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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,
A few hours ago,  eBay announced that they will no longer be counting Neutrals in a seller’s feedback percentage!  All sellers will be happy about this - it was one of the dumber policy changes that eBay has made in the past year.
Here are a few snippits from the announcement:
“Hello everyone - It’s been [...]

Hi gang,
So, since we all know now that the current war between eBay and their sellers centers around Feedback, I thought I’d throw this idea on the fire.
As a seller,  what really upsets me about Feedback, when you peel away all the emotional and logical layers of how it works,  it that my business can [...]

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,
Well,  I’ve got a lot to digest after 3 days of eBay Live here in Chicago.  I’ll be posting thoughts/announcements all week, but here are my overall impressions:
1.  I thought eBay Live Boston last year was too quiet -  until this year.   I would be really surprised if there were more than 6,000 attending [...]

Hi gang,
Well, it’s that time of year again - eBay Live - Chicago.
I remember my first eBay Live very well. It was in New Orleans several years ago, back when I was but a guppy in the seller bowl. What I remember the most about N.O. Live was that it was [...]

Hi gang,
I am an Iphone freak - had it since it came out and you will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.   It sleeps gently next to me and my wife on an 800 thread count satin pillow at night (kidding! … ? ).
So I did the happy dance when Steve Jobs announced [...]