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 [...]

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 [...]

A year ago that would have been a silly question –but today it’s not. In fact, I probably get a least a dozen emails a week from readers who tell me they are desperate to make some money quickly.  With over ten million unemployed and growing it’s no wonder this is happening.
The saddest emails I [...]

The answer may surprise you.
I saw an article in the San Francisco Chronicle Online edition this week about finding the best time and day to end an auction. Theoretically you want to end an auction when the most number of people are on eBay. Conventional wisdom and some data mining has [...]

But, be even more careful buying them.
Last week California essentially went bankrupt.  No –its is not a formal or complete bankruptcy, but when you can’t pay your bills and you are $25 billion underwater I would call that bankrupt in my book. When California couldn’t meet its obligations, it began issuing IOUs instead of payments [...]

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 [...]

Join me at the Amazon independent Sellers Conference July 10-13 in Seattle
Colin Sebastian, Digital Media & Internet analyst at Wall Street firm Lazard Capital Markets, estimates that Amazon.com’s third-party sellers will generate nearly $9 billion in gross merchandise sales in 2009. This is up from roughly $7 billion in 2008.This may be why more and [...]

comScore shows that Amazon passed eBay for the first time
According to comScore, Amazon had 60 million visitors to its site compared with 50 million a year ago. By comparison, eBay had 70 million visitors, down from 80.1 million a year ago. Amazon clearly has the potential to overtake eBay unless eBay can rebuild its visitor count.
eBay also [...]

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 [...]

This is the smallest and least exciting eBay Live since the first one In Anaheim.
I always look forward to eBay Live. It is a chance to meet and greet many old friends and make new ones, see the latest third party technologies and services, talk to key eBay employees one on one and basically recharge [...]

Australia has long been eBay’s test bed for major changes to the platform.
eBay tries things out there to see how they work and how loud members howl before rolling them out in the US. Here is an interesting email I received from one of my readers.
Hi Skip
Just on the odd chance another Aussie fan of yours [...]

Worldwide Brands is running a special offer for my readers through the end of April
If you sell on eBay or run a small website business you know that eBay wholesale product sourcing is one of the biggest challenges. WorldWide Brands is the most respected source of true wholesale information, training, research and wholesale sources for eBay [...]

Here is a free presentation from PESA and ECMTA on Best Match Search Results
Yesterday I mentioned the problems with Best Match and how it is impacting eBay sellers.  There are some things you can do to improve your results.
If you sell on eBay, you should really see this presentation. It takes about 30 minutes.
Here is [...]

Register before April 30th to save $45. But if you want a Priority Pass you should register before March 24th.
eBay just opened registration to eBay Live in Chicago, June 19-21, 2008. Registration is $75 per person if you register before April 30th.  You can also obtain a Priority Pass for $125, but these go very [...]

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:  [...]