Category Archives: eBay Stores

eBay Etiquette for Powersellers

One of the great features of eBay is being able to purchase products with the “buy it now” feature from Powerseller stores. But, what happens after the product is purchased? Many powersellers have learned the secret to a successful eBay business is their customer service and their follow up service. Make certain to ship the…

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Using Skype to Boost Sales

Skype is an Internet phone service.  You will need the Skype software installed; a microphone; sound card and headset or speakers.  You can talk to anyone that is on Skype for free.  This means that you can post your Skype ID in your auctions for potential buyers to ask you questions.  Part of the buying…

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Use Affiliation Products to Market on eBay as a Powerseller

There are many different affiliations that you can join for virtually free or completely free.  As an affiliate, you will receive a commission for each of the products that you sell for the parent company.  Did you know that you can market your affiliate products on eBay?    The best part of marketing your affiliate…

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eBay Auctions That Stand Out Above the Rest

Have you come across an eBay auction that was just a copy and paste job in all black and white that someone put up?  This automatically makes many people assume that the seller is very new to eBay or does not take the time to actually work with their auction templates prior to hitting the…

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Selecting an Auto Shipper for Your Powerseller Needs

If you think about a powerseller, you will realize that they have a great deal of products to ship on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.  How in the world can you organize and manage all of this shipping without spending all of your time at the post office or UPS?  One of the best…

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Using RSS to Purchase Powerseller Items

As a powerseller you know how important it is to find items that are inexpensive to purchase.  When you can find items where the seller doesn’t realize their worth, which is money in your pocket.  Often you can save up to 90% of the retail value of an item because someone made an error in…

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Sending Electronic or Virtual Items with Seller Protection

One of the biggest problems I found with managing my eBay auctions was the electronic or virtual items that I would sell on eBay.  I had no real way of proving that the buyer received the information that I was selling.  For more expensive items, I had two instances where the buyer claimed that they…

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Ebay Has A Fee Hike and Raises Sellers Anger

Come August 22, 2006 Ebay sellers will see notice that their fees are higher than they used to be. This fee hike is only for sellers at the moment and only those who have stores. The fee to list items in your store used to be $0.02 now it will be $0.05-$0.10. Now while this doesn’t…

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Stores: Building eBay Stores With Macromedia’s Contribute 3

Source: Macromedia Macromedia contributing writer Eric Ott of WebAssist (who looks somewhat like actor Bill Pullman on Macromedia’s web site) gives us a great tool to use for creating eBay stores. It’s called Contribute 3 and is new from Macromedia. The program uses cascading style sheets to easily put together great-looking eBay Stores. There is…

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Stores: So…Just Where Are the eBay Stores?

Source: eBay With all of these posts talking about how great eBay Stores are and how you should open one, you might be asking, “What if I am looking to buy an item and I want to see if there’s an eBay Store for it?” There’s an eBay store for just about everything! Just click…

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