Posted by admin on April 16th, 2008 — Posted in Sell-Offs
If you have been following news lately, XBOX 360 Microsoft’s next generation console went on sale at midnight on 22nd November. Many people queued up to make sure they can get hold of the console and experience the hype that has been brewing as times goes by before the official launched. Many people too went home empty handed and disappointed as stores were allocated that small amount of consoles. It doesn’t help that now the XBOX 360 is facing some shortage due to the overwhelming response. Try Amazon, Wal-Mart or Best Buy websites they are listed as sold out or at best limited stock.
In the first few days of sales at auction website EBay, the price even sky rocket to over US$1000 per unit. Key in XBOX 360 and search for it in EBay and you can see that the prices now average for about over US$700, still many times mark-up of the original retail price of US$399. Auction sellers in EBay have been smiling all the way to the bank as they have cashed in on the vacuum that the retail stores have failed to provide.
I have been wondering how those geniuses able to get hold of the consoles and resell it for quick profits. So I was searching and digging the internet for information and finally I was able to come out with a list of company that provides the consoles at wholesale price.
What so great about this, you might think! Well if you look at EBay again, those auction sellers are selling this information at hundred dollars! These are highly sought after information in EBay. Believe it or not, some of these companies are selling the consoles at US$275 in bulk and they are going fast. XBOX 360 is scheduled to be launch in Europe and Japan in early December. Imagine the frenzy is going to start all over again with Christmas seasons drawing near.
Be it you are a stay at home mums or doing home business part time, I believe you don’t mind getting this extra information that can help you grow your own home business. Mind you they are not only dealing with one product, they do carry other brands like Apple iPod nano, Canon, Sony Playstation2 or Canon digital cameras all you need is to ask.
Anyway I have placed the information in www.monaky.com, it is free for you to download. I spent one whole week just to search and compile it into a list and you are free to pass it to anybody who might be interested.
Also thanks to those who have responded to me about the misspelled auction article previously, I have now incorporated the search program in http://www.monaky.com.
Have fun !!
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Posted by admin on April 2nd, 2008 — Posted in Sell-Offs
From the beginning, eBay’s primary growth came from the
collectibles market. There are two basic models for eBay
sales:
1. Currently available consumers goods. This is a price-
driven model, and although smart sellers can earn above-
average prices, buyers are there looking for a bargain and
price is the #1 consideration.
2. Other buyers are collectors, looking for one-of-a-kind
unique items that they can’t locate elsewhere. Here, price
isn’t as important as it is with consumer goods. The power
of this market is obvious because, before eBay and the
Internet, most collectors were confined to a local market.
Dolls have always been big sellers as eBay collectibles and
eight of them are especially strong sellers:
1. The Cabbage Patch Kids began in 1978 and are never
“sold”. They are ‘born’ at Babyland General Hospital in
Cleveland, Georgia and proud parents pay an ‘adoption fee’.
The Cabbage Patch Kids were one of the greatest toy
phenomenons of the later 20th century. At one time, it was a
common sight to see grown women shopping and lunching with
their babies in hand. In restaurants, the Kids had their own
chairs and were always appropriately dressed for the
weather.
2. Precious Moments began in the early 1970s when creator
Sam Butcher began drawing the endearing teardrop-eye
children as gifts for family and friends. Today Sam’s
Precious Moments artwork is among the most recognized in the
world, and eBay prices reflect this popularity.
3. Madame Alexander dolls were created in 1923. These
beloved dolls range from Charlie Brown to babies and
children to elegant dressed women to glamorous and famous
women like Greta Garbo and Judy Garland. With all the
varieties of costumes, a single doll can be a 1920s flapper
as easily as a member of the court of Louis XIV.
4. Lee Middleton dolls, according to legend, are so real in
appearance that grown men sent for a rescue squad to save
“the baby” from a locked car! Mistaken identity is
supposedly a frequent occurrence and the dolls have been
counted as “passengers” on airplanes and rescued from store
countertops to prevent the ‘baby’ from falling. As one happy
owner says, “These dolls are so lifelike it’s uncanny.”
5. American Girl dolls are loved by millions of little girls
(and grown ups, too!) They are not only from different times
and places, but are ethnically diverse: Felicity from
colonial Virginia; Josephina from the 1830’s in New Mexico;
Kirsten is “a pioneer girl of strength and spirit growing up
in Minnesota in 1854″; Addy is alive in the 186o’s, having
escaped from slavery with her mother; Samantha is “a bright
Victorian girl living with her wealthy grandmother in 1904″;
Kit is growing up in 193os, during America’s Great
Depression; Molly lives in the 1940’s while her dad is away
at war; Kaya is a Nez Perce Indian living in the northwest.
6. Hasbro dolls are one of the products of the gigantic
Hasbro company, who claim to have been making toys for eight
generations, including famous games like Monopoly, Scrabble
and Clue.
7. Bratz dolls, unlike older dolls like Madame Alexander and
Cabbage Patch Kids, have no long history as favorite toys or
collectibles. Nevertheless, their price has astonished eBay
sellers and the Bratz collection was one of the ’super hits’
of the 2003 holiday season and sales have been strong ever
since.
8. And, no surprise, Barbie is the best-selling doll on
eBay. Since Mattel has recently announced that Ken and
Barbie will no longer be an “item”, dolls from the ‘good old
days’ when the name “Barbie” was rarely heard without ‘Ken’,
will inevitably become more valuable.
Anyone who loves and understands the doll market, can do
very well selling dolls on eBay. They’ve been strong
sellers for the 10 years eBay has been in existence and are
almost certain to remain popular for years to come.
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Posted by admin on March 30th, 2008 — Posted in Sell-Offs
If you just take a first glance on numerous eBay business opportunities website, you may feel that it’s too big, complicated and confusing. You might even think that only Internet professionals or Internet veterans can figure its complexities and find an eBay business opportunity. This is pure speculation.
If you take advantage of an eBay business opportunity, you’ll come to realize that even Internet amateurs can easily learn and succeed. In fact, every eBay business opportunity is conceived out of resourcefulness and not out of internet intricacy. People with just about any Internet skill level can earn really large profits just by taking time to find the right eBay business opportunity.
EBay is constantly growing and improving. Endless changes are being implemented. For every improvement on an existing eBay business opportunity or newly introduced scheme, the basics are always defined. You will come to find that it’s fairly easy and relatively simple. What’s more, you don’t have to take tremendous risks in trying out any type of eBay business opportunity, whether as seller or buyer.
It is understandable why the eBay business opportunity is always sought after by many people all over the globe. There is always a chance of succeeding and earning great profits with less risk and cost involved.
There is always a brilliant eBay business opportunity that’s waiting to be discovered. One idea even means that you could get a large sum of money in a matter of three (3) days.
This eBay business opportunity springs up when you buy an item on eBay which had resale rights. Then, start up an agreement with an eBay powerseller.
Here’s the scenario: there is a desirable product up for sale at $10 and then, suddenly given to a slashed price of $5. While this could be reason for caution, if this offer is given to you by someone you’ve already bought similar items from before, you’ll know that the offer can be trusted.
This half price offer is available for only 48 hours, though. This is because the person offering the half-priced item has an agreement with the seller. The condition is to offer half price for a period of 2 days.
So, the outcome is this, the half price offer is too good to pass up. And actually, 3 out of 10 people offered with this eBay business opportunity decide to buy. This happens every time such eBay business opportunity is offered!
Let’s say 200 people are offered with this eBay business opportunity. Do the math: multiply a third of this by $5, then expect to find this amount on your bank account in a matter of 3 days!
That’s not even the whole story. Supposing the item has a higher price? Even if it is slashed by half, it would still get you ample profits once you see the lump sum on the bank.
Getting excited? This eBay business opportunity, like all others, works fairly simple. You could apply this on products that are especially on demand and highly desirable. Check out also if someone else is offering it for a lesser price.
The next step is sending an email message to an eBay powerseller or someone you know who has a credible eBay shop. Just stipulate that if they will offer your item to their past buyers at half price, you’ll go for 50-50 profit sharing. But make sure they are selling similar products you are offering. This will make them take an interest and find that the eBay business opportunity you’re offering is hard to pass up.
Settle pay-offs by setting up a free web site and follow their instructions. You can also set up a PayPal link in it. Once someone agrees to offer your item to their list, send them a link to your temporary website. The powersellers will then send emails of the temporary half-price offer and your website link to all their past buyers. In order to inspire some urgency to buy, the email centers on the fact that the eBay business opportunity being offered to them is limited and gives the offer’s expiration date.
Consequently, after the 2 days period, you close down the temporary website, check your money and show it to the powerseller you struck up a deal with. As promised, pay the 50% of the earnings to his Paypal account. The other half is yours to keep.
So, there you have it! Another eBay business opportunity scheme that’s sure to give positive results and nice profit. The key is to take advantage and never be daunted.
Mark Wilkins is an expert in eBay Power Selling and now
he’s letting his secrets out. How to become an eBay
Power Seller in no time an crushing the competition is
easy when you know how. Power Ebay Sellers
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Posted by admin on March 27th, 2008 — Posted in Sell-Offs
When you buy something from an eBay seller, you are giving them your money and hoping that you will get something in return. However many guarantees of safety eBay might make to you, nothing is certain: if you just give your money to scammers all the time without doing any checks then the chances are you won’t get all of that money back.
That’s why you should always check the seller’s reputation, or ‘feedback rating’. This is a quick and easy-to-read summary of their history as an eBay seller, which gives you some idea of whether or not you should trust them with your money. Buying anything is a calculated risk: you want to minimise that risk.
How to Check Feedback Ratings.
On each item’s description page, there is a box in the top-right hand corner about the seller, with the title ‘Seller information’. This contains the seller’s name, their feedback score, and their positive feedback percentage, as well as any stars they have earned.
Different coloured stars are given to eBay sellers depending on their rating, in this sequence: yellow, blue, turquoise, purple, red, green, shooting yellow, shooting turquoise, shooting purple, shooting red. Anyone with a ’shooting’ star is an experienced eBay member who you should be able to trust.
If you click on the seller’s name, you can get to a more detailed view of their reputation - their ‘member profile’ page. This page shows the total number of people who gave them a positive or negative rating, as well as a breakdown by time. You can also see a complete history of all the comments that have ever been left about them, with the most recent first.
What to Look For.
You might assume that anyone with a very high number can be trusted, but that isn’t always true. It is more important to look at their positive feedback percentage - and you should really consider anything below 99% to be a red flag and investigate further.
Take a look through the first visible page with the most recent transactions: are there any negative comments? What do they say? Take others’ experiences into account, as they could happen to you if you deal with this person. Be careful not to punish sellers unfairly, however, if they did bad things in their past on eBay but have improved since. You should look at the breakdown by time and ignore any negative feedback that was left a long time ago. Equally, though, you should sit up and pay attention if a seller seems to have been left an out-of-character amount of bad feedback in the last month or so.
Now that you know who to trust, it is worth learning a little more about how the different kinds of auctions work, so that you don’t accidentally slip up and make yourself and your feedback page look bad. Our next email will be about the different kinds of auctions you can expect to encounter during your time on eBay.
Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.
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