For whatever reason, the engine behind the scenes here has decided that it does not need to email me when a comment is held over for moderation.  As a result, there were some 30 comments that were waiting on me to fix them up.  Nearly 75% or more of those were spam, however, so it [...]

2009 is winding down, mere hours left, and here comes 2010! I hope 2009 was good to you, but I wish that 2010 is so much better! Be sure to ring in the new year tonight and then set to meeting your goals for the year right away.  The quicker you get them started, the faster you’ll [...]

Shhhhhh…!  Don’t look now, but Black Friday and the rest of the holiday shopping season is right around the corner.  And if you’re in the business of selling, now is the time to be ready for it.  If you haven’t started getting ready for the onslaught, you better get started.  Waiting until just before Black [...]

And these ones just might be alright.  Maybe eBay has finally heard the people talking and is looking to make things better for us.  Here’s a link to the official eBay announcement: July 2009 Seller Announcement A couple of highlights on the announcement.  No more average DSR’s.  They’ll be using a more seller friendly count of [...]

If you’re like me, you like to know what things cost before you buy them.  Which makes eBay and Paypal a bit of a problem.  Yes, we know what the percentage that they’ll be charging us is, but there are a bunch of calculations that come into play and adding them all up and figuring [...]

I’m sure that, by now, you’ve heard several stories about people who make their living on Garage Sales.  Gary at Auction Rebel does a challenge every year where he tries to beat a goal.  This year, I think he’s at $15,000.  It’s not full time, but that’s just his income from Garage Sales.  The bottom [...]

eBay has announced that you’ll soon be getting more pictures in four categories of the US site. From the Announcement: Hello everyone…I’d like to share some news regarding fee changes for eBay-hosted pictures that we’re making in the Collectibles, Art, Antiques and Pottery & Glass categories. The first eBay-hosted picture in an item is already free. Effective February [...]

It seems like very year around the holidays, people start looking for eBay coupons.  I can understand that.  You want to save a little money.  You want to get the best bang for your buck. But, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Let me see if I can explain here.  eBay is the marketplace, not the merchant.  [...]

One of the more important habits to have if you’re selling on eBay or other places online is to backup your data.  I’m sure you’ve all got good recordkeeping habits, or you should, but what happens if all that good recordkeeping goes up in smoke?  Will you be able to restore it? Will you be [...]

It’s that time of year again.  Time to break out the checkbook, search for the holiday 2008 Paypal coupon codes or eBay coupon codes and head off to do some shopping.  If you’ve got kids like I do, one thing you have to pay special attention to is the hot holiday toys. Amazon usually puts out [...]