Archive for January, 2010

Timing eBay Sales for Maximum Profit

Getting the best price for your items on eBay can be a matter of timing. A well-written, beautifully illustrated listing for an item many eBay buyers are searching for will get more bids, and sell for a higher price, than the same listing once the market has had its fill of that item.
For example, in [...]

Mobile eBay Bidding Jumps

This holiday season, eBay bidders used their mobile phones to buy more than 1.5 million items on the auction site. That’s great news for anyone thinking of selling through the online auction site this year for two reasons.
First, that’s three times the number of mobile bidders over the same period a year before. More bidders [...]

Turning Returns & Shelf-Pulls into Revenue

This time of year, many businesses are faced with a common business problem: a customer returns something, and it can no longer be sold as “new”.
In today’s economy, more and more businesses are finding that it’s difficult to dispose of returned items or “shelf-pulls” – very slightly damaged items, or brand new items that are simply [...]

Vote for the Messiest Garage in DFW

Vote here!
The submissions are in, and a panel of professional organizers from NAPO-DFW has sifted through all of the entries in the Extreme Garage Makeover Contest, DFW Edition.
And after they recovered their composure, their first thought was, “what have we gotten ourselves into?”
But like the true professionals they are, the organizers pulled themselves together and [...]

Fulfilling your New Year’s Resolution to Declutter

If one of your new year’s resolutions is to de-clutter your home, selling unwanted items on eBay is a great way to clear out the house and earn some extra money, too. Of course, some of things are simply clutter – not every unwanted item will sell on eBay. The big secret that [...]