My Ebid Showcase

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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.

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10 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!

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A 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!

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Get 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.

List of Barbie/Hallmark ornaments in my ebid store 

If you buy ALL of my ornaments, not only will shipping be FREE, I will also give you 25% DISCOUNT off the total. You must mention this lens in order to receive these niceties!



The Pillsbury Doughboy's Sugar Coated Christmas

Mr. Bill Reads a Christmas Postcard ornament

Daughters are Treasures ornament

Pillsbury Santa's Little Baker ornament

Elvis Presley Viva Las Vegas ornament

Millenium 2000 Christmas ornament

Bob Mackie Glamour Angel ornament

Oklahoma 60th Anniversary ornament

Crystal Visions Merlin ornament

Travel Case and Barbie hallmark ornament

Celebration Barbie Special 2004 Edition ornament

Fashion Luncheon Barbie ornament

Special Memories Barbie Ornament Photo Holder

Deck the Halls, Charlie Brown ornament

Cinderella's Slipper hallmark keepsake ornament

Collector's Club 1991 Happy Holidays Barbie

Husky hallmark keepsake ornament

Ticktock Workshop ornament

Snow Day peanuts ornament

Celebration Barbie Special 2003 Edition

Billions of Dreams Barbie Ornament

Sophisticated Lady Barbie ornament

Sweet Smackerel Pooh's Hunny Pot ornament

Silken Flame Barbie Ornament and Travel Case

Celebration Barbie Special 2002 Edition ornament

Barbie as Rapunzel ornament

The Amazing Little Tree A Charlie Brown Christmas

Native American Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament

Love You a Latte ornament

Gifts for the Grinch How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr. Seuss Books The Cat in the Hat ornament

Barbie as Genevieve 12 Dancing Princesses Ornament

Barbie 2003 Porcelain Ornament

Fashion Pup Barbie Ornament Set

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree ornament

Fashion, Fun and Friendship ornament set

World Famous Christmas Decorator SNOOPY ornament

Barbie 2002 Porcelain Ornament

Barbie 2000 Porcelain Ornament

The Wizard of Oz The Great Oz ornament

Crack the Whip! peanuts ornament

The Perfect Evening Out ornament

Mexican Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament

Chinese Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament

Christmas Window 2003 ornament

Christmas Window 2007 ornament

Holiday Barbie 6th hallmark ornament

Holiday Barbie Gold gown with Red Fur

Lisette Barbie hallmark ornament

Tweety Plays an Angel ornament

Bugs Bunny and Gossamer ornament

Pepe LePew and Penelope ornament

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish ornament

Victorian Barbie with Cedric Bear ornament

Victorian Elegance Barbie Ornament

Holiday Traditions Barbie Ornament

Barbie 40th Anniversary Edition Lunch Box ornament

Barbie Angel of Peace ornament

Barbie Angel of Joy ornament

Pop! Goes the Reindeer ornament

Pop! Goes the Teddy Bear ornament

Off to Neverland! Disney Ornament

Malibu Barbie Lunchbox ornament

Barbie In The Pink ornament

Delphine Barbie Ornament

Solo in the Spotlight ornament

Barbie 45th Anniversary Ornament

Faerie Gabriella and Faerie Castle Ornament Stand

Barbie Swan Lake ornament

Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses Ornament

Mailbu Barbie ornament

Gay Parisienne Barbie ornament

Silken Flame Barbie Century Stamp Ornament

2nd List of Barbie/Hallmark ornaments in my ebid store 

1950s Barbie Ornament hallmark keepsake

Holiday Celebration Barbie Special 2000 Edition

40th Anniversary Barbie ornament

Millennium Princess Barbie ornament

Barbie Doll Dreamhouse Playhouse ornament

Barbie as the Sugar Plum Princess ornament

Wedding Day 1959-1962 ornament

Special Dog christmas frame ornament

Rapunzel (set of 2) Barbie ornament

Winter Fun with Barbie and Kelly ornament

Midge Suburban Shopper 35th Anniversary ornament

Barbie Charm Bracelet with Four Charms

Madame Alexander's Cinderella Ornament

Snowflake Ballerina Barbie ornament

Ballerina Barbie ornament

Harley Davidson Barbie ornament

Debut 1959 Black and White Swimsuit ornament

Lighted Barbie Fairytopia Ornament

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus ornament

Barbie Fashion Minis ornament set

Heather Fonseca Designer Spotlight Barbie Ornament

Smasheroo Barbie ornament

Barbie as Titania Ornament

Holiday Celebration Barbie Special 2001 Edition

Winnie the Pooh Rainy Day Rescue ornament

The Wizard of Oz The Lullabye League

Christmas Window 2004 ornament

Barbie Fairytopia Ornament 2 piece set

Road Trip Barbie Ornament Set

Rockin With Santa ornament

Electrical Spectacle! ornament

Santas Big Night ornament set

Hidden Wishes hallmark keepsake ornament

Letters to Santa ornament

Lettera, Mrs. Claus, & Globus ornament set

Ringing Reindeer ornament

Jingle Bell Kringle ornament

Barbie Travel Pal Case with 4 Miniatures

Frosty Friends ornament set

Commuter Set ornament

1962 Barbie Hatbox Doll Case ornament

Swooshing Through the Snow ornament

The Toymakers Gift ornament

Scooby Doo christmas ornament

Bell Bearing Elf ornament

Arctic Artist ornament

Barbie as Little Bo Peep ornament

Enchanting Evening ornament

Holiday Barbie Green White dress ornament

Russian Barbie hallmark keepsake ornament

Miniature Shopping for Shoes Barbie ornament

Snow Day Magic ornament

So Much To Do! ornament

Barbie as Cinderella ornament

Collector's Club 1992 Happy Holidays Barbie

Green Eggs and Ham ornament

Springtime Barbie 3rd ornament

Springtime Barbie Pink dress ornament

Jeannie I Dream of Jeannie ornament

Favorite Bible Stories Jonah & the Great Fish ornament

Cinderella at the Ball ornament

Treasures and Dreams Jewelry Box Gazebo ornament

City Sidewalks hallmark keepsake ornament

Tinker Bell Disney Ornament

Madame Alexander's Winter Wonderland Ornament

Holiday Barbie Red Dress with Bows ornament

Holiday Barbie Gold Ivory Gown ornament

A Happy Little Snowman ornament

Decorating Snow Lady ornament

The Opening Game ornament

Holiday Mail hallmark keepsake ornament

Waiting for a Hug ornament

A Friend Chimes In ornament

Curius the Elf ornament

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!

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Feedback 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!

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List of novels, textbooks and other type of books in my ebid store 

If you buy ALL of my books, 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!



Too Many Murphys

The Poisonwood Bible

World's Best Christmas Stories

The Secret Garden

My Crazy Cousin Courtney

Reconstructing Gender. A Multicultural Anthology

Mean Things happening in This Land

Pamela by Samuel Richardson

Pippi Longstocking

E.B White Treasury set

The monument by Gary Paulsen

One Last Wish Let him Live

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle's Magic by Betty MacDonald

Shen of the Sea

The Witch of Blackbird Pond

James and the Giant Peach

A Wrinkle in Time

A Clockwork Orange

The Portable Blake by Alfred Kazin

Somewhere between Life and Death

For Better, for Worse, Forever

Le Morte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

Precalculus Enhanced with Graphing Utilities, second ed

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

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

Research Methods in Social Relations, 3rd edition

Handbook of basic Writing Skills, 4th edition

Aging The Social Context

Is there life after sixth grade

The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

A Separate Peace

The Art of Courtly Love

Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Arthurian Romances by Chretien De Troyes

The Norton Shakespeare, 1st edition

Tamsin by Peter S Beagle

Don't Die My Love

Number the Stars

Midnight Secrets The Temptation

A Raisin in the Sun

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Death of a Salesman

The Eyes of The Dragon

Missing May

Fog Magic

College Weekend

In a crooked little house

Switched

The Luckiest Girl

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Story and Its Writer, 5th edition

Our America. Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago

Mao II by Don DeLillo

Light in August

The Marrow of Tradition

Push by Sapphire

Julius Caesar

Nothing But The Truth

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

The Littles and the Lost Children

Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots

Blue Heron

Dream Lover

Double Date

The Black Pearl

Book Set Kisses

The Boy Next Door

The Whipping Boy

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Where The Red Fern Grows

The Cricket In Times Square

Roller Skates

Beadwork 

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!

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Other 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 

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Domains 

Names for sale.

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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!

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Tin cans 

good for storage

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DVDS and CDS 

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Ebid 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? 

Redmoonrider wrote...

Great lens! Please visit and let's all help promote Ebid!

ReplyPosted December 19, 2008

Snowrose wrote...

Thanks for great Lens! 5* Fav ! Come visit, add your site!

ReplyPosted December 16, 2008

bykimbo wrote...

Thanks for the heads up on the forums.

ReplyPosted December 11, 2008

faithcreations wrote...

Great Lens! Welcome to the "SHOP AT HOME" group! Faith

ReplyPosted November 25, 2008

eBid-Squid wrote...

Nice lens :)

5 stars from me :) Please do the same for me...

ReplyPosted November 24, 2008

booksforsale wrote...

Great lens. What a lot of very useful info.

ReplyPosted November 02, 2008

 
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Publication Notice 

This lens was published on October 30, 2008. Lens last modified/tweaked on March 28, 2009. This is my 4th lens. My other lenses can be viewed here. You can also visit my Squidoo blog and the colorful collection of graphics site for Squidoo lenses.