Free eBay Product Sourcing eBook
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Product sourcing is something that truly successful eBay sellers take very seriously. It involves finding items for which there is a demand at true wholesale prices and selling them online at a profit.
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PayPal and MasterCard Team Up
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PayPal and MasterCard announced today that they are introducing a new service that will allow PayPal users to use their PayPal balance to pay on e-commerce sites that accept MasterCard. PayPal’s new service, called “Secure Card,” will be available through a software application that will automatically generate single-use MasterCard numbers that customers can use when they want to make payments to internet retailers that do not accept PayPal.
Interesting. Can’t I already use my PayPal funds where MasterCard is accepted by using my PayPal debit card? I get 1.5% back using my debit card as well. Besides the security of having a single use MasterCard number (which would have been useful during my recent fraud experience), I wonder if there will be incentive to use the new service such as the debit card rebate?
My Own Experience with eBay Fraud
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Well, it happened. It looks like I’ve been a victim of eBay fraud. I got the email today from eBay informing me that:
Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more of this seller’s items. We recently removed this seller’s active listings and suspended the seller’s trading privileges. Due to privacy concerns we cannot share further details about this seller.
I was attempting to buy a used hard drive from a Canadian seller. Looking back, the eBay fraud warning signs were obvious: Read more
The amount of useful analytical research published regarding online auctions is amazing. What is equally amazing is how little of this research has been made available to mainstream eBay users. As part of our inexhaustible efforts to provide truly unique online auction tips and tools, AuctionInsights offers another article that distills the pertinent information from a paper published and peer reviewed by university economics researchers.
In their April 2004 paper, “Seller Strategies on eBay,” professors Steven Anderson, Daniel Friedman, Garrett Milan, and Nirvikar Singh analyzed over a thousand Palm Pilot PDA auctions to discern any correlations between listing strategies and and success. They evaluated options such as auction length, starting price, reserves, Buy it Now, and information provided about the product.
The study concluded that the most successful sellers in their sample consistently employed a combination of: Read more