Beth Cherkowsky

http://www.depressionglasswarehouse.com
Levittown Pa. 19056
215-946-6068
bcherkowsky@gmail.comFor Immediate Release:

Support Breast Cancer Research during October 2009 – Breast Cancer Awareness
Month

Last spring a popular, platinum eBay seller, 3rdPowerOutlet, ran a charity
auction benefiting Breast Cancer Research. John Lawson, aka ColderIce, with
a little help from his friends raised over $3000 for Breast Cancer Research
via eBay’s Giving Works Program. Inspired by Mr. Lawson’s (aka colderice),
a network of eBay, Bonanzle and Internet sellers have organized a new
campaign to raise money for Breast Cancer Research during October which is
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

Beginning October 1, 2009 we will be running an eBay auction per day of
“Fantasy Bras”. Creative confections with themes that are funny, beautiful
and inventive created by artists and crafts people celebrating the military,
their favorite hobbies (offroading) and car racing, flowers and dozens of
other themes. (pictures available upon request) Some notable eBay and
internet celebrities are joining the action by donating Fantasy Bras
including the original motivator, John “ColderIce” Lawson of 3rdPowerOutlet
and the ColderIce Blog, and Marsha Collier, author of the eBay for Dummies
series of books, Santa Shops at Ebay. Marsha is an eBay PowerSeller as well
as the Co-host of Computer Technology on wsradio.com at
http://www.marcandmarsha.com

All proceeds – 100% of the sale price of these auctions will go to Susan G.
Komen For the Cure – Headquarters – Certified for eBay Giving Works since
2003. MissionFish nonprofit ID 939.thru Giving Works (more information about
eBay Giving Works is available at http://givingworks.ebay.com/about.html).
Special thanks goes to eBay seller VMKinnovation
(http://stores.shop.ebay.com/VMK-Innovation) – who is donating a special
DoLife hat that will be included in each auction. The DoLife symbol
celebrates Life and offers hope.

Information and pictures of the donated fantasy bras and their creators will
be available here http://budurl.com/CharityBraAuction. This site will also
include links to each auction as it’s launched and information on the
proceeds of each auction.

Please join us starting on the evening of September 24th when the first
auction will launch at http://www.depressionglasswarehouse.com.

Our First Guest tonight is a repeat offender, I mean guest, LOL. We had so much fun with Julia Wilkinson that we asked her to come back for this episode to share her top tips for Garage Sale Product sourcing. Click on the house to visit Julia’s site Yardsalers.net where you can purchase a copy of her newest book, “Big Bucks Flips”. If you love the book – Julia has arranged for you the opportunity to become an affiliate and make a commission for recommending it.

Tonight we plan to pick Julia’s brain for her top tips to Source Products at local Garage sales for YOUR eCommerce business.

Our SURPRISE tonight is a regular Contributing Editor, PHAEDRA, our Bonanzle Brainstormer. Phaedra has a TWITTER contest for a FREE Seminar with her – be there and have your twiter fingers limbered up!

Tonight we have TWO special guests.

Guest #2 is Lynn Dralle – AKA The Queen Of Auctions. Click on her photo to visit her website where you can see her latest book, pick up a copy of a FREE eBook about “100 Best Things I’ve Sold on Ebay” from Lynn. You can also join her membership club, The Queen’s Court from there.

Tonight we will be picking Lynn’s brain about HOW to source product for your eCommerce business at Garage Sales around town!

Well, we all knew the folks at Bonanzle were special and this is just another opportunity for that fantastic community to shine! Auction Wally AKA Walt Kolenda, just published another fantastic Examiner Article on this Great St. Jude’s Fundraiser.

This Auction will be another Wally’s invention – the famous ONLINE LIVE Auction on Monday, June 1st, during Walt & Phaedra’s weekly Brainstorming Bonanzle Radio show on the TalkShoe Network.

If you are one of the 3 people on the planet not familiar with the work of St. Jude’s – just click to find out!

Featured lots will include:

• A customized Swarovski Crystal & Silver BraceletJohn Wayne Cowboy Poster
• Swarovski blue sapphire & sterling ring
• 2 beautiful hand carved folk art shore birds
• Canon Pixma All-in-one photo printer
• One of a kind hand made rag quilt tote

…and much more!

You must be a registered Bonanzle Site user to bid so register now. Remember, all items were donated by the owners and Bonanzle is waiving their fees (hint to the other sites! – good PR here!) so 100% of the sale proceeds goes directly TO St. Jude’s for their important work!

You can visit this booth to see all the wonderful items donated for this auction. So visit, register and bid high for St. Jude’s!

SushiBooFay

click on Her Logo Fish to visit her eBay Store!

This day’s victim, LOL, is Cat and she has some great info and stories for you!

1 – Please tell me about yourself and why you are an eCommerce entrepeneur?

The truth? It started out as a way to get rid of a bunch of stuff we had in storage after we sold our convenience stores. Then I started thinking of it as a way to supplement my Pet Sitting income. Now – I find I enjoy the challenge of selling online. I like finding stuff that I THINK will do well – and then seeing if it does. I’ve always loved antiques and this is a great way to incorporate my love of things old with owning my own business.

2 – how did you pick your business name and what you sell?

LOL….the name Sushiboofay comes from a woman I use to work with. She had a real southern drawl — and one day a bunch of us from work went out to eat at a Chinese place and they had a buffet. Someone commented that they had a sushi buffet and in this voice that sounds like melted butter she says…. “Suushii Boo Fay….sounds like a ‘lady of the evening’”…..Years later I still remembered that and how we all loved the name and had a great laugh over it….so when I started thinking about store names….that’s the one I went with!

As for selling – I sell a little of everything. Right now I’m getting into selling records and vintage clothes. I also have some Gone With The Wind plates that belonged to me, but we just don’t have room for – so I’ve been listing them. Next month – it will probably be something else. I love to keep updating!

3 – what online venues are you currently selling on and are there others you plan to expand to in the next year?

I primarily sell on EBay, but I’ve been fascinated by Bonanzle so list there too. I’m also on Amazon and iOffer. I use Sushiboofay on all of the sites right now so people can remember it and easily find me on whatever venue I may be on.

I will probably be on GEMM next. I’ve heard some good things about them and sounds like a great place to list record albums!

4 – What are your goals for your business in the next year?

I really want to push my online business to the next level. I have down as official goal for this year that I would like to make EBay Power Seller by July 1st — got a long way to go, but I love a good challenge!

Cat's Bonanzle Booth

(click on the Bonanzle logo to visit Cat’s Bonanzle booth)

5 – Tell me a favorite story about your eCommerce career.

I don’t really have a story about my career, but I do have a favorite customer. I sold a vintage cookie jar to a woman in Canada. I didn’t have “worldwide” marked, but she bid and won anyway (pretty big amount). She had ONE feedback. I just knew this was going to end badly — but then she wrote that she wanted to give it as a gift to her mother because they had one when she was growing up and it would bring back a lot of memories. I had to rethink the shipping — took about a week to get all my ducks lines up — I still wondered if it was going to turn out well or not….but I took a chance and sent it.

She was just thrilled went it arrived. Gave me some of the best feedback I had ever gotten. THAT made me feel good about taking a chance on someone….knowing there are still some decent people out there and I made one of them happy!

Cat is also a writer and has some of most FUN signature lines on our group. Here is the current one! click on the image to visit her blog.

Cat's Blog

Choosing a Camcorder by Cindy

I chose the video above because Cindy was the first person to bring the FLIP camera to my attention and I’m so glad she did! I’m now the proud owner of TWO! (both purchase online and used, of course!) and I appreciate her educating me to some of the many things this little wonder can do. And now, on to the interview . . .

1 – Please tell me about yourself and why you are an eCommerce entrepreneur?

I’m Cindy Shebley I’m an eBay Certified Business Consultant and Education Specialist. I’ve been a retail store owner since 1990. I used to own a traditional bricks and mortar store, a garden center. The thing about having a physical location is you never get away. I wanted a way to spend less time tied to the shop, while still working for myself. Then one day a friend told me about this great little site on the web called “eBay.” I checked it out and was hooked. We had inventory in the back store room that wasn’t selling and I thought I’d give this eBay thing a try…. after the stock room was cleared out I started thinking of other things I could sell. One thing lead to another and now I’m a full time online seller.

2 – how did you pick your business name and what you sell?

I have lots of dogs and cats – one cat, a tabby named Clover – she ruled the household. We used to joke about her being the “mayor of TabbyTown” – don’t ask me how, but that morphed into CloverCity. When I went online I wanted to sell something that was less seasonal than gardening and over time I rediscovered my love of photography. Now, I sell mostly photo lighting equipment, books and tools to help eBay and Online sellers.

3 – what online venues are you currently selling on and are there others you plan to expand to in the next year?

I sell on eBay, Amazon, Bonanzle, occasionally on Etsy and my own website. You can find me at:

eBay – www.clovercityphoto.com

Amazon – http://amazon.com/shops/clovercity

Bonanzle – http://www.bonanzle.com/booths/websellerscircle

Website: http://www.ghostleg.com

And my blog – http://clovercitysells.blogspot.com/

4 – What are your goals for your business in the next year?

I’ve found over the last few years I really enjoy coaching others. With that in mind my goal is to open a coaching and mentoring program. To that end I am about to open The Web Sellers’ Circle at http://websellerscircle.com – we expect it to be fully functional in June.

5 – Tell me a favorite story about your eCommerce career.

Surprisingly I’m not much of a collector – so stories about the stuff I sell now are pretty dull – I’ve sold a few things for others that were fun. An art glass collector hired me to teach him how to sell on eBay. When I arrived at his home, every surface was covered in art glass – Fenton, Chihuly, Tiffany, Steuben, etc. Well, I was amazed. He had so much that not only did I get him set up selling – I helped him sell some of the more valuable pieces. It’s pretty exciting to sell vintage art.

Another dropped off a box of vintage Barbie dolls and clothes from the early 1960’s. I spent hours sorting through and putting outfits together. She never lost pieces, so there were lots of complete outfits. Between the outfits and the Barbie bubble cut heads, Kens and body parts – LOL, actually a little creepy – we made enough for her and hubby to take a cruise. She bought a modern Ken doll and photographed him a board the ship and emailed them to me everywhere they stopped.

Can’t wait to follow your future, Cindy and I’m so glad to count you as a friend!

Kat

Marshell’s Blog

Marshell’s Squiddo Lens

Now, Marshell (accent on the SHELL!) is one of those neat people that you are sometimes fortunate enough to meet. Her positive attitude in the midst of some rather frustrating life events has impressed me many times through the months I’ve known her and her quest for knowledge is inspiring! So here she is . . . .

Marshell & Jimmy

1 – Please tell me about yourself and why you are an eCommerce entrepreneur?

I am a 49 (almost 50) grandma, mother, engaged to the most wonderful man on earth; and I love the Internet! Selling online to me is addictive…once you get really, truly interested in it, you can not get away…I’ve actually had withdrawals!! LOL

My boyfriend and I had started selling on eBay to get the extra money to buy a house and get married. I started selling on eBay as jaw1260, then went on as Jimmy and Marshell in a store. We decided the eBay store was too much to handle, so we closed it and went to Bonanzle

2 – how did you pick your business name and what you sell?

The business name was easy – Jimmy and Marshell is our “brand”.  I want my buyers to see me, and get to know me. I want them to feel they can ask me anything; to be able to talk freely to me.

I love collectibles, and have a lot of ’stuff”, so selling it is fun and profitable. And I love people, so this is a good job for me. I like it when I sell someone something they have been looking for.

3 – what online venues are you currently selling on and are there others you plan to expand to in the next year?

We are currently listed on Bonanzle, as JimmyandMarshell . I also sell as an affiliate for “The Baby Newspaper”

I intend to buy the software myself after we get moved and I have more room; then I can start this business as my own. It has so many possibilities…all for around 67 dollars! I’ll be able to sell online, but also from my home to folks locally. It’s just a great program.
We are still on eBay, just have not listed any auctions for a while. I want to start listing there again, too. I’m working on my own sellers website. I have a mock up written but no server for it yet. This will take time…

4 – What are your goals for your business in the next year?

Next year? Well, first off, I want to be in a position where we can have the baby newspaper going, and I would love for Jimmy The Junk Man to take off. I know it’s not strictly online, but I can, have and will sell some of the items he has found while junking.

5 – Tell me a favorite story about your eCommerce career…

Well, it all started with Jimmy junking! He had a can of stuff in the back of my truck to take to the local junk yard. I’m curious by nature, and of course I went to investigate. In one of the cans i found a watch fob…he said it was just junk. I said it was worth money!
I was right! It was a 1926 gypsy tour watch fob that went for 60 some dollars on eBay! So, now, he comes and gets me to look over his “junk” for my junk” LOL!!! Showed him!

Last week, one of the contributors had a great idea – a DSR Blog Tour! So you, my lovely reader, are going to get to know all my fellow DSR Blog editors.  This is going to be a lot of fun!

My first ‘interviewee AKA The Victim’ Is someone you all Know well and hear her each week on the Show! Mz Beth Cherkowsky. So now you will know her even better!

1 – Please tell me about yourself and why you are an eCommerce entrepreneur?

I’m a veteran mail order seller in the collectibles area. Did that for 30+ years. Depression Glass, Art Pottery and then in the 90’s Action figures. I’m in eCommerce because no one wanted to hire a short, fat, mouthy 55 year old when I needed a job again. So I went from “hobby seller” to Powerseller in 30 days.

2 – how did you pick your business name and what do you sell?

We’ve gone thru a couple of names. I was Action Figure Alley back in the 90’s (even on eBay and Amazon). I wanted Queen of the Auctions but Lynn Draille beat me to it so since we always collected depression glass and we’d bought a mother lode of depression glass at an auction two weeks in a row, we became Depressionglasswarehouse on ebay.

3 – what online venues are you currently selling on and are there others you plan to expand to in the next year?

I sell on Ebay, Amazon, the Usenet Google groups, Bonanzle, Biblio and soon…my own website again. The expansion plans are to move to my own website. I’ll use eBay for quick turn over but put most stuff on my website for the long haul

4 – What are your goals for your business in the next year?

To increase sales by 20% – We did $49,000+ Gross Sales last year. I want $60K for 2009

5 – Tell me a favorite story about your eCommerce career.

Back in 1993, pre-ebay I used to buy cases of action figures at wholesale from manufacturers like Kenner/Hasbro (when Meg Whitman was their CEO), diecast from a Hotwheels/Nascar distributor, wholesale fromMcFarland Toys, etc. I had a very rudimentary website set up and got calls all month. I was selling about $3,000 a month in TOYS!! stuff like we bought my son at Woolworths or Kaybee. But I was getting them wholesale. In 1996, I met with a toy company employee at Toy Fair in New York and she mentioned they had a trailer load of a “chase figure” that had gone unclaimed. (well 2 different ones actually) Chase figures are the one figure in the box that is made in short supply for a variety of reasons, could be the modeling, generally it’s a villain or a female character. So I asked about buying a case or so. She came back about a month later and said $5.99 each. I think she thought I’d buy a case or 2. So I bought I think 20 cases of each. I sold the individual figures on my website and most went in the $50-60 range – some as high as $100. At the time in 1996, the Japanese economy was roaring and they were fanatical collectors of action figures in this toy line. So one afternoon I got a call from a man in California who wanted whatever I had left in those two figures. I said $500 a case – 12 figures to a case PLUS you pay shipping. He said yes. He paid by credit card for 12 cases, $6,000 and I shipped them that day. HE was taking them as “baggage” on a plane to Japan later that week and he already had a deal to get $100 a piece for the figures. So he doubled his money on each case and I got about an 1000% profit ($600 divided by $60) . In fact, with that money and some savings, we closed down our ebay store and traveled thru Europe for 5 weeks. I hope to make another “wise” investment like that any day now. (from my mouth to God’s ears).

I’ve only known Dar for about six months and have been so impressed. Folks on the group we met on would repeatedly send in anonymous Glass items and ask if anyone knew about them. Dar never failed to give useful information and great keywords to help them identify and even more importantly SELL the pieces! It just looked like a pretty glass item to me but Dar would jump in there with names, color names, design names and more. I was astounded. I’m SO glad she agreed to make her public debut. Beth & I have been telling her for a long time that she was our ‘Glass Encyclopedia’. We encouraged her to blog about her knowledge and she has begun!  Click here to visit Dar’s blog

Dar has been an active seller on eBay for several years and has just recently started branching out.

Recalling The Past – is her own website

or you can

Dar's Degenhart Lidded Bowls