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Paperless Payments at eBay Protecting Buyers from Fraud

Sellers will no longer be able to offer money orders or checks as a form of payment after October, 2008. eBay is going “Paperless” ... 11 Comments | Read More »

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eBay Makes a Bold Move: 35 Cents For 30 Days

This is awesome news for many eBay sellers including myself! If you’re not selling on eBay yet, now is the time to take advantage o... 19 Comments | Read More »

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Saving on Software

If you've ever had to purchase software, you've probably debated it and then either bitten the bullet or gone without. Software is E... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Adobe's Scene7 On-Demand

Nobody knows how difficult it can be to keep track of digital assets, such as product images and spec documents, more than online st... 5 Comments | Read More »

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Where do I find stuff to sell on eBay?

The most popular question I get asked as an eBay consultant is: “Where do I find stuff to sell?” That question floods my in-box sev... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Back To School Shopping on eBay Made Easy

Save time, gas and headaches trying to find all those hard to find school items. Everything your child needs for school can be found... 2 Comments | Read More »

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Getting Social at Github

Version control is something that developers are going to have to embrace eventually. Whether it is to automate repetitive tasks, as... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Just Starting With A Commercial Furniture Site

This is my first post. I'm new to ecommerce and online commerce with our new website. After reading "Errors Made By eCommerce Owners... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Hiring A Call Center, and Learning to Let Go . . .

It’s that time of year again…. School is about to start and for us this is an exciting time. My 6 year old twins are going to firs... 6 Comments | Read More »

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Celebrating The Gift of Life in eBay and Around The World

Last week several eBay sellers gathered together to support a very special friend in the eBay community: Terry Meade. Terry, also k... 0 Comments | Read More »

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What I Learned On My Summer Vacation

This past week, I gained a new perspective on ecommerce from the most unlikely of places - a shopping bazaar in Ensenada, Mexico. W... 3 Comments | Read More »

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Thinking outside the cart

At my day job, I'm not just a Ruby on Rails developer, I'm also UI designer and User Experience guru. In fact, I got started in this... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Amazon Simple Storage Service

The story is simple, and probably much more common than I would have thought. You need more disk space on your web hosting account, ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Rails 2.1

If you haven’t heard by now (and there’s no excuse if you haven’t), Rails 2.1 was released last month at RailsConf in Portland. So w... 1 Comments | Read More »

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Testing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7?

After you get your store back from your e-commerce design and programming company, who performed a 100 point QA inspection, what is ... 0 Comments | Read More »

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The Cox Box - The skewed view of ecommerce

It’s not easy, being a person who remembers Julius LaRosa, and trying to fit in with the MySpace crowd. It is hard for me to think i... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Customer Service, the key to success

Let’s face it; customer service is not what it used to be. On a recent shopping trip to a well known store I asked an associate whe... 1 Comments | Read More »

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My First Rails Plugin

Well, now that we are wrapping up the final details of our new website, and have pushed it into production, I can get back to bloggi... 0 Comments | Read More »

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Motorcycle Buying and Selling at eBay Motors

With gas prices soaring, many people are purchasing motorcycles. Even my daughter bought one to save on her gas bill and find better... 1 Comments | Read More »

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The Five Stages of SEO

Ah, search engines. Nothing makes me feel more like Sisyphus than trying to figure out what makes Google tick. We all think that w... 1 Comments | Read More »

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