Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

I have decided to become and eBay education specialist, I do miss my ‘eBay meets Business’ training days and would like to train up and be certified by eBay so I can go and convert hordes of budding entrepreneurs to the eBay way. eBay is a great way to start and online business, the marketplace [...]

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I am often asked how and when I started shopping on-line and also selling on-line. I started shopping online in the summer of ’99 with Gothic Auctions which prompted signing up for paypal almost instantly as everything was in Dollars. My first purchase was from a Canadian seller. By the winter I was actively selling [...]

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Not really knowing if the feature was out yet a friend of mine had a purchase Saturday (he sells designer bags, high ticket items) thought eBay but Paypal held the funds for investigation. He found it weird that there was not a username associated with the purchase but it was an eBay sale?! A little [...]

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According to the latest news eBay is now allowing ‘guest’ purchases on fixed price items on the eBay marketplace. The ‘Guest’ buyers will have to pay immediately in order to secure the purchase. So what happens with buyers from countries that you don’t ship too? Will the same restrictions apply? So many questions unanswered! eBay [...]

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Webcopy carefully crafted in plain English can improve a readers comprehension. You want your customers to understand what you are telling them don’t you? Here are a few guidelines to plain English: 1. Make the average sentence length 15 to 20 words. 2. Use words your customers are likely to understand. Try not to abbreviate [...]

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