eBay: 5p listing day... again !!!

Tuesday the 8th July sees yet another 5p listing day on eBay. This is incredible. Never before in the Auction site's history have there been so many cheap listing days in quick succession as they tempt Sellers to list more.

Are eBay really now this desperate? Are eBay in trouble? Surely they would not have this many special days in a normal year. This follows on from several rounds of money-off vouchers to some chosen Buyers who pay with PayPal.

One thing that can be said, with the natural drop in sales due to global recession, at least they are doing something. To be honest, a company as big as eBay is due to be criticized what ever action it takes and there are some who will always view with suspicion, saying that eBay do not care if an item sells because they still make money from the listing fee. It is true, eBay is a lot different to the site it started off as, but all things change... that's just natural business evolution. It is up to each Seller to decide whether their business model best suits it or would be more profitable else where.

For those interested on Tuesday, 8th July 2008, Insertion Fees are just 5p for any listing using the Auction-style, Auction-with-Buy It Now and Buy It Now only. Tuesday is a rather odd day to choose, by if you select to have a 5 day listing, this will bring your auctions to end on a Sunday which is one of the better days. Please remember though, due to the cheap listing day, the market will be saturated so... it is a bit of a gamble.

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www.jenkin7.co.uk

5,6,1 Blast Off

Lets see...

It's a boiling hot day, I'm in an Office with no proper ventilation, there's major drilling occurring in the street outside, I've got a thumping headache, so what better time to write an opening blog? Well anytime really.. except maybe a time being chased by a mad elephant or stuck underwater somewhere with only two minutes of oxygen left.

Well Hello!

I'm thinking I should have written the hello bit at the beginning. Being fairly green to this new strange world of Internet blogging, I'm hoping you can let this minor faux pas pass unpunished. If you can't.... well... I don't know... maybe there's some sort of button you can push somewhere.

My name is Nick, a chap in his early thirties, single, and after a ten year stretch employed in the financial industry am now happily self employed in the the, surprisingly less stressful, domain of sales... a domain perhaps even stranger than the world of blogging. Well maybe.

If I could say one word about Banks and their office politics, that word would be, "Arrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!". A word no doubt still screamed by employees after they undergo their quarterly staff performance appraisals, taken by someone who hardly knows them. Don't get me wrong, I don't regret my sentence at the Banks, first with HSBC in Southend-on-Sea and then later with C Hoare & Co at London Fleet Street. They made me what I am today... hang on... maybe I do regret it. No no, you must always push on... never look back. For wasn't it that famous French woman who once famously sang, "Je Ne Regret Rien"? And you and I both know what that means, despite what my old French GCSE grade Certificate would have you believe.

Yes, blogging then. Through this short meandering ramble, I guess I've now joined the mighty and maybe dark realm of bloggers everywhere. Now all I have to do is to find a way to stop that incessant drilling. Maybe that mad elephant is available I mentioned earlier.

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