AC Dickson eBay PowerBuyer
by acdickson
As my followers know, I'm a mean lean selling machines when it comes to eBay but my dirty little secret is I don't buy much. I tend to have more possessions than I want or need, and when I do need something it tends to be an immediate need, so save for cheap printer ink or a digital camera battery I lay off the eBay purchases.
But I am currently the high bidder on an auction I'd like to tell you about. For one dollar I have the high bid on a woman's offer to wear a giant human sized casino chip and walk around any destination I fly her to or Oklahoma City or Wichita Falls if I can't afford to pay for her travel. So I'm figuring she'll be walking around Oklahoma City for 3 days, 12 hours a day she promises, wearing a human casino chip that says... what? AC Dickson? Urbanhonking.com/powerseller? I want to fight the Flaming Lips?
It appears I got auction fever and put my hard cold cash up before really thinking this through. So, I'd ask that you all give me some suggestions. What could I have her put on her casino chip costume? And what's more, she says she'll even make a different costume more appropriate to my business. Hmm. Ideas?
I'm also very open to the idea of being outbid. Surely someone out there could use the obvious promotional value of a mother of 3 walking the streets of Wichita Falls with your message or business on her costume. Not to get all sob story on you, but as this article about her explains, she's hoping the winnings will offset the costs of adopting a new son. Now, I'm not up on the current price of child care, but I don't think AC's four quarters are going to go very far.
You got to love it. A chance to promte the bejesus out of your company and help a young boy find a better place in the world. Aint' eBay grand?
Posted on April 15, 2005 | Comments (1)
APB -- AC needs to talk lymie!!!
by acdickson
APB stands for All Points Bulletin and AC is sending one out. Here's the dealio. A month from now my fiance and I are boarding a big ole jetliner and heading across the pond to the Old Country. Seems the brits caught wind of what AC has to say and we got we some ears across the Atlantic Ocean open to my message of personal and global betterment through eBay.com. The missus and I will be heading to Notthingham England (home to Robin Hood) and Glosgow Scotland (where glass was invented) to do 2 AC Dickson eBay PowerSeller shows in each town.
Now, you might be saying, you lucking dog why aren't you sitting in a bathtub with a warm bottle of some kind of European beer counting your luck blessings? Believe you me. I am. But, I have another thrist this grog isn't quenching.
See, in order to give them brits a show to remember I need to tailor it to their needs and worldview. Hence, I need an inside man or woman. Better yet men and women. I need to establish an internet correspondence with some English or Scottish friends of my fair readers in order to better gauge how eBay is percieved by the public and how the UK version of eBay differs from the plain old American site.
My sense is that press over there (which I hear is quite brutal) is about two years behind what it is here stateside as far as eBay coverage. That's to say, they center on the fraudulent and negative aspects of eBay rather than the heartwarming and spirit lifting. That's the kind of suspicion AC needs confirmed or denied fore I go off mouthing off during the show.
So, I'm hoping YOU have a friend or friends in England and/or Scotland I can chat with. If you do, send em way. Or email or comment to me direct and I'll fire off a list of questions for them to get the ball rolling.
If you can help me out, I'll bring you back a souvenir.
Posted on April 13, 2005 | Comments (0)
Magic Beans, Tragic Greens
by acdickson
Well, the Magic Beans auction Nate Preston listed has ended. Didn't go above $100. Oh well, we didn't pull off an international bidding frenzy this time.
Seems the office drones of America and beyond are too caught up in Mystery Mania. In the last few weeks they've driven the price of ...
a mystery envelope that probably has a bunch of coupons in it for $400.
A mystery box whose contents are determined by the amount of triva questions correctly answered by eBay memebers (okay, they get clever points) went for $800.
A mystery post office box went for $1500.
A mystery key that opens lord knows what shot up to just shy of $3000.
And a mystery piece of art work up over $10,000!
As we speak a mystery diaper that eBay seller mandy–poo (I'm not making this up) assures us the conents of which are worth 9 grand is up to about 9 grand with 4 days to go.
But fear not. This mystery mania will soon end. I've already heard through the eBay grapevine that most of these mystery auctions are fools gold. I mean, why would you put more than a few hundred dollars in a mystery wallet? If you say it's got somewhere between $500 and $5000 in it what idiot would put more than $500 in it? Yet invariably it will be bid up to $4999. See if you can't come up with a list of things 'worth' 9 grand that you could wrap in a diaper that are worth only a few grand or none at all. Right off the top of my head I'll tell you that most professional jewelers will appraise a piece of jewelry with a market value of $3000 for $9000. And I haven't even begun to put on my thinking hat. And I won't even bother. Becuase this whole something for nothing trend makes me sick and is thankfully on it's last legs.
And when it does finally die, Nate and I will be there with a good old fashion totally weird auction. And with you're help we'll make the cover of USA Today... the holy grail of eBay noteriety.
Stay tuned.
Posted on April 11, 2005 | Comments (1)
L@@K! Magic Beans
by acdickson
Posted on April 5, 2005 | Comments (1)