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eBay’s predictions for the hottest products to be sold as Father’s Day gifts this year. Check out the list, and good luck selling!
One of the top categories is Automotive including: Vehicle Accessories, Audio Accessories, Tools & Tires.
The other is Electronics which includes: MP3 and Accessories, Smartphones and Accessories, Digital Cameras & Camcorders, Televisions and Accessories, Computers, Laptops and Printers, Tablets and eReaders.
Read the complete list of Father’s Day Hot Sellers here.
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Selling internationally is a great way for eBay sellers to grow their business. Not only are you adding to your potential customer base, many things that are off season in the US are in season somewhere else. eBay offers some suggestions to help you create more international appeal for your products, minimize questions from international buyers and improve your ratings.
View the full International Selling Best Practices, which includes the following:
Ebay has made a list of the top 10 strategies to use to help grow your eBay selling business. Click here to get all the details.
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 12th. Are you still looking for the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Amazon.com is the right place to find it. They’ve put together a list of all their top picks for gifts for Mom. Everything from pretty pendants and scarves to kitchen essentials to popular gadgets. So no matter what your mom is into, they’ve got Mother’s Day gift ideas you’ll love. Have a look around and find something special for Mom this Mother’s Day.
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Classes are offered in your own neighborhood or one nearby.
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Here are links to the categories and items that eBay predicts will be hot sellers for Mother’s Day gifts this year. Check out the list, and good luck selling!
Looking for some advice, or have a specific question related to selling on Amazon? You can look for an answer or ask your question directly on the Amazon Seller Forums.
These forums have information about everything related to selling on Amazon. The forum categories include: Sell on Amazon, Fulfillment by Amazon, Amazon Payments, Amazon Product Ads, Global Selling, Developer Support, Amazon Webstore, Amazon Sponsored Products, and Forums Feedback.
I received the following in an email from eBay:
Congress is considering online sales tax legislation that is wrongheaded and unfair, and I am writing to ask for your help in telling Congress “No!” to new sales taxes and burdens for small businesses.
Whether you’re a consumer who loves the incredible selection and value that small businesses provide online, or a small-business seller who relies on the Internet for your livelihood, this legislation potentially affects you. For consumers, it means more money out of your pocket when you shop online from your favorite seller or small business shop owner. For small business sellers, it means you would be required to collect sales taxes nationwide from the more than 9,600 tax jurisdictions across the U.S. You also would face the prospect of being audited by out-of-state tax collectors. That’s just wrong, and an unnecessary burden on you.
Big national retailers are aggressively lobbying Congress to pass online sales tax legislation to “level the playing field” with Amazon. And, as they compete with big retail, Amazon is advocating for this legislation too, while at the same time they are seeking local tax exemptions across the country to build warehouses. This is a “big retail battle” in which small businesses and consumers have a lot to lose. But eBay is fighting, as we have for more than 15 years, to protect small online businesses and sellers and ensure healthy competition, value, and selection that benefit consumers online.
The solution is simple: if Congress passes online sales tax legislation, we believe small businesses with less than 50 employees or less than $10 million in annual out-of-state sales should be exempt from the burden of collecting sales taxes nationwide. To put that in perspective, Amazon does more than $10 million in sales every 90 minutes. So we believe this is a reasonable exemption to protect small online businesses. That’s what we’re fighting for, and what big companies such as Amazon are fighting against.
I hope you agree that imposing unnecessary tax burdens on small online businesses is a bad idea. Join us in letting your Members of Congress know they should protect small online businesses, not potentially put them out of business. Click here to make your voice heard. Together, I believe our voices can make a difference.
Sincerely,
John Donahoe
President and CEO
eBay Inc.
Click on the above link to help tell the government that you don’t agree with imposing taxes on small online retailers and individual sellers.
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