Accepting payments on eBay

OK, so you have listed your items for sale on eBay, you are so happy because somebody actually bought what you are selling.  But wait.  How do you get paid?  Especially if you are in the Philippines. Well, there are a number of payment methods that you can consider.  Let’s have a look at some [...]

Don't forget that your eBay customers are irrational

Do you know who Seth Godin is? Seth is an entrepreneur, like I am, only he’s pretty famous, and I’m virtually unknown. Seth is a best selling author, marketing guru, customer service guru and lots of other things. Today, I was reading Seth’s Blog and found an interesting post regarding eBay. According to Seth, most [...]

Listing your merchandise on eBay

OK, so you have registered an account on eBay, you’ve bought some items so that you could watch how the whole process works, and you’ve gone around to find some bargains that you could buy and re-sell on eBay.  What’s next?  Well, you need to list the items up for auction!  I’m not going to [...]

Shipping dilemmas

Continuing with my series of posts about selling on eBay, let’s look at shipping the items that you sell. This post is a little out of order in the series, but I am getting a lot of questions about shipping, and I’ve promised to make a post about it ASAP. I had really wanted to [...]

What people think about eBay sellers

One of my experiences as an eBay seller was kind of interesting for anybody who is contemplating starting a business on eBay.  It happened in the late 1990′s, and into the year 2000.  I had a regular job at that time, but I sold on eBay as a side business.  I sold all kinds of [...]