Best Month Yet - and a Widget!!

October was the best month ever. The last ten days seemed dead, but the total wound up highest yet. Thanks to all who helped.

And now eBay has this widget deal (just out of sight below the screen - scroll down) that connects right to the store and listings (which are up to about 3133).

I haven't done much listing this week. First, I'm sort of testing the 3000 listings theory, and second, I've been researching some other things to sell, namely postcards and old public domain books.

The latter sounds like fun. Because when I first got a Palm PDA some years back, I became a real fan of ebooks. Just plain text files that can be read by Palm Reader after some manipulation by another piece of software. I found a CD on eBay with a mess of old classics which I had never read, but always thought I should have read. I could put them on the PDA and read whenever I had time, like on the train or waiting for the train. The files had come from the public domain, and had a couple references to Project Gutenberg in them, but they were terrific.

Now I have a Palm Tungsten E2 which holds much, much more than my first one, a Zire. In fact, the Zire was so limited that I had to break the Bible down into individual books and trade them off as I read one. When the Tungsten E came out, the size was the real attraction. With it, I could have several versions of the Bible, a concordance, a commentary, and more ebooks than I could read in a month of Sundays. Then the E2 came along, with a respectable battery life. Besides ebooks, it plays mp3 files and shows videos. Wow.

Anyway, I really loved that ebook CD and think it might be both fun and rewarding financially to put together collections which might appeal to someone else. We'll see.

I did win a couple postcard auctions, so when they arrive, I will start keeping notes on that end of the business. Postcard appear to generate more bidding than ads, hence better prices? We'll see. Oh, one interesting thing from October's ads was a big increase in buyers who bought multiple ads. I don't have a good way to identify returning buyers except by eyeball, which is pretty unreliable. There have been some, and probably more that I didn't recognize. It's a good sign for business, plus I'd like to be able to let them know that I know - just need something to tell ME that I KNOW.

We are getting there. Go ahead and try out that eBay widget and let me know what you think.

Have a great Friday.