Showing posts with label Ebay business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ebay business. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Where Have I Been????? Ebay Success or Failure. . . You Decide
Wow! I looked back at this blog and saw nothing but neglect! My original intent was to work on this blog at least once a week, but apparently that had fallen by the wayside. That could be a good thing or a bad thing, in light of the fact that I am so busy now that I don't have time to blog. So, I made a recommendation for the one small, inexpensive product that can help get you started. The link is to the right. If you have $5 it will be a fantastic investment to get a good return on your investment. If you get the information and cannot make your $5 investment back, then you really should not do Ebay. I will be coming back in a few days, I promise and I will give you an update on what has been going on with my account the past few years. I now have over 10,000 feedback and growing, but I do have some new cautions and warning. Talk to you soon.
Monday, June 4, 2012
Social Employment Ebayers Take a Look at This!
If you have the skills to sell on Ebay or to write a blog or blog posts, or have skills in other areas that you think employers will need part time to full time, there is a site that you will want to check out. While you are building an Ebay business or writing a blog, or helping others with internet marketing projects, you may want to add some additional work to your portfolio and earn some extra income on the side. Even if you are looking for a new full time job or want to add a second job, then you will want to check out the site sideskills.com
Sideskills.com offers you the chance to list your unique skills for hire, for free. You simply pay a small 7% fee once an employer hires you for a project which gets taken right out before you are sent your payment so you never have to do anything additional. The site matches your skills with employers who have listed a wide variety of full and part time project openings. You can look at projects you are offered and accept or decline them with no penalty. This is a win win situation as some of the part time positions turn into full time ones once a project is complete. You can build an Ebay business and do freelance projects to get the money to fund products for your new business. If you are looking for freelance jobs online then sideskills.com is the place to go. Check it out!
Sideskills.com offers you the chance to list your unique skills for hire, for free. You simply pay a small 7% fee once an employer hires you for a project which gets taken right out before you are sent your payment so you never have to do anything additional. The site matches your skills with employers who have listed a wide variety of full and part time project openings. You can look at projects you are offered and accept or decline them with no penalty. This is a win win situation as some of the part time positions turn into full time ones once a project is complete. You can build an Ebay business and do freelance projects to get the money to fund products for your new business. If you are looking for freelance jobs online then sideskills.com is the place to go. Check it out!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Enough of the Ebay Rant. What is Good About Ebay?
Ebay is still a good place for sellers and you can still make some great part-time money. The key is spending some time finding a niche you really like and then finding the products to sell within that niche.
I mentioned SaleHoo to you in previous blogs. SaleHoo is a great place to explore products and get a discount on products you can sell, but an even better place for niche market selling is a place called Worldwide Brands. I have been a member for several years now and I have found some amazing deals on products and have gotten some great ideas for new products to sell on Ebay. Investigate them both, but for the best training ever and finding the best, more unknown niche markets, you will want to click on the link below and spend an hour exploring this site. It will be both fun and informative.
Click on the link below to find some great niche markets. You even have access to an entire training program that will walk you step by step through the whole niche market selling process. Yes, there is a fee, but it is small compared to the results you can get. So click on the link to explore the possibilities.
The Very Best Place to Find Qualified Wholesale Suppliers
I mentioned SaleHoo to you in previous blogs. SaleHoo is a great place to explore products and get a discount on products you can sell, but an even better place for niche market selling is a place called Worldwide Brands. I have been a member for several years now and I have found some amazing deals on products and have gotten some great ideas for new products to sell on Ebay. Investigate them both, but for the best training ever and finding the best, more unknown niche markets, you will want to click on the link below and spend an hour exploring this site. It will be both fun and informative.
Click on the link below to find some great niche markets. You even have access to an entire training program that will walk you step by step through the whole niche market selling process. Yes, there is a fee, but it is small compared to the results you can get. So click on the link to explore the possibilities.
The Very Best Place to Find Qualified Wholesale Suppliers
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Gripe About Ebay - Sellers Get Screwed - My Rant
Please excuse my language, but it's really true. The p0wer is now in the hands of the buyer, not equally in the hands of both the buyer and the seller. I am both a buyer and a seller on Ebay and in all fairness, I don't see how Ebay is presenting a balance by prohibiting the seller to leave negative feedback for the buyer. Ebay's reasoning from what I can gather is that they don't want to lose any of their buyers. My reasoning? Without sellers, there are no buyers. Why pick on the sellers?
For example, I recently had a buyer whom I shipped a $15 product to. Ebay told me that they were investigating a complaint (mind you I had 100% positive feedback at the time and over 1500 positives). I provided Paypal with the tracking information and proof of delivery they requested. I have no idea what they told Ebay, but all I know is that it went into a dispute (automatically) through Paypal. I provided all of the documentation, ie. the fact that it was shipped the SAME day, proof through tracking that it was actually delivered, and proof of any of the correspondence sent to the customer. The end result? The customer won. I lost $40 due to fees, reversal charges, refunding not only the money for the product, but the money for the postage and I had to pay Paypal $10 for the privilege of my losing the case. In addition, I lost the $15 on the product. What could I do about it? Nothing. No recourse. No one to communicate with to find out why. It just happened. Paypal's decision was final and no explanation was given. They just took their $10 and went away.
So, if you have a buyer who decides randomly to cancel their order and who gives Ebay a good story, true or not, you will lose. You will not be able to complain. You will have to eat the costs through Paypal and you will start to get a bit miffed.
To top it off, I had another one last week. I work hard to build my Ebay business and as you can imagine, I almost blew a gasket! Another reversal, two in one month whereas before the changes, I hadn't had any, just 3 neutrals (two that were put in by mistake because the person thought neutral meant OK and I still cannot find the 3rd one although it is showing up in my feedback.
The one last week said it was under investigation and Paypal removed the $17.00 or so that had been paid to me while they investigated the chargeback. Surprisingly, the chargeback was made AFTER the buyer received their product AND left me POSITIVE feedback. . . oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wanted to scream! So, sorry, now I'm screaming!
Anyway, my point is, Ebay is the giant and I am just a number who is running a small business. My Ebay fees last month were a mere $380 on sales of just over $1700 . . .My little fee amount may not be that great but take the thousands of us who give Ebay $380 for fees and add that up and it may make a dent in what Ebay makes. If all of the little guys go away because we are put out of business by negative feedback or higher Ebay fees, then Ebay may have to rethink their decisions to make the sellers the fall guys.
For example, I recently had a buyer whom I shipped a $15 product to. Ebay told me that they were investigating a complaint (mind you I had 100% positive feedback at the time and over 1500 positives). I provided Paypal with the tracking information and proof of delivery they requested. I have no idea what they told Ebay, but all I know is that it went into a dispute (automatically) through Paypal. I provided all of the documentation, ie. the fact that it was shipped the SAME day, proof through tracking that it was actually delivered, and proof of any of the correspondence sent to the customer. The end result? The customer won. I lost $40 due to fees, reversal charges, refunding not only the money for the product, but the money for the postage and I had to pay Paypal $10 for the privilege of my losing the case. In addition, I lost the $15 on the product. What could I do about it? Nothing. No recourse. No one to communicate with to find out why. It just happened. Paypal's decision was final and no explanation was given. They just took their $10 and went away.
So, if you have a buyer who decides randomly to cancel their order and who gives Ebay a good story, true or not, you will lose. You will not be able to complain. You will have to eat the costs through Paypal and you will start to get a bit miffed.
To top it off, I had another one last week. I work hard to build my Ebay business and as you can imagine, I almost blew a gasket! Another reversal, two in one month whereas before the changes, I hadn't had any, just 3 neutrals (two that were put in by mistake because the person thought neutral meant OK and I still cannot find the 3rd one although it is showing up in my feedback.
The one last week said it was under investigation and Paypal removed the $17.00 or so that had been paid to me while they investigated the chargeback. Surprisingly, the chargeback was made AFTER the buyer received their product AND left me POSITIVE feedback. . . oooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wanted to scream! So, sorry, now I'm screaming!
Anyway, my point is, Ebay is the giant and I am just a number who is running a small business. My Ebay fees last month were a mere $380 on sales of just over $1700 . . .My little fee amount may not be that great but take the thousands of us who give Ebay $380 for fees and add that up and it may make a dent in what Ebay makes. If all of the little guys go away because we are put out of business by negative feedback or higher Ebay fees, then Ebay may have to rethink their decisions to make the sellers the fall guys.
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