Arkie-Annie on Ebay
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Ebay Live 2006 & Power Seller

We arrived in Las Vegas on Monday. Checked in to the hotel (Excalibur) and spent some time looking around. What a great place to visit. On Tuesday we went to the Power Seller orientation to learn more about what would help us sell more on Ebay. We are currenlty selling at the silver level and want ( and need) to get to the GOLD level. WE went to several seminars about writing better listings, taking better pictures, and handling taxes. All of these were excellent. But I think our best time spent was meeting the pinks, and meeting with key ebay people that work with Ebay Stores, ProStores, and the Scalability booth. We are going to take their advice on many areas - aminly: Better listing content; Less font and color changes in listings; More automation (aka Selling Manager Pro) . These are just a few of the items we discussed. Other things we worked on while we were there- Getting information from PayPal and the USPS about technical problems we have with their sites . We are MAC users and wanted to know if our problems are /were related to using a MAC. We have problems with shipping international and filling out the forms on their website for example (USPS) and as far as PayPal we have problems some of t he time with all of the data from listings not migrating to PayPal so we can do our shipping correclty (we ship 1 item per PayPal invoice/receipt but buyer bought 2 of the item and it did not list it correctly for example) . I don't think we have that one solved yet. A big POSITIVE shout out to everyone that helped us ! THank you so much. Especially Kaj in the Ebay stores area. I hope we we return next year to Ebay Live in Boston we are SOLID GOLD power sellers using all of your tips! One more thing- we loved the ending Gala. Great bands, great Elvis impersonators, performers and of course Huey Lewis and the News. It was fantastic. See you all in Boston. Mark from Arkie- Annie
micnmum
Wished we could have been there! Glad you got lots out of it. Re: "less color and font changes in listings" -- can you elaborate? Would love to hear more about that.
We started about a year ago with Bright Red and Bright Blue. Of course that is time consuming changing each line, etc. And once begun, we got carried away.
Thanks to a response on seller central, she told us the Red made her eyes "bleed!" That did it!
We are trying all b&W except the lower portion of our listing which is a template.
We also have MAC and unfortunately all the eB free mass listings are only for PC. We were told they don't plan to make accessible to MAC (last year) and hope eB will change to include MAC users in their helpful SW.
Best regards
micnmum
Jun-17-06 13:36:50 PDT Report this comment
arkie-annie
Hi. Thanks for comment. Yes , as we add new listings we are sticking with just 1 font type (arial) and are trying just navy blue and black fonts. I just spent $800.00 on a new PC because of what you mentioned- very few power seller tools will work with our MAC. But we need a new computer any way. There are 5 in our family and having just 1 MAC (g5 w/ camera) doesn't get it done. when kids have homework it is too much .
You need to go to Boston in 2007! We'll be there!
Thanks again! see ya!
If you need chemicals come see us first! Plus- we will be adding natural home cleaning products soon too!
Jun-23-06 08:21:57 PDT Report this comment
arkie-annie
Thanks for your comments. Hope to see you in BOSTON in 2007!
Jan-02-07 20:30:21 PST Report this comment

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