Train and railway tickets were meant to be ephemeral in nature, meaning their life expectancy was short, and that is why tickets of all kinds are classfied as part of an overall collecting area called ‘Ephemera.’ Ephemera describes hundreds of different items typically intended to be used very shortly after being purchased, and once used […]...
Train and railway tickets were meant to be ephemeral in nature, meaning their life expectancy was short, and that is why tickets of all kinds are classfied as part of an overall collecting area called ‘Ephemera.’ Ephemera describes hundreds of different items typically intended to be used very shortly after being purchased, and once used […]...
Spotted in eBay’s Community Forum today: ‘Well done eBay, Turbo Lister has crashed yet again…’ Reply from moderator: “It is our most basic program and you can run into issues when a database becomes too large…” Response from the person facing another system crash prompted by using Turbo Lister, echoed by lots of other eBayers: […]...
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Hi, I’m always pushing our readers to try eBay Classified Ads – they’re cheap and can generate thousands of visitors from every listing. There are people making a great living purely from eBay Classified Ads, even free ones in the Local Services’ category on eBay UK. But there’s another kind of classified ad I want […]...
04th March 2009 Hi, When Internet Technology IS NOT a Good Thing! I was at a book auction in Yorkshire yesterday when suddenly the fear of God began creeping up on me as I spotted several big changes taking place at my favourite saleroom in the year or so since I last attended one of […]...
by Allison Whitehead Allison Whitehead is a UK-based writer and eBay PowerSeller who provides PowerSeller Tips for eBay Confidential. If you have an eBay shop, then you have to have policies to put in it. But let’s face it – policies just aren’t as interesting as stock listings are they? And that’s why some sellers […]...
by Allison Whitehead Allison Whitehead is a UK-based writer and eBay PowerSeller who provides PowerSeller Tips for eBay Confidential. Proof of posting, it’s that reassuring service offered by Royal Mail when you send something through the post. But is it really worth bothering with? We have been on an interesting journey with proof of […]...
by Allison Whitehead Allison Whitehead is a UK-based writer and eBay PowerSeller who provides PowerSeller Tips for eBay Confidential. So Christmas is finally over. How did your sales do? Christmas 2008 was a bumper year for us and we sold well over double the volume of items we had the year before. And all this during […]...
by Allison Whitehead Allison Whitehead is a UK-based writer and eBay PowerSeller who provides PowerSeller Tips for eBay Confidential. Can You Offer Free P&P? Let’s start off with a hypothetical situation. Suppose you are looking for a widget on eBay, and you find two listings that look promising. One of them has got your widget […]...
by Sharon Fussell There’s always a learning curve to any business and eBay and Amazon, are no exception. Like most new business owners I faced teething problems. I worried about situations I thought were unique to me, I spent long hours looking for answers to problems I thought would jeopardise my business then and in […]...
