AC Dickson: eBay Power Seller

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The Golden Ticket
by acdickson

By now you've surely heard the news. AC is auctioning off a free pass onto the second season of the Ultimate Blogger. If you've been living in a cave read more about the competition here. Big ups to the Ultimate Blogger crew for putting together my first ever video enabled auction.

As I write this it's already been bid up to $22.50 with 6 watchers and over 180 page views. If you're an eBay member use the watch option to keep an eye on the auction. It's a long shot, but if we get enough watchers we could get on the front page of eBay pulse where the ten hottest auctions in the eBay are featured for all the world to see.

AC will admit, it won't be easy. This week we're competing against the likes of "For Sale: One Talented Man" with over 11,000 hits and a lovely Victorian Home in Missouri that looks like a great deal!

Make no mistake, AC has nothing to gain directly from the Ultimate Blogger auction directly. The winnings are all going to the support the game. But tangentially, AC would be a fool not to position him for a financial windfall. Listen and learn.

Now, AC already has over 350 items sitting pretty in his eBay store. But most of what he's selling are NASA photographs and antique postcards. Not exactly the kind of things Bloggers are likely to go loco for. So, AC has listed 15 week long auctions to bookend the Ultimate Blogger free pass that should be right up the alley of today's hip savvy and stylish blogger. Such as...

The Weirdest T-shirt in the World HIPSTER GOLD Shock & Awe. Now that's a title. Interestingly enough, while putting "hipster" and "gold" into the eBay search engine will yield 22 auctions, AC's in the only that features something that isn't physically gold. For the literate crowd I've got a Psychedelic copy of A Clockwork Orange. Extremely nice piece of eye candy for your bookshelf.

And I defy you to resist clicking on this one. How smart are you? Find out if you're MENSA material. Note the title technique, first off I don't tell the potential bidder what I'm selling. Instead I challenge them. Who doesn't think they're smarter than everyone else.

AC isn't the only one looking to cash in on the Ultimate Blogger fanfare. As James noticed earlier today, an eBay seller going by the tag of GRAWL has a nice eBay business selling domain names (FluMedicine.org went for $20.51). Ending this afternoon is UBHQ.com. And GRAWL has a few suggestions of who this might be a great site for, such as University of Buffalo HQ. But the one he uses in the auction title is Ultimate Blogger HQ. What do the UrHo head honchos think? A deal for $9.99 or too little too late? Either way I'd take it as flattery.

I'll check in later in the week and see how the auction is progressing. Will I see your user name as the high bidder?

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