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I’m a small business owner. I don’t want your pity. I just want to earn your business. (Amazon price check app)

by T. W. Seller | Dec 12, 2011 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, Customer Service & Bettering your Business, Publishing: Independent, Small Press, Self, POD, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 2 |

I’m going to try to keep this brief because I could seriously rant about this for hours. If...

A1 Marketplace launches free Stores for Media sellers with plans to move beyond books/music/movies

by T. W. Seller | Mar 5, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 0 |

A1 Marketplace is one of many Half.com like media marketplaces out there. You can list books, music, movies, software and more there without listing fees and pay only when the item sells. The interface and listing process is...

Amazon ups the royalty rate for Kindle publishers to 70%

by T. W. Seller | Jan 21, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, Publishing: Independent, Small Press, Self, POD, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 0 |

This goes out to all those people who sit there on the Amazon forums and complain about how...

How your competitors set your buyers’ expectations for you and your business

by T. W. Seller | Dec 17, 2009 | Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 3 |

There is an item that, for a long while, we were the only people on eBay selling. Everyone knows that cannot last forever so along came several other sellers who started to sell the very same item. For twice as much. Identical...

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

by T. W. Seller | Oct 14, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 27 |

It’s hard for me to get into the gripe party about the new Top-Rated Seller program because...

Jobs: Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush?

by T. W. Seller | Oct 13, 2009 | Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 0 |

I see this headline constantly in Google Ads and Pop-ups so I thought I would take a moment to answer it. Is Working Online At Home The Next Gold Rush?Well, if you are asking if it is a lawless wilderness that can make some...

Bonanzle forum censorship ticking off sellers and members?

by T. W. Seller | Jul 15, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 7 |

So the big disclaimer on this post is that I have never set foot into the Bonanzle forums myself expect once to find out why my site was being spammed but that is a story for another time.* *In fact, the long sordid history of...

On bad sellers, bad feedback and eBay DSRs

by T. W. Seller | Apr 7, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 24 |

I wrote this post a few days ago about a seller who was taking a very long time to ship my item and how I felt bad giving her bad feedback because we had been talking socially. (On a side note, that seller still has not...

Has eBay stripped the community of its personality?

by T. W. Seller | Feb 17, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 14 |

Continuing the discussion of yesterday on community and the role it plays in online selling, I wanted to address another part of community beyond the discussion boards hidden under that little Discussion tab on the eBay site....

Five Ways to Tweak Your Marketing for a Sluggish Economy

by T. W. Seller | Oct 22, 2008 | Timeless, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 0 |

With the economy right now being, shall we say, less than ideal, competition for buyer’s eyes is fierce. It’s not that buyers aren’t spending money, it’s just that they are being more careful in how they...

My secret confession: I like Buy.com on eBay (and hate that letter)

by T. W. Seller | Oct 20, 2008 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 26 |

There was an article over on My Blog Uptopia a few days ago about the Buy.com/eBay partnership. If you are just tuning in, let’s recap. Buy.com has been selling on eBay for a few months now. While big companies selling on...