eBay
Increase your eBay prices by 500% ??
Anthill magazine posted a link to a great video by some of the guys the other day. I just got around to watching it (I kinda store ‘Favourites’ from twitter posts during the week, and check them out later). I have blogged before about various strategies and methods to boost the prices you get on [...]
A Magento to eBay Extension
So, Magento to eBay extension. Now it’s a reality… I bet Magento users will be interested in this! eBay has been a great platform for us, and so is Magento. Bringing them closer together is an interesting strategy, and for some of our websites, a Magento to eBay Extension would be great. Being long time [...]
Online Retailer 2009 in Sydney – the State of Online Retail in Australia
I just got back from Online Retailer in Sydney. It was the first event of it’s type in Australia, attracting over 2500 attendees and a good number of exhibitors. I had opportunity to talk to many of the attendees, catch up with many other online retailers and also interviewed people like Armand , VP of [...]
A Quick Summary of PeSA 2009 in Sydney (+ some pics)
PeSA Sydney 2009 was a great event. A full attendee list of 300+ eBay sellers were there. Here is a brief summary of the event from my perspective. (for more info on the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, click here). Well, what a great conference. PeSA conferences are usually a focused get together of like minded [...]
eBay Australia Pricing Changes – a Positive Move!
eBay this morning released some news regarding their upcoming pricing chances. In summary, no changes will be made to auction fees but store fees and insertion/final value fees will change. Also, store listings will again appear in core search (mixed in with auction listings) using Bestmatch, eBay’s search algorithm in use in various ways around [...]
Want to grow your eBay business?
Want to grow your eBay business? Then consider attending this years PeSA event in Sydney, called ‘Survive & Thrive’. PeSA is the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance and the Australian arm is holding this year’s seller event in Sydney. Last years was a great success with hundreds otf attendees, and I think this years will be [...]
Automate Australia Post Click and Send International labels
Australia Post has just released Click and Send, and new way to print out international labels and customs declaration forms. Previously international shipments were a real pain because of the handwritten customs forms and separate labels that needed to be printed. Now at least Click and Send can print these forms for you (see their [...]
eBay Australia offers ‘no insertion fees’ for 99c auctions
Just a quick one, nice promo for the next 21 days, eBay Australia offering zero insertion fees from March 2nd to March 22nd for 99c auctions. You can even list in 2 categories. Nice. Details here.
eBay 2.0. Or is it all too late?
It has been a little while since I read Scot Wingo’s blog, and he had a great post recently that I took the time to read and digest. It was his own roadmap on how he thinks eBay should change in order to survive. For those who don’t know, Scot is founder of ChannelAdvisor (software [...]
Shipping Automation and our solution – ReadytoShip
Early on, ‘back in the old days’, our staff manually copied and pasted addresses for customer orders into shipping software packages or (*gasp*) hand wrote labels. This was all fine and dandy until we started selling more than about 5 – 10 items per day. Firstly, shipping started to take too much time in our [...]




