I’m Building My eBay Empire

Okay, things are starting now! I’ve sold 2 items on eBay and have a bid on 1 more. Doesn’t seem like much, when I have 27 books listed, but I may be able to cover my listing fees. We’ll see.

By the way, if you’re thinking of getting started in the ebook eBay business, now is a good time to start. They’re running a listing price special until December 12th, I think. The special is that you don’t have to pay the normal $.35 fee for a gallery picture, so that brings the cost of listing an ebook down to $.25 for a 7 day listing (eBay US).

I did have a hiccup. I’d uploaded some books onto eBay through Turbolister before I put them into my automatic delivery system (SmartDD). Well, as things will go, the second book to be sold was a buy-it-now purchase from that group. SmartDD did generate an email telling me that the delivery was screwed up so I could go into eBay and send the download information to the buyer. I recognize that I’ve got to be sure not start a listing project when I don’t have the time to finish all the necessary steps!

The cookbook list is growing, by 3 or 5 day, and I spent yesterday diddling around trying to get something up on the chefjudi site. Pretty much a wasted day, as I couldn’t find a template I liked and so messed around trying to create one. Yikes! If you see a nice website that you’re sure a regular person put up, bow your head and recognize the probable nonsense they had to go through to get it on the web.

And I still don’t have any clear idea of what I’m going to write about in the cooking newsletter - or offer for sale. Muddleheaded is what I am right now.

So, it’s late afternoon and I have to find another 5 or 6 books to get processed and up on eBay. Hope my husband isn’t expecting anything special for dinner!