Categories play an important part in your ebay store. This will guide buyers to search for a particular item in your store. Sellers have must take time to improve ebay categories in order to provide buyers convenience in finding products from the ebay store. If buyers find your ebay store convenient you can actually drive traffic to it. Improving your category is pretty much easy to do. First, make sure that you choose “Show store listing header and the left navigational bar in your listings at the Listing Frame Options found at “Manage My Store” section of My Ebay.

Ebay UK announces to check computers regularly used by buyers and sellers in order to prevent unauthorized access of ebay account. There have been too many cases where an eBay account is being used by another person. This time, eBay will use some new technology that will link the ebay user ID with the user’s computer. When eBay finds out that the computer does not match with the one regularly used by the seller or buyer, they will require you to provide some more information to confirm that you own such account. The account owner is required to update eBay with his/her personal information otherwise, there may a delay of transaction. It is no problem if you are using more than one computer. EBay will be able to track down all the computers you are regularly using. Account theft has always been a problem in ebay selling and any other auction selling business. Ebay continuously introduces new programs to protect its members.

New ebay sellers need as much help in selling their products because to too much competition. This is a great opportunity for more established ebay sellers because they can take advantage of selling other people’s products. Trading Assistants charge fees for their services. To become a trading assistant, you must be an ebay member with a good standing sales and good feedback. You are required to have sold at least ten (10) items on ebay within the last three months. Your feedback rating must be at 100 or higher and and 98% or more of your feedback are positive. As a trading assistant it is your responsibility to display these items and provide description at the same time, ensuring that the listing adheres with ebay’s Listing Policies. The only thing you have to remember is that, ebay charges fees on Trading Assistants and holds you responsible to communicate with your client as to how much you will charge them. If the item don’t sell, it is still your responsibility to inform your clients. Ebay recommends some of the taglines for your trading assistant store:

• • Drop Off Your Stuff and We’ll Sell It on eBay
  • You Drop It Off—We Sell It on eBay
  • We Sell for You on eBay
  • Drop Off Your Items—We Sell Them on eBay

Along with the responsibilities, taking full control in charging clients is how ebay sellers are profiting on ebay as an trading assistants.

Amazon introduced the newest electronic reading machine that stores up more than 250 blogs, in different categories and updated news from different newspapers that you subscribe. This electronic paper is in black and white screen just like reading from an ordinary paper.  It is very handy and has a long life battery that can stand for days. If you are a book lover, this thing is right for you because you can read different books in one device.  You can search for any type of book you want to read.  What I like most with this gadget that you can read outside even under the heat of the sun because its display doesn’t use backlighting. The screen is easy on your eyes because of its electronic paperback paper display that eliminates eye sprain. 

This modern book is 10.3 ounces with 250 words where you can check from its built in dictionary.  It has access on wikipedia where you can actually see every detail of a particular word.  You can also bookmark a book and go back to the pages that you’ve already read. When you delete a book, it has an archive that autorecovers your book.  The books loaded in this device are from major publishers. When you download books in less than a minute with this device. You may also change the font size. According Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, “the coolest feature of this book is that you can think of a book and you will have it in a minute.”  

 Although Amazon explains the gadget’s main purpose is for reading but I think it serves more that as it is also Amazon’s shopping device. It has features which allow you to shop for your favorite books in Amazon.  This revolutionary reading machine is both a reading device and a shopping gadget.  Still I think it serves its purpose well.

1. Buyers and sellers will be able to earn up to one Feedback per week from the same trading partner. Today, members may only affect each other’s Feedback scores one time, regardless of the number of transactions between the parties. This change will both encourage repeat transactions and reward good service.
2. Sellers will no longer be able to leave negative or neutral Feedback for buyers. This change will be introduced in May, 2008.
3. Removal of negative and neutral Feedback left by members who are suspended or who fail to respond to the Unpaid Item Process (UPI).
4. Positive Feedback percentage will be based on the past 12 months of Feedback, rather than lifetime, since it is most indicative of the seller’s recent performance.
5. Restrictions on when Feedback can be left:
   • Buyers must wait three days before leaving negative or neutral Feedback
   • Instead of 90 days, members will be able to leave Feedback for 60 days

1. Design a consignment agreement (a contract), and send it to the owners of the merchandise before they send you their items. Doing so ensures that all policies are set up in advance and that no questions will arise after the transaction has begun. Make sure that you state the percentage commission you get from the final sale and how you are going to take care of the items unsold or inventories.

2. Have the owners sign and give the agreement to you (the consignor) along with the item. Talk and communicate with your consignors. Consider them your valuable assets in the business.

3. Research the item based on past sales so that you can give the owners an estimated range of what the item might sell for on eBay.

4. Photograph the item carefully and write a thoughtful, selling description.

5. Handle all e-mail inquiries as though the item were your own; after all, your fee is generally based on a percentage of the final sale.

6. Buy an accounting software that can help you manage you consignment sales records and inventories.

I browsed some items on auction sites that might catch my attention and found this beautiful art painting from artbytes.com. The painting “leaves of grass”, is very simple and very unique. It is a 16 by 20 inch size painting done in acrylic edge canvass. This is another piece of art by Rod Sneider, an American artist working in abstract expressionism, landscape, and still life, in oil and acrylic. Art auction is one of the most profitable auction selling business today.