The Offsite Recap for October 4, 2010

"Don't let your buyers see what you buy!" When eBay sellers are buying and vice versa
Some years ago, I bought a lot of items on eBay for several hundreds dollars and it arrived poorly packed and heavily damaged with several of the highest value items missing entirely. When I contacted the seller about the damage and missing items he/she's first response was, "What the hell do you care, you're probably [...]

The Holiday Retail Forecast: You should assume the worst. It's for the best.
Without looking at a single article or listening to a single pundit, I can tell you something for sure: There will be experts that claim we are in a terrible recession and are heading for the worst holiday retail season in years There will be just as many claiming that the economy is in great [...]

Paying for eBay shipping labels with a credit card instead of PayPal balance: Is it a myth? Legend?
Over the summer, eBay debuted a new flow for printing shipping labels. Most importantly, this new method was a single page (instead of the multiple pages of the old process) and also didn't seem to leave the eBay site. I had some big issues with it when it first debuted but, to their credit, eBay [...]

Win some advertising with my blog contest: Free Banner Impressions Through the Holidays
When I announced my Twitter contest, I promised that I'd have a contest just for readers and I'm please to announce that today. This contest will be easy, free to enter (as always) and I think you'll really like the prize. I thought long and hard about what offer the winners, after all, I have [...]

Bonanzle becomes Bonanza, buys 1000 Markets, eBay's new feedback & duplicate listing policies and more
Firstly, my huge apologies in the lack of posts this week. I'm having some issues that prevent me from typing. If you are interested, you can read about the details here. Since I can't type for long periods of time, I'm going to give you a few quickies. Bonanzle takes on the steak house industry, [...]



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