Shameless Plug
This is not another ordinary "all about Ebid" lens. This is [for the most part. Or half part I should say] a shameless plug promotion of [most of my] items in my Ebid store. Along with some "colorfulness" along the way...
Vintage Kitchen
Barbie mug and salt and pepper shaker set.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand by10 years in the making
Ebid is an online auction site that started up in December 1998 and has been going strong ever since. They currently operate in 18 countries and will eventually expand to most countries.

Elegant Bracelets
For all seasons.
If you buy ALL of my bracelets, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 20% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byA few things about membership
There is Seller and Seller Plus+. I have Seller Plus+ so that I don't have to pay for listing or closing/final value fees. Plus I can open up to 5 stores for free with Seller Plus+. I only have one store. I don't think I will have 5 stores. Even if you do decide to pay for listing fees or closing fees, it's far cheaper than feepay [a.k.a. the dark side as I have seen some people call them that]. Plus you don't receive constant annoying email "reminders" to pay your fees like feepay does. You receive one email at the beginning of the month if you owe any fees to Ebid. Also your account at Ebid won't be closed if you don't "pay right away" or pay on time.
The only time your account at Ebid gets put on hold is if the Ebid system spots any fake addresses or names you may have put on your Ebid account at the time you signed up. Or if a buyer complains about not receiving an item from the seller or if the seller complains about being scammed on a payment. All it takes is just ONE of these complaints to get your account put on hold. Feepay got rid of "buyer strike", making fraud more rampant. Scammers don't last long on Ebid. Don't bother trying if you're a scammer. You won't last on Ebid.
Pendants/Necklaces
Fine jewelry and cameos.
If you buy ALL of my pendants, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 20% DISCOUNT off the total AND I will pack it all in one of the tin cans I'm selling in my store. The tin can will be FREE too. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byGet listed in Google Base [a.k.a. Froogle] painless and free
Some people don't know this, but when you list your items on Ebid, they automatically get listed in Google Base. It can take up to 4 days before you start seeing your Ebid items show up in Google Base.
If you ever had tried submitting your items to Google Base yourself, you know what a real pain in the ass it is, in even trying to do so. I gave up trying to list items myself in Google Base. I kept getting stupid errors about how I formatted the feed wrong when I didn't. The problem is the stupid script Google uses to scan your feeds with before they allow your items to be listed in their base. Don't bother trying to ask for help in Google's customer service department about Google Base. Because their customer service is on the rude side and they don't fully answer any questions you ask. They even ignore you and pretend that that they never received your question/complaint. Their customer service department is nonexistent sometimes.
If you want your items in Google Base, putting your items up on Ebid is the way to go. Painless and free.
Now here's a tip on how to keep your item listings fresh in Google Base. When you list an item on Ebid, don't set your listing to "run until sold". Set your listing to 30 days and set to relist your item 10 times [Once a month with 10 months max before having to relist all of your items by hand [or by bulk upload] again on Ebid].
Any item in Google Base that is over 30 days old is considered stale and gets put behind all the other listings in Google Base. I can testify to this fact because when I first started out on Ebid, I had all of my listings set to "run until sold". I started seeing after nearly 5 weeks of having my listings set at "run until sold", that traffic from Google Base to my listings ceased.
When I had changed all my listings to "30 days" and relist item 10 times, I received traffic again. Every 30 days, my items get relisted on Ebid by itself and the listings appear to be "new" [listings get pulled back to the top again] in Google Base. A nice way of keeping ahead of your competition in Google Base with little effort.
Elegant Rings
Fine jewelry
If you buy ALL of my rings, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 15% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byFeedback should be a two way street, not one way
Ebid has a forum board where you can ask the administration questions, chat with other Ebid sellers and shamelessly promote your items. It's not cluttered like feepay with groups and blogs. The only reason why people bother with having a blog on feepay is because of feepay's page rank. Otherwise most people would not even bother with feepay anymore with all the horrible changes in policies, high fees and not to mention the thing that is mostly driving sellers away: feedback.
On Ebid, you [as a buyer or a seller. It's not a one way street like it is on feepay] have the option of leaving positive, neutral or negative feedback. Neutrals don't get turned into negative like feepay. You can also change your feedback at a later date if you need to, unlike feepay. This is a good thing, especially if you left good feedback for a buyer too soon and find out that the payment you received was fake or a scam.
Some sellers are reluctant to use Ebid because there is no "import feepay feedback". There are two things you can do. You can either link back to your feepay profile in your Ebid listings. Or you can do what I do. I use Repatoo. Here is mine in action:
Reputation is portable. Repatoo is a service where all of your feedback at auction/merchant sites are displayed on one page for convenience for buyers and sellers to do business with you in a trusted environment.
Costume Rings
Bling for less.
If you buy ALL of my rings, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 10% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byBeadwork
Memory wire bracelets, earrings, other beaded items.
If you buy ALL of my bead stuff, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 10% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byOther nice things about Ebid
When you make any change to any of your listings on Ebid, your listing gets put back on the top in the category your listing is in and put back on the front page of Ebid. As if the item is newly listed when it's not. Same thing when you set to relist your item. When it comes time for Ebid to automatically relist your item for you, it gets put back on the top and put back on the front page.
The "notice from seller" feature is nice. The notice gets placed on the top of your listings. While the intention of using it is to notify potential lookers that you're on vacation, the notice can be utilized in other ways. I would use it to announce what kind of sales you're running on your items and what kind of items you're selling. This is a way of getting people interested in browsing what you're selling.
There are no stupid feepay boxes required to ship your items in. You can ship your items any way you want. Ebid does have it set easy for you where you can use either Paypal or Google Checkout to receive payment for your items. You are allowed to use/recieve other payment methods including checks and money orders.
I would not advise anyone accept checks or money orders because too many games and garbage can be pulled with them.
You can bulk upload on Ebid. You bulk upload by using excel [or open office from what I've heard]. Ebid has an example excel file [with directions. The directions are in the file] for you to use. It's easy and once you get the hang of how to do your listings in excel, you can write up hundreds of listings. It saves you time and energy in trying to list one item at a time on Ebid. Especially if you get cut off the net at random from your dsl box while trying to list something.
Most other auctions sites [including feepay] have a stupid windows program that you have to download and use if you want to bulk list. You also risk getting viruses and damaging your system that way.
Miscellaneous items
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byHave an Ebid store? List it here.
Ebid stores only. Don't try to list non-ebid stores because they will not show up here.
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Jewelry-and-other-Oddities-of-ToMorrisCat
currently selling ornaments and jewelry0 points
eBid Store : booksforsale
Uncomplicated * Books at a Fair Price * Happy Cust more...0 points
Quality Sterling Silver Jewelry At The Lowest Prices
At CNC Jewelry you can choose from our line of ste more...0 points
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Affordable-Art
Original Watercolour and Acrylic Paintings from In more...0 points
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Fantastic-Fotos
Fanatstic photos at affordable prices ready to ado more...0 points
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/Kens-Cave
Looking for that odd bargain, a varied selection o more...0 points
eBid Store : eBid Widgets by Kimbo
eBid Widgets - marketing materials to promote your more...0 points
eBid Store : Books by Kimbo
Scarce and collectible second-hand books at sensib more...0 points
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Granny-Alices-Vintage-Goodies
Haviland and other china0 points
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Granny-Alices-Book-Nook
Time-Life Series, Hard Back Fiction, Vintage and c more...0 points
http://uk.ebid.net/stores/starlady22-Clothes-for-everyone
Ladies, Mens, Girls & Boys Good quality clothe more...0 points
eBid Store : TheSnowRose Brocante
Vintage Jewelry, Collectibles, Dolls, Religious & more...0 points
http://uk.ebid.net/stores.POSTCARDS-ETCETERA
Vintage postcards for sale, based in the UK0 points
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Nois-jewellry
Handcrafted beaded jewelry.0 points
http://us.ebid.net/stores/Gaias-treasures
Rocks, crystals and minerals.0 points
Pink Rose Shoppe
Providing You With What You Need on the Road to Re more...0 points
eBid Store : American Sports Cards
BUY ONE GET ONE FREE......On everything in my stor more...0 points
eBid Store : Huddylions record den
BUY ONE GET ONE FREE......On everything in my stor more...0 points
eBid Store : The Den by Huddy
BUY ONE GET ONE FREE on everything...Probably the more...0 points
eBid Store : Huddys Y D C
This is my HELP FOR HEROES charity store .My B.O.G more...0 points
eBid Store : Huddylions Bits Pieces
BUY ONE GET ONE FREE......On everything in my stor more...0 points
Women's shoes
Big is beautiful.
If you buy ALL of my shoes, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 5% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byTin cans
good for storage
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byDVDS and CDS
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byEbid is a nice [if not, best] alternative to feepay.
There are other auction sites out there, but I like Ebid the best. Ebid has a high page rank. There is no harm in trying other auction sites, as I have heard success stories with others. The problem is not where you should list your stuff at. The problem is the buyers. The right buyer has to come along in order for your items to be sold. You can't force people to buy your stuff. Someone once told me that selling is like screwing and fishing. It's not how DEEP you fish, but how you WIGGLE your worm.

What do you think?
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- Huddylion57 Huddylion57 Aug 28, 2009 @ 11:16 am
- Great lens full of great information keep up the good work .
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- Redmoonrider Redmoonrider Dec 19, 2008 @ 3:06 am
- Great lens! Please visit and let's all help promote Ebid!
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- Snowrose Snowrose Dec 16, 2008 @ 8:54 am
- Thanks for great Lens! 5* Fav ! Come visit, add your site!
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- bykimbo bykimbo Dec 11, 2008 @ 4:28 am
- Thanks for the heads up on the forums.
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- faithcreations faithcreations Nov 25, 2008 @ 7:47 pm
- Great Lens! Welcome to the "SHOP AT HOME" group! Faith
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- eBid-Squid eBid-Squid Nov 24, 2008 @ 9:44 am
- Nice lens :)
5 stars from me :) Please do the same for me...
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