AC Dickson: eBay Power Seller

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by acdickson

Call it Q&A, a check in, keeping it real, being real, connecting with my constituents, or the Doctor is in... the fact of the matter is, I've been posed some questions, and answers are needed.

pdx papi asked "don't you have an essay due soon?" Yes I did and it's done. I was hired to offer some pearls of wisdom on the subject of confidence for a UK arts publication. Since I've got the big C in spades, I took 'em up on the offer. Look forward to reading it here eventually.

neal had a lot to say. Let me address his points one by one. As for missing the easy access to my current sales, I'm all to happy to make that facile. From this point forward every time I post some thoughts while I have some auctions up, I'll include the following link to what I've got for sale (big ups to Mikey for the html primer) .

My current auctions

I've got about 50 auctions slated to end bright and early Sunday morning. Apologies if they've already ended by the time you read this, but like college football rankings I've got an East Coast bias. It's a numbers game, more bidders live on the right coast, got to time your auctions to end accordingly. Not to worry, westcoasters, there will be another 50 auctions posted by the time you get back from your have-to-wait-in-a-long-line-overpriced brunch. Don't get me started on the Portland $9 breakfast. I prefer to eat some cereal and indulge in a $5 Thai lunch special. But I always was smart.

If you do happen to find yourself online Sunday morning, you might check in with a ten second refresh as the last four auctions end. I feel a lot of last minute bidding coming on across the board, but pop-offs for sure on the poster stamps.

neal also asked how to search for a particular PowerSeller. Go to the eBay homepage. In the upper left hand corner is the search engine. Just below it in small type is the "advanced search option." Click it. Over on the left hand scroll bar of options the first link is "search by seller." You know what to do. Once you get there, type in the user name of the seller you're looking for. You got a few options to select, then you'll get to the promise land.

Finally, neal offered some insight into a lot of 4 postcards I have listed for sale of US soldiers along the Mexican border. Apparently these were forces under General Pershing keeping an eye out for American interests during the Mexican Revolution of 1916. Am I grateful and fascinated? Yes. Did I change my auction to reflect this information. No. I should have, but as PowerSelling is my part-time job (but a full-time living) I often put more energy into the front end of the operaton. A quantity over quality mentality means that sometimes I get sloppy, I won't deny it. After you've been doing it as long as I have you start making certain calculations. Does updating the auction with information that will both add to the historical knowledge base of the eBay community and likely bring me a higher ending price always rule the day? Sadly neal, it does not.

Finally, Josh Berezin, my man with the eye for freaky auctions, wondered which NBA star I spent a little QT with as a result of my eBay shenanigans. His name is Derek Anderson, starting shooting guard for the Portland Trailblazers, and we were very briefly in business together. But that's a story for another blog altogether.

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