Stories
Imprinted on the Owner’s Heart
Pretty close to the truth this morning, except for the smoking part. Actually I grabbed my Bible at 6:00AM and went to a new Men’s Bible Study some guys from my church have every Tuesday morning at our local neighborhood supermarket located here in South Bend. I’m wondering if these bunch of great guys are ready for someone as “out there” as me. We’ll see.
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Woot is a Hoot
Whenever I start thinking I’m a bit “tweaked” in the head, I simply click on my www.woot.com Firefox bookmark and read a new Woot sales pitch for their product of the day. Being “tweaked” in the head must be a job requirement, scribbled down in the Woot Company Handbook by their fresh out of college Human Resource majors.
If my eBay adventure ever crashes and burns I’m going to send my resume over to Woot.com immediately, if not sooner, as I’m confident what’s left my fried green tomato brain cells will fit right in, as evidenced by my very first eBay auction.
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The eBay Buck From Hell…..Part 2
In the last exciting episode of “The eBay buck from hell”…..Snidely Whiplash had just…..oh forget about it and go read it yourself.
In today’s episode……Nell Fenwick, the beautiful director of MarJan’s Marketing Department didn’t wait for me to ask a question, she chimed in right away with, “it might be smart Mr. Meany, I…I…I…mean Mr. McClean, to contact this disgruntled eBay buyer and try to get on his good side. This buyer will probably purchase the eBay item anyway and then let us have it right between the eyeballs with a fat juicy eBay negative feedback.”
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The Perfect eBay Seller
Along long time ago in a distant galaxy, before I sold Medical Devices to Hospitals scattered throughout the plains of Indiana, I worked for that same Medical Device Company as a draftsman in Orchard Park, New York. It was a typical nine to five job with a great bunch of guys and gals strategically housed into a Rubik’s Cube maze of comfortable eyeball tall constructed cubicles, I was always getting lost in and never able to remember all the addresses of.
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The eBay buck from hell…..Part 1
A couple of months ago after creating this simple eBay profit spreadsheet I determined to raise my shipping rates by $1.00 on a few specific eBay auctions I run.
Well, the day after I had the unmitigated nerve to institute such an outrageously blatant attempt to keep my eBay business solvent, I received an unfriendly email from an eBay auction lurker who must have been following one of these eBay auctions since he got out of diapers.
I’m taking the liberty to paraphrase his email as I don’t feel like rummaging through my past eBay correspondences that I archive in Outlook this morning.
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Find a Unique Selling Practice (USP) - A Customer Story
I was wondering when this was going to happen. In almost two years and 5,000 packages shipped out to my eBay customers, the USPS has not lost one of my packages. Looking at the big picture of what the USPS is responsible for handling they do a very nice job.
Yes, I’ve had to correspond with customers concerning packages they thought were lost and advise them to contact their local Post Office but they have always found the package at the Post Office.
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A Philatelic Cover Story
Amongst the zillion or so emails I receive each day are eBay store newsletters of some of the eBay stores I have thrown into my eBay favorites as an inspiration to me to create an eBay storefront someday.
It hasn’t worked.
I rarely look at these emails anymore but checked this one today for some reason. Man, does this guy have a great eBay storefront or what?
I’m mean come on look at this thing. It’s absolutely beautiful! Good for him!!! So I browse on over to his site and start admiring his store when it occurs to me,
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