Archive for November, 2009

Bad Spelling Can Lead to Online Bargains

NBC 5 reporter Scott Gordon reports on a surprising way to find a bargain:  intentionally misspell the name of an item you want to buy on eBay, and you could get it for as much as an 80% discount.  It’s terrible for the seller, but great for buyers.  Read the story or watch the video [...]

Holiday eBay Sales: Start Small, Start Now

Many people wait till Black Friday (i.e., the day after Thanksgiving, now known as the “official” kick-off of the holiday shopping season) to do their gift shopping, while others procrastinate until Christmas Eve. Regardless, however, most are already beginning to think about what they’ll buy, how much they’ll spend, and where. If you’ve been toying [...]

The Secrets of eBay “Typo Treasures”

Save up to 70% by searching for mispellings misspellings
The Problem
In a bricks-and-mortar retail store, you browse through the shelves and racks until you find the item you’re looking for.  Let’s say, for example, that you want a Sony PlayStation 3.  You would walk to the video games department of your favorite electronics store, and look [...]

Want to be a Successful eBay Seller? Be an eBay Buyer

You can spend hours of research online and at the bookstore learning the tricks of the trade on how to be a successful eBay seller, but probably the easiest way to find out what will draw a buyer to your eBay store listings is to become a buyer yourself.
If you wanted to open a brick-and-mortar [...]

Make Your eBay Store a Family Affair

If you’ve been selling on eBay for a little while, you know how much work goes into the business. That’s what it is, after all — a business — and you deal with many of the issues that all businesses ultimately face, albeit on a smaller scale: purchasing, inventory, pricing, shipping, customer relations, administration. Once [...]