Archive for August, 2006

The Business Opportunities Weblog Network is made up of ten niche business blogs, plus a classifieds site and a forum. Here’s a selection of popular posts from around the network:

What Should I Sell on eBay?
eBay Stores Just Keep Closing
Finding Out About The Laws That Affects Franchises
How To Pick A Winning Franchise
Street Smart Franchising
Why A […]

Having posted all week about eBay and getting a tirade of in depth responses from sellers who feel mistreated, deceived, disrespected and financially punished, I feel that this issue will not go away. Not because of my continuous posts and not because sellers feel so passionate about the issues they raise.The real reason the fire […]

eBay sellers in the UK got major media attention when they went on strike on August 15, and Australian sellers have been readying for their planned strike on Monday, August 21. According to one seller, the count was at 152 Stores as of Thursday (http://forums.ebay.com.au/thread.jspa?threadID=500024740). He reports that sellers will close their eBay Shops and […]

Though PayPal is the de facto on-line payment system of choice (or perhaps of force), it doesn’t necessarily make them nice. There have been those horror stories of individuals being banned from PayPal just because someone they bought or sold from was less than honest. Now, add one more line to that laundry list of […]

Every eBay buyer or seller knows what it is, but they very rarely make the most of this powerful profit generating free resource. There are some things that must be included in your page if you’re really going to profit from it. This article outlines the features that must be included and how to make […]

Today, August 22nd is the day of the new eBay store listing increases. I am betting, that last night, you saw a heavy increase in listing traffic to get one month of listings at the old rate. eBay store owners staying up late to get all the new listings in place prior to the new […]

We will take a look at the two types of auctions available today; local auctions and online auctions. We’ll discuss how they are setup and run and how best to use them to buy or sell a used car to save you time and money.Local vehicle auctionsYou must first register if you’d like to buy […]

With more than 167 million registered users eBay is the largest market-place in the world. Tens of thousands of items are listed every day and the vast majority of these don’t contain any spelling mistakes. But a significant proportion do, either in the item title or the description.Now I’m sure you’re thinking ’so what, why […]

With eBay and Ticketmaster in the auction market, it’s a good time to evaluate many states’ regulation on this practice to determine what need, if any, there is for licensing and regulation in this market.Internet and technology have been a catalyst for many of the changes in auctioning behavior, and many states are stepping up […]

The Belkin Skype WiFi phone is a phone that looks like your cell, but works only with Skype and only over WiFi.
It’s about the same size as a larger candybar style phone—maybe 125% as long, wide, and thick as a Sony Ericsson T610.
We got our hands on one and ran it through our […]