Browsing the archives for the rated tag

Ebay wants me to move to Europe: “Your Top-Rated status is at risk in United Kingdom & Ireland.”

I received a strange feedback a few days ago and popped into my eBay seller dashboard, curious if it had come with the gift of a low star rating.
When I went to my seller dashboard, I saw the little yellow caution sign of doom. Oh, no, that guy did leave me a low rating was [...]

Amazon ups the royalty rate for Kindle publishers to 70%

This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how expensive Kindle books are.
Previously, Amazon was only giving the publisher (which can also mean the author if it is a self-published book) 35% of the sales price. So if your book was, say, $1, the profits [...]

Is being busy just a state of mind?

This happens very often to me. I call a friend I haven’t talked to in ages and the friend immediately apologizes for not having called me first as she/he has been “so busy.” Heck, I am busy too so I never expect these apologies or excuses but they are always, none the less, given.
But 9 [...]

Why eBay Top-rated sellers blow the PowerSeller program out of the water

It’s hard for me to get into the gripe party about the new Top-Rated Seller program because we qualified so while I completely understand that some people are totally upset about not qualifying, let’s talk for a moment about the program in general without playing the “but I should totally have qualified because. . . [...]