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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) [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

eBay has recently announced a change in their fee structure.   While some fees are going down, others (the Final Value Fee) is increasing a whopping 66%.  There has always been a “buzz” around eBay fees and whether the approximate 10% of a sale price is really worth what you are getting from eBay.   Sellers on [...]

If you are a user of Auctiva I am curious to hear your feedback about this auction management system.  I have a number of items that I am going to want to put on eBay and after searching through listings on eBay itself to see what people are using Auctiva came up quite a bit.  [...]

I have been a seller on eBay for a number of years and have dabbled a little bit with books on Amazon.  What I am looking for now is some GOOD auction management software.    I’ve tried quite a few different things in both the online and local environments including: Merlin, Auctionwatch, Auctionworks, Mr.Lister, and Shooting [...]

On eBay, sniping (the act of bidding on auctions at the very last minute) has become the normal mode of operation for many buyers.  A sniper will use an automated program to swoop in within the last few seconds of the auction to place a bid.  The practice has been debated on the web many [...]

As an eBay member for A LONG time…I have been an active purchaser of everything from my Disney Mickey Mouse collectibles to high end digital camera and audio equipment, and I have sold everything from Jigsaw puzzles to pottery. As eBay has “grown up” and help fuel online purchasing, I have started using it less and [...]