Sep
16

Without Research You Fail. – VOLBC3

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You may do a great job in all respects of your eBay business and still fail if you do not do proper research.  Here are my favorite services, their really good stuff is not free, but I have found even the most expensive well worth the expense in the long run.

The best I have found is by far Terapeak

You can sample their FREE services at:  http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewEApp&appId=titlebuilder.terapeak.com
The features are listed at: https://www.terapeak.com/features/
And their pricing is at: https://www.terapeak.com/pricing/

One of the other best I have found is Kovel

Kovel Gives you searches, articles, support, guidance, and more.  You can sample the FREE services at: http://www.kovels.com/Free-Resources/free-resources.html?id=2247
More details and pricing for services is at: http://www.kovels.com/
All services and item sale prices for about $60.00 per year

My other favorite which is about as good as Kovel is WorthPoint

WorthPoint Provides searches, articles, support, guidance, and more .  The 7 day free trial includes all services with limited price information.  Some information and services are available without charge.  Check them our at http://www.worthpoint.com/about

VOLBC #3

Comments

  1. Great post and I agree with you on this one for sure! Research is PRIME for being successful! Thanks for sharing!

  2. Anita Nelson says:

    This is GREAT info, Jim~! I have been studying one competitor recently who does over 600 transactions in a month… Needless to say it’s a little depressing! lol I think it’s better to get hard, cold data and I plan on checking these out =)
    Thank you!
    x0x
    Anita Nelson @ModelSupplies

  3. Great recommendations! I personally enjoy the Kovels newsletter too. Glad you took part in the blog challenge at Virtual Online Learning.com. ~Kerry @elegantKB

  4. Come on people. If youre going to add a comment at least say something substantive about the original post.

  5. Online LMS says:

    How many home runs can you hit…

    Once again, thank you for the quality submission….

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