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Posted Sunday, November 27, 2005 (2 years 220 days ago.) Viewed 167 times.
If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you
will have seen the kinds of incomes people make –
it isn’t unusual to hear of people making
thousands of dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many
PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few.
Now consider that every single one of one of them
must be making at least $1,000 per month, as
that’s eBay’s requirement for becoming a
PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least
$3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make
more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is
$25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller,
and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in
sales every month!
The fact that these people exist gives you come
idea of the income possibilities here. Most of
them never set out to even set up a business on
eBay – they simply started selling a few things,
and then kept going. There are plenty of people
whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and
some of them have been doing it for years now. Can
you imagine that? Once they’ve bought the stock,
everything else is pretty much pure profit for
these people – they don’t need to pay for any
business premises, staff, or anything else. There
are multi-million pound businesses making less in
actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.
Even if you don’t want to quit your job and really
go for it, you can still use eBay to make a
significant second income. You can pack up orders
during the week and take them down to the post
office for delivery each Saturday. There are few
other things you could be doing with your spare
time that have anywhere near that kind of earning
potential.
What’s more, eBay doesn’t care who you are, where
you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers
are very old, or very young. Some live out in the
middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of
the few alternatives to farming or being very
poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that
the real world constantly puts up. There’s no job
interview and no commuting involved – if you can
post things, you can do it.
Put it this way: if you know where to get
something reasonably cheaply that you could sell,
then you can sell it on eBay – and since you can
always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that’s
not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something
in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you’re
making money already, with no set-up costs.
If you want to dip your toe in the water before
you commit to actually buying anything, then you
can just sell things that you’ve got lying around
in the house. Search through that cupboard of
stuff you never use, and you’ll probably find
you’ve got a few hundred dollars’ worth of stuff
lying around in there! This is the power of eBay:
there is always someone who wants what you’re
selling, whatever it might be, and since they’ve
come looking for you, you don’t even need to do
anything to get them to buy it.
So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that’s
great! There are only a few little things you need
to learn to get started.
Read the following article What you need to know
before you get started on eBay.
Lissa Jannini
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Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (2 years 268 days ago.) Viewed 1,034 times.
How to Stop eBay Auction Sniping
By Lissa Jannini
Every day, hapless bidders get beaten to the punch by
auction snipers who jump in at the last minute. I know how
annoying it can be, as I once had it happen to me three
times in a row on the same item! The thing is that the only
people who can help the poor bidders are us, the sellers.
The Problem.
Bidders will bid on an item and then wait for days until it
finishes, only to have someone else outbid them at the last
minute. In a traditional auction at a real auction house,
this isn’t a problem at all, as the auction keeps going
until everyone has bid as much as they want to, and the
auctioneer double-checks with the classic phrase “going,
going, gone”.
The problem on eBay is caused by the fixed length of time
that eBay’s auctions last, and the fact that they aren’t
extended significantly if someone places a new bid in the
last few seconds of the auction. Imagine if a real auction
house worked that way, letting people shout “50 cents
more!” at the last second and win an item. It would simply
be unfair, and many buyers think it’s unfair on eBay too.
The Solutions.
Until eBay decide to fix the problem (and by now it’s
looking unlikely that they ever will), you’re the only one
who can do anything for your buyers.
First off, you can encourage your buyers to use eBay’s
proxy bidding system the way it was intended. The idea of
the system is that they enter the maximum they’re willing
to pay for an item and eBay places bids for them
automatically up to that maximum. They’re not supposed to
come back and bid an extra dollar every time they get
outbid.
If your bidders are bidding high enough, then no sniper
will even come along and beat them – because they will have
set the maximum snipe level in their sniping software to
less than the normal bidder’s maximum. Changing the way
people use eBay is hard, though.
One alternative is to keep an eye on who’s bidding on your
auction, and cancel bids from known snipers – but this
requires you to be around right at the end of the auction
to cancel their bids. You might also want to set your
auction to end sometime when bidders will be around so that
they can outbid snipers themselves. This is good business
sense anyway – most of the bidding always takes place in
the last few hours of an auction.
An easier way to thwart bid snipers is to offer ‘Second
Chance’ sales to bidders who get outbid by a sniper at the
last minute. This is good for you, and for them – they
still get to buy the item they wanted, and you’ve just made
two sales: one to the sniper and one to them.
Learn everything you need to know about creating,
getting your hands on and selling the most profitable
kind of products you can possibly sell on eBay
http://www.ebayresource.com/infoebay/
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Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (2 years 268 days ago.) Viewed 6,487 times.
Solar power was originally developed to provide energy to satellites that orbit the earth. Solar powered devices have expanded dramatically in recent years. Most of us use
calculators powered by solar cells and advances in technology have made it possible to conceive of solar powered homes, cars, and many other electrically powered machinery and devices. There is no question that converting some of the world's energy requirements to solar power is in the best interest of the worldwide economy and the environment. As with any power supply, solar power has advantages and disadvantages.
The advantages to using solar power are many. Solar energy is free and will cause no pollution to the environment and there is no waste. In sunny locations, solar power is considered the best way to provide electricity to remote locations. For low-power requirements such as in battery chargers and flashlights, solar power is by far the best,
most inexpensive form of energy. There is an unlimited supply of solar energy available. There are costs involved in capturing this energy and storing it, but the world's
long-term energy needs can be at least partially filled by electricity produced from solar power.
Some of the disadvantages of solar power include the fact that reliability will depend on the amount of sunlight in any particular area. The demand for electricity throughout the world is tremendous, and until improved methods of producing and storing solar power are developed, it will be quite costly to produce adequate amounts of solar energy.
Solar power requires a means to store the electricity that is produced. Storage of this electricity is an issue and a reliable back-up means of electricity is required at the
present time. It is expensive to build solar power stations and a solar cells cost a lot in comparison to the amount of energy they will produce over their lifetime. Solar power
does not work at night, thus the need for back-up methods of providing electricity.
Solar power is a renewable source of electricity. The sun will keep shining for as long as humans inhabit the earth, so it makes sense to utilize the energy from the sun to
provide for human electricity needs. With extensive research and development, solar power can be the primary source of electricity in most countries. There is still much to learn about the economical production of solar power and storage, but in the future civilization will have
no choice other than to use solar energy as a primary source of producing electricity.
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Posted Monday, October 10, 2005 (2 years 269 days ago.) Viewed 311 times.
Fluoride Water Filters - Are They Right For You?
By Lissa Jannini
The practice of adding fluoride to public water supplies is
predominately an American idea. The majority of
industrialized countries have rejected this practice. The
rationale behind adding fluoride to drinking water is to
protect against dental problems.
Fluoride was originally used as an additive to water
supplies as a way to fight toxic waste caused by aluminum
manufacturers and fluoride occurs naturally in some water
supplies. There are advantages and disadvantages in the use
of fluoride in public water systems. If you are considering
a fluoride water filter, there are several factors in
choosing which filter is right for you.
Distillation and reverse osmosis are the best technologies
available for water filtration. If you do not want to take
these measures, you next option would be a filter
containing an activated aluminum cartridge. Under certain
circumstances a standard carbon filter can be used to
remove fluoride.
Cartridges containing activated alumina are fairly
expensive and have a short lifespan. These cartridges are
normally used in conjunction with carbon filters. Activated
alumina filters are designed to remove fluoride and
arsenic, thus the need for an additional filter for other
contaminants. You can purchase water filters that are a
combination of carbon and activated alumina. This will give
you a great all-in-one filter that will remove most
contaminants from your water.
There are several other, more complex ways of removing
fluoride from your drinking water such as expensive filters
made from animal bones and specialty ion exchange. Unless
you intend to spend a great deal of money, an activated
charcoal cartridge combined with a carbon filter will give
you acceptable results.
There is no type of water filtration system that will
remove 100% of contaminants from your water. You will be
able to remove the majority of them however, and the
fluoride levels in your drinking water will drop
dramatically.
The debate over the necessity of fluoride in drinking water
is likely to continue for some time. It is up to each
individual to decide if fluoride removal is appropriate for
them. Fluoride water filters are available online and from
retailers nationwide.
Make sure you choose the appropriate filter for the task
you are trying to accomplish. Not all water filters will
remove fluoride. Make sure the filter you choose is
designed for fluoride removal. Fluoride is necessary for
healthy teeth, but there is no evidence that suggests it is
effective unless applied directly to the teeth. The use of
fluoride in public water systems is a practice that will
most likely continue in America, but the health benefits
are questionable at best.for more articles on this topic visit
http://www.waterfiltrationinfo.com
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