I’ve been using ScoutPal since shortly after the company was founded and have always had good things to say about it. In fact, although I’ve never actually written a review about the service, I’ve recommended it in posts here on numerous occasions.

One thing I’ve always liked about ScoutPal has been it’s reliability. A few weeks ago that reliability began to deteriorate. For me, things came to a head this morning in a thrift store when it became necessary to log-in eleven times just to check five books.

When I got home I decided to do some checking and discovered there are a lot of users around the country who are having the same problem. The service that these other subscribers and I am getting at the current time is not acceptable considering what we are paying each month for the service.

If any readers are currently considering subscribing to ScoutPal’s service, I would recommend that they don’t subscribe at the present time. If the problems ScoutPal is currently having are corrected, ScoutPal may once again be a reliable service. Until that time though, I wouldn’t recommend that anyone start a new subscription.

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Recently I’ve been reading two newer blogs that relate to selling on eBay that, if you haven’t already found them on your own, you may find interesting.

Lizard Wisdom is less than two months old and so far appears to be targeted at people primarily interested in selling wholesale and drop-shipped items.

As most of you know, I’m not a big advocate of that business model, but the blog contains some pretty good post related to selling on eBay in general. I get the impression that Marshall and Joli have actually made this business model work for them so if this is an approach some readers are interested in taking, then this is a blog you may want to put in your RSS reader.

A couple of their general selling posts to get you started are The Benefits Of Opening An eBay Store and Finding The Right Product To Sell On eBay.

Daryle Lambert has been writing The Guy In The Red Tie since last October. While the blog isn’t specifically about selling on eBay, it is about making money with antiques and collectibles.

A lot of what Daryle writes about concerns higher quality pottery, glass, and art work. Some of these areas are ones I personally deal quite heavily in, but don’t write much about here, because you don’t come across them that often and you can get hurt in with them if you don’t really know what you are doing.

I’ve talked on the phone with Daryle a few times and he is someone who knows what he’s talking about. While his posts aren’t a one-stop complete education on these kind of items, they usually provide information for further reading and study, making them excellent jumping-off points for anyone wanting to learn more about any of these kind of antiques.

The Guy In The Red Tie is just part Daryle’s “31 Club” membership site. I’m not a subscriber to the membership site, so I have no idea of the quality of the content inside, but if readers are interested in exploring quality antiques on their own, the blog itself is a great place to get started.

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I’ve been using MarketWorks as a listing/auction management service for a lot of years without any problems. Then, within a nine month period, they inadvertently deleted all my images from their database. The second time it happened I began looking at other services that provided the features I needed.

Over the last few months I’ve registered with several management services for their free trails. I never got to the point of actually listing an auction with any of them because once I got into the actual day-to-day workings of each, none of them offered all the features I viewed as ‘must-haves’.

Then two weeks ago I decided to take a look at InkFrog. After poking around it’s insides for a week I didn’t find any of the drawbacks that all the others had, so I decided to take them for a test drive.

I used InkFrog for the twenty-six items that are currently live on eBay and for twenty-one more that will go live later today. I won’t get a ‘real time’ look at how InkFrog handles after-auction duties until later tonight, but if no problems pop up tonight, I will definitely be using InkFrog on a full-time basis.

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