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eBay radio broadcasts twice a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays.  There are ‘open phones’ sessions on Tuesdays where anyone can call in and they say anyone that does is a guest on the show. Well, on Tuesday 20th July 2010, I called in.  I wanted to talk about having your listing showing on other countries eBay [...]

Recently, I have discovered how to leave feedback in bulk on eBay, and thought I would share this with you.  If you sell lots of items each day, it saves tonnes of time. If you use Auctiva or Selling Manager Pro, you can have it set up so that feedback is automatically left when you [...]

In the very first post in this series of ‘Product Sourcing Ideas For Your Online Auction Business’ which you can read here Product Sourcing Ideas for your Online Auction Business I list several ways of sourcing products, most of which I have not yet covered.  Now is an ideal time of year to be using [...]

In the UK, we have recently been submitted to another postage increase by Royal Mail. If you have lots of eBay listings, it could take you a very long time to edit all your listings, but it doesn’t have to.  I have made this short video to show you how to edit the postage and [...]

The auctions have now ended. Watch this video to see the results.  Remember this video is just to show the procedure of what I do in this method of product sourcing.  Each auction ended up with a higher price than those auctions that I won. I use this method regularly, and it is very successful. [...]

At the end of my last post, I said I had some products that I had won by using the technique I had explained.  Now they have arrived.  I have 6 bears to list.  One of them, I will not make any profit from, as I did not do my research properly, so this will [...]

I have called this post part 5.1 because it is going to be part one of a mini series within the ‘product sourcing ideas’ series of posts.  There will be at least another 2 posts and videos in this mini series. This product sourcing idea is going to use eBay to source products to then [...]

Have you ever been in a position where you have an item to list on eBay, but not sure what category to list it in, what price to sell it at, or start the auction at and what day to have the auction end?  Well, now you can find out all of this information and it will help you [...]

This method is kind of similar to that described in the previous post, but you use online retailers, preferably when they have a sale on, but in theory, you could use this method any time, which is why I personally like it so much.  Again, as before, it is a method I use personally so [...]

Happy new year, and may 2010 and the whole decade be a successful and prosperous one for you. This takes me nicely to the next series of posts in this series of ‘product sourcing ideas for your online auction business’. The title of this post speaks for itself.  Getting your products from high street shop [...]