Archive for March, 2010

Profiting from Fashion Vault

eBay officially launched its new Fashion Vault service  this week, after running the system as a trial for several months. How do you sell on eBay Fashion Vault?
Chances are you can’t – unless you’re what eBay calls a “trusted seller” who are “authorized by the brand to sell their merchandise. But that doesn’t mean that [...]

Buy a town to work at home?

If you want to work at home, eBay offers several ways. One of the more unusual is to buy a whole town, complete with a post office (with its own zip code), a gas station, a grocery store, a “Spaghetti Saloon” restaurant and a four-bedroom house. You can lease the Washington state commercial properties or [...]

Collectibles That Aren’t

It happens pretty often. A customer walks in to an Easysale store. “Can you tell me how much my collection is worth?,” they ask, setting a box filled with treasured items on the counter.
The answer is that, of course, we can help them determine whether the items they think are collectible and valuable really are [...]

Recycling ROI

Most people think of recycling as something they “ought” to do to help conserve natural resources.  But maybe we should start thinking of it in terms of ROI.  That business school term for “return on investment” takes on a whole new meaning in light of a recent Nielsen/eBay survey found that found that the average [...]

Feeling Lucky?

Feeling lucky this St. Patrick’s Day? A lot of eBay sellers seem to be. This week’s offerings offerings from lucky eBay sellers include:

A real World Series ring.
A one-of-a-kind Ferrari motorcycle.
A full-functioning television station.
A $21 million iPad.

The World Series ring is from former Detroit Tigers infielder Doug Baker, who is selling a 1984 World Series ring [...]