Since the new eBay store fees change tomorrow – in my case, auctions will go from .35 to .25 and Fixed Price format will go from .10 to .05 – there was no incentive to list anything on eBay today. What better day to add to my Etsy store that I created a few weeks [...]
Archive of posts filed under the auctions category.
Why I Love Selling Vintage
Not only do I love vintage items and collectibles but I am thankfully reminded on a weekly, if not daily, basis that my customers do too. I could post all day long about the stories I hear from my customers about their purchases and I would never get bored even though you might. This went [...]
Lessons About Business That I Learned From My Cats – Part II
Yesterday I posted about some challenges that I’m having with my online business and how I’d like to take it to the next level and change things up. Believe it or not, in a roundabout way I got some business ideas from watching my cats deal with a recent dilemma. Sounds silly but stick with [...]
Lessons Learned From My Cats
It’s a new year! Happy 2010! With every new year comes plans, resolutions, promises, new goals and ideas. This year is already nagging at me. I’ve been feeling a strange unease for the last few months that is telling me that something needs to change. Is it the usual stuff? Do I need to quit [...]
Probably My Only Post About Football
Even though I’ve never been a football fan, I have a long history with the sport. My best friend of over 25 years is a diehard Buffalo Bills fan. She grew up in a rural area where there were two channels on TV and she just fell in love with Sunday football games (probably out of [...]
Selling on Ebay – Is Fixed Price with Free Shipping the Answer?
I decided today that I would suck it up and just work within the parameters of the convoluted rigamorole also known as eBay’s Best Match. If you sell on eBay (or anywhere else really) you know that getting seen at the top of a search is what it’s all about. Best Match is eBay’s way of matching the [...]
