Even though I’ve only seen four of the ten films nominated for best film this year, I confess to having Oscar fever. Maybe it’s because two of my favorites, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, are hosting the awards this year. Or maybe it’s because I get a certain satisfaction from seeing excellent work get acknowledged [...]
morePosted by: Linda Sanchez, March 5, 2010
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 [...]
morePosted 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 [...]
morePosted 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 [...]
morePosted 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 [...]
morePosted 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 [...]
morePosted by: Linda Sanchez, February 8, 2010
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Right now most veteran eBay sellers are still reeling from the recent announcement of changes to eBay that are coming this Spring and figuring out how these changes will affect our sales in 2010. Meanwhile, we have to reel it in and start thinking about reporting our 2009 sales to the IRS.
For some eBay sellers, [...]
Posted by: Linda Sanchez, February 4, 2010
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 [...]
morePosted 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 [...]
morePosted by: Linda Sanchez, January 25, 2010
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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 [...]
morePosted by: Linda Sanchez, November 19, 2009
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