I like to call selling goods on consignment for others the “perfect eBay business.” Often the biggest problem eBay sellers face is finding products that they can resell at a profit. Luckily, there’s an alternative: If you’re finding it difficult to locate products of your own, you may be able to make money selling items [...]

A lady in Los Angeles is selling her late husband’s burial crypt that is located right above Marilyn Monroe
A Los Angeles widow, Mrs. Richard Poncher, is auctioning her husband’s famous grave site so she can afford the mortgage payments on her $1.6 million house. The deceased, Mr. Poncher, is buried in a crypt right above [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On January 16th, eBay announced a massive overhaul to the eBay Trading Assistant Program that will take effect on February 11th.
The overhaul of the Trading Assistant Program (an eBay program that helps consignment sellers find customers and sell their items on eBay) was long overdue. eBay’s program provides for a Trading Assistant Directory where people [...]

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 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 [...]