Sir Cliff Richard Signed Autographed Memorabilia Alert!

You have the opportunity to own a one of a kind* signed 40 years of hits promo digipack from the Peter Pan of Pop himself Sir Cliff Richard.

This is currently being auctioned on Ebay UK and the bidding is starting at a ridiculous £0.99! A quick search on the internet shows that this could be worth over £100, so this could be a profitable purchase if you get it at a low enough price.

CLIFF RICHARD Signed 40 Years Of Hits Promo CD Booklet

The CD Booklet was signed by Sir Cliff in HMV London on 9th May 2005 at the What Car Single Signing

This rare CD booklet is hard enough to find anyway - a signed copy of an already rare item! Included in the auction is the official wrist band from the event


The CD booklet itself is finished in a gold embossed hardback digipak with chart information for each release and is immaculate

The CD features excerpts from each of Cliff's 124 singles releases that mix into each other, which has never been seen before on Cliff releases

I can't say enough about how nice this item is and how rare an item it is

SIR CLIFF RICHARD items and memorabilia for sale on Ebay now!

Good luck in your bidding!

*This is an extremely rare Promo Album that is very difficult to get hold of, and I believe that it would be very unlikely that another signed autographed copy of this item would exist.

Regards
Roger Mayne
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eBay Hot Items Domain Name For Sale

eBay Hot Items is for sale!!

The domain name ebayhotitems.com is available for sale. This site gets around 500 unique visitors per month with little to no promotion.

eBay Hot Items is a great name for any site offering anything eBay related. The domain name is well placed within the search engines. Here's some examples...

http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-07,GGLJ:en&q=ebay+hot+items
Link No 4 out of over 10 million results!!

http://search.msn.co.uk/results.aspx?q=ebay+hot+items&geovar=2002&FORM=REDIR
Link No 1 out of over 1.3 million results!!

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?p=ebay+hot+items&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&meta=vc%3D
Link No 9 out of over 10.5 million results!!

The domain currently earns revenue from Google Ads and eBay affiliate program. Please remember that the site has been hardly promoted at all, and already earns more than the domain registration costs per year. With some promotion and more monetization, this could easily be increased.

If you are interested in making an offer for this domain name, please contact me at roger@ebayhotitems.com. All offers will be considered.

Regards
Roger Mayne
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Age Old Problem

It's an age old problem. You get the family round the table for a lovely roast chicken dinner, and then everyone fights over the legs.

Your problems have been solved, at last!

Freaky Chicken

Yep, a two headed, four legged chicken! Now, you can all have a leg each this Sunday. Yum.

I don't think it'll become too popular, though. I bet they're a real pain trying to catch!

Regards
Roger Mayne
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David Beckham Football (Soccer) Shirt

As an example of the scamming link mentioned in the previous post, here is an auction seller who is doing exactly that. His last sentence in his description is...

"... And I accept only PAYPAL to keep the scammers away!"

Obviously someone who has been scammed or ripped off before.

Not sure he's much of a football (soccer) fan, though, as his description says this shirt is the No 7 of David BACKHAM !! Never mind.

David Beckham Football (Soccer) Shirt No 7

Regards
Roger Mayne
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How To Avoid eBay Scams And Fraud

Countless people have been scammed and defrauded on eBay. eBay is a fun place to bid on items and to sell items – but you must know how to recognize scams, and how to avoid them, or you quickly join the ranks of those who have lost their money to eBay scams. Of course, if you are scammed, there are some actions you can take the correct the situation – but in many cases, the scammer does indeed get away with it! The best option is to avoid being scammed in the first place (easier said than done, I know).

You can easily avoid many scams with the payment method that you use – whether you are a buyer or a seller. eBay owns Paypal, and in most cases, Paypal is the payment method you should use. First, as a buyer, if you are scammed or less than satisfied with the item when it arrives, you can dispute the charge easily, and demand a refund. The seller must reply and show proof that the item was shipped, and that it arrived in the condition that you expected, or Paypal will return your funds to your account.

As a seller, you can protect yourself by only accepting Paypal. This will eliminate the chances of receiving a bad check or having the buyer dispute a credit card charge. Instead, they must dispute the charge through paypal, and you of course will be able to prove that you shipped the product. You cannot, however, prove that the product arrived in the condition that was expected. In this case, you should demand that the product be returned to you before the refund is issued.

Another common scam that buyers use is the bidding scam. This type of scam is run either with two separate eBay accounts – with one person in control of both of them, or with two friends with separate eBay accounts. A very small bid is placed on your item, using one account. This is followed by a very high bid, from the other eBay account. Right before the bidding ends, the high bid is cancelled or withdrawn, leaving the low bid as the winning bid.This bid can only be avoided by setting a reserve price – the lowest bid that can be placed is the same as the reserve price that you set, so you can determine what the lowest amount you will accept is. Trouble is, having a reserve price can deter other eBay users from placing a bid at all.

If you are an eBay seller, you can further protect your auctions by placing a notice on your auctions page, declaring that you have the right to back out of the sale if you suspect potential fraud. As both a buyer and a seller, also beware of spoofed emails. These emails appear to be from eBay. The email may claim that you need to verify your information, and ask you to login to your eBay account, using the link provided. If you follow that link, the site looks exactly like eBay, but it is actually a scam to get your eBay login details, as well as your credit card details!

eBay will never ask you to do this. If you suspect a spoofed email, report it to eBay immediately!
Don’t let scammers ruin your eBay fun! Just use good common sense, and a reasonable amount of caution, and everything should run smoothly. Report suspicious activity to eBay, and if a deal doesn’t feel right, simply back away from it and move on to the next auction.

Regards
Roger Mayne
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Should PayPal Be Your Only eBay Payment Option?

Should PayPal Be Your Only eBay Payment Option?
© by Dave Lovelace
www.auctionplatinum.com

If you're selling on eBay, most likely you're currently using the services of PayPal (or have used them in the past) to process your transactions for you.

Afterall, eBay owns PayPal, so its' services are custom tailored to make doing business on the world's largest auction site a breeze, right?

Maybe. It just depends on who you ask.

I recently received a question from a subscriber who couldn't use PayPal (because of where she lived) and wondered if there were alternatives.

Based on alot of feedback regarding PayPal in eBay's forum, it's plain to see that alot of sellers are searching for other solutions, but for different reasons.

Today's tip will attempt to provide a couple of options.

PayPal has its Advantages and Disadvantages. Let’s take a look at what PayPal can do for you, and what it can’t.

The Disadvantages.

PayPal is very vulnerable to fraud, and it’s you as the seller who’ll be paying the price when it happens. What’s more, they do take a percentage from every transaction that you could be keeping if your buyers were paying by check.

You might also have noticed that PayPal comes from the eBay school of customer service, enjoying such pastimes as hiding their phone number and only ever sending out automated responses to emailed queries.

PayPal has an unusual number of campaigners against it, most of them people who’ve had their accounts frozen and had to chase PayPal for months for thousands of dollars. Some of these people recently filed a class action lawsuit against PayPal, claiming damages for lost business and they won. This alone should make you cautious about using PayPal.

The Advantages.

PayPal is quick and easy for buyers to use, and is certainly a more secure and reassuring way to accept credit cards than signing up for your own merchant account. You’ll probably also find that it’s cheaper for you.

That’s before you even consider that eBay buyers are more eager to buy from someone who accepts PayPal, as it saves them all sorts of hassle with posting payment and then waiting around. PayPal lets you give speedier customer service.

But Should You Use It Exclusively?

It's really a matter of customer service. Some of your potential customers might not have or want a PayPal account. Not everyone loves electronic payments. Some fear them. So a good rule of "options" is a smart one. The more options a customer has available to them to pay for their item, the better the chance of meeting the demand and therefore increasing sales.

Keep in mind that some buyers come to eBay because it is one of the few places on the Internet where many sellers will accept payment by more traditional methods.

Question is... do you want these people as customers?

You might notice that some people are aware of the issues of PayPal and refuse to use it, but still want to pay electronically.

For these rare cases, it’s worth opening an account at a well known PayPal rival that has a better reputation. A favorite seems to be NoChex (www.nochex.com), a U.K. based company, which offers free chargeback protection.

NoChex is quite a lot better than PayPal by most standards, but just doesn’t have the same market penetration or convenience of use on eBay. Still, there’s nothing stopping you from accepting both, just as long as you make it clear that you do on your auctions.

Tip: if you find that you really prefer NoChex to PayPal, then you could offer your buyers a discount for paying through NoChex.

You may also want to check out a U.S. based company called ProPay at www.propay.com. They have been approved by eBay and have been getting good reviews.

I've read some comments at the eBay forum where Google may be introducing it's own merchant system called "googlebase". The "jury" is still out on this, but look for more info coming soon.

Finally... if you've been looking for a more traditional merchant account, without many of the fees associated with them, I came across an alternative solution over at www.free-merchant.com. They claim their cart-system "integrates easily with your e-Bay auction!"

There you have it, a few alternative solutions to PayPal. Keep your options open as a seller and your buyer may thank you with a winning bid!

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Dave Lovelace is the author of eBay Platinum Profits, a step by step beginner's training guide to making money on eBay "the right way the first time". Subscribe to Dave's FREE 9-day mini-course, "eBay Success Tips: Quick-Start Guide To Winning The Auction Game (for Newbies)" and discover everything you need to know to get started right away! Get lesson 1 within 2 minutes when you click here now ==> www.auctionplatinum.com/ebay-course.html

Regards
Roger Mayne
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An Introduction to Bidding and Buying on eBay

Have you noticed that whenever you open a newspaper, watch the TV or have a conversation, people seem to be talking about eBay? If you’ve never used it and you’ve no idea what it’s all about, then the chances are that you’re starting to feel a little left out. But don’t worry! This email contains everything you need to know about the basics of bidding and buying on eBay.

So What is eBay?

eBay is an online auction website – and not just any auction site, but the biggest one in the world. If you know how an auction works, then you already know how roughly eBay works. Someone adds something they want to sell to the site, and then buyers come along and place bids on it. The highest bid wins the item! It’s that simple.

eBay being an online auction makes a big difference, though. Buying and selling are not reserved for any elite. eBay accept almost any item, no matter how small, and will then advertise it on their sites all over the world. It’s a powerful combination of an auction and a slightly chaotic marketplace.

What is Bidding?

Bidding is when you say how much you will pay for an item in an auction. Bidding on eBay, however, doesn’t work in exactly the same way as a normal auction, at least in theory. On eBay, you tell the site what the maximum you are willing to pay for each item is, and then eBay places the bids on your behalf. That means you could say you were willing to pay up to $100 for something and only have to pay $50, if that was the highest maximum bid anyone else placed.

It’s not as complicated as it sounds – the best way to get used to it is to give it a try. First, the best thing to do is to go to the eBay website designed for your country. If you don’t know the address for it, just go to www.ebay.com and it will tell you there. Now, on the front page you should see a big box marked ‘search’: just type in anything that you’d like to buy there.

Wasn’t that easy? Now you should have a list of items for sale in front of you, along with how much people are currently bidding for them and the time when bidding ends for each item. If you click one of these, you can read the description, and then – if you’re happy with the item and happy to pay more than the current highest bidder is – you can bid!

How Do I Bid?

Go ahead and scroll down to the bottom of an item’s description page, and type the maximum you are willing to pay (your maximum bid) into the box. Then simply press the ‘place bid’ button – you will need to sign in once you press the button, or go through a quick registration process if you don’t have an eBay username).

If someone else’s maximum bid on that item is higher than yours, then eBay will tell you and give you the opportunity to bid again. Otherwise, you’re now the new highest bidder! All you need to do now is wait until the end of the auction – if someone else outbids you, then eBay will email you and you can bid again.

All sounds great, doesn’t it? But by now you might be wondering whether a site as chaotic as eBay can really be all that safe to buy from. That’s why I'll soon be telling you about your rights when you buy from eBay.

Regards
Roger Mayne
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Nikon Coolpix 5200 Digital Camera

I was randomly looking through the digital cameras today, and found such a huge range of Nikon cameras at vastly different prices.

I already have a Nikon Coolpix 4600 digital camera, and I paid just over $110 last October (2005). Now, I see the next model up, the 5200, on sale on eBay starting at just $0.99 !!

The camera I have is superb quality, as you would expect from a company like Nikon. Let's face it, all they make is digital cameras.

Some of the items start at over $165.00, which would be about right for this type of unit, but there are some starting at $0.99 and there is no reserve. Get in quick.

Here's the list...

View the auctions here

The Nikon Coolpix 5200 digital camera boasts an impressive list of features, including...

• 5.1 Megapixel
• 3x Optical Zoom
• 4x Digital Zoom
• 5x Flash Modes (for different environments)
• 12MB Internal Memory
• Blur Warning

If you're currently looking for a new digital camera, you'd do well to take a look through some of these auctions now.

Regards
Roger Mayne
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