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Is cold & flu season or fear of germs good or bad for online sellers?

Posted by T. W. Seller | Apr 30, 2009 | Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 10 |

Miss Piggy is not amused by your swine flu reference. As the world alternately freaks out or calls...

International insurance: To require or not to require (with all apologies to Shakespeare)

Posted by T. W. Seller | Apr 28, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 4 |

To require or not to require, that is the questionWhether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The dings and feedback of outrageous shipping chargesOr to take arms against a sea of customs troublesAnd with insurance, end...

When selling online, take photos like you have no description

Posted by T. W. Seller | Apr 27, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 2 |

Here is a cold hard fact of selling online: Most buyers don’t read the description. You can take hours to describe every tiny flaw in a collectible or every product detail but most of that will, sadly, never be read. When...

“It’s impossible to make money selling on eBay!”

Posted by T. W. Seller | Apr 23, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 13 |

I actually had to make a trek to the post office the other day like a commoner and the woman working the counter, upon seeing my eBay branded Priority Mail boxes (which oddly enough I was using to mail a non-eBay related item),...

ScribeFire’s InLinks.com partnership brings the debate about unmarked ad links back to front and center

Posted by T. W. Seller | Apr 21, 2009 | Social Networking and Blogging, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 0 |

(ScribeFire is a powerful, free Firefox browser plugin that lets you manage multiple blogs including posts, pages and more all from your browser. I personally am a big fan of the plugin and have been covering their attempts to...