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publication date: Aug 1, 2007
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- Editorial
 
- Why You Should Never Give Your eBay ID Details to
a Competitor
 
- I make money this way - could you?
 
- Growing Your Business With PLR and eBay
 
- Delivering Information Products Through Paypal
Automatically
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Hi,
 
It's important to have high positive feedback on eBay,
especially as a seller. But sometimes, no matter how hard
you try, something happens which you had not anticipated
and it can lead to negative feedback for all the wrong
reasons.
 
Case in point: today a friend, also selling on eBay,
received an email from a buyer saying he had paid twice
for his product via PayPal and had reported my friend to
PayPal for taking payment twice!
 
YES YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY - it was the buyer
who hit the PayPal button - twice - that sent two
payments hurtling into my friend's PayPal account.
 
The buyer had not contacted the seller or requested a
refund in any polite manner before reporting her to PayPal.
 
Had he done so she could have refunded the payment
right away and keep everyone happy. But he didn't, he
just assumed the other person had taken payment and
was not going to refund it without a fight - despite the fact
the payments had only been made a few hours earlier.
She's waiting for negative feedback now and if this man's
attitude is anything to go by I think that is exactly what she
will get. And the worst thing is, she has not done anything
wrong. With so many payments going through her PayPal
account every day and given the short time since this
person's two payments went through, she might never
have noticed the problem.
 
I really don't think there's an easy answer to this one, I
can't suggest you check hundreds of PayPal payments
each week just to be sure some silly man (or woman)
hasn't paid twice, but I did advise my friend to contact
PayPal.
 
Shortly afterward PayPal responded, assuring her there
was no problem at her end, and problem buyers of this
nature are not that unusual. PayPal understands that
some people make mistakes and others are malicious, and
rather than withdrawing money from the seller's eBay
account or taking issue with sellers, PayPal always directs
the person with the problem, the person who caused the
problem, to write to the seller to highlight his mistake and
request a refund. Which is exactly what he should have
done in the first place!
 
It's good to know PayPal stands up for sellers, not just
buyers, but even so, I would suggest when anything
like this happens to you, you should consider leaving
negative feedback in return, then block the miscreant
from your eBay bidders' list.
 
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Why You Should Never Give Your eBay ID Details to a
Competitor
***
 
There's a lot of talk going on in online forums right now,
between eBay PowerSellers, primarily those who are
selling eBooks and other products about making money on
eBay. A string of comments I spotted today originated with
one PowerSeller stating he had been asked for his eBay
ID to see what he was selling, so a person, purporting to
be a potential eBook buyer, could check the seller's actual
against alleged success on eBay before placing an order.
A whole string of negative feedbacks arrived for the
PowerSeller that very same day, from different eBay
buyers, none with more than ten or twenty feedback
points.
 
It transpired the individual seeking this person's ID was
also an eBay PowerSeller, although he had not left
feedback from his own account for fear of getting negative
feedback in return from the PowerSeller whose trust he
abused. Instead he had enlisted 'friends' to open
accounts, buy, then leave negative feedback. A little
detective work paid off and the originator was quickly
revealed and expelled from eBay. But it isn't always that
easy!
 
Several major PowerSellers reported similar problems, all
had innocently given their eBay IDs to untraceable
individuals who then, it seems, recruited others to leave
negative feedback for several major eBay sellers.
Some of these nasty individuals are very cute and they
realise anyone joining eBay purely to give negative
feedback will quickly be expelled from the site in which
case all feedback left by expelled members is removed
from the system. That would of course restore the abused
PowerSellers' previously good feedback. So clever
individuals recruiting others to do their dirty work ensure
each new eBayer buys at least ten eBooks to generate
positive feedback before leaving the odd negative or two.
Problem solved.
 
Except that, today, with more and more individuals leaving
posts at the forums concerned, a famous name American
PowerSeller has started recording details of all persons
leaving negative feedback for fellow members to hopefully
spot a pattern that might highlight the original sources.
It's a hot argument: do you or don't you give others your
eBay ID? I always did, I know other PowerSellers who
always do and haven't encountered problems, yet! And
before I move on, yes I have fallen victim to this awful
practice. I received four negatives within two minutes from
someone who emailed asking for my ID which I gave. This
one, not so cute or clever as today's operators, left
negative feedback from his own eBay account before he
had even been invoiced or paid for the products involved
which in eBay's books is ground for instant dismissal!
It really is up to you what you do about giving ID details,
but I suggest you confirm the email address of the person
making the request. You could also ask them to contact
you via your eBay account which records the request and
is proof enough for eBay to investigate the matter.
 
Happy eBaying!
 
Until next time,
 
Avril
 
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Growing Your Business With PLR and eBay
***
 
A lot of Internet marketers use private label rights (PLR)
products and eBay to grow their businesses. Here's how:
 
* Some PLR memberships come packaged with keyword
lists. Use these along with other research tactics to find
popular selling items in your niches. You can use the free
eBay Pulse section or eBay's research paid tools to see
which products are popular sellers / hot items: check out
the auction prices, win info, digital photos, auction sales
copy, and specials or bonuses, etc. The goal is to see
what you think prompted shoppers to place bids and
compete.
 
* Find good PLR products to sell. Check the rights you
have with your license to make sure you can sell your PLR
on eBay. Some may require minimum pricing or minimum
changes to the original content first. Then package some
PRL content into small reports to sell at low cost as lead
generators. And package other PLR content as upsells -
ebooks, guides, etc. These can be sold either through
high-priced auctions and / or off eBay through your own
website, ezine / newsletter or blog.
 
* Set up a basic plan to tackle the following, automating
what you can and systemising the rest for optimum results
with minimal effort, time and money:
 
- Packing and branding your PLR content.
 
- Adding money-making avenue streams to your packages
and PLR content: affiliate product ads and links, banner
ads, graphics links to sales pages, etc.
 
- Uploading the electronic files to your delivery area,
setting up automated delivery systems.
 
* Start with baby steps. You don't have to spend
thousands of dollars on the best video, audio, photo, word
processing, automation and other software, for example.
Take it easy and proceed slow and steady. Ask on Internet
marketing and other forums to see which types of software
are available for free or cheap and which have free trial
downloads. Automation and other shopping cart systems
also offer trials at no charge. So surf around and tire kick.
Then slowly grow as sales close, maybe partnering with a
friend to co-create packages or getting creative other ways
with joint venture opportunities.
 
* Test different PLR package combinations, automation
and delivery set ups, stats, your ad copy and other aspects
of your business and operations over time. Then as you
find good items and systems that work, repeat them. Thus
you'll have your own systems and won't need to waste
more time, money and effort on these aspects of our
business.
 
* Invest in your business with advanced Internet
marketing training, eBay tools and training, your own niche
training, etc. Don't get lazy. Stay in tune with the
marketplace.
 
* Keep trying. Don't let a failure hold you back. Re-brand
something, re-package it, revise it - and try again. No one
is successful 100% of the time. Hang in there. Encourage
others and they'll encourage you in return.
 
Put these tips to work for your business. Join a lot of
Internet marketers who use PLR products and eBay, and
grow your business, too.
 
Paul Kleinmeulman is the foremost private label rights
(PLR)expert. Learn more about his Automatic Niche Profits
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Delivering Information Products Through PayPal
Automatically
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PayPal is one of the wonders of the web. Never has it
been easier for individuals or small business to receive
payments though the web and to be able to accept
payment though debit or credit cards without having to
own a merchant account. You can have a PayPal account
setup within minutes and accept payments straight away.
 
One of the most widely used examples of how PayPal is
used to sell goods, is with information products such as
eBooks, special reports or software.
 
If you are using PayPal to offer information products, you
can simply set up your site to accept payments and deliver
the product automatically. Get it right and you could be
earning money in your sleep!
 
The most basic setup is by using PayPal's return page tag
in the following format.
 
(Change all [] to when entering the html code)
 
[input type=3D"hidden" name=3D"return"
value=3D"http://www.yourname.com/thanks.php"].
 
Insert this into your PayPal code and when a successful
payment is made your visitor is simply diverted to the page
you specify. Most of the time it will be a "Thanks For Your
Order Page", but additionally you can include the products
on this page for your visitor to download straight away.
 
To make it more secure an IPN script can be used which is
what we use at [http://ebusinessebooks.com]eBusiness
eBooks. First of all the following tags will need to be
installed within the PayPal button code.
 
[input type=3D"hidden" name=3D"return"
value=3D"http://www.yourname.com/thanks.php"]
[input type=3D"hidden" name=3D"notify_url"
value=3D"http://yourname.com/order.php"]
 
Notice how we use both the return and the notify_url tag.
In the case where you have a script to verify the payment,
the return page will be used as a Thank You page, & will
also inform the visitor to check their email account. The
script in the example we use here simply emails the
download location to the users' email address. I've created
a basic script which you can use for delivering intangable
goods though your websites. Find it at:
 
Just a few words of advice when using an IPN script such
as above in conjunction with PayPal's return tag. First of
all both the return page and the script must be on the
same server for them to function correctly and the return
page should be a .PHP page & not an HTM or.HTML
page. If you use a html page as the return page the script
will not run and your product simply will be delivered.
There's no need to change any of the code in the thank
you page, simply just rename it to a page with a .php
extension.
 
If you are not comfortable playing around with PayPal
buttons or IPN scripts there are a number of services that
can take care of everything for you. One of these is
Payloadz which offers delivery of intangable goods. The
advantage of these similar services is that they also work
on eBay which is where a lot of informational products are
sold.
 
Whichever option you choose, once it's setup you'll
comfortably have your business on autopilot without the
need to check your email on an hourly basis and sending
out several emails containing the download locations.
 
Good luck.
 
Mark Kenny sells Information Products though
 
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