More regrouping

Hi,

i absolutely can't understand why ebay doesn't offer a regrouping of followed items by the seller! If i'm watching more than one thing, i'm sure i want to know how many of them are from the same seller, and how much i'm spending for those items! PLEASE, add that filter to watched items!

How to Make High Profits on eBay

One of the secrets to making money on eBay is to reduce your costs, fees and expenses. Here are ten eBay secrets to help you make more profits on eBay. Many of these are very simple and easy to implement. If you do all of them your savings can really add up and your eBay profits will increase.

1. Save eBay Photo Hosting and Scheduling Fees

There are two fees paid by almost every eBay seller that you can reduce or avoid altogether. The first is the photo hosting fee. eBay gives you the first picture free. After that they charge 15-cents per photo. Since I always use at least 3 or 4 photos in a listing, this can add up. The other is the scheduling fee. eBay charges 10-cents when you schedule an auction to list at a specific time. Unless you can create and launch your auctions at exactly the right time of day, almost every seller uses this service. You can avoid or reduce these by using an auction management service to launch your auctions and host your photos. A free program is Auctiva at Auctiva.com. A low cost program -and the one I prefer is InkFrog at InkFrog.com. Although Auctiva is free, I prefer InkFrog at $9.95 a month as you get a lot more services and features that easily make the extra little expense worth the while.

2. Pay your eBay fees using a credit card with a cash back program.

This is not exactly an eBay secret, but it is amazing how many people pass up this free source of money. Check your credit cards to see which ones offer a cash back program. Using these types of programs can result in between 1.5% and 3% credits back to your card. Some sellers prefer to get airline points, but personally I always go for the cash. I have a card that pays a 2.5% cash-back credit. Last year it saved me $726 in fees.

3. Control Your Insertion Fees

Pay attention to the tiered pricing in your eBay Insertion Fees. Pricing an item between $10 and $24.99 will cost 55 cents. Pricing an item between $25 and $49 will cost $1.00. Analyze your costs here and determine if it is more cost effective to set your starting price in the lower tier to save money on your insertion fees. Assuming your item sells, pricing the item lower will cost less in fees than pricing it in the higher tier. Here is a link to the eBay fee schedule: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html

4. Use listing Upgrades Selectively

Listing upgrades can get expensive. A major eBay secret is to experiment with anything that costs money to make sure it works. eBay charges hefty fees for bold, highlight, enlarged photos, and other upgrades. Run listings with upgrades and without and determine if the upgrades have any effect on your sales. The Bold listing upgrade tends to work the best for me, whereas I rarely use the other ones. On the other hand, when I tested my bold feature on my auctions, I found there were two categories of product where it didn't matter. Cancelling the bold listing on those categories saved me over $600 a year in listing fees.

5. Use the new eBay Fixed Price Listing Feature

You can now list an unlimited number of items at a fixed price for 30 days for 15¢ in books, movies and music and 35¢ in other categories. The final value fees are higher in some categories and cheaper in others but items in fixed price listings come up in search whereas eBay store listings do not.

6. Open an eBay Store

Running all auctions gets expensive. You can add items to store inventory for 5 cents per item for a 30 day listing. Basic store subscriptions start at $9.99. Although there is a monthly fee for an eBay store, in the long run the lower listing fees can easily offset this. Be sure and use your auctions to cross sell to your store by placing links in your auctions to your store listings.

7. Save non-paying bidder fees with mutual cancellations

If you've sold an item but can't go through with the sale, or the buyer refused to complete the sale, you can cancel the transaction in the eBay Dispute Resolution Center and you may receive a credit on your Final Value Fee.

8. Always file Unpaid Item Disputes

You will see these on your eBay Selling Manager if a buyer has not paid for an item within 7 days. After filing the Unpaid Item Dispute, the buyer might pay. If buyers don't pay within another 7 days, eBay will refund your Final Value Fees. However, you want to be a little careful doing this when your feedback score is low as these buyers often leave you a negative feedback anyway. I think its better to use number 7 above as once a transaction is cancelled, the buyer can no longer leave feedback.

9. Use Free Relist Credits

On average, about one-half of all auction listings result in a sale. eBay will give you one free relisting credit on auction listings that do not sell. You can relist unsold items by selecting the "relist your item" drop down on the unsold items module on you're My eBay Page. If the relisted item sells, eBay will credit the Insertion Fees back to your account.

10. Major eBay Secret, Watch your packaging costs

A key eBay secret of professional sellers is Don't over-package your items. The more packing material you use, the more your item will weigh. More weight = more postage. In some cases, reducing your packaging by just one ounce can mean the difference in a few dollars per package.

Packaging materials can get expensive. Check with your local gift shop, kitchen shop or Radio Shack. These stores will often give you boxes and packing material for free so they don't have to recycle it.

When shipping items USPS Priority Mail, we use the paper Tyvek envelopes instead of a box if a product in not highly breakable. Boxes weigh more than the envelopes, and cost more to ship.

If an item weighs less than 14 ounces, then use First Class instead of priority or parcel. You can purchase your own poly mailers and use First Class for these lighter items. Poly mailing bags cost a few cents when ordered in quantity. You won't have to spend the minimum $4.90 to ship an 8 oz item just to get the free Priority Mail supplies.

Inkjet/Toner Cartridge-Factory Direct

To reply to the most resent a tack on the toner cartridge manufacture, Millennium Re-manufactured Toner Inc., in support of this company I know for a fact that this company has been doing business with Corporate America for many years and has had little to no mishaps, returns or large failure rates in their manufacturing area.
Further more, back in 2002, while doing business with Corporate Express, which is now owned by Staples, their toner cartridges where tested, either by Torry Pines Toner Testing or The Standardized Test Method Committee, via Corporate Express their distributor at the time. It is common when such a large company takes on a small Minority company to them grow in the corporate world, this will help them along. Such as helping to structure their company and helping them by supplying them with the tools they would need to become successful.
Also the testing that you have refer to is only directed towards the one toner cartridge that is sent to you. What's to say that the manufacturer won't send out, to the customer, a lesser than prefect product. This test only insures that the company in question can make the product, toner cartridge, very well or prefect.
Lastly if anyone would like to test or question the quality of Millennium's product, I invite them to try. We'll come out on top every time.

Regards,
Frank Garcia
President, CEO
Millennium Re-manufactured Toner, Inc.

unfair ebay practices regarding visibility aka search standing

How is it fair that all sellers pay the same amount of money for a listing but only a few selected ones ever make it to the first page. This is what is happening in ebay through an obscure algorithm that determines whether or not your listing for which sellers pay a fixed price will be prompted in the first pages of hundreds of listings inside ever wider categories. At the beginning ebay was able to calm the power-sellers by telling them that the better rated sellers would appear on the first spots. They organized the areas to be rated and had all the sellers compete for recognition in this areas. As times go by sellers realize that it was not as simple as that. Many sellers with low rating(DSR) appear at much better places than prime seller who's rating is above ebay's average. As it turns out ebay's obscure algorithm does not want many items from the same seller to appear in the main pages, as it discovered that their algorithm resulted in only a few sellers getting most of the visibility and therefore, the sales. Regardless of what kind of algorithm they use, the question remains: Is it fair to charge all sellers up-front fees for an unknown visibility outcome?

Without being able to offering clear visibility status or perhaps exposure time for their listing price; ebay has become more like a gambling place than a fair market. If we compare this with other media such as TV ads, newspaper spaces or even internet Pay-per-click ads; we can clearly see how unjust ebay's obscure visibility How is it fair that all sellers pay the same amount of money for a listing but only a few selected ones ever make it to the first page. This is what is happening in ebay through an obscure algorithm that determines whether or not your listing for which sellers pay a fixed price will be prompted in the first pages of hundreds of listings inside ever wider categories. At the beginning ebay was able to calm the power-sellers by telling them that the better rated sellers would appear on the first spots. They organized the areas to be rated and had all the sellers compete for recognition in this areas. As times go by sellers realize that it was not as simple as that. Many sellers with low rating(DSR) appear at much better places than prime seller who's rating is above ebay's average. As it turns out ebay's obscure algorithm does not want many items from the same seller to appear in the main pages, as it discovered that their algorithm resulted in only a few sellers getting most of the visibility and therefore, the sales. Regardless of what kind of algorithm they use, the question remains: Is it fair to charge all sellers up-front fees for an unknown visibility outcome?

Without being able to offering clear visibility status or perhaps exposure time for their listing price; ebay has become more like a gambling place than a fair market. If we compare this with other media such as TV ads, newspaper spaces or even internet Pay-per-click ads; we can clearly see how unjust ebay's obscure visibility algorithm really is. It seems not even their engineers can tell what the outcome will be, thereby they have a flat fee for all listings and feature sellers at almost random hours and times. In TV, they would definitely charge more for ads at peak hours and only a small fraction of that for commercial in the middle of the night. In news papers they would charge more for the first page and the size of the listing. All clearly explained before charging customers. In the internet world the offer and demand determines the price of different words where everything is clearly explained before customers pay for their time, space or word. Ebay was a fair market when everything was a straight forward cue of ads. The peak hours had more ads thereby, had more pages of ads in less time which automatically decreased visibility.

Given all these facts, I am really surprised that no one has sued ebay for their unfair practices, closing their one's open market with fair trade practices. To make matters worst, because they haven't communicated sellers of all the ongoing changes, their practices are completely illegal and anti-constitutional.

Top 5 reasons to have multiple accounts on eBay

Many discussions recently have focussed on having more than one eBay account. Ebay has no problems with this, as long as each account is kept in good standing. Following are five reasons for opening multiple accounts.

1. Buyer Confidence.

If you are selling goldfish bowls for example, which username do you think will give abuyer more confidence - “dave1234″ or “goldfishsupplies”? When selling in more than one category on a regular basis, having multiple accounts will allow you to target your audience with a higher precision.

2. Ebay Features.

The ability to open more than one eBay Store. eBay only allows one store (or shop) per account. This is easily solved by having multiple accounts.

3. Feedback.

Protect your feedback, if one transaction as a seller goes bad and you get negative feedback, it will not affect your sales as a whole as you’ll still have excellent feedback on your other accounts.

4. Cross-Promotion Connections.

eBay allows you to cross-promote other sellers’ items within your listings. By using this feature, you can cross-promote your other accounts within your eBay listings to bring some much valued visibility.

5. eBay Arbitrage.

Many sellers buy off eBay in order to resell the item almost immediately. Having an account for selling only, will allow you to hide the items you’ve purchased with a separate account.

AIDS Epidemics In Society And The World At Large

Dear Esteemed Reader:

Our species encompasses a giant global family that spans
Planet earth and we are all much more alike than we are
different…We share the same basic human drives, including
the need to survive and feel safe …

We all need a sense of belonging in order to live fully and fulfill our creative potential...

In order to envision and realize our dreams, however, we need to have confidence in ourselves.

Nonetheless, for complex reasons, most people tend to focus more on our
differences—how much money we make or don’t make, our
level of education, our level of skill in the work we do, and
how much “stuff” we own—not to mention our differing
religious or cultural backgrounds and belief systems: We
allow these often-superficial differences to serve as dividing
walls between us—or worse, to pit us against one another,
separately or as groups or nations ….Think of what life might
be like if this were not the case!

Magic Johnson shows… despite his Celebrity statistic,
he took time out of his busy schedule to help fight the
AIDS epidemics in society and the world at large …

You’re a Worthwhile Person in More Ways Than a Million
Valuable Services, Valuable Lives: Everyday People Making
An Extraordinary Impact

Author –Simeon Johnson

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