I very recently posted an auction for my old Dell Inspiron 6000 (take a look if you like). She’s obviously old and has seen better days, but hopefully somebody will find it useful as a parts laptop. The challenge here was to make an older laptop look half-way decent in an eBay listing photo. How to do it? Here’s how:Yes, I know the laptop is old...

Simply put: something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. No matter the item and regardless of what it is appraised for or what ‘book value’ says it is worth, it boils down to what someone can actually sell it for. A great way to find out what virtually anything is worth is by using eBay’s completed listings tool. By using a...

If you do a lot of buying on eBay, going through the standard interface has some limitations with the most obvious being that you have to refresh the page to get the most up-to-date bidding information. To overcome this limitation and introduce new functionality not available via the web interface, check out eBay Desktop. Features:Access eBay through an...

Said honestly it’s amazing that if you ask someone, "Where’s the best place to buy or sell stuff online?", the the typical answer is "eBay". I disagree with this. The best place is Craigslist (abbreviated commonly as just "CL"). First, a few facts about CL:It’s been around just as long as eBay has (since 1995)....

So you’ve got an old computer that you don’t use anymore. It’s in decent working order and you’ve taken care of it, but rather than let it sit in the closet/garage/wherever you want to put it on eBay and make a few bucks. What commands the best value? Laptops are always worth more than desktops Laptops always and without fail command a...

We recently had a laptop battery go dead (well, it wouldn’t hold a charge for over 10 minutes) on us and needed a replacement. The laptop (a Dell), itself is about 3 year old but running like a champ (knock on wood). So we call up Dell and find out the battery will cost over $300 and wouldn’t ship for over a month… seriously. No thanks we said...

If you do any form of communication over the Internet, online frauds and scams are something you always have to be wary of. I have been fortunate enough to avoid such scams as I keep my email reasonably locked down, have a relatively good “BS detector” and am overall a tad bit on the cynical side (only slightly though!… maybe…). That...