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I'm wondering you guys invest back into your eBay business? What sorts of things do you do to make yourselves more efficient and able to provide optium customer service?

I have done the following so far:

1. New Dymo Labelwriter (print labels at home)
2. Endicia account (shipping from home)
3. Found supplier for all packaging & supplies needs
4. Increase product order quantities to drive down prices and maintain margins

Things I am looking into:

5. A way to ship from all my accounts using 1 platform ( Inkfrog? )
-currently switch between accounts to load tracking info
-goal is to upload all tracking using 1 program/platform
6. Mi-Fi Device for a seperate 3G/4G wireless in-home network solely for managing accounts
7. New Laptop strictly for managing accounts

If anyone has any ideas on how I might achieve items 5,6 and 7 that would be great!!

Thanks!!

Re: Investing Back into eBay Business
 

If you live in a university town there may be a university surplus sale, either regularly or just once in a while. I live in a university town, and there's a sale here at least once a month. So long as you show up fairly early, you're pretty much guaranteed to be able to score a fairly new laptop for $100 or so - maybe a little more if it's got some bells and whistles and is like basically brand new, less if it's a couple of years old and pretty bare bones. At most all you have to do is to install an OS, but usually it has everything but Word (and whatever other licensed programs).

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Several months ago I looked into a Mifi, but I didn't really see any use for it as I have been tethering off of my iPhone for awhile now.

The Mifi itself was free with a 2 year contract, and then ran off of your existing data plan, or if you wanted it separate it was like $50 a month for only 5gb of data..

At the time there was also some Unlocked ones selling on eBay & Amazon, but you still had to buy the data, whether prepaid or adding it to your existing contract.
Just wasn't beneficial for me.

Re: Investing Back into eBay Business
 

Hiya Aking,

Just popping my head in to give you a congratulations on your investment into a new Dymo printer and if you run into problems with it or have questions you are very welcome to contact us and we will be ready to assist you.

I wish you the very best of luck with the other points in your investment and that it takes of for you!

Warmest of regards,
Jesper K
DYMOSupport

Re: Investing Back into eBay Business
 

Thank you sir! I've got to say my Dymo was probably the best buy in awhile. I will definitely contact you if I have any questions!