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5 Tips for Saving Money on Shipping Supplies and Postage

by T. W. Seller | Jan 29, 2012 | Customer Service & Bettering your Business, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 4 |

Today’s topic was a request from a IRL friend. And not just any friend! This one. Anyway, the...

Auctiva Insurance for eBay sales: Is the discount worth the fuss of filing a claim?

by T. W. Seller | Apr 19, 2010 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Testing, Try-outs and Reviews | 12 |

Regular readers know that eBay 3rd Party Provider Auctiva and I have a somewhat sordid history. I...

Are eBay buyers becoming feedback & DSR plea blind?

by T. W. Seller | Mar 8, 2010 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 5 |

As soon as DSR ratings became important, I made up a package insert that goes out in every single package I send. One side thanks you for your purchase and gives the URL for the store if you want to shop with us again. The...

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’s WTF Google Product Search (Base) announcement (eBay to English translation)

by T. W. Seller | Oct 8, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky, Social Networking and Blogging | 1 |

While those of us over here in the trenches were trying to puzzle out if the changes to Google Product Search (which eBay calls Google Base which I thought was two names ago but whatever) was good or bad news, eBay sent down an...

Why your online store needs a return or exchange policy (even if you really don’t want to offer one)

by T. W. Seller | Sep 23, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Tips, Tricks and Insider Advantages | 7 |

eBay instituted a policy this week that requires all sellers to specify a return policy on every listing. While most stores still leave the decision to have a return policy up to the sellers and don’t require it, no matter...

Some thoughts on eBay policy changes, bulk listing edits & being thrown a frickin’ bone here

by T. W. Seller | Sep 23, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 4 |

I spent an annoying day today trying to make all the edits necessary to be compliant with the new eBay return policy. Now, we have a return policy and have had one for a while but in some of our older listings, this was in the...

eBay Sellers: Are you prepared for the new insurance policy?

by T. W. Seller | Sep 18, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 2 |

Consider this your friendly reminder for The Whine Seller. Next week is the infamous, week of September 22nd when the new eBay insurance policy goes live. Are you ready? Here’s a quick checklist of stuff to do to be ready...

Paranoia Post: The eBay Insurance USPS, UPS, FedEx Conspiracy Theory

by T. W. Seller | Sep 4, 2009 | eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 8 |

Everyone have their foil hat firmly in place? Then let’s go. The real reason eBay is no longer allowing sellers to charge buyers for insurance has nothing to do with fees. Instead it’s a ploy to manipulate the...

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...

So Auctiva isn’t free anymore. Eh, it was good while it lasted.

by T. W. Seller | Jun 2, 2009 | Beyond Amazon eBay and Etsy: Alternative Marketplaces and Ecommerce options, eBay, Etsy and other Marketplace Selling, Ranting, Whining and Yelling at the Sky | 6 |

So I was out of town and sick with some overlap between the two so I was woefully behind the curve on this Auctiva news. After many years of free services, Auctiva is starting to charge for their services. Sellers are up in...

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

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...