Archive for the 'eBay Trends' Category

The lure of starting a business on eBay can be a strong one, and I am going to share with you the realities that some people are afraid to tell you. Out of all of the businesses you can start, this seems to be the easiest and requires the least amont of investment, and I [...]

Jeffery Rush:
It would seem that there have been some major disappointments presented to those who were able to preorder the Sony Play Station 3 game console. The biggest problem was that with the limited quantity of consoles made available to the numerous stores that ordered them were not nearly enough to go around. Retail stores [...]

Nintendo Co.’s Wii is outselling Sony Corp.’s Playstation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 on auction site Ebay, according to the company’s latest research sales data.Under the Tech Gadgets category, Wii ranks as the No. 1 seller at 38,074 units sold. The innovative new console, which retails for $249, is sold to Ebay customers at an [...]

Is eBay a sales channel or a marketing channel? The difference is as a sales channel, you expect to make money. As a marketing channel, you expect to acquire customers for the best cost. Here’s how eBay has changed and why your strategy should change too.
Classic eBay, or what I’ll call eBay 1.0 was about [...]

A press release from the family of Dr. Henry Weiss, who was Elvis Presley’s dentist until 1971, said the model of Presley’s teeth and the porcelain crown will be offered — along with a letter of authenticity signed by Joe Esposito, Elvis’ longtime road manager.
The eBay auction will begin Jan. 8, 2007, which would have [...]

You won’t find Marsha Collier fighting for a mall parking space on the Friday after Thanksgiving. The author of Santa Shops on eBay and eBay for Dummies practices what she preaches and does all of her holiday shopping at the world’s biggest auction site.
Collier, who lives in Los Angeles, recently chatted with Rocky Mountain News [...]

eBay released data on how certain popular items fared on eBay.com on “Black Friday,” traditionally one of the busiest retail shopping days in the U.S. eBay said 2,537 TMX Elmo dolls sold for an average price of $70.10 each, and 73 Furreal Butterscotch Pony toys sold for an average price of $350.48 each. Four Samsung [...]

More people than ever are expected to shop online this holiday season, but Amazon.com Inc. and eBay Inc. are no longer the clear winners.
The dominance of the two e-commerce giants is being chipped away by a new breed of online shopper drawn to familiar names and lower prices, better Internet-search technology and an explosion in [...]

As of earlier this evening, eBay had over 17,000 PlayStation 3 listings, which is almost double the 9,000 they featured just this afternoon.
Now, because so many of these systems have long since topped $3,000 and some are even over $4,000 and approaching $5,000, you’re looking at some outrageously pricey systems. Even for the most hardcore, [...]

Just when you think you’ve heard it all, there is a new email version of an old Internet scam.
“Scam artists have now gravitated from the mails to the Internet,” said FBI Director Robert Mueller.

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Mueller was in Indianapolis just last week, warning Hoosiers about the potential dangers lurking in [...]