Making money on eBay requires consistent effort and attention to detail. Here is a great article with tips to help eBay sellers make more money on eBay. 
We have a guest article today by Sean Eyring from HammerTap Research.  HammerTap is our recommended eBay research solution.  At the end of the article is some information about [...]

The answer to that question depends on the kind of drop shipper you are looking at.  I like to place drop shippers in four categories:

Total scams
Large general product dropshippers
Specialized drop shippers
Small and medium-sized manufacturers that drop ship.

 
Let’s take a look at each one.
1. Total Scams – there are a few companies out there that claim [...]

I was chatting with Colleen at WorldWide Brands yesterday and she told me about an unusual offer I wanted to alert my readers to.  Here is a chance to go behind the scenes at WorldWide Brands and sample their services for free.
If you don’t know about WorldWide Brands they are the oldest and largest Wholesale [...]

Starting on Saturday, September 26, 2009, sellers who list Auction-style item(s), and have a 12 month Detailed Seller Rating of 4.5 or higher on all criteria, will receive 33% off the standard Insertion Fee per item listed.
New sellers who don’t yet have DSR ratings are also eligible. DSR rating criteria for this promotion will be [...]

Double milestones for Bonanzle.com –100,000 members and 1,000,000 unique visitors
Bonanzle.com, who bill themselvess as the marketplace to find everything but the ordinary, surpassed 100,000 members on September 14, just barely a year after the company’s official launch. Bonanzle competitor eBay had about 41,000 members during a comparable period in their history.
Unlike other marketplaces, Bonanzle’s traffic [...]

I have just released my 28 page free eBook, The Future of eBay 2009, The Update To The Complete eBay Marketing SystemI first wrote the Future of eBay last year when eBay announced major changes to the platform.  Last week, eBay announced more changes that will take effect in October 2009 and April 2010.
The [...]

Just Updated: 77 Free eBay Tips to help eBay sellers avoid mistakes, sell more items and build your eBay business
I have been publishing my free eBay tips for the past 6 years. As you can imagine with all of the changes on eBay and the services provided by third parties, these need to be updated frequently. The truth [...]

In my opinion NOT Now, but it may not hurt to have it.
eBay and ProPay announced their deal for eBay sellers that will take effect next week. Starting next week, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Titanium eBay Power Sellers can sign up for ProPay and integrate ProPay into their eBay business much like they now do [...]

Know your fees before you sell
Here is a great little free tool for eBay sellers. It is an online calculator that calculates eBay and PayPal fees to help you decide the best price and format to list an item on eBay.  If you are running an eBay business this is a great little tool to [...]

A few days ago, there was a special webinar with Forrester Research called “Why eCommerce is Thriving”
And it’s backed up by some serious data.
If you have been watching the new free video series from WorldWide Brands that I have been telling you about, then you will want to see this one –It is easily the [...]

PayPal announcement that they will place a 21 day payment hold on certain high risk transactions has angered sellers.
I have received several emails from sellers wondering what is behind this policy.  Most of them are suspicious of eBay/PayPal’s motives, but upon investigation, I think this policy makes some sense.
It is important to remember two things:  [...]

Here is a chance to here how professional eBay sellers are coping with the new changes to the eBay Platform.
If you run an eBay business, be sure and put this in your calendar for next Tuesday at Noon Pacific – 3PM Eastern Time.
PESA (Professional eBay Sellers Alliance) and ECMTA (eCommerce Merchants Trade Association) are pleased [...]

There has been no shortage of speculation and rumors that eBay will lower fees this January.
I think there is now some concrete basis to the speculation.  In today’s AuctionBytes Newsletter, Ina Steiner reported on a conversation with eBay spokesman, Hani Durzy, that “we are always looking at ways to adjust the marketplace to make sellers more [...]

The eBay Auction Pros Group at Prosper can help.
Prosper is the person-to-person lending site funded by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay where borrowers list borrowing requests and thousands of individual lenders like you and me bid on the loans.
eBayAuctionPros is a Prosper group comprised of eBay sellers who lend money to deserving people. We  [...]

A falling STR is a recipe for losing money on eBay!

Recent eBay fee increases have not been that high, but sell-through-rates (STR) are dropping all across eBay which effectively increases your listing fees as a percentage of total sales.

Your STR on eBay is nothing more than the percentage of auctions launched that resulted in a [...]