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Ebook Review: The Silent Sales Machine Hiding on eBay!!!
EBOOK DETAILS File Size: 1,709kb Zipped, 2,383kb Unzipped. Number of Pages: 136 Format: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) Subject: A guide to using eBay traffic to create "Silent Sales Machines." Other Information: Can be bought with Jim Cockrum's other ebook "How to ...

Five Simple steps to your first eBay sale!
It's surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here's what you need to do. Step 1: Open an eBay seller's account. If you've bought things on eBay, then you already have an account - just log in with it and click 'Sell' in ...

Top 10 Strangest eBay Items Ever Sold.
eBay can be a very odd place, given that you can sell almost anything you want. Here are the auctions we've picked as being the strangest ever. #10 - Girlfriends: Some girls auctioned their services as 'imaginary girlfriends', who would send the winning ...




How To Become An Auction Genius: A Radio Interview With "The Queen Of Ebay"
 
I saw another one on a local TV newscast a few days ago... you know...one of those stories about a stay-at-home mom who had turned eBay into a stay-at-home job.

I like stories like that, and I especially admire people who have found a way to make more money on eBay (without leaving their house) than they could commuting to a "regular" job.

But I also know this: even most people who are doing eBay "full time" haven't figured out yet how to make really big money with it...like Sydney Johnston is doing.

Sydney is known as "The Queen of eBay" or "The Auction Queen." She was one of the original sellers on eBay and has been selling on eBay since the winter of 1996.

She told me during a recent interview on my San Antonio radio talk show that she runs her eBay business very differently from most people.

"You can spend all day Saturday going to garage sales," she said. "And that's fine, there's nothing wrong with it. But if you want to make a real a business of it, you better have a systematic method. The problem with going to garage sales is, you can't rely on your inventory.

Sydney also mentioned the stories we've all heard: how someone found a trinket in their attic, put it up for bid on eBay, and sold it for hundreds of dollars.

"There ARE some incredible stories out there," she said. "But they're flukes. You have to have a steady source of supply and it's got to be something you can rely on. That's step number one"

"Step number two is to take that steady source of supply and sell the same items -- over and over again -- using the same listings."

She says her one of her other big secrets is selling to the same people -- over and over again.

"If you buy a men's shirt from me on eBay," she continued, "I assume that you'll buy more shirts in the future. And if I'm selling men's shirts, you're going to keep hearing from me. I'll email you, for instance, to let you know about my Fourth of July sale on men's shirts. You're going to keep hearing from me until you tell me that you don't want to hear from me anymore."

"Furthermore, when you buy something from me, there will be an invitation to buy something else inside your package when it's delivered."

Sydney shared about a dozen of her "secrets to success" on eBay during our time on the air. To read a transcript of the entire interview, or to listen to an MP3 recording, click on http://www.ebay-auction.ws/sydney.htm

Or of course, you could spend a couple of hours this weekend cruising the garage sales...

There might even be a TV crew hanging around one of them.






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Food stamp fraud raising concerns in gov't offices
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By SAM HANANEL Food stamp recipients are ripping off the government for millions of dollars by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash -- sometimes even in the open, on eBay or Craigslist -- and then asking the government for replacement cards.
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Moneycontrol.com

Groupon said to test card reader to rival eBay's
Washington Post
May 25 (Bloomberg) -- Groupon Inc., the largest daily coupon website, is testing a credit card-reader for merchants that could vie with similar devices offered by Square Inc. and EBay's PayPal Inc., a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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Financial Times

Watch the real Olympic relay – on eBay
Financial Times
By Robert Shrimsley Talk about getting into the spirit of the Olympics: within hours of the London 2012 flame being lit, eBay was filling up with people offering to sell the torches they are due to carry over the next few weeks.
Mum's curiosity 'down to eBay souvenir listing'This is Leicestershire
No word from buyer of eBay Olympic torchThis is Somerset
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Fast Company

EBay, VeriFone to Bring PayPal to Store Cash Registers
BusinessWeek
EBay Inc. (EBAY) (EBAY), owner of the PayPal online-payments business, and VeriFone have signed a licensing and marketing deal to add the payment option at US retailers, Jennifer Miles, an executive vice president at VeriFone, said in an interview.
PayPal and eBay Make Smart Moves To Fill The M-Payments GapMediaPost Communications
PayPal strikes deals with 15 retailersReuters
PayPal to be accepted at 15 major retail chainsTechFlash

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After Hours Most Active for May 25, 2012 : PPL, RAI, WMB, HRB, PEG, LO, EBAY ...
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eBay Inc. ( EBAY ) is unchanged at $40.35, with 1351418 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for EBAY is in the "buy range". PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1 ( QQQ ) is -0.01 at $62.06, with 1181987 shares traded.

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