eBay done with my business?

I’m trying to look at the positive side of things with the ebay changes, but it’s difficult.

 I actually wrote those words a week or so ago. I’d finally figured out how to get a CD burned properly (after a little fiddling on my new computer), and I had put together two packages of ebooks to set up for auction. I have one package of books about making money on eBay and one that’s a package of health and diet books. I decided to check on the auctions before finishing the post here, and found that both of them had sold!

Again, as I started this post, I checked my listings on eBay. One item, again the eBay make money package, has a bid, and so will be sold. The listings I have posted for auction don’t end until tomorrow evening, so I’m still hopeful that the others will sell.

Perhaps eBay isn’t done with my business, after all.

I do admit that I was depressed for some time. When eBay made their announcement about disallowing digital delivery products, my ebook business was starting to pick up, and I was feeling optimistic about getting into a net gain situation. I’m still not sure of the viability of building a powerseller rank with selling these books, but I’m looking for smaller steps. My goal now is to get back to being able to see that my fees will be paid! It does seem more doable today than it did a couple of weeks ago.

I think working on making good packages of related materials is a good way to go. And I need to start playing around with price. The two packages I have up now have a minimum bid of $1.97. A CD with 13 or 25 books on it should be worth more than that. We’ll see.

Putting the packages together is helping me finally sort through all the crud I’ve collected on my hard drive, to say nothing of the 5 or 6 or 7 copies of the same material. And I’m finding that I own quite a number of books that contain exactly the same material, but that have had the titles and graphics changed. Wouldn’t do much for my seller reputation to sell someone 5 seemingly different books that all contain the same content!

I’m also finally working on getting http://www.chefjudi.com into some shape. I slapped some pages up and didn’t do anything else for way too long. So far, there are pages that have video drawn from YouTube, some artwork relating to cooking and food, and an eBay-linked page of kitchenware auction offerings. I’m left with getting recipes, cookbooks for sale, and some pages about gluten-free cooking. Should keep me busy for a good while!

I think that’s it for tonight. Dinner needs to be dealt with - although after researching and writing about food for awhile, what I really want is to go out and have someone else do the cooking.

Be well. Be productive