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SaleHoo, the directory providing international listings of Dropshippers, wholesalers and distributors has been an enormous success for those selling on eBay. Now, from the same people who brought us SaleHoo, SkyHigh Auctions is launched as an exclusive membership site containing every last piece of information you need to know about eBay.
The membership area contains information and tips that all eBay users will benefit from, irrelevant of your experience. Fourty-Nine lessons each containing a camtasia video and accompanying article make up the main bulk of the membership area, along with templates to use on eBay, interviews with expert sellers such as Lee McIntyre and John Thornhill, and in an unadvertised bonus you also gain 30 days free access to Auction Selling 101.
Lessons 1-15 are aimed at beginners to eBay and feature on items such as pricing, the latest feedback changes, photo editing, and packaging. Advanced lessons include topics such as How to import from China, Fraud on eBay, Tax Basics for UK Sellers, and even trade shows.
Full Details of SkyHigh Auctions here.
Written by Mark on March 5th, 2008 with no comments.
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Free from Ebay, Ebay Desktop offers a refreshing alternative to using ebay through your browser. A downloadable programme, designed to sit on your desktop and keep your eBay buying activity just fingertips away, it has the added advantage of being able to minimise itself to the system tray if required. Version 1 seems mainly aimed at buyers, with little value included for eBay sellers at this stage. However, eBay have little reason to include sellers option as presumably this would create more competition for their existing products such as Selling Manager Pro.
Refreshing, easy to use and a sharp contrast to using eBay though the web, eBay desktop first starts with video introductry running you though the various options and a short tour of the product. Initially you have to login with your eBay username and password and then it imports your information such as favourite searches, sellers, messages and your watch list.
Ebay Desktop works on the majority of eBay sites, although you may want to set it to your local version of eBay via the settings menu. One of the best features I found is it allows you to set yourself reminders before auctions end, of either 1 hour, 30 minutes or 10 minutes for a last minute snipe.
Only version 1 is currently released so they’re are some known issues, however these should hopefully be ironed out soon. However, from what I’ve seen so far it’s found a permanent icon on my desktop. You can download eBay desktop & find out more information from: http://dogpuss.com/ebaydesktop
Written by Mark on March 3rd, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Within the last 24 hours, I’ve received three emails. One from Brian McGregor, another from Micheal Sherriff and a third all mentioning one particular product. The Product is Feedback Analyzer, from Dave Guindon
Feedback Analyzer is a free product (for personal use), that offers to be a comprehensive feedback tool. With the ability to extract feedback comments for any seller & sort this information into easily viewable tables, one of it’s main benefits is the time it could saves you if you were to do the same task manually.
Feedback Analyzer has been designed with the end user in mind. As you can see from the above screenshot, it is very attractive and simple to use. One of the best features of the software, is the ability to collect your own feedback from ebay and build a html table which you simply paste into your own eBay listings. Showing off your ebay feedback this way, gives your bidders more confidence and is something some of the best powersellers do.
The Software works on four different international versions of the site (ebay.com/.co.uk/.ca/com.au) and you also have the option to purchase master resell rights, allowing you to resell the product. Support is offered via the way of Camtasia videos and a support desk.
Feedback Analyzer is definatly worth downloading, if you like to research those who you do business with before it’s finalised. You can download your copy of Feedback Analyzer here.
EDIT: 27th January - Feedback Analyzer is no longer being offered as a free download, but as a only with resell rights for $27
Written by Mark on January 6th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Adam Ginsberg of AdamGinsberg.com is following the route of Mike Enos, amongst others and turning their previously open public website into a members only resource. Starting immediately visitors must optin to membership by offering their email address to gain access to the site.
It appears like the majority of the site has been redesigned since I last visited, and it’s now represents a much more professional and credible site.
For a limited period, visitors are offered free products in exchange for opening a members account. One of these is MisSpell Generator which Ginsberg normally sells access to for $49. MisSpell Generator searches though eBay listings on eBay, eBay UK, eBay Australia, eBay Ireland, eBay Canada and eBay India for item listings with misspelt word within the title.
For those unfamiliar why this would be of any use, then it’s worth remembering that the majority of searches performed by visitors on eBay are done though a keyword search. For example, users will enter the keyword “Sony Television” into the search box as oppose to clicking though to the relevant eBay category (Consumer Electronics >Televisions) and viewing all listings.
Essentially, if you misspell a word in your listing it will get significantly less exposure on eBay and will therefore get lower bids as the competition between bidders will less intense.
Although it’s unfortunate for sellers who misspell words, this brings an opportunity for bidders to grab themselves a bargain at the same time. A lot of bidders take advantage of these mistakes to win auctions, purely in order to relist the same items correctly and resell the goods on eBay at profit.
MisSpell Generator offers a selection of the most popular goods being searched for on the front page, as well as keeping a handy list of your previous searches below this for easy access. Searches can be filtered by eBay site and Misspell Generator also claims to remove potentially fraudulent auctions from your results, although it does not go into details of how this is done.
A quick search for the word Television is performed, and a few moments later 23 results are shown for misspelt items. Of these, 12 are Televisions, while the other items are TV accessories such as Ariels and Remote Controls. Following the misspelt results, the results for original spelling and common variations of “television” are shown. If you search for long enough, it’s a certainty you’ll find something worth bidding on.
Overall, MisSpell Generator is a handy tool to have access to while it is being included with free membership, although it is only being included for a limited period. There are similar tools available, that provide free access to the same results such as FatFingers.com but a quick comparison showed MisSpell Generator provides more listing than FatFingers.
You can create your free membership at AdamGinsberg.com
Written by Mark on September 17th, 2006 with no comments.
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