Archive for December, 2007
10-Cent Listing Day Promotion, December 27th ONLY, on eBay.com
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 26, 2007In case you haven’t heard yet, eBay is running a promotion tomorrow, December 27th only, on fixed price and auction-style listings. For just 10-cents, you can list any fixed price and/or auction-style items on eBay.com. This can save you a bundle in listing fees if you tend to sell higher priced items. All other fees [...]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in Announcements on December 24, 2007We wanted to wish all of our readers a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Until the New Year, we will be spending time with our family and reflecting on what is in store for us in 2008. We will not be posting anything else until after the New Year. Thank you for your support [...]
Continuing Reaction to the Idea of Amazon Purchasing eBay
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 21, 2007Yesterday we wrote a post about the idea of Amazon purchasing eBay. This post discussed a recent New York Times article about the very same subject. Since then, Saul Hansell of the New York Times has posted two additional follow-up articles. Saul’s first follow-up post is about disappointed eBay buyers. His second follow-up post is [...]
Some Bad Holiday eBay News for Two Companies
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 20, 2007People involved with eBay are supposed to be living the high life in the month of December. After all, with the greatly increased sales due to the holiday season, what could possibly go wrong? Plenty, if you are involved with two eBay related companies. Two companies have just announced that they are ceasing operation as [...]
Should Amazon Buy eBay?
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 20, 2007In case you haven’t heard, there has been much talk in the past few days about a recent New York Times article about Why Amazon Should Buy eBay. This is an interesting read, but maybe the best part is the reaction to the article. As of this writing, there are 61 comments to this posting. [...]
Use Google Base to Advertise Your eBay Store Listings
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 19, 2007Google is the leading Internet search engine. This means that more people use Google to search for items online than any other single search portal. What does this mean to you, the eBay seller? It means that you need to make sure that someone can find your eBay listings if they are searching on Google [...]
A Little Rant About eBay’s Detailed Seller Ratings
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 18, 2007Last week we wrote about ChannelAdvisor’s new tool that allows you to easily and quickly see what your, and your competitor’s, eBay Detailed Seller Ratings stats are. This got us thinking a bit about the (fairly) newly introduced eBay Detailed Seller Ratings (DSRs), so we thought we would give you our take on them. eBay [...]
What eBay Does to Protect the Intellectual Property Rights of Third Parties
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 17, 2007Whether you sell new or used items on eBay, you have to make sure that you have the legal right to do so and that you are not infringing on the property rights of the company whose product you are selling. Fortunately, if you do the prerequisite research, you will find that it is fairly [...]
New IRS Standard Mileage Rates for 2008
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 14, 2007We just received the latest IRS e-News for Small Business, which is an email that we subscribe to in the hopes of learning about new tax changes that affect our business. This particular email was not included in our recent Emails/Newsletter We Receive That Helps Us in Our Business post. So, if you reside in [...]
Special Pricing EXTENDED on the Ultimate Product Sourcing Reference
Posted by Lizard Wisdom Posted in eBay on December 13, 2007IMPORTANT: WorldWide Brands has extended the special pricing offer on their One Source product sourcing reference. You must hurry if you want to take advantage of this offer, as it is only good through the end of this month. This is THE definitive resource for genuine, legitimate wholesale sources and wholesale dropship companies for your [...]
