Category: services
eBay eliminates checks and money orders, promotes PayPal
eBay recently announced that in late October it will be eliminating checks and money orders as valid payment options for eBay sales. Remaining valid payment methods are as follows. PayPal, owned by eBay ProPay, partnered with eBay Credit or debit card payments direct to seller Payment upon pickup There are several categories that are exempt…
Types of Internet bidding and classes of providers
There are three main types of Internet bidding. Some Internet bidding providers allow some but not all of the types of auctions. I’ll cover some of the basics here, with future articles and podcasts building on these topics by discussing the combinations of the types of Internet bidding as well as going deeper into the…
Adobe alternatives make PDF easier, cheaper
I admitted on Saturday that there were indeed some good uses for the PDF. If, after analyzing the situation, PDF seems like the right tool for the job, here are some ways to make its use less painless and less expensive. Adobe has two products related to PDF use and creation. Adobe Acrobat Reader is…
phpList provides free and easy bulk email list management
One of the best marketing techniques for auctioneers and everyone else who is running a business is proper management of an email list. Keeping a list of emails in Excel and copying that list into the BCC field of Outlook does NOT count. There are rules put in place due to the proliferation of spam.…
Proxibid on Chrome
My friend and fellow auctioneer Don Hamit pointed out to me at the KAA auctioneer contest yesterday that the recently-released Chrome doesn’t work with the recently-funded real-time Internet bidding platform Proxibid. I was able to get the Proxibid Bidder App to run in Chrome on XP and Vista. Here’s how to get it, and other…