Archive for December, 2009

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Are Your Sales Ready For Some Football?

February 7, 2010 marks the date for Super Bowl XLIV at Dolphin Stadium in Florida and another opportunity to make sales. If you sell sports gear and memorabilia then this is your chance to capture more buyers and their love for the game.
Sports fans are fans year round so selling in a [...]

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Make Sales Based Upon New Year’s Resolutions

The new year is almost upon us and everyone I know is making New Year’s Resolutions. Some of the most common resolutions people make are focused on some type of self improvement whether it is losing weight, quitting smoking or getting organized. As an online seller you should be focused on this as [...]

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Sellers, Are You Ready for the Next Holiday?

Take a deep breath and be grateful the holiday shipping season is done. Now look at the calendar and see it is time to get items listed for Valentine’s Day (insert scream here). As an online seller you have to be prepared well ahead of every holiday if you are going to make [...]

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Two Ways To Ensure The Items You Mail Are Delivered

You made the sale, the money is in your account and now it is time to ship the merchandise to your customer. You pack the item carefully, tape the box closed and put a label on it. The package is picked up by your local mail carrier and is never seen again. [...]

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Jackpot! Big Bucks Paid for Stuffed Toys from the 1980’s

I am always amazed how many stuffed animals and plush toys I see at garage sales, estate sales and thrift stores. I’ve had decent success with selling used plush toys but nothing like these sellers.
This auction was for a 1980’s Pink Popple. The seller started bidding at $4.95 and received 19 bids for [...]

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Use Mannequins Not Models to Display Your Clothing

My biggest pet peeve, when it comes to buying used clothing or jewelry online, is sellers who use a person to model the item in their photos. Very few people have a professional model and photographer that can do justice to the item in a picture. Also, there seems to be a discrepancy [...]

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8 Ways To Remove Pesky Sticker Goo

I can’t tell you how many times I have purchased items to resell that have stickers on them that won’t come off. A particular thrift store I purchase china at has a tendency to put a sticker on every single piece of china in a set and on all glasses. After several years [...]

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Best Offer – My Favorite eBay Tool

Every item I sell in my eBay store is listed at auction first. If the item doesn’t sell the first or second time around at auction I put the item into my eBay store. I generally list the items in my store with a higher price than I was asking for at auction [...]

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Frustrating As It Is Sometimes, Bidders are People Too!

I was reading through the sellers forum on eBay this morning and saw an interesting question from a frustrated seller. They wrote that they had a bidder on one of their items who wanted to withdraw their bid. The seller wanted to know if they had to agree to this. My answer [...]

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Save at Dollar Days

Are you looking for products to resell online, in your store or at flea markets? Dollar Days has great deals on items that you can resell and make a profit. Dollar Days offers tens of thousands of products in many different price ranges.

Today and tomorrow, December 8 and 9, they have fleece blankets [...]