How I started

We all get into different kinds of jobs or businesses, often completely unintentionally.  How many of us actually work in the industry that we were actually educated in?  I mean, when we went to college (those of us who did) and studied Engineering, or English, or whatever, very few of us actually work in the [...]

The final step in an eBay transaction

OK, so you have purchased items to sell on eBay, you’ve listed them on the site, gotten bids, sold them and shipped the items to your customers.  It sounds like everything is complete now, right?  Not quite!  The final step in the auction is perhaps the most important of all, and that is feedback!  eBay [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

You want to sell on eBay? What should you do first?

OK, from comments left on the last post I made, and comments I’ve heard personally from people, it seems like a lot of you would like to sell on eBay to make a little extra income.  So, what should you do first?
Buy on eBay.
That’s right, the first thing you need to do if you want [...]

What is the best way to start earning money online?

OK, so you have been thinking about how nice it would be to earn a little money online, but you wonder – “how do I start?”  Right?  Well, let’s talk about that.  Let me look at how I first got started.
It was back in 1998 or so (maybe it was ‘97) when I made my [...]