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Watch out eBay Australia! Amazon Warehouses are coming!

After months of speculation it has finally been reported that Amazon is looking at setting up operations in Australia. This could open up online selling opportunities for Australia using “Fulfilment By Amazon” or FBA where you send your inventory to Amazon and they ship it for you when someone buys.

So, should you jump ship over to Amazon when it arrives?? Absolutely not! Many online sellers use both venues as each has it’s good and bad points and certain products will sell better on one venue than the other.

Read more about Amazon Warehouses entry to Australia shores in the following two articles:-
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m04/i18/s02
http://www.theage.com.au/business/amazon-eyeing-off-local-warehouse-in-australia-20120417-1x5k5.html

There are plenty of resourses available to learn about FBA. See the following resources to learn how you start using FBA once it starts in Australia.
Related blog post:- Interested in selling on other sites like Amazon?
Other blogs:- eBay Selling Coach – Again, don’t be fooled by the name! Much of this blog is dedicated to Amazon now!
Facebook Group:- Stay at home mums selling on eBay – Don’t be fooled by the name this group talks about selling on both venues and as it has many USA based members most topics are Amazon related.

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How to find out how much money you have made on eBay

Have you ever wondered how much money you have earned while selling in eBay?

You can now find out some of the details of your eBay selling history such as the amount of money your sales have amounted to, the number of transactions you have had and also the date of your first sale.

So far you can only see these details if you log in to eBay.com (eBay USA). But that’s OK because with your eBay username and password you can log in through any eBay site anywhere in the world and see your account details.

So here’s how to find out about your eBay Lifetime Transactions.

1. Go to www.eBay.com (this is eBay USA)
2. Sign in to your account using eBay username and password.
3. Go to your ‘My eBay’ back office.
4. Click on the ‘My Account’ tab.
5. Click on ‘Seller Dashboard’.
6. About half way down he page you will see a box titled ‘Your Lifetime Transactions’.

Here’s what is will look like (well, it’s what mine looks like anyway!!)

Please note that as of the date of this writing (February 2012) the details that will be displayed for you will not be quite correct. For example the image above shows my own ‘Lifetime Transactions on one of my eBay accounts. The image shows that the date of my first eBay sale was 06/11/2010, whereas if I go to my feedback for this account my first sale actually was 25th June 2010. Therefore the ‘sales to date’ and ‘Transactions’ figures will also be incorrect at the moment.

I’m assuming that eBay will fix this problem eventually but for now it’s a great indication of your selling history.

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How to spot an eBay spoof or fake email?

Have you ever received an email from eBay to your personal email account and wondered whether it was real or not? There is a really easy way to identify genuine communications from eBay and here’s how to do it:-

1. Open up your web browser and type in the eBay URL (eg. www.ebay.com.au, www.ebay.com, etc)

2. Log in to your account with your username and password.

3. Go to the ‘My Messages’ tab.

4. This will show your incoming messages to your eBay account. Theses are official eBay messages to your account. They can be sent from eBay, or from other buyers and sellers through the eBay message system.

If you ever receive an email that looks to be from eBay and it is not also available in your eBay Messages Inbox then it is a spoof, or fake, email. You must never click on any links in suspicious emails as they can allow thieves access to your accounts and also give them access to your banking and credit card information.

Here is an example that I received recently of a spoof email.

Looks pretty genuine doesn’t it?? So, just by looking at it, how can we tell that it is fake?

eBay NEVER sends out emails asking you to click a link to confirm any usernames, passwords or banking details. This email above asked me to click a link and confirm my credit card details. If I had done this I would have been revealing not only my eBay usename and password, but also my credit card details.

If you ever do receive an email that you are suspicious of it is very easy to get it confirmed as genuine. You simply forward the entire email (without changing anything) to ‘spoof@ebay.com’. Within minutes you will have a reply from eBay confirming it’s authenticity.

I sent the above email to ‘spoof@ebay.com’ and here is the reply I received back a few minutes later.

If you would like to read more on eBay’s policies on spoof emails here is the eBay help page about this subject – http://pages.ebay.com.au/help/account/reporting-spoof.html.

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