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How discounted & free shipping offers effect consignment selling

by T. W. Seller | Jul 6, 2015 | Sell Their Stuff: eBay Trading Assistants and Selling Assistance | 0 |

Any seller, consignment or not, will tell you that shipping is one of the biggest expenses of...

It ships fast! It ships free! It… hurts my eBay Top Rated Seller status?

by T. W. Seller | Apr 20, 2012 | Customer Service & Bettering your Business, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 4 |

When eBay announced the newest round of seller changes, I wasn’t worried. I’ve already...

“There’s no such thing as free shipping.”

by T. W. Seller | Sep 2, 2010 | Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 0 |

You can set your watch by it. Every time there’s a post about eBay that mentions “free shipping” somewhere in it and you get some clown who says one of the following two things:“There’s no such thing as free shipping!” or the...

eBay changes their DSR feedback policy: Free shipping now equals 5 free stars

by T. W. Seller | Aug 31, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 0 |

(I meant to post this on last Friday and I forgot. Sorry about that! My brain is apparently still...

eBay, I’m never going to buy my own items. Even if you pretend they have free shipping when they don’t.

by T. W. Seller | May 20, 2010 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 6 |

eBay, honey, let’s talk about your marketing. You have done this to us many, many times...

Using eBay Giving Works to give more to Haiti earthquake victims than you can afford by yourself

by T. W. Seller | Jan 14, 2010 | Announcements, News, Contests and Giveaways, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 0 |

By now, everyone has heard of the terrible tragedy in Haiti. Many people want to give something to the relief efforts and some already have. But you may find yourself wanting to give more and, with the economy in the state it...

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...

eBay forces sellers to eat the cost of insurance in a move that ticks me off to no end

by T. W. Seller | Aug 26, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 5 |

This is probably old news to some of you but since the first notice I saw of this was on an item I was listing last night, the wound is still fresh for me.I heard the rumors that eBay was going to introduce their own insurance...

eBay Bucks (or as I like to call them Anything Points 2.0) are back in Beta but only for some

by T. W. Seller | Apr 8, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 6 |

So just about a year ago (May 2008) eBay unveiled a rewards program called eBay Bucks. It was in Beta and also by invitation only. For some reason, I was one of the people asked to join the Beta program. It was free and, since I...

5 ways to mix things up by selling the same stuff in different ways

by T. W. Seller | Mar 4, 2009 | Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 0 |

The economy is a mess, we all know this, and those of us with things to sell may be feeling the pinch.When the going gets tough, the tough shake things up. Now is the time to try some different things to make your products sell....

We finally made a sale on Bonanzle!

by T. W. Seller | Jan 13, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling | 15 |

So I promised back when we first signed up for Bonanzle on September 30th, 2008 that I would let you know when we had a sale. A random PayPal payment came through today and after much trying to figure out what site it was from,...