Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Josh Kulp (eBay ID jjfjq) is shipping his eBook on a CD. He says his eBook contains over 100 pages of information and includes video so CD is the best format for shipping.
Josh’s new listing has a shipping charge of $2.49 and the eBook price is unchanged at $19.97.
By shipping his eBook, he [...]
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Another eBay pulser went “Not a Registered User” in the past few days.
Auction-promotion used the “make track” trick as I described in this blog post.
Caleb confirms that his Auction-promotion account went NARU due to eBay’s claim of copyright infringement. However, the items were sold some time ago and he is working on getting his [...]
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
What’s the eBay Pulse going to look like at the end of today?
Today is supposed to be the last day that you can have digital delivery auction, fixed price or store eBay listings. On Mar 27, eBay disabled the ability to list new digital delivery items except in the Classified Ad format.
If I were [...]
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Someone wants to get on the Pulse in a major way. http://www.getafreelancer.com/projects/Perl-CGI-C-C/eBay-Pulse-Cron-Script.html
4 bids at an average of $1138.
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It’s impossible to list Digitally delivered auctions now. eBay disabled it on March 27, 4 days early. It will be an empty eBay pulse next week.
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Posted in eBay, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Everyone is buzzing about eBay’s decision to restrict the sales of digitally downloaded items to the Classified Ad format. On March 31, the eBay pulser “make money” eBook auctions will be gone. Currently, the eBay Pulse in the Everything Else category is filled with Auction, Fixed price and a few Store listings.
http://www.esellerstreet.com/search.php5?catID=99
Why [...]
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This cornflake didn’t fetch $200K like the previous auction listing did before it was terminated early. But we have a happy ending. Melissabyu left positive feedback for the buyer just 30 minutes after it ended.
The media buzz died down and they only got 6000 watchers the second time around.
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Posted in eBay pulse, tagged eBay, eBay pulse on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s a noteworthy eBay Pulse item:
Worth $200,000? The seller states that this item was pulled by eBay as a violation of selling an unpackaged food item.
Q:
I’M CONFUSED ABOUT YOUR AUCTION. THE AUCTION I SAW HAD A BID OF OVER $200,000.00. IS THIS THE SAME AUCTION? JANICE
Mar-18-08
A:
We are the same sellers of that [...]
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Prepare to take action in April. All of your eBay affiliate links must be changed, but there is nothing you can do right now. You have to wait until April 1 to get your new links. http://affiliates.ebay.com
Commission Junction used to run all of eBay’s affiliate program. Then just a year ago we changed [...]
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Posted in eBay, tagged eBay, eBay script on March 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ina Steiner of AuctionBytes.com writes an excellent piece about a huge security hole on eBay. In the article, a German watchdog group reports that criminals in Romania are exploiting a weakness within eBay listings to direct eBayers to a spoof site. When an eBayer views a malicious listing, the criminals retrieve the user’s [...]
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Posted in eBay, tagged eBay, eBay Live! on March 8, 2008 | No Comments »
eBay Live! is an easy one for me this year. It’s just a 40 minute drive down I-55.
I think the best eBay Live! was in 2005 in San Jose. It was the 10th anniversary of eBay and every metric showed growth. iSoldit made a big splash with their busy booth. Auctiva [...]
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When I had the idea for eSeller Street 3 years ago, I looked to friends to help with development. Well, it turns out that model doesn’t work. I went through 7 friendships. Nice track record, eh?
Then I picked up the PHP development myself for the next couple of years. It was [...]
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