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Perfume Bottles for Fun and Profit

Julia Wilkinson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:44:47 -500

Amy Alexander Kagey ( amycats2 on eBay) attended a country auction one day and bid on a $2 box lot. One of them wound up containing a rare old perfume bottle that brought her over $2600 on eBay ...

New eBay 14-Day Minimum Return Policy Unfair to Sellers?

Julia Wilkinson — Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:59:29 -500

In eBay s last year s SR2 ( Seller Release 2 ), they announced that early this year (2012), sellers would no longer be able to specify 3- and 7-day return policies; the minimum return period ...

Why Aren't More People Using Facebook Marketplace?

Julia Wilkinson — Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:19:41 -500

With the hype over the Facebook IPO, we ve heard a lot of stats. One of them is if Facebook were a country, it would be the world s third largest, at almost 850 million users. With those ...

Ease and Speed of Listing Help Vault Amazon to Top

Julia Wilkinson — Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:24:34 -500

With one-line descriptions, no need for uploading photos, lots of customers and a simple transaction system, Amazon jumped from 6th place and a rating of 6.1 last year to number one and an overall ...

Amazon Takes a Swing at Sports Collectibles Space

Julia Wilkinson — Thu, 2 Feb 2012 12:51:38 -500

Amazon made another move towards eBay s collectibles space with the announcement today that it was launching a new Sports Collectibles Store . Offering more than two million unique collectibles ...