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Freakishly Narrow Shoes on eBay and knowing your MARKET…

March 18th, 2011 · No Comments

I like shoes, nay…I am obsessed with shoes so I end up buying lots on eBay. A friend of mine sent a link through from a Chinese seller of seemingly fabulous looking shoes and this was the link: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Show-Story-Shop Oh dear, I thought – I am supposed to be saving money…oh well just one pair…. [...]

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Tags: Consultancy · E-Business · Rakuten/Japan · Social Shopping

eBay ‘ending soonist’ back on the cards now we have TRS?

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Well, after fiddling around with strategy to work with best match over the last….what 12 months? It seems that the lack of exposure that my clients get for not quite being Top Rated Sellers (although, one now will be at the next run – slack eBay account manager to blame) pushes the strategy back to [...]

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Tags: eBay

eBay, the return of the auction….

November 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Well not a top rated seller? Abandoned auctions as part of your business plan long ago? eBay wanted it, but now your stuffed again. This last two weeks my clients auctions have been out preforming their ‘Buy it Now’ style listings as still with auctions the ‘ending time’ is an important factor. So auctions are [...]

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Tags: eBay

But how DO they get the email addresses?

August 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A lot of my clients use similar services, and they have ALL received an email ‘whistle-blowing’ be it true or false about the accounting practises of a particular firm. Fortunately for the time period the email warned about my clients were on the kind of contract that it didn’t matter, more of an all in [...]

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Tags: Consultancy · E-Business

[ChannelAdvisor Catalyst] – European trade, Who do you call? Intercultural Elements!

April 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Get trading in Europe and sell to those pesky Europeans who don’t speak Yahoo Babelfish language versions…. Oh yes, the amount of points lost in translation on eBay can lead to confusion, upset and well…..a negative and a refund. Inter-cultural Elements are experts in biscuits and international translation. They don’t just translate the words, they [...]

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Tags: eBay