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I have been playing around with the sales copy of my selling activity. Sort of giving personal touch in my items description. Will my post be flagged or not? I’ll see soon.

In selling one slingshot, here’s my description of the item: (more…)

“I bought a pair of shoes but my wife unknowingly bought the same exact model… So I am selling this one pair.”

“You know what?, I was able to compose 3 songs in one sitting using this classic guitar. This one might be magical…”

Get it?

A dose of personal stories on your item destination might spell the difference between SOLD and NOT SOLD. These personal stories or item backgrounds make the prospect bidder excited and help them finish what’s up for bid/sale. (more…)

Have you ever listed an item way below your purchase price? If yes, don’t pout, don’t be sad. You are not alone. All of us sellers who sell physical goods go thru this and it’s a pain.

Just last week, I sold 3 sets of COBY DVD Player for only P5200. Where, the purchase price of that model was around P7500.00. The later models of that player is only P5400.00, we had no option but to dive. (more…)

I just read an article saying that in U.S., $19.95 seems to be the magic price. You’ll see this in infomercials, email offers and even sp@ms. Even the products that go over $100, they make it a point to break the payments into $19.95.

Marketers feel that, Americans usually have spare $20 lying around. Very likely, this $20 is ready for that “quick and unplanned purchases”. And why, $19.95? Why have that 95 cent kicker? They use that for that “discount” or “sale” effect. At online classifieds sites, sellers also use that to get attention. Sub-consciously, the potential buyer is thinking, this some kind of a good deal.

Then I began to wonder, what’s the nice tipping price point for Filipino online sellers? What’s the best price to work with to get that quick orders? (more…)

We all know that eBay is a great place to buy and sell various commodities. But behind the rewards of buying and selling at eBay lie the danger of scams, the frustrating spams, the agony of the non-paying bidders or joybidders, the trigger-happy negative posters, etc.

Despite the efforts of eBay to clear the site of malicious user accounts, sadly, a number of these scammers still exist. There are, of course, the now getting old African (Nigerian) scammers. They will even offer you hundreds of dollars more than what your item is worth. Sounds fake? It’s fake.

These users flooded my inbox especially when eBay.ph was launched in 2004. Now, they kinda backed-off a bit. A new set of email spammers are now ruling the eBay, the “chinese-we-are-a-wholesaler” types. (more…)

Not yet a candidate for kidnapping, but hey, I am 1200 pesos richer.

That’s because I made my very first personal sale at eBay.ph. Two kicks I kicked out of my drawer netted P1200. Old Florsheim shoes for P800 and another old Bench Shoe for P400.

Here’s the quick specs, lemme share it so future shoe eBayers would now how to described old shoes for clearing sale. (more…)

Over the weekend, I checked out some of my stuff at my mother’s house and I found some items that I may be able to sell at eBay and other online marketplace. I also have some new items that I can sell at discounted prices (shoe, printer, ipod shuffle) so I decided to create a new account at eBay. My sort of personal ebay account.

Check it out, I may have some stuff that you need, you’ll absolutely get a bargain.

I chose to have “kwarta-o-kahon” as my new ID. Every now and then, I’ll check my email to see if Tito Pepe is coming in and suing my ass off.

Because I am a sucker for registering domain and not doing anything about it, I’ll register that domain right about now.

Here’s my page listing. I got car parts, printers, shoes and MP3 player for sale. Grab it.

Next weekend, I’ll be posting a Pentium III PC, Bench Shoes/Sneakers, Girbaud Shoes, Girbaud Wallet perhaps, Defective Water Boiler, Brand New Backpack Laptop Bag, etc.

It seems, the marketing guys over at Tradeport.com.ph are all busy sending their Tradeport Forum and Marketing Promo to interested (even non-interested) recipients so it took them 3 days to respond to my email requesting for the activation code.

Good day,

We are sorry for the inconvenience. Having trouble in activating your tradeport account? If you were not able to receive your confirmation e-mail, please check it on your bulk folder. In any case, here is your activation email. (you can enter it manually when you log in to your account.)

your activation key:
*********************

If you are still experiencing any other problems. Please contact us at customercare@tradeport.com.ph. We will be glad to answer all your questions.

Many Thanks,
Tradeport Webteam

A message to Tradeport.com.ph tech group, hey, 3 individual registrants I know, have found out that your auto-email bearing the activation code are not being sent. It’s not in the bulk mail either. Anyways, I got the activation code now and I’ll be testing the Tradeport.com.ph facility. (more…)

I am quite late in testing the Auction.Ph site but I figure, I need to test it myself so I know the experience of selling and buying at the site. I tried posting a couple of items and will try to come back tonight to post more. I’ll be trying out other listing types as well like the auctions, bargain, cooperative etc. Also, the Auction.ph E-Mall is worth looking at.

The Auction.ph features E-MALL and that these E-Malls are a specialized selling methods/stores or channels that will allow sellers to reach a more targeted market. If you are a seller, you may want to post your items on a more targeted category, thus, you should try out the Auction.Ph’s E-MALL. (more…)

This week, we have started posting at Auction.Ph. Check it out, initial posts are categorized at the SHOPPING section of the site. The link is here.

The stuff on sale are collection of digital gadget, all at affordable prices. Items include dv cameras, digital cameras, mp3 players, mp4 players, cd players, speakers and other consumers electronics.

The username is BLOZOOM. This account is handled by a separate group that complements our associate’s selling acivity there at Auction.ph too.