For those unfamiliar with what a feedback rating on eBay entails, here’s a quickie. Each buyer and seller on eBay can leave feedback (positive, neutral, or negative) about the other party in the transaction. The feedback rating is the sum of all feedback transactions (one per eBayer), with positive feedback counting +1, neutral feedback counting … Read more
Simply Us just put up a post on tag team auctions that is money. Great stuff! This is a great strategy for finding items at offline auctions to resell on eBay: One person goes to the auction and remains in phone contact with the other, who is poised and ready to search completed auctions on … Read more
Free Money Finance commented on a Kiplinger’s article which gives guidelines on how much college debt is too much. It boils down to investment and payoff: the higher the expected payoff (increased salary) the higher the investment should be (college expenses and/or college debt). This is reasonable advice, assuming a traditional career path and a … Read more
Clever Dude was rather nonplussed by a commenter’s potty-mouth response to Clever Dudette’s post on frugal lunches. The gist of what the commenter meant to convey was emphasizing higher earning power over increased frugality. Put another way, the suggestion was to earn more rather than spend less. Put yet another way, earning more is a … Read more
Reader’s Digest (eBay) had an article in its May, 2007, issue entitled New Ways to Make a Bundle. I try to supplement my income from my day job in my “spare time†because a good way to save more, and thus get on more financially sound footing, is to earn more. Earning more on a … Read more
Over the past few weeks I’ve bought large amounts of things from folks running yard sales. The first buy-out was a whole bunch of scrapbooking and stamping supplies from a home business owner who was moving on to other things. The second buy-out was a large collection of music CDs this past weekend. These two … Read more
Our county has a flea market the first Saturday of each warm-weather month. After going to a few of them, some of the same folks show up each time to sell, but there are still new sellers that show up. Some sell only one month, and there’s a good opportunity for deals with these sellers … Read more
A few days ago I asked whether inflated shipping charges on eBay are bad. My original take was that the shipping charges by themselves really didn’t matter that much — it was the sum of the final bid and the shipping that was important to the buyer, as well as knowing in advance what that … Read more