My Ebid Showcase

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.

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List of what I have:

Celebration Barbie - Special 2003 Edition
Wonders of Oz - 2nd The Tin Mans Heart
Barbie as The Princess and the Pauper ornament
Barbie as the Sugar Plum Princess ornament
Merry Grinch-mas How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Green Eggs and Ham ornament
Snowy Surprise hallmark keepsake ornament
Waiting for a Hug ornament
A Friend Chimes In ornament
Curius the Elf ornament
Husky hallmark keepsake ornament
Ticktock Workshop ornament
Seaside Scenes - 1st ornament
Seaside Scenes - 2nd ornament
Special Cat christmas frame ornament
Special Dog christmas frame ornament
Peppermint Candy Cane Barbie ornament
Special Memories Barbie Ornament - Photo Holder
Barbie Swan Lake ornament
Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses Ornament
Mailbu Barbie ornament
Gay Parisienne Barbie ornament
Silken Flame ornament
Delphine Barbie Ornament
Heather Fonseca Designer Spotlight Barbie Ornament
Faerie Gabriella and Faerie Castle Ornament Stand
Billions of Dreams Barbie Ornament
Crystal Visions Merlin ornament
Millenium 2000 Christmas ornament
Elvis Presley- Viva Las Vegas ornament
Oklahoma- 60th Anniversary ornament
Daughters are Treasures ornament
Bob Mackie Glamour Angel ornament
Mr. Bill Reads a Christmas Postcard ornament
The Pillsbury Doughboy's Sugar-Coated Christmas
Pillsbury- Santa's Little Baker ornament
Madame Alexander's Winter Wonderland Ornament
Madame Alexander's Cinderella Ornament
Madame Alexander's Twilight Angel Ornament
Barbie as Cinderella ornament
Barbie as Little Bo Peep ornament
Barbie as Rapunzel ornament
Mexican Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament
Chinese Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament
Russian Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament
Native American Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament
Holiday Barbie - Green/White dress ornament
Holiday Barbie - Red Dress with Bows ornament
Holiday Barbie - Gold/Ivory Gown ornament
Collector's Club-1992 Happy Holidays Barbie
Collector's Club - 1991 Happy Holidays Barbie
Holiday Barbie - Gold gown with Red Fur
Holiday Barbie - 6th hallmark ornament
Christmas Window 2007 ornament
Christmas Window 2003 ornament
Christmas Window 2004 ornament
The Wizard of Oz The Lullabye League
The Wizard of Oz The Great Oz ornament
Barbie 2000 Porcelain Ornament
Barbie 2002 Porcelain Ornament
Barbie 2003 Porcelain Ornament
Barbie as Genevieve-12 Dancing Princesses Ornament
Barbie as Titania Ornament
Gifts for the Grinch-How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Dr. Seuss Books - The Cat in the Hat ornament
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish ornament
Victorian Barbie with Cedric Bear ornament
Victorian Elegance Barbie Ornament
Holiday Traditions Barbie Ornament
Springtime Barbie - 3rd ornament
Springtime Barbie - Pink dress ornament
Cinderella's Slipper hallmark keepsake ornament
Favorite Bible Stories- Jonah & the Great Fish ornament
Cinderella at the Ball ornament
Treasures and Dreams - Jewelry Box Gazebo ornament
Love You a Latte ornament
Pepe LePew and Penelope ornament
Bugs Bunny and Gossamer ornament
Tweety Plays an Angel ornament
Pop! Goes the Teddy Bear ornament
Pop! Goes the Reindeer ornament
Barbie Angel of Joy ornament
Barbie Angel of Peace ornament
Barbie 40th Anniversary Edition Lunch Box ornament
Malibu Barbie Lunchbox ornament
Off to Neverland! Disney Ornament
Tinker Bell Disney Ornament
Celebration Barbie Ornament - Special 2005 Edition
Celebration Barbie - Special 2004 Edition ornament
Celebration Barbie - Special 2002 Edition ornament
Holiday Celebration Barbie - Special 2001 Edition
Holiday Celebration Barbie - Special 2000 Edition
Sweet Smackerel Pooh's Hunny Pot ornament
Swooshing Through the Snow ornament
Sharing the Stars Winnie the Pooh ornament
Winnie the Pooh - Honey Time ornament
Winnie the Pooh - Blustery Day ornament
Winnie the Pooh - School Days ornament
Winnie the Pooh - Rainy Day Rescue ornament
Winnie the Pooh - Eeyore Loses a Tail
Barbie Travel Pal Case with 4 Miniatures
1962 Barbie Hatbox Doll Case ornament
Silken Flame Barbie Ornament and Travel Case
Travel Case and Barbie hallmark ornament
Miniature Shopping for Shoes - Barbie ornament
Crack the Whip! peanuts ornament
Snow Day- peanuts ornament
World-Famous Christmas Decorator - SNOOPY ornament
A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree ornament
The Amazing Little Tree A Charlie Brown Christmas - Peanuts
Deck the Halls, Charlie Brown ornament
Fashion Luncheon Barbie ornament
Commuter Set ornament
Smasheroo Barbie ornament
Solo in the Spotlight ornament
Enchanting Evening ornament
Wedding Day 1959-1962 ornament
Debut - 1959 Black and White Swimsuit ornament
Sophisticated Lady Barbie ornament
Evening Splendor Barbie ornament
St Nicholas hallmark keepsake ornament
The Polar Express A Christmas to Remember
A Christmas Broadcast hallmark ornament
Holiday Mail hallmark keepsake ornament
The Sleeping Village ornament
The Opening Game ornament
A Happy Little Snowman ornament
Decorating Snow Lady ornament
Snow Day Magic ornament
City Sidewalks hallmark keepsake ornament
So Much To Do! ornament
Its Christmas Eve ornament
Bell-Bearing Elf ornament
Arctic Artist ornament
The Toymakers Gift ornament
Scooby-Doo christmas ornament
Frosty Friends ornament set
Jingle Bell Kringle ornament
Ringing Reindeer ornament
Lettera, Mrs. Claus, & Globus ornament set
Letters to Santa ornament
Santas Big Night ornament set
Hidden Wishes hallmark keepsake ornament
Electrical Spectacle! ornament
Rockin With Santa ornament
Road Trip Barbie Ornament Set
Barbie Fairytopia Ornament 2 piece set
Barbie Fashion Minis ornament set
Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus ornament
Lighted Barbie Fairytopia Ornament
Harley-Davidson Barbie ornament
Ballerina Barbie ornament
Snowflake Ballerina Barbie ornament
Winter Fun with Barbie and Kelly ornament
Barbie Charm Bracelet with Four Charms
Midge - Suburban Shopper 35th Anniversary ornament
Rapunzel (set of 2) Barbie ornament
Millennium Princess Barbie ornament
Barbie Doll Dreamhouse Playhouse ornament
40th Anniversary Barbie ornament
1950s Barbie Ornament hallmark keepsake
Adding the Right Touch Barbie Ornaments
Barbie and Ken - Wedding Day ornament set
Silken Flame Barbie Century Stamp Ornament
Barbie 45th Anniversary Ornament
Barbie In The Pink ornament
Lisette Barbie hallmark ornament
The Perfect Evening Out ornament
Blushing Bride Barbie ornament
Fashion, Fun and Friendship ornament set
Fashion Pup Barbie Ornament Set

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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.

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.

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List of what I have:

It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Time to Let Go by Lurlene McDaniel
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
One Last Wish: Please Don't Die
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
O'Henry's Short Stories
DayBreak 2550 AD by Andre Norton
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Over the Moon by Elissa Haden Guest
Operation Clean Sweep by Beth Cruise
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Marleen The Horror Queen
All alone in the 8th grade
Nicole's Chance by Suzanne Weyn
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
The Princess and the Goblin
Romeo and Juliet
Sixteen Candles by Nicholas Pine
Books: The Chocolate Touch and Chocolate Fever
1994 edition of The Guinness Book of Records
The Canterbury Tales
Educational Psychology Cases, second edition
Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications for NEIU, 5th edition
Idylls of the King
Teaching Certification book set- praxis-arco books
The Lord of The Rings Book one
Criminal Justice Research. Approaches, Problems & Policy
Crime, Law and Society
The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities
Criminal Law in Action, 2nd edition
Handbook for Environmental Planning
Murder In Atlanta! Sensational Crimes That Rocked the Nation
Contemporary Moral Issues, second edition
The Rag Doll Plagues
The Littles and the Lost Children
Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots
Blue Heron
Dream Lover
Double Date
The Black Pearl
The Whipping Boy
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Where The Red Fern Grows
The Cricket In Times Square
Roller Skates
Book Set: Kisses
The Boy Next Door
Is there life after sixth grade
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
A Separate Peace
Nothing But The Truth
Missing May
Fog Magic
College Weekend
In a crooked little house
Switched
The Luckiest Girl
Don't Die My Love
Number the Stars
Midnight Secrets- The Temptation
Too Many Murphys
The Poisonwood Bible
World's Best Christmas Stories
The Secret Garden
My Crazy Cousin Courtney
Julius Caesar
James and the Giant Peach
A Wrinkle in Time
A Clockwork Orange
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The House of Mirth
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
Reading the West. An Anthology of Dime Westerns
The History of the Kings of Britain
Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Precalculus Enhanced with Graphing Utilities, second edition
Child Development and Education
The Shock of The New, second edition
Constructing the American Past. Vol 2, 4th edition
Arthurian Chronicles by Wace and Layamon
Arthurian Romances by Chretien De Troyes
Mao II by Don DeLillo
Light in August
The Marrow of Tradition
Push by Sapphire
Death of a Salesman
The Eyes of The Dragon
A Raisin in the Sun
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
The Norton Shakespeare, 1st edition
Tamsin by Peter S Beagle
The Art of Courtly Love
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
Four Great Plays by Henrik Ibesn
Guests of the Sheik
In Search of Respect
The Story and Its Writer, 5th edition
Our America. Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design
Research Methods in Social Relations, 3rd edition
New Handbook of basic Writing Skills, 4th edition
Aging The Social Context
Reconstructing Gender. A Multicultural Anthology
Mean Things happening in This Land
Pamela by Samuel Richardson
The Portable Blake by Alfred Kazin
Somewhere between Life and Death
For Better, for Worse, Forever
One Last Wish- Let him Live
Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald
Shen of the Sea
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
E.B White Treasury set
The monument by Gary Paulsen
Pippi Longstocking
A Gathering of Days
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Time to Let Go by Lurlene McDaniel
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
One Last Wish: Please Don't Die
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
What Hearts by Bruce Brooks
O'Henry's Short Stories
DayBreak 2550 AD by Andre Norton
Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Over the Moon by Elissa Haden Guest
Operation Clean Sweep by Beth Cruise
Lassie Come Home by Eric Knight
Marleen The Horror Queen
All alone in the 8th grade
Nicole's Chance by Suzanne Weyn
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom
The Princess and the Goblin
Romeo and Juliet
Sixteen Candles by Nicholas Pine
Books: The Chocolate Touch and Chocolate Fever
1994 edition of The Guinness Book of Records
The Canterbury Tales
Educational Psychology Cases, second edition
Finite Mathematics and Calculus with Applications for NEIU, 5th edition
Idylls of the King
Teaching Certification book set- praxis-arco books
The Lord of The Rings Book one
Criminal Justice Research. Approaches, Problems & Policy
Crime, Law and Society
The Rise of the Sunbelt Cities
Criminal Law in Action, 2nd edition
Handbook for Environmental Planning
Murder In Atlanta! Sensational Crimes That Rocked the Nation
Contemporary Moral Issues, second edition
The Rag Doll Plagues

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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.

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.

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.

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