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Hi gang,
eBay’s had a tough week.
Not that it hasn’t been a tough week in general.  Lehman’s gone.  AIG is getting bailed out (I bet that makes Lehman happy - if they would have waited 3 days, maybe they could have received part of the $600 billion the gov is forking over to save the economy).   [...]

Hi gang,
Well, Google pulled off another surprise yesterday and announced that they have been working on a web browser, named Chrome.  They made the beta available for download to the general public and within 1 day, Google has 1% of the browser market!
There are a ton of possibilites here for Chrome to integrate into all [...]

Hi gang,
“Ohhhhhh,  the sun’s not so hot in the sky today.”
“And I can feel summertime slipping on away, yes I can.”
-September Grass,  James Taylor
Believe it or not,  the title of this post and my man James’ quote are actually related.  You see,  I hate summer.  For my business, and I suspect for many businesses,  my [...]

Hi gang,
So I’ve had a week to digest all the new changes that eBay rolled out.  Here’s my opinion of the main changes:
1.  On eliminating checks and money orders -  this will upset people, and eBay will lose a tiny fraction of buyers, but as a seller, I am happy about it.  They are a [...]

Hi gang,
Well,  eBay just got interesting again.Â
Last night, eBay allowed several media outlets to disclose all of the upcoming changes that eBay will be announcing today.
There’s a lot,  and I don’t want to rehash it all - my job will be to break it all down for you.
For some wierd reason,  eBay itself has not [...]

Hi gang,
So, I’ve been thinking about this idea for a while now.Â
Let’s say that you are eBay, and you recently realized that your core business idea, auctions, has a fad component to it.   By that, I mean that auctions were a very cool idea 10 years ago, but the novelty of them is now wearing [...]

Hi gang,
Alas,  there is a part 3.
Having not been able to rent a car,  I could not take up the Air Trans offer of 2 free tickets per 1 seat for my Atlanta to Charlotte flight.  A bummer for sure, but hey, the downside is I got to be home in 45 minutes.
It had been [...]

Hi gang,
(When we last left our travel Hero, he was happily blogging from a Seattle pier, looking out at the bay and enjoying himself.   Did he make it home? Let’s rejoin him….)
“Waiter, I’d like a tequila sunrise please.”
“Sure thing - can I see your ID ?”
Blank stare.
“You see, what happened was….”  I told the poor [...]

Hi gang,
Ahhhhh, back home in beautiful Charlotte. 95 degrees and raining. Welcome to the South in a prematurely hot summer.
I wanted to give my opinion as to why there was so much venom this year at eBay Live. And by venom, I’m talking about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHY0r3Sn9rc

And this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBX4vRjPHXM

Both of these incidents occurred at the town hall meetings [...]

Hi gang,
There’s a reason I own a company that sells movies -  I am a movie freak.   Just love ‘em.  If I weren’t already married, I would marry movies - I would have movies baby.  You get my point.
I’ve recently discovered a really cool new wrinkle to being a Dad - my kids like movies too!  [...]