Valentines day is creeking up on us again, as is Mother’s Day.

Have you thought of your gift yet for that special person? Want a great  and unique idea for a gift?

Well……here it is……….Silver Fingerprint Charms! (see photos underneath)

They are perfect! Basically, you can have your fingerprint (or anyone’s print including babies from 6 months old) captured in solid fine (99.9%) silver. You can also have a 24 carat gold plated version if you wish. They look so beautiful and will last forever. You can have them in different shapes.

It’s the perfect gift for anyone at anytime of the year. I’ve got a 3….baby, husband & Mum.

I have a friend who is an expert at making these. If you’re interested you can either email her for a quote at: bkafsaf@yahoo.co.uk or check her out on eBay. The best thing is that she can also provide you with the beautiful jewellery to go with the charm (i.e. necklaces, bracelets, key-rings, mobile phone charms etc.) She also gives 10% of all her sales to Great Ormond Street Hospital charity. So by buying through her you can help raise money too.

Hope that this gives you some inspiration for a gift.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

Hi All

Hope that you are well and making lots of money online!

I came across a really useful blog/forum called TameBay which is run by 2 British eBay Powersellers. Take a look. They often give really great information about all the news and updates to do with eBay.

It’s good to keep abreast of all the changes, as if you don’t stick to the rules on eBay, you’ll be doing yourself a lot of damage.

For example, did you know that as of 2nd February, sellers can either decrease or increase their item price of Best Match placements of Buy It Now, without getting any extra charges. This can be useful to boost sales scores. So for example, they say that you can start off with a low price for multiple listings to get sales coming, and then increase the price as you go up in position.

Check out the site. I’m sure you’ll also love it.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

Well….the answer is YES! Of corse! (hee hee hee!)

You will benefit, both as a buyer and a seller.

If people make listings for items and they type or mis-spell within the title description of their product, then it is less likely that people will find their listing. This benefits you is 2 ways:

1. As a buyer: you could deliberately do searches for items you want to buy, using the mis-spelt version. This would mean that you could buy absolute bargains, because not many people looking for that item will have found the listings and so there won’t be that many bids!

2. As a seller: If you want to sell items on eBay, an easy thing to do is look for popular items that are in demand, buy them via the method above (ie. really cheap via mis-splet titles) and then sell them on eBay with the ocrrect spelling, category and possibly improve the copy. You could then make yourself a nice little profit!  See… you don’t even need to produc a product or dropship etc. You could easily do this as a second income stream.

A great tool to help you do this and look for listings with wrong spellings is Fat Fingers. They basically scour the whole of eBay for incorrect spellings and typos. You simply go to the website and type in the word you are looking for, e.g. calculator, and it then brings up the eBay listings for you to look at.

Simple!

Give it a go and see what you can find.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

As you may know, I do quite a bit on eBay. Since using Auctiva, it has made my listings look better and has saved me loads of money on photo listings, as you can store up to 16 photos  for free.

If you don’t already know about Auctiva (a free service), check them out by clicking here. There is quite a bit that you can do with this service and they have decent templates to use. Also, when you make your listings with this service, you get a really nice banner showing all your listings, prices and ending times etc.which shows up in the eBay listing.

One thing to point out when you make your listings through Auctiva is to make sure that you un-tick the ‘insurance with Auctiva’, as this is a paid for service, and that you also use the usual eBay checkout process since people feel more comfortable and familiar with the eBay payment, rather that being directed elsewhere.

Anyway. Bye for now.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

I’ve been using eBay for the last few years, for both fun and business.

I don’t know about you, but I love it!! Currently, I sell fingerprint jewellery on there  (you can check out my listings by clicking here). However, there is so much more you can do with eBay.

I did a couple of courses about making money with eBay. Both are really great and has helped me a lot. I really recommend that you take a look and see for yourself what you can potentially earn from eBay alone.

First, I did Matt and Amanda Clarkson’s course. They are known as the eBay Magicians. They are Australian, but sell products around the world by only using eBay. They made something like $60,000 plus in the their first 6 months on eBay! Their course is a really easy and step-by-step guide, which you can go through as quickly or as slowly as you’d like. Check out the course now and see for yourself. You can even get a free gift for just looking.

The second course I did was by John Thornhill who is known for making money on eBay selling eBooks. I recommend you take a look at his course called ‘Become an eBay Powerseller in 90 days‘. He is a very good teacher. Very easy to follow. Highly recommended.

Take the time to check these 2 courses out. They really are some of the best ones on eBay out there.

That’s it for now.  I’ll be back with more musings.

Until next week……

Loretta