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		<title>By: sharonkrropxx</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi all!

I`m new user on this forum. My name is Sharon I`m 23 yo girl from New York. 

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<p>I`m new user on this forum. My name is Sharon I`m 23 yo girl from New York. </p>
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		<title>By: maryfergussonn</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Just saying hello to you all .. Still a bit confused about the goings on here, but I guess I&#039;ll keep poking around.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just saying hello to you all .. Still a bit confused about the goings on here, but I guess I&#8217;ll keep poking around.</p>
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		<title>By: BeatteBen</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When choosing merchandise to sell on Ebay, one has to look at different facets of the supply chain. This includes pricing, shipment, packaging as well as demand.

So what are the criteria for choosing merchandise to sell on Ebay?

One of the criteria you need to look at is the pricing and shipment when applicable. If you are selling a physical item, you cannot run away from shipment/courier charges. In this scenario, you wouldn&#039;t want to sell something that is less than $5 and yet charge the customer $6 for shipment which makes the total cost of the item to be $11 for example while customers can probably get the same item for $8 at a local store. For low-cost items, you can sell in larger quantities in order to make it more attractive.

Having said that, it will be a different story though if you are selling Ebooks or services as no shipment/courier charges apply.

Another factor to consider is the demand for the product. You can do a quick research by looking through Ebay and search for the product you are selling. If there are many sellers of the product, chances are that it is a popular merchandise to sell on Ebay. However, this also presents another issue, if everyone is selling the same product, how do you compete? The answer is you don&#039;t. The fact is that chances are you will not be able to compete with especially the power sellers who have the capital to bring in larger quantities and command better margin. So what do you do? Well, you can consider doing product bundling or sell products that are unique but have less demand.

Avoid getting merchandise to sell on Ebay that are difficult to ship such as china or bulky products. Fragile items are prone to damage so you run a higher risk of customers asking for refund. Bulky items will send your shipment costs up and eat into your profit margin.

It is one thing to know what merchandise to sell on Ebay but it is just as important to find reliable suppliers for the products. Look for reliable suppliers from online wholesaler directories where the distributors are reviewed by retailers who have worked with them.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When choosing merchandise to sell on Ebay, one has to look at different facets of the supply chain. This includes pricing, shipment, packaging as well as demand.</p>
<p>So what are the criteria for choosing merchandise to sell on Ebay?</p>
<p>One of the criteria you need to look at is the pricing and shipment when applicable. If you are selling a physical item, you cannot run away from shipment/courier charges. In this scenario, you wouldn&#8217;t want to sell something that is less than $5 and yet charge the customer $6 for shipment which makes the total cost of the item to be $11 for example while customers can probably get the same item for $8 at a local store. For low-cost items, you can sell in larger quantities in order to make it more attractive.</p>
<p>Having said that, it will be a different story though if you are selling Ebooks or services as no shipment/courier charges apply.</p>
<p>Another factor to consider is the demand for the product. You can do a quick research by looking through Ebay and search for the product you are selling. If there are many sellers of the product, chances are that it is a popular merchandise to sell on Ebay. However, this also presents another issue, if everyone is selling the same product, how do you compete? The answer is you don&#8217;t. The fact is that chances are you will not be able to compete with especially the power sellers who have the capital to bring in larger quantities and command better margin. So what do you do? Well, you can consider doing product bundling or sell products that are unique but have less demand.</p>
<p>Avoid getting merchandise to sell on Ebay that are difficult to ship such as china or bulky products. Fragile items are prone to damage so you run a higher risk of customers asking for refund. Bulky items will send your shipment costs up and eat into your profit margin.</p>
<p>It is one thing to know what merchandise to sell on Ebay but it is just as important to find reliable suppliers for the products. Look for reliable suppliers from online wholesaler directories where the distributors are reviewed by retailers who have worked with them.</p>
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		<title>By: Movie Dan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Demonstrations and violent protests are on the rise.  I believe the time is drawing near where the unemployed and hungry will forcibly take back the wealth that was stolen from them by politicians and executives. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Demonstrations and violent protests are on the rise.  I believe the time is drawing near where the unemployed and hungry will forcibly take back the wealth that was stolen from them by politicians and executives.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The very second our government Nationalizes CitiBank there will be a run on the banks. Let the Wealthy be (poor) for a while. The citizens have been for a while now. We can adapt, they cannot!
It is time for a U.S. (Tea Party) Toss your bills and debt papers into the shredder. Just stop paying all bills.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The very second our government Nationalizes CitiBank there will be a run on the banks. Let the Wealthy be (poor) for a while. The citizens have been for a while now. We can adapt, they cannot!<br />
It is time for a U.S. (Tea Party) Toss your bills and debt papers into the shredder. Just stop paying all bills.</p>
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		<title>By: CA NOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I linked back here in a post on the CA NOW blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2008/12/economic-catch22.html&quot;&gt;Economic Catch-22&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I linked back here in a post on the CA NOW blog: <a href="http://www.canow.org/canoworg/2008/12/economic-catch22.html">Economic Catch-22</a></p>
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		<title>By: Timeparticle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:53:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mr. Rossi, when you introduce the question, &quot;Who benefits from this and why?&quot; to most problems, the answer can create greater understanding of the situation. Who might be benefitting from this economic downturn? Is a group of elite pulling the economic strings to greater assure their status continues?

One is tempted to posit a general rule: periods of wide and increasing income and wealth inequalities always precede long and deep recessions/depressions. The other rule is that GOP tax cuts have always preceded periods of sustained and increasing transfers of wealth to the upper classes.

In America, the theft has been overt. Bush called his beneficiaries his &#039;base&#039;. Indeed, they were his sponsors.

Reagan&#039;s tax cut of 1980 benefited only the upper quintile. When all the data is in, Bush&#039;s tax cuts will prove to have benefited only about one percent of the nation, a fraction of those who benefited from Reagan. In both cases, only those who were already very, very, very wealthy benefited. Everyone else got poorer both in real terms and comparatively.

The effect of this on the economy is not only that the wealthy will get to live in better houses, get adequate health care, &#039;better neighborhoods&#039;, better educations, or drive more reliable cars. It means that many amenities that you might have previously enjoyed on your present income will become off limits to you even if you retain your job and your current income. That&#039;s because the very, very wealthy will have &#039;bid up&#039; the prices on homes, educations, health care, cars, and other items.
There are yet other results that follow from GOP &#039;economics&#039;.

Although the US economy produces tremendous wealth, it is always accompanied in GOP regimes by tremendous poverty. The US, for example, was most egalitarian in the years immediately following World War II. During GOP regimes, income inequality increased and is, in fact, measured with the GINI index. Higher Ginis indicate greater levels of income inequality. These indices have been significantly greater in every GOP regime since World War II.

Certainly --there is enough wealth to go around. Instead, wealth flows upward ---not down, as the propagandists of &#039;supply side&#039; i.e. &#039;trickle down theory&#039; would have you believe. The problem is systemic --the result of identifiable, right wing policies.

The lower and working classes pay more than their fair share of taxes. The government has it backward. The government taxes labor and gives capital a free ride with numerous dodges. This is the recipe for the impending economic collapse, a collapse that appears to be well underway and beyond anyone&#039;s power or ability to stop. But that has not stopped the government from playing it&#039;s well-rehearsed role as the shakedown arm of the nation&#039;s tiny and shrinking elite.

If because of GOP transfers of unearned wealth to this increasingly tiny elite of about one percent of the population, labor becomes unproductive or impoverished and the productivity of the nation declines. It will ultimately collapse like the house of cards that it is. That is what we see happening as I write this. If the poor can no longer afford decent housing or food because elites have bid up prices on commodities, the house of cards will not stand. If you can no longer afford decent housing, health care or food, you have then, perhaps recently under Bush, fallen off the ladder. It&#039;s the GOP way.... excerpts from The Existentialist Cowboy, Nov. &#039;08.

There will never be enough money in the world to pay back the huge debt the banks have created.( See Money as Debt movie online.) So, to postpone a money collapse of our system, the elite 1% needs to create an economic shift, a great change within the current monetary structure to ensure their status is sustaining.

We, as progressives, must educate ourselves in the current economic problems in order to help facilitate change. With certain calmness, and without radical provocation, we can seek a better way to create money and ensure the well being of everyone.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Rossi, when you introduce the question, &#8220;Who benefits from this and why?&#8221; to most problems, the answer can create greater understanding of the situation. Who might be benefitting from this economic downturn? Is a group of elite pulling the economic strings to greater assure their status continues?</p>
<p>One is tempted to posit a general rule: periods of wide and increasing income and wealth inequalities always precede long and deep recessions/depressions. The other rule is that GOP tax cuts have always preceded periods of sustained and increasing transfers of wealth to the upper classes.</p>
<p>In America, the theft has been overt. Bush called his beneficiaries his &#8216;base&#8217;. Indeed, they were his sponsors.</p>
<p>Reagan&#8217;s tax cut of 1980 benefited only the upper quintile. When all the data is in, Bush&#8217;s tax cuts will prove to have benefited only about one percent of the nation, a fraction of those who benefited from Reagan. In both cases, only those who were already very, very, very wealthy benefited. Everyone else got poorer both in real terms and comparatively.</p>
<p>The effect of this on the economy is not only that the wealthy will get to live in better houses, get adequate health care, &#8216;better neighborhoods&#8217;, better educations, or drive more reliable cars. It means that many amenities that you might have previously enjoyed on your present income will become off limits to you even if you retain your job and your current income. That&#8217;s because the very, very wealthy will have &#8216;bid up&#8217; the prices on homes, educations, health care, cars, and other items.<br />
There are yet other results that follow from GOP &#8216;economics&#8217;.</p>
<p>Although the US economy produces tremendous wealth, it is always accompanied in GOP regimes by tremendous poverty. The US, for example, was most egalitarian in the years immediately following World War II. During GOP regimes, income inequality increased and is, in fact, measured with the GINI index. Higher Ginis indicate greater levels of income inequality. These indices have been significantly greater in every GOP regime since World War II.</p>
<p>Certainly &#8211;there is enough wealth to go around. Instead, wealth flows upward &#8212;not down, as the propagandists of &#8217;supply side&#8217; i.e. &#8216;trickle down theory&#8217; would have you believe. The problem is systemic &#8211;the result of identifiable, right wing policies.</p>
<p>The lower and working classes pay more than their fair share of taxes. The government has it backward. The government taxes labor and gives capital a free ride with numerous dodges. This is the recipe for the impending economic collapse, a collapse that appears to be well underway and beyond anyone&#8217;s power or ability to stop. But that has not stopped the government from playing it&#8217;s well-rehearsed role as the shakedown arm of the nation&#8217;s tiny and shrinking elite.</p>
<p>If because of GOP transfers of unearned wealth to this increasingly tiny elite of about one percent of the population, labor becomes unproductive or impoverished and the productivity of the nation declines. It will ultimately collapse like the house of cards that it is. That is what we see happening as I write this. If the poor can no longer afford decent housing or food because elites have bid up prices on commodities, the house of cards will not stand. If you can no longer afford decent housing, health care or food, you have then, perhaps recently under Bush, fallen off the ladder. It&#8217;s the GOP way&#8230;. excerpts from The Existentialist Cowboy, Nov. &#8216;08.</p>
<p>There will never be enough money in the world to pay back the huge debt the banks have created.( See Money as Debt movie online.) So, to postpone a money collapse of our system, the elite 1% needs to create an economic shift, a great change within the current monetary structure to ensure their status is sustaining.</p>
<p>We, as progressives, must educate ourselves in the current economic problems in order to help facilitate change. With certain calmness, and without radical provocation, we can seek a better way to create money and ensure the well being of everyone.</p>
<p>Tp</p>
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