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Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, the changes are coming. With less than two weeks before eBay’s changes take effect, most of us have been busy preparing our stores, our listings and our inventory for the [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, March 17, 2010
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I had another “oh no” eBay moment this morning while trying to create a listing. You know, when all is going well and you are suddenly hit with some new hoop to jump through or some new eBay rule you might be violating. And just when I had been starting to feel fully recovered from [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, March 4, 2010
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As I mentioned in a recent post, we just returned from our biggest trade show of the year, the Toy Association Industry Toy Fair in New York. After three days, countless conversations with salespeople and after viewing literally thousands of items, I found two or three must-have items for our online stores. I love trade [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 23, 2010
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Before I started selling on eBay, I had always done my own taxes. Even as life got more complicated and I added a mortgage or two to the mix, tax preparation seemed well within my scope of abilities. But once I started my eBay business, I knew I needed to hire a professional. Initially I [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 15, 2010
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In How to Prepare for the Changes Coming to EBay, Part I, I wrote about the changes coming to eBay and I warned about some of the ways in which these changes may be a hindrance rather than a help to eBay sellers. I also promised some strategies to help you plan ahead. Here are [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 9, 2010
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I have had a couple of weeks to digest the upcoming changes to eBay and think about how they are going to affect my eBay store and sales, not to mention how they will affect my students who are just starting out on eBay. On January 28th I attended an eBay webinar that reviewed the [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 8, 2010
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It is definitely time for an update on what is going on in the eBay world. But I have been so caught up with ramping up my independent webstore and branching out with a WebStore by Amazon that I haven’t been doing my due diligence with following up on eBay. You guessed it: I am [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, January 29, 2010
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As a seller, waiting for eBay to announce its changes is a little like waiting outside the principal’s office in middle school; you know it’s not going to be good, but until you actually get called in, you can fantasize that you’re there to be presented with the Good Citizen award. But the wait is [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, January 25, 2010
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Here in Northern Massachusetts, we just had our first snow storm of the season. We only got three or four inches and it was late in coming this year, but I found myself unprepared nonetheless. When I finally found my snow boots and trudged out to my car and opened the trunk, I was shocked [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, December 15, 2009
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It’s been a whirlwind month. Within the last thirty days I have been both crowned and deposed as an eBay TopRated Seller. I think I have handled both my rise and my demise with humility and grace, especially considering that I was not notified by eBay when I had become a Top Rated Seller. (I found out [...]
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Posted by: Linda Sanchez, November 19, 2009
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