Opening Day - A Holiday in Cincinnati

Well tomorrow is what I call the "high holy day" - Opening Day in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Reds are the 1st professional team in baseball (established 1869) and every season, we're the only team which begins its season at home.

Prior to the game, we'll have the annual Findlay Market parade, beginning at the market in the historic Over The Rhine section of Cincinnati. The whole town celebrates and we hope the Reds bring home a winner!

With the start of the season, check out our Baseball Emporium for lots of baseball books, Cincinnati Reds items and even copies of both the Cincinnati Enquirer and Cincinnati Post's tribute to the late, great Joe Nuxhall.

El Molino Best Recipes - 1953 Cookbook

I've added yet another listing to our cookbook section - a vintage 1953 El Molino Best Recipes cookbook. This volume is in a 13 ring binder, but the cover has become detached. Great looking recipes in there, including a whole section devoted to Allergy recipes for wheat, egg and milk allergies.

There are now six listings in our Cookbook section, so check them out. Yum!!!!

What's Cooking? New Cookbook Section to our Bookstore

I've added another section to our bookstore - cookbooks! I'm listing some today including a 1958 Good Housekeeping Cake Book, chock full of delicious cake recipes from years ago. Another is a five volume set of Favorite Recipes of America, a 1966 set of hardback cookbooks. I'll be adding some of my other cookbooks, so keep checking my bookstore for new editions.

Later today I'll be adding a fun titled - Vintage Cocktails, Authentic Recipes & Illustrations from 1920 to 1960 and Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised, signed by the late Tennessee Congressman, John Jennings Jr.

eCrater.com growing - reaches the One Million mark for listings!

I've been listing items on eCrater since last summer - but the site has been growing considerably since the boycott of eBay began in February. Following is a press release about eCrater.com reaching the 1,000,000 items listed mark.

Check out all the items I have listed on eCrater - and this blog entry for a breakdown of the store's sections.

http://tscsales.ecrater.com/ - our featured item is Cincinnati's famous Skyline Chili

eCRATER.com passed the 1,000,000 item count on Monday 3/10/08 !!!


Love to buy and sell online? Try www.ecrater.com for jewelry, books, fashion, antiques, electronics,etc.

eCrater is more than just a marketplace of fixed-price listings. It's a free web-hosting site where sellers manage their own stores (like eBay Stores but better organized).

On eCrater, shoppers can access an individual seller's site directly or may search for products from the main eCrater.com website (http://www.ecrater.com).

The beauty of eCrater is that it is so simple. Sellers can point their websites to their eCrater page using URL masking, so buyers will only see the seller's website address (not eCrater's). This makes it seem more professional, and more like your own website rather than a page on someone else's site (as you get with eBay Stores).

eCrater has a feedback feature just like eBay, and some of the better features of Feedback 2.0 were integrated, well before eBay launched them. eCrater allows sellers to accept PayPal and Google Checkout and has plans to add Amazon Payments.

Premium Listings

eCrater is completely free, but the site does offer premium positions. A position on the home page, which merchants can use to rotate their products, costs $100/month. (The position is booked through the end of March 2008.) A position on the top of all listings in a category costs $25/month per item and guarantees a premium top spot in the category.

New Features

eCrater also added a "mods" system. The idea is similar to the Wikipedia content control. Moderators make sure that all the listings belong in the correct category and are compliant with eCrater's policies. As a certified Google Checkout partner eCrater will make sure that all listings are compliant with Google Checkout's and Google Base's policies too.

Moderators receive a small icon next to their store name as a bonus for their efforts, making their stores stand out from the others.

See what I'm selling on iOffer.com

Now up & running on iOffer.com

I've added a store at iOffer.com so check out my items there too. I've got the chili listed there, plus I put up the NASCAR P&G Tide Racing jacket - make me an offer on the jacket. That's why they call it iOffer!