Cliff Aliperti's Blog (3)

Great article, "Hey eBay, Say Hello to Bonanzle," by Douglas MacMillan over on Businessweek.com, which also prominently features our own Auctionwally. Major exposure, my first impression being that this should at least get more isolated eBay sellers listening and/or make them aware of Bonanzle. You'd think they'd have to be living in a cave not to know already, however online selling can be so isolated tha… Continue

I thought this was pretty cool. Someone wrote me looking for information about Kromo Gravure movie cards -- these are black & white trading cards which were issued in various boxed sets of 50 in the late teens (more specifically likely about 1917). Over the past 8 years I've handled several of these and I think I've put together the best available checklists for them. I'd thought I'd handled each of the boxed sets multiple times and cataloged them on my site as sets 1,2,3 -- which are sets… Continue

(Note: I'd posted something similar to this on my twitwall this morning, but it seems much more appropriate over here, so I spruced it up some for the AW Network). I listed 19 similar items on eBay yesterday (Dixie Premium Photos), all from similar sets. 15 of them start at $9.99, 2 at $7.99, 2 at $3.99. Guess which 4 received bids overnight? Now what I'm referring to is all the same bidder, and I say this with a grain of salt because I am thankful for their bids...but at the same time I'm se… Continue