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For those of you that receive payments via Paypal for whatever your business might be, you may be interested to know that Paypal will now be required to report payments made to you to the IRS.   The Housing and Economic Recovery Act signed into law in 2008 is the culprit of the new requirement.   [...]

Today (May 1) marks the start of another eBay seller strike - aka boycott.  Recall that sellers on eBay are up in arms about a number of different issues.   You can see my posts about them here…  The real question is whether this current round of boycotts will really make a difference at all?
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Welcome to the March 23, 2008 edition of online auctions.

This is the first edition of the Online Auction blog carnival.   For those of you not familiar with a blog carnival, think of it as a magazine related to a specific topic.  Authors will submit their posts/articles to the carnival and then an editor (me) will [...]

The USPS is really making it convenient for home businesses to ship items.  You print postage online, and schedule your mail carrier to pick it.  It really couldn’t be much easier…No more waiting in those long post office lines.
On March 6th I sent 4 Priority Mail packages.  Now their website clearly indicates that Priority [...]

When I consider House Refinancing I can’t help but ask myself if this is the right time to be doing this or if I should continue to wait in anticipation that the rates will continue to drop.  With the “R” word (recession) on everyone’s mind I look at where my mortgage and my second mortgage [...]

There is an ever increasing rumble that sellers are NOT through with their protest of the changes that eBay is making to their system.  eBay seems to have taken the stance that if they just ignore the rumblings they will go away, and many rumblers are going away to other auction sites like ePier, OnlineAuction, [...]

With the latest break in our weather - We’re actually seeing 50+ degrees which is quite nice since we’ve had like the 10th or 11th worst winter on record. - I’ve been looking for a new pair of hiking boots.  Now I must say that clothing and shoes are not something that I purchase much [...]

As many of you know I dabble with selling on eBay.  You can put “eBay” into the Search Box on the left over there and you will find me looking for seller tools, you will read about Gixen sniping software, I comment about Auctiva, I even commented on the recent 66% increase in final value [...]

With the recent reductions in the prime interest rates NOW may be the time for you to consider refinancing you home to get out of a variable interest rate loan or a loan with a large balloon. Perhaps you’d like to do some debt consolidation, or a remodel…you could get a Home Equity Loan or [...]

I never could quite grasp the concept of sending our children out to pawn candy bars, wrapping paper, tea, etc… just so they could earn money for the latest and greatest “program” at school.   I must say I am a sucker and I will usually pry out of my wallet the $3 dollars they are [...]