Tips for cutting your eBay fees and expenses during the annual summer slowdown It’s not new.  The summer slowdown has happened every year about this time.  The weather is better, parents and teens are focusing on graduation, people are spending more time in their gardens, and in general, there are more things pulling people away [...]

Any eBay seller can get 5 free listings each month by using the eBay Sell Your Item form Here are the details:  Regardless of your start price, your first 5 Auction-style listings will have NO Insertion Fees when you list with eBay’s Sell Your Item form or Simple listing form. The Final Value Fee for [...]

eBay policy and site function changes announced on April 14th, take effect next week on June 15th eBay will effect the changes they announced in April next Monday.  If you haven’t revised your listings by then you run the risk of your listings being cancelled and/or not found in search. The two biggest changes are [...]

Leading auction management company backs off from their complicated & pricey fee plan and adopts simple $9.95 per month pricing. Auctiva’s complicated and pricey fee schedule announced a couple of weeks ago had upset users and was driving business to competitors InkFrog, Vendio and others. Jeff Schlicht, CEO and founder of Auctiva, the largest eBay [...]

When business is slow you need to watch your pennies. Here are some tips from our readers. Mark from Connecticut, eBay ID Skyboss, has two eBay money-saving tips. If you host your images on eBay it can get expensive. eBay gives you one photo for free, then charges 15¢ for each additional image. If you [...]

Starting June 16, 2009, Sellers will get 5 free Insertion Fees every 30 days for Auction-style listings I have been fairly critical of eBay lately as they seem to be ignoring new and small sellers. But here is a great promotion that will benefit this group.   Here’s how it works: Regardless of your start [...]

We continue looking at the big changes eBay announced last week and their impact on eBay sellers This is part two of the post I started yesterday about the changes to the eBay platform and the new policies announced by eBay that will take effect in June. You can scroll down to see part one. [...]

eBay latest announcement will have a large impact on eBay sellers. Here is my take on the new features and policies. eBay latest announcements  cover a lot of ground –too much for one blog post, so I am going to break them down into three posts. today is part one of three. I am going [...]

I asked this question of several sellers and got different answers, but in general the news is not good. I would love to know what eBay’s stats show, but I suspect that cross border sales between the US and Europe and Japan are down. Why? Because I got a call from eBay last week wanting [...]

With the introduction of the new eBay Fixed Price Listing fee and GTC format, eBay Store sales have plunged Here’s a snippet from an email I received today from a long time reader and eBay PowerSeller: “….my ebay store for the first time since starting in 2005 may end the month without ONE sale.  I [...]

The New Best Match Algorithm puts a big question mark around the Featured First (formerly Featured Plus or Category featured). In the past, this featured option used to place you listing at the top of the first search page that came up with your listings on it. For example, even if you were on page [...]

This is a good deal and good news for book sellers. From now through the end of 2009, pay only 5¢ Insertion Fees when you list books, music, movies, and video games on eBay.com in Fixed Price with product details. Your listings will show up on both the new eBay product pages and in search results. [...]

Are more fee discounts coming? eBay announced they will be killing the Dutch Auction format effective in May.  Since eBay expanded and reduced fees on Fixed Price Listings, the Dutch auction format has been used less and less by sellers where it was once the favored  format for listing multiple items.  Sellers have until May [...]

eBay is removing auctions and suspending sellers who sell designer and famous name goods Karen and I have been taking some vacation days this week and I haven’t been Blogging. So here is an old post that was highly popular.  Look for new content on Monday ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recently I have received email from sellers who [...]

Here are ten great eBay tips to lowering your costs and increasing your eBay profits Here are ten eBay tips to help you make more profits on eBay.  Many of these are very simple and easy to implement. If you do all of them the savings and profits can really add up. 1. Use Free [...]