AC Dickson: eBay Power Seller

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Garage Sale
by acdickson

AC might have been silent this past month, but DO NOT mistake silence for dormancy.

What's new in the land of PowerSelling and popsicles? A lil program called Garage Sale. It has got AC so riled up and excited that he plum forget to write anything here since he got it.

See, if you list things to sell on eBay the standard way, you've got 8 pages to fill with information just to sell one thing. Even the most seasoned pro with the fastest cable connection is looking at 5 minutes minimum to list a single item. Enter Turbo Lister, a free download developed by eBay and offered free for the download off the official site. It allows users to create listings offline and with the single click of a button, upload 5, 10, 50, 500 listings at once. Revolutionary. A few years back AC found a old PC at a garage sale and bought it for $200. I downloaded the program, and BOOM, I cut my eBay time in half. Without needed to wait for each the 8 pages to load, plus the ease of creating and saving templates with the turbo lister program, not to mention cutting out the long photo upload, I was a new man.

But careful readers will already see the problem. You had to buy a PC, AC? What were you using before that? You had a computer, right? Of course I did. A Mac. The end all and be of computers. But Turbo Lister is PC only. Yes, you read that right. Even after turbo lister has been out for five years there still isn't a Mac version. One of the few reasons I question the collective sanity of the upper brass at eBay HQ.

But Garage Sale came to the rescue. It's a third party Mac version of Turbo Lister. It costs a well worth it $24.99. And do you want to know a little secret? It kicks Turbo Lister's ass. Every reason Mac's are better than PC's, hold true here; design, ease of use, common sense of lay out, menu, etc. And the fancy smancy design templates that eBay charges you money 10 cent a listing for are improved upon and offered for free with Garage Sale.

AC is happier than a pig in mud.

What else?

The AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller show is going Continental.

The DVD will soon be available on the Paris France based e-commerce site Sonore.

If you check it out you'll notice an abundance of Japanese music. Turns out the AC DVD is the very first item sold on the site that doesn't fall into that genre. eBay and Japanese imports, it's like chocolate and peanut butter.

But what about AC in the flesh? Well, he's going to take Misses and mosey on over to the other side of the pond himself. Early February features two AC Dickson: eBay PowerSeller show seminars, both in the United Kingdom. February 2nd the Arnolifini In Between Time Festival in Bristol kicks off with some PowerSelling. The other shoe drops at the Custard Factory Theatre in Birmingham on February 7th . If you know anyone living near either city, put them on alert. The show is bigger and better than ever.

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