eBay Screws It’s Sellers “AGAIN”!!!

Posted on April 16, 2008 by admin

Well the brain dead 9,000 pound eBay gorilla does it again.

First they killed off all sales of eBooks and downloadable materials in regular auctions and told the sellers that they had to use their ‘eBay Classified Ads’ feature to sell their digital products.

Their (eBay), claim is that it would be cheaper for the seller and that for the small fee of just 10 bucks for an entire month, they could sell as many products without any limits, (as in an auction you had to put in how many items where available), and they would not have the cost of the “Auction Listings and Final Value fees”.





Well now, That’s all fine and good, until they just ‘Blind Sided’ the seller AGAIN with the new restrictions for the Classified Ads.

    You CAN NOT have a “Buy it Now” button in your ad.
    You CAN NOT have a link to your website to buy your product.
    You CAN NOT have an opt-in box.

SO!!!??? What good are those classifieds?!?!?

    You have noway of closing the sale.
    You can’t get them to your website.
    You can’t get their contact info.

SO! What am I (The Sellers), paying for!?!?!?!

OH YEAH!!! TO PUT MILLIONS MORE INTO EBAY’S WALLET AND REMOVE IT FROM THE SELLERS WALLET!!!

It sure makes me want to go right out and place dozens of worthless ads on eBay!!!

!!!!NOT!!!!

PS: If you want to read about this on eBay have fun trying to find it — It’s buried (Hidden), deep inside eBay’s Workshop posts by ‘Trust and Safety’.

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eBayers — Auction Sniper will cost you your Winning Bid!

Posted on April 8, 2008 by admin

Attention All eBay Buyers

If any of you are using and relying on “AuctionSniper” to place your bids… Be forewarned it just might cost you your winning bids!





Several days ago I wanted to snipe a very “Rare/Hard to Find/EXPENSIVE” drill chuck made by Jacob Mfg. on an eBay auction.

I clicked the “SnipeitNow” button and got nothing… blank, so I went over to their website, “404′s” page or domain not found…. OK; I had time, so the next day I tried it again and this time the snipe and the site came up — Fine I’m in…

For 6 days I watch and adjusted my snipe so I KNEW I would win that drill chuck. It was at $51.00 with only 56 minutes left and my Sniped Bid was set for $76.98…. I GOT IT FOR SURE!!

!!!!!!!NOT!!!!!!!

The auction closed and I lost the auction by 11 BUCKS! BUT! Not over my bid BUT BELOW MY BID! It went for $66.00

AuctionSniper never even placed that snipe/bid!

After days of searching I’ve found a few at retail suppliers; The Price? Over $200 to as high as $389.00

What did AuctionSniper do about it “NOTHING!”… oh, but they did give me two free “WORTHLESS” snipes….. YEAH RIGHT!!! Like I’m ever going to use their worthless service again.

Moral of the story is NEVER use this service “IF” you really want to win the auction item, use eBay’s Auction Bidding Assistant.

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Joel’s second show was another hit!!

Posted on April 2, 2008 by admin

Thanks Joel,

What a great show.

Joel gave and gave — His “ONE HOUR” show turned into something more like “TWO” hours. (The people just won’t leave until they
absolutely had to.)

(OOPPPS! Sorry Dan didn’t mean to forget about you as well.) :)

The info just flowed, so much so that at times it was a little
hard to keep up with it all, but that’s a lot better than to little.;)





Joel give out:

  • Web Site Links
  • Product Info
  • Marketing Tips
  • eBooks
  • Tips on eBook writing
  • Important Services that are available
  • Hints on upcoming products/projects still in development
  • and so much more

Looks like this might turn into a weekly event. Think I’ll be
bookmarking that web site for sure.

The Ustream feed was having problems, but still well
worth watching.

Hope Ustream.tv fixes their problems by
next week.

The only hardest part is the time frame; (Noon Central Time), with most people working the “DAY JOB” it’s hard for so many people, who want to be there, just can’t.

But if you can …. by all means BE THERE! it is worth your time.

Bill

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Joel Comm steps into new territory

Posted on March 26, 2008 by admin

Well he finally took the plunge in the ever widening field
of video streaming.

Today I watched as Joel Comm took his first attempt at
live video streaming like my friend Chris Pirillo does
every day, via UStream.TV

For his first time out I think he did quite well. They
had a few bugs at the beginning, but once they settled
in things took off and it was quite enjoyable and
informative. The time flew by so fast and I think
everyone wanted Joel to stay on longer or come
back for a “Part 2″ secession. (I guess we can blame
that on Chris…. He’s got us spoiled.) :)

I have no doubt that the entire program format will
evolve and settle into their own unique style over
the next few months and that’s when it’ll really smooth
out start rocking.

There was talk about making it into a membership only
site and I have mixed emotions about that. I for one
can’t afford to pay some monthly or yearly fee then
have to plan on being there at a certain day and time
or I miss out not only on the show but also the money
I had to payout.

Chris runs his live stream 24/7, plus puts up at least 5
videos on YouTube all for “FREE” — Joel’s still deciding
as to whether or not it’s going to be a weekly or bi-weekly
show — FOR A FEE!?!?!?

Come on Joel… The “PR” you’ll get from the show will pay off
in the long run, (Backend). Try this… Keep it free for a year
and see how it goes, ‘THEN’ decide which way to run it. At
least you will have built up a bunch of followers by that time.

Good Luck Joel!

Bill

(Editors Note: I screwed up and miss understood what
Joel was talking about. PLEASE see his comments —
Sorry my friend. Bill)

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Video Pages

Posted on March 24, 2008 by admin

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Welcome to Bill’s Rants/ Raves and Warnings

Posted on March 17, 2008 by admin

Welcome…..

I’m an “Old Fart”, so I’m not going to be fancy here, but I am
going to try and warn you about:
“The Good — The Bad — And the UGLY!”

Like rip-off eBay sellers and Brand Name Vendors that sell junk.

And of course if I find something that’s good and at a good
price I’ll let you know about that as well, and hopefully I might
even come up with a product or two; (Who knows… stranger
things have happened). ;-)

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