Comments on: The Ultimate eBay Selling Tip http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/ Making A Living 100% Online Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:19:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: MBA Colleges http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-86717 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:43:13 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-86717 Right about now, and in the coming days, all the crafters out there will be finishing up hand-made gifts for the holidays. From beaded jewelry to stained glass, handmade gifts are almost always a hit (I say “almost” because of some of the things I made in my early crafting days!). Once you tie off the fringe on your handmade scarf, or place the crowning embellishment on your scrapbook pages, you will very likely have some extra supplies. My advice to you: put them on eBay and ring in your new year with some extra cash. There’s a big world of crafters out there. It seems like during the past few years, bead stores have sprung up everywhere. Mega-stores like Wal-Mart and Target now have scrapbook aisles; according to Wikipedia.org, one in three American households include someone involved in scrap booking. And the books on knitting! Even the Harvard College bookstore sells knitting and crocheting supplies. Right about now, and in the coming days, all the crafters out there will be finishing up hand-made gifts for the holidays. From beaded jewelry to stained glass, handmade gifts are almost always a hit (I say “almost” because of some of the things I made in my early crafting days!). Once you tie off the fringe on your handmade scarf, or place the crowning embellishment on your scrapbook pages, you will very likely have some extra supplies. My advice to you: put them on eBay and ring in your new year with some extra cash. There’s a big world of crafters out there. It seems like during the past few years, bead stores have sprung up everywhere. Mega-stores like Wal-Mart and Target now have scrapbook aisles; according to Wikipedia.org, one in three American households include someone involved in scrap booking. And the books on knitting! Even the Harvard College bookstore sells knitting and crocheting supplies.

]]> by: Manish http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-85198 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:26:22 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-85198 I have been thinking of starting a jewelry sales business on ebay for selling cutsom hand-made jewelry imported from South America. I have a good source to supply me with the jewelry at a decent enough price that I can mark it up and make a decent profit but is this really worth my time and effort ? I have been thinking of starting a jewelry sales business on ebay for selling cutsom hand-made jewelry imported from South America. I have a good source to supply me with the jewelry at a decent enough price that I can mark it up and make a decent profit but is this really worth my time and effort ?

]]> by: komik videolar http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-78611 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:11:43 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-78611 Thanks for this great plugin! Works fine - only my old PDA doesn’t understand UTF-8 - most blogs are coded like this - so special characters aren’t displayed correctly. Thanks for this great plugin! Works fine - only my old PDA doesn’t understand UTF-8 - most blogs are coded like this - so special characters aren’t displayed correctly.

]]> by: Ian http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-41845 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:56:15 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-41845 I am pretty sure ebay doesn't like people actually streaming the video directly in their auction listing. They might not notice as easily if it's a SWF since lots of people have flash pics in their auctions. I would recommend checking ebay's recent announcements/rules about video. The last time I read them they seemed to say you can only LINK to the youtube/google video which, in my opinion, would decrease the numbers of people actually viewing the videos. I am pretty sure ebay doesn’t like people actually streaming the video directly in their auction listing. They might not notice as easily if it’s a SWF since lots of people have flash pics in their auctions. I would recommend checking ebay’s recent announcements/rules about video. The last time I read them they seemed to say you can only LINK to the youtube/google video which, in my opinion, would decrease the numbers of people actually viewing the videos.

]]> by: wakish http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-32480 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:12:58 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-32480 Nice article.. You have a nice blog! Nice article..
You have a nice blog!

]]> by: admin http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-203 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:31:56 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-203 Steve -- Sorry about that. I had to do some maintenance and needed to remove your comment for a moment. Steve — Sorry about that. I had to do some maintenance and needed to remove your comment for a moment.

]]> by: admin http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-202 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:31:25 +0000 http://www.cwire.org/2006/03/21/the-ultimate-ebay-selling-tip/#comment-202 Steve Gill said, March 21, 2006 at 9:32 am That’s a great idea - differentiating yourself from the crowd is always a good way to not only increase viewings but also increases the perceived value of the product. The only deterent for this specific way of adding video to your auction is that your hosting/server can take a hit if you get a flood of viewers. Drawing lots of eyes to an auction is always a good thing, but a 1 or 2 meg video can eat up resources pretty fast if you start getting 1000s of visitors (i.e. someone mentions it on a popular and related discussion group or for some reason it goes viral), especially simultaneous video streaming… Another option would be to have the video hosted at one of the relatively new video host sites out there - including Google, Youtube, etc. Once you upload the video, most of those sites offer an html code that can be cut and pasted right in the auction page. That way the video streams from THEIR server and not yours, which saves money and lessens the chance of downtime (if you suddenly use up all your alloted bandwidth for the month). That’s my 2 cents - but either way, adding video to an auction is an excellent idea! Steve Gill said,

March 21, 2006 at 9:32 am

That’s a great idea - differentiating yourself from the crowd is always a good way to not only increase viewings but also increases the perceived value of the product.

The only deterent for this specific way of adding video to your auction is that your hosting/server can take a hit if you get a flood of viewers. Drawing lots of eyes to an auction is always a good thing, but a 1 or 2 meg video can eat up resources pretty fast if you start getting 1000s of visitors (i.e. someone mentions it on a popular and related discussion group or for some reason it goes viral), especially simultaneous video streaming…

Another option would be to have the video hosted at one of the relatively new video host sites out there - including Google, Youtube, etc. Once you upload the video, most of those sites offer an html code that can be cut and pasted right in the auction page. That way the video streams from THEIR server and not yours, which saves money and lessens the chance of downtime (if you suddenly use up all your alloted bandwidth for the month).

That’s my 2 cents - but either way, adding video to an auction is an excellent idea!

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