I overslept this morning, not just by the catastrophic 10 minutes that would wreck a commuter’s day, but by nearly six hours.

For me, that’s unheard of, but easily explained by the fact that I’ve been fighting an incoming head-cold for about three days already.  I guess last night my system just decided to shut down and go into maintenance mode.  Anyway, this morning I am foggy headed and my back aches from being horizontal for too long, and I generally don’t feel like doing any proper work, much less the massive research and rewrite task that is fast approaching deadline for a European magazine.  So, while slurping three large coffees, I let my mouse do the walking.

Strange where you end up when you do that.  Somehow I ended up on the survivingeBay.com blog – a site I hadn’t visited before – and discovered they’d been linking into BuildaSkill articles regularly, so I felt obliged to give them a link back.  In particular, I liked one of Sally’s posts from last month – a sort of diary style post that was the original core method behind the whole weblog phenomena.

Her 30-day challenge for Buying Books to Sell on Amazon is both entertaining and exceptionally informative.  It makes me extremely jealous that I’m unable to engage in that activity (Amazon doesn’t accept sellers in this country) even though I have a large number of suitable bookshops quite close to me.  However, I might give it a go for other sites, though I’m unlikely to try it on eBay.

The buying techniques she describes should work well for almost any site, not just Amazon, and in reality, should also work for pretty much any product, including brand new items in certain categories.  The fact it’s based around Skip McGrath’s buying bible helps, but the personalisation Sally put into it communicates the method very effectively.  Note her check-list at the bottom of the post.

Pop across to Sally’s site, have a read, and add your comments both there and here – being a blog-meister can be exceptionally lonely and unrewarding work when readers are not commenting on what you write.

Ed