Archive for the 'eBay Trends' Category

Woman buys bargains on eBay and sells them in a retail outlet:
Miller honed her skills and turned a hobby into a weekend business. Jill’s Closet, with the glittery curtain above folding closet doors, opened about a month ago at Capitol Flea Market. She and husband, Ralph, did the decorating.
“My customers are all ages,” she said. [...]

AuctionBytes:
The ecommerce space continues to heat up with eBay competitors releasing services that are a cross between classified ads and eBay fixed-price listings.
Microsoft launched its free online marketplace on Tuesday. Windows Live Expo, which had been code-named Fremont in alpha testing, is still in beta testing mode and is available only to U.S. customers. The [...]

I have witnessed this first hand. I was losing sale after sale (daily) to sellers that listed an item for $9.99 with $9.99 in shipping while my item sat unsold at $13.99 with $5 in shipping.
Marginal Revolution:
Would you rather pay $10 and have free shipping or pay $5 and pay $6 for shipping? Answer: [...]

SF Gate:
Pinson is a case study in Internet entrepreneurship: A regular guy has a regular job until he discovers he can make an income selling online. But he’s not unique in the way he does business.
Internet users have been turning themselves into Internet merchants since eBay began in 1995. Ten years later, according to a [...]

Leading the Charge:

Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy‘s Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of sheet metal.
“I mean, it hasn‘t done anything miraculous as of yet, but seeing it is kind of groovy,” said Haley, [...]

iMedia:
Auctions only work when the value of a product is indeterminate, as I wrote. That could be either a warehouse full of 1994 calendars or a Van Gogh. This economic esprit can apply to some media, like the Angelfire crap that used to make up the bulk of Flycast’s blind-bid media network, or perhaps the [...]

Boston.com:
On Sunday, Bob Golub posted 10 auctions on eBay, including listings for a mink coat, a vintage comb and brush set, and an embroidery tool.
But it’s not stuff he found while rummaging through his basement. Golub owns the QuikDrop franchise in Sudbury, a storefront that sells things on eBay for people. The store opened last [...]

Daily India:
Ebay is the ‘BEST’ opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home.
Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it’s your time to START your own dropshipping [...]

Daily India:
First, and as important to your success as anything you learn here, is clearly understanding how eBay users find things to spend their money on.
No matter what type of buyer they are, no matter where they come from, they all use the same tool to find auction ads;
“They use the search bar to type [...]

AuctionBytes:
Overstock Auctions is doing away with 1-day duration listings. Sellers will still have a choice of running auctions for 3, 5, 7 and 10 days. Previously sellers were required to have a business rating of at least 10 to post a 1-day auction. The Overstock Auctions post announcing the change said it was being made [...]