Comments on: What’s Your Piece Of Ebay Advice? http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/ Ebay News, Articles, and Tips Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:40:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Sweet Text Messages http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-27568 Sweet Text Messages Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:10:44 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-27568 Well I just read this & another article within 5 minutes of each other & a certain irony struck me :mad: “Revenue from fees charged when items are listed and sold on its shopping site grew just 9% from last year, down from 14% annual growth in the prior quarter.” extract from Yahoo Biz Finance ‘EBay’s Painful Quarter’ So, despite increases in fees, growth is down - and then they start charging sellers for services they aren’t going to provide Ummm … is that desperation I smell? :wink: Well I just read this & another article within 5 minutes of each other & a certain irony struck me :mad:

“Revenue from fees charged when items are listed and sold on its shopping site grew just 9% from last year, down from 14% annual growth in the prior quarter.” extract from Yahoo Biz Finance ‘EBay’s Painful Quarter’

So, despite increases in fees, growth is down - and then they start charging sellers for services they aren’t going to provide

Ummm … is that desperation I smell? :wink:

]]> By: David http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-24235 David Fri, 09 May 2008 14:45:03 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-24235 Hi, I just thought I would add my 2 cents. I have sold on Ebay for around 6 years I guess. I sell things from my website www.hivelocitynetworks.com but make them so they are lower priced, but before I ever post anything on Ebay I always look to see what the competition is selling the same item for, if at all and adjust my price accordingly, always beating it if I can. I also almost always offer Free Shipping and use Buy It Now for a specified price instead of an actual auction. You have to be careful sometime in dealing with dropshippers. I was selling computer cases several years ago and I was getting them from a place in CA that would drop ship them to my customers, that all worked fine, but they started sending out very poorly packaged or they may have been messed up to begin with, but by the time my customers got them they were pretty mangled, and of course that made the customers unhappy because they had to wait on the replacement. I think what the dropshipper was doing was intentionally sending out busted up equipment and then filing claims against UPS for the damages, where I'm sure they made more than they paid for them....just a hunch though. Anyway, that is take on auctions...they are a good source of extra income. David Overholser www.google-profits-daily.com/blog Hi, I just thought I would add my 2 cents. I have sold on Ebay for around 6 years I guess. I sell things from my website http://www.hivelocitynetworks.com but make them so they are lower priced, but before I ever post anything on Ebay I always look to see what the competition is selling the same item for, if at all and adjust my price accordingly, always beating it if I can. I also almost always offer Free Shipping and use Buy It Now for a specified price instead of an actual auction. You have to be careful sometime in dealing with dropshippers. I was selling computer cases several years ago and I was getting them from a place in CA that would drop ship them to my customers, that all worked fine, but they started sending out very poorly packaged or they may have been messed up to begin with, but by the time my customers got them they were pretty mangled, and of course that made the customers unhappy because they had to wait on the replacement. I think what the dropshipper was doing was intentionally sending out busted up equipment and then filing claims against UPS for the damages, where I’m sure they made more than they paid for them….just a hunch though. Anyway, that is take on auctions…they are a good source of extra income.

David Overholser
http://www.google-profits-daily.com/blog

]]> By: Mark Kenny http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-14607 Mark Kenny Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:52:09 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-14607 Hi LemonsAllDay, I've removed the user ids from your comment as we're unable to verify them. There's nothing wrong with having multiple accounts on eBay in fact it's an excellent way to market yourself especially if your selling in different categories. Mark Hi LemonsAllDay,

I’ve removed the user ids from your comment as we’re unable to verify them. There’s nothing wrong with having multiple accounts on eBay in fact it’s an excellent way to market yourself especially if your selling in different categories.

Mark

]]> By: LemonsAllDay http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-14598 LemonsAllDay Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:25:01 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-14598 Hi, just for your added info, the below is Jenny How's eBay User IDs. She uses 3 ID to sell on ebay which are; (removed) How she does it, or if it is against the ToC, you'll have to ask her. Hi, just for your added info, the below is Jenny How’s eBay User IDs. She uses 3 ID to sell on ebay which are;

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How she does it, or if it is against the ToC, you’ll have to ask her.

]]> By: Mark Kenny http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-14540 Mark Kenny Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:18:36 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-14540 Webhosting! I've made the mistake of buying cheap web hosting on eBay before and sorry but it's something I wouldn't recommend anyone else does. These days, anyone can set themselves up as a host by simply purchasing a resellers account for about $10 a month. A lot of "ebay hosts" are ran by sellers from their bedroom who simply will be unable to provide the 24/7 support any serious host offers or have the experience it takes to run a hosting business. I guess for any serious host, (such as yourself :-) ) the biggest problem you have on eBay is convincing potential buyers your not a fly by night host and have the necessary resources to back it up with proper support. Webhosting! I’ve made the mistake of buying cheap web hosting on eBay before and sorry but it’s something I wouldn’t recommend anyone else does.

These days, anyone can set themselves up as a host by simply purchasing a resellers account for about $10 a month. A lot of “ebay hosts” are ran by sellers from their bedroom who simply will be unable to provide the 24/7 support any serious host offers or have the experience it takes to run a hosting business.

I guess for any serious host, (such as yourself :-) ) the biggest problem you have on eBay is convincing potential buyers your not a fly by night host and have the necessary resources to back it up with proper support.

]]> By: Hosting http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/whats-your-piece-of-ebay-advice/#comment-14536 Hosting Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:52:00 +0000 http://www.Mark-Kenny.com/?p=122#comment-14536 I wonder if above tips and suggestions by so many folks applies to even services like web hosting. Cause always wanted to post a sales event at ebay. But was warned that ebay hosting you get is not the greatest and it might destroy the image of a hosting company. Now, i wonder how true that is. I wonder if above tips and suggestions by so many folks applies to even services like web hosting. Cause always wanted to post a sales event at ebay. But was warned that ebay hosting you get is not the greatest and it might destroy the image of a hosting company. Now, i wonder how true that is.

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