How to win more eBay auctions for just a penny!
I have recently been doing a far bit of buying on eBay and in the past couple of weeks I have used a tactic which I have been using for years to win several auctions. Given how successful I find this ‘method’ even after so many years, I thought I would share it with my readers. // I had assumed that these days, my secret tactic was pretty obvious to eBayers and that it would be losing its effectiveness. My experiences over the past couple of weeks don’t support this assumption and it worked even when bidding against well established, long term/high feedback eBayers. Ok, so this is how it works. Let’s say you are bidding on an item which is worth about £50. The bidding is at £30 with a few minutes to go. Several bidders are interested and it looks like the item is going to go for what it is worth. When bidding on eBay, I always leave my bid until the closing seconds of the auction – some call this sniping but in fairness it’s just common sense, why show your hand any earlier than you need to? It is fair to assume that one or
How the South Africa World Cup could affect your business…
// In case you hadn’t noticed, the World Cup has started! Now, I personally have very little absolutely no interest in football whatsoever BUT despite this, the World Cup could affect the profitability of my businesses over the next few weeks… Football, in the UK at least, is one thing that will drag people from their computers to in front of the television and if people are not in front of their computers, they are not spending money with me (or you). Therefore, if you are planning any kind of promotion or launch over the World Cup period you would do well to ensure that it doesn’t coincide with one of the major matches. Even if you don’t run an online business, it is possible that the World Cup could affect you. Do you sell on eBay? Do you buy on eBay? If so, avoid posting auctions which will end during a match and if you are buying, lookout for auctions which DO end during a match as there is every possibility that you could grab yourself a bargain. And don’t think this is just a bit of theory on my part, I learnt the hard way some years ago
The WadCast Episode Two
// swfobject.registerObject(“ssg_gplayer_object-605-0″, “9.0.0″, “http://www.theuktrader.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/ssg-wordpress-google-audio-player/swfobject/expressInstall.swf”); The WadCast Episode 2 What’s a WadCast? Find out here… Episode 2 of The WadCast sees us dealing with the first of our fan mail as we do our best to answer questions about eBay and buying from wholesalers. Net Peeves is also back which is our opportunity to have a bit of a moan about the things that irritate us most about working on the Internet. Plus we give away our first competition prize, a $200 Internet marketing course! First published: 1 Feb 2007 The WadCast is produced by Internet Marketers, Richard Grady (www.theuktrader.co.uk) & Stuart Morrison (www.stuartmorrison.com)
Let's make some money!
// One of the downsides of living on the coast as I do is the winter. Whilst I get to see some of the best weather the UK has to offer, I also get to see the worst. We are not even close to the main winter months yet but I have still spent the last couple of days holed up at home watching some spectacular storms over the sea and ‘enjoying’ force 8 winds battering my house! Some of the more crazy locals chose to windsurf in the incredibly rough sea but given that I managed to crack a rib a few weeks ago windsurfing in next to no wind, I figured I would give it a miss It looks as though the summer sun has been and gone for another year….. On the plus side, as we creep into the autumn/winter months many business owners will be heading towards their busiest time of the year. This is especially the case if you are in retail of some kind as the run up to Christmas should, ideally, mean that you will be rushed off your feet for the next two or three months. Every year I start to
How much easier can it get?
// In my last newsletter, I wrote about how you need to put in a fair amount of hard work before your online business becomes successful – there is no such thing as an ‘overnight success’. Despite this, setting up and running an Internet business is a hundred times easier today than it was, say, five years ago. There are just so many more services and products available to assist you and I got to wondering how much easier things could really get? This week, the UK Post Office has announced a new free service which allows people to buy their stamps online. You simply pay for the stamps you require with a credit/debit card and then print off a label to stick on your envelope. I haven’t used the service yet but as far as I can tell, the label even includes the address to which the letter is going so you don’t even need to write it out (or print off a second label)! A similar service has been in operation in the US for some time but this is fairly new technology in the UK. Just think how much time this new service could potentially save the
