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I only share cold shoulder. ;)

I'd be very careful of this too - I had family helping out around xmas and now they have started up on their own...:heh: It hurts but be careful who you trust don't let people know too much!

As for the female to male comment - grrrr, welcome to modern society!

Whiteberry x

Thanks a lot for advice, this is a second time hear about so this time I think I will really find time to give it a try

I also was thinking how it can safely run several accounts, but I guess I have to try 2 accs

That's actually was my main reason I started this thread!

Thank You for bringing up this.

Let's face it. For almost all of us, when time coming to "hiring" for our e-commerce businesses we are all start thinking that once we hire somebody, they will learn, and will start to do same business right away, and you gonna be growing your own competitors and pay them salary, after all they might take at least some of your income away and work for them self. So here we are, let's face it - not hiring is about that. I mean the main reason is we don't want to teach people and we are scared that they will take over later.

That is really good way to start grow business.

Would be awesome if some of You people can share experience or ideas(thoughts) about how to not over teach employees but keep our knowledge and stay leaders:humble:

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I wrote it myself. The listings I do myself, just for the order tracking I have a database and then scan the barcodes of each shipment as it's packed and it automatically emails the customers all the shipping details. It also allows me to track the packages as they're delivered and contact customers if for example they haven't claimed it yet.


Real pro. I like it.

You guys are Big Ballers, I only do 30-40 items a month tops. But then again I'm only trying to make some cash for school.

ImJustMe, why don't you sell your software to others? Could sell it on Ebay!

Why would Imjustme do that? So other folx can take it and cause havoc?

Can always sell it to us? were ok right? :angel:

I guess if he knows and trusts you - sure =)

why would you need his software?

custom software will cost you just $300-700 if hire a freelancer depends how hard you want to do it etc.

well, if eb for you just for school, than might be to expensive LOL

Anyway I think(I might be wrong) his software it's just rough soft, which helps HIM to do his tasks his way. I believe it's automate some of his work and speed up some other, but it's only for his way of doing things. So if you are not working his way I thing it's useless for you. It's a lot more convenient to make a custom for your self or hire freelance programmer CHEAP to do it for you.

I'm bringing a friend from overseas soon. Cheap labor + fresh SSN :)


Wouldn't trust a random person, especially when it comes to suppliers.

When hiring someone do not share your supplier or method as that will lead to them leaving and starting their own.

Me personally I had found some kids just hanging out smoking you know highschool kids. Asked them if they wanna make a few extra dollars and they agreed to list my items and I showed then how to switch IP's and User accounts. Went well with no problems.

Just get highschool students as they will not go on their own cause they are only looking to make a few hundred bucks.

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When hiring someone do not share your supplier or method as that will lead to them leaving and starting their own.

That's what happened in that movie "Blow"...went bad.

Cracking film but yes very true! Suppliers are priceless

that's actually also a good advice LOL ) happy 420

Ouch!
Frostbite. :eek:

I have recently started using listing services like auctiva and inkfrog and they have cut down my daily work by about 2 hours a day.

I wouldn't trust my family or my partner's family. Family can be even worse because they expect you to tell them everything and leave nothing out. Most people have no problems working for you one day and becoming your competitor the next. They'll call you the petty one.

Quite frankly, I've seen some sellers talk too much to their family. Then they are surprised when they find out their retired dad who has nothing to do all day is suddenly their competitor. Just say you "sell on Ebay" and leave it at that. Took me years to figure everything out, let anyone else figure it out that way too. You are not going to get a fast track on my account.

And when it comes to hiring I would only do it if you have high volume and have a warehouse or something. I can't imagine needing someone to help unless you have a warehouse. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like until you're at that point you can do the work yourself.

Good point.

Can you tell me why you need to use both auctiva and inkfrog?
Don't they do similar things?
What do you use each for?
What can one do that the other cannot?

Would really appreciate if you can tell me about them because I'm trying to choose between one of them.
I had used Auctiva for like 2 days, then bloody eb restricted me from selling, so I just wasted one month of free trial.
Really bad timing for everything.
Just glad I did not go to the casino around that time... really was under a bad luck spell or something.
I hope that's over now.

guys, why not use a fulfilment service ?

Quite expensive... not worth the cost...
No control over dispatch time...
Can be slow to dispatch...
Slow to dispatch means buyer dissatisfaction means bad feedback, low DSR...
This means soon to say goodbye to account.
Of course there are fast, efficient, goods ones.
But there is the risk of using one that is not consistently fast and efficient.