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In reference to Sydney Johnston’s post regarding Build A Niche Store

Sydney Johnston is a person who’s opinion I have always admired and if you have been online for any length of time you have come to know Sydney as an expert in the online auction market.

I think this may be the first time I disagree with her about a product, and it’s not because I’m an affilaite of the product. If I don’t agree with a product, I won’t promote it, it doesn’t matter how much money I stand to earn.

Bottom line, Sydney has missed some key points and doesn’t have all the facts correct about the Build A Niche Store product. Read more »

It’s bound to happen to you sooner or later, a buyer or seller on eBay has done you wrong and all you’re left with is a little text box to warn other eBayers. Then as they continue to get more feedback your comment gets buried.

Well now there is a service that will give you an added voice to vent your frustrations.

It’s a service I offered a friend advise on, and actually got to be the first to report a bad seller/buyer.

The site hasn’t been opened up yet, because my recent run in with an eBay seller has got him a little spooked, he’s waiting on more response from the public so he can set up more reports against bad sellers/buyers.

Take a look at

http://www.onlineauctioncops.com

and submit a comment, the Chief will get back to you with how you can be amongst the first members to use this much needed service.

For years there has been the debate over eBay’s feedback system, some say it favors the buyer, and others say it favors the seller. I have been involved in several heated discussions about eBay’s feedback system over the past ten years and I have always sided with those who viewed eBay’s feedback as favoring the seller.

Well that has changed, and boy do I ever have a fight on my hands now as I’m sure I will receive a lot of hate mail from my comments here.

There is NOTHING beneficial about eBay’s feedback system, it doesn’t give a bidder any REAL indication as to how well the seller has done at serving his/her customers. The only purpose the feedback system has is to see who can get the highest feedback score. Read more »

I don’t know who’s bone headed move this was, but currently over at eBay I am getting more 404 errors than I have seen since eBay’s system crashed in the late ’90′s.

I thought at first it must have something to do with the PS3′s, and perhaps eBay’s servers were buckling under the heavy traffic.

BUT NO SIREEEEEEE !!!!!

Some lame brains at eBay decided to schedule maintenance during what could very well be some of the heaviest traffic eBay has seen in years.

This will no doubt anger many eBay sellers – present company included – as they try and list their auctions.

I was having trouble with some auctions that had errors in them after launching them from an auction managememt service. I have been trying to revise them but I can’t even get into my eBay store to view my auctions let alone make changes to them.

Sometimes I wonder how much eBay REALLY cares about it’s users … dumb ass moves like this doesn’t make it look like eBay cares at ALL.

I’m heading to the fridge to grab a beer and try and calm down, CHEERS.

I’m starting to get a love / hate attitude towards eBay after being active as a seller for the past two months. Sure I’ve bought and sold many items over the years but in the last two months I have been selling as much as I can (one more month to Powerseller, YEAH!), and I have to admit, I now see some of the frustrations of other sellers.

One of those being eBay’s “SP NOTICE” messages.

If you’re not familiar with them, if you get a spam related email or anything that eBay has been sent a report on, you will get a notice as an alert in your message folder. This notice is designed to warn you of the potential danger of replying or doing business with the people sending the spam message (usualy from china, they try and get you to buy their wholesale merchandise)

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Just wanted to send out a quick note on great piece of software I have come across for the eBay affiliate program.

I’m still testing it, and developing some sites with it, so I’m not going to let you know what it is just yet (you will be able to figure it out if you look hard enough though lol )

I do want to show you a couple of websites I put up online in a matter of 5 minutes each.

http://www.bargainstrollers.com

http://www.bargainbabylots.com

Can you believe those domains were available … I WAS SHOCKED TOO!
Enjoy . . . Scott

With the recent news of Lik-Sang going out of business due to it’s legal battles with Sony, scammers are jumping on the news to try and weasel their way into your account.

Watch out, game importers: a new Paypal scam aims to take advantage of the recent going out of business announcement from Hong Kong-based videogame importer/exporter Lik-Sang.

Chris Kohler

Enjoy . . . Scott

In some of the research I have been doing in the wholesale lists category on ebay, I came across a seller that I thought was doing a great job. This guy had made nearly $10,000 in a 30 day period selling nothing but digital information.

Well it turns out he was being very deceptive – not in his auctions – but with his feedback.

I managed to buy one of his wholesale lists for only a penny, it took me a while, but I was persistant in my bidding on his new auctions when I was outbid. The list was nothing but a handful of quick links he gathered from a Google search, and then the listings of the IMASD wholesale list emailed to subscribers who sign up for their free list.

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I thought it was about time to create a separate blog outside of my main website “The Powerseller Report“. Doing this will allow me to speak my mind and not worry about being proper and watchful of what I say.

That doesn’t mean I going to be OUT of control, I just never felt like I had the freedom wo speak my mind with TPRweb.com, I have paid members which count on a certain style and often times I felt restricted in how I could write.

This also gives me a shot at writing on any subject, it doesn’t have to always be about eBay and online auctions, although much of what I write about will still include theses areas as they are my online passions.

So please visit often and . . . Enjoy

. . . Scott