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Do You Pay Taxes On eBay Income?
by Tim Knox
Last week's column on whether you were required to report income earned from eBay sales to the IRS sparked a number of additional questions and comments from eBay sellers who were hoping that I could somehow validate that their eBay activities were mere hobbies instead of actual businesses and therefore not susceptible to IRS taxation.

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Keeping records of your Ebay business: Part 4
by Jason James
The base for any business to survive over the long term, especially an ebay powerseller business, is to keep accurate detailed records of everything pertaining to your ebay records. In our recent articles of parts one through three, we touched up on the basics of your financial records and how to start a paper-trail system of your ebay powerseller business that is both accurate for your personal books and for the IRS at tax time.

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Four Huge Mistakes Ebay Sellers Make
by John Reese
Over the last seven years, I’ve been making a great living buying and selling products on eBay and other online auction sites, and I’ve perfected a technique that pretty much guarantees anyone can start making a profit right away. That technique starts with avoiding mistakes like these -- mistakes I’ve seen people make every day for those same seven years.

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Should PayPal be Your Only eBay Payment Option?
by Kirsten Hawkins
You may have noticed that many sellers list PayPal as the only payment option they accept - they simply can’t be bothered cashing cheques and money orders, never mind any of the other strange ways some people want to pay. Like all things in life, though, PayPal has its advantages and disadvantages. Let’s take a look at what PayPal can do for you, and what it can’t.

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Turn Your eBay Experience Into Even More Profit
by Mark Kenny
As eBay itself says "Want to sell your stuff on eBay but don't have the time? Let a Trading Assistant do it for you? Trading Assistants are experienced eBay Sellers who will sell your items on eBay for a fee." I have friends who work within the IT industry and they are the ones who call me most often! Computer technicians, Network consultants, even company directors of IT firms. It seems that over the years of selling on eBay surprisingly we've gained quite a rare skill.

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How To Create Your Own eBay About Me Page
by Tim Knox
Regular readers of this newsletter and my newspaper column know that I am a big fan of eBay's About Me Page feature. This is a special page you can create as part of your eBay account that is linked from your eBay ID (with a little About Me icon). You can use your eBay About Me Page as a sales tool. Customers can click on your About Me icon to get to your About Me page, which you can set up to include information about you, your interests, and

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Ebay Steve's Top Tips for successful selling on Ebay
by Ebay Steve
Hey kids - EbaySteve here again! I just want to share with you guys'n'gals a few little tip-ettes and tricks that I personally have always found to be Steve-tasticly good for pulling in the greenbacks with the help of the mighty Ebay.

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Negating Negative Feedback On eBay
by Stephen Pope
Within minutes (perhaps seconds) of the auction's end, I was being awarded negative feedback. Not only did I not receive any chance to fulfill the order or to right any wrong that I may have committed, I also received an e-mail from the perpetrator threatening to have me suspended from eBay if I didn't meet certain demands.

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