment sellers report that business is up
It is a sad sign of the times, but when the economy sucks people need to raise cash. One of the ways to do this is to sell the things they have acquired over the years when times were good.  Over the past two [...]

I was on the eBay Radio PowerSeller Hour with Uncle Griff Yesterday and we talked about way that TAs could market their business.
I have been an eBay Trading Assistant (consignment seller) since the program started about 6 years ago.  About 4 years ago I wrote a self-published book called How To Start and Run an eBay [...]

The rise and decline of eBay drop off stores
In my last newsletter, I wrote an article about drop-off stores and my opinion about their continued viability in the current marketplace. Shortly after it published, I received an email from an eBay seller who manages a drop-off store.
He gave me permission to publish his email so [...]

The eBay Trading Assistant list has become worthless. It’s time for eBay to update and clean the list and improve eBay seller certification to become a TA
As a newsletter publisher (eBay Sellers News), I know the value of a list.  And, having a clean list is critical to your success.  The eBay Trading Assistant Program [...]

This is a lesson I learned the hard way. I have been an eBay Trading Assistant (TA) since the beginning of the program almost 4 years ago. On at least three occasions I have accepted merchandise that I was "100% Positive" would sell on eBay, only to be proven wrong.
When you accept goods that either [...]

I get a lot of email from trading assistants asking about fees. How much should I charge? Should I charge a listing fee? Should I charge the consignor if something doesn’t sell? What are my competitors charging?
The answer to the first question is the most important: You must charge enough to make a profit. To [...]

What on-line business can you start that has virtually no risk?
What on-line business can you start with little or no investment that can return thousands of dollars per week?
What on-line business can you start with a guaranteed market of 50 million customers?
What on-line business can you start Part-time and quickly grow into a full-time business [...]