Right now is the perfect time to stock up on  your ebooks:

Big Deals on eBooks from Bn.com- Download now and save with our NOOKBooks offer!

If you already have ePubs or pdf files you can use those on your nook too as long as they are not protected by the author. I will post more as I do research on this topic.

Check this out:

Meijer will be featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Tues., Dec. 28 – Tune in!

And my favorite offer from Meijer since I have a 2 month old granddaughter!:

Free Shipping on all Diapers & Training Pants

Her storefronts are so elegant and enticing that I believe I may purchase one myself if I reopen my eBay store for December! Check out this Black Filigree and Ribbons Store Front Header Package or the Glitzy Diamond Bling Full eBay Store Front Package.

The eBay listing templates are equally nice with a variety such as Sexy Brown Glamour Auction Template, Awesome Hot Fashion Auction Template and Romantic Gold & Diamond Jewelry Auction Template.

Have an idea for a great store front or auction template but don’t have the time, patience or knowledge to pull it off? Visit Eyez2blues-Everything-Store and request a quote on a project.

Giving credit where it is due is sometimes hard to do when a company leaves a bitter taste in your mouth with its continuous increasing of fees but I think it is time that they are given credit for something they are doing now that I think is a very valuable move on their part.

eBay has a project underway that allows users to opt in to participate in the new changes in the website development and it is being termed “Garden by eBay”.

What on Earth is Garden by eBay you might be muttering to yourself right now the same way I did when I saw the announcement which didn’t fully impress me much at the time, but now I have seen it in action. Kudos to the web developers at eBay or whomever is to thank for allowing us to take part in the new features.

At the Garden of eBay you can opt in as I said earlier to a few options and give feedback that goes directly to the individuals working on that project. Do you know what that means? Yes, they are really listening to your feedback unlike when you simply send them a suggestion and your one of thousands if not millions of emails going to the same dark hole of unread or unseen emails that never get a response.

Granted I am not sure they can contact all of us back or have too much interaction but knowing that your feedback is getting to the right department is a huge change by itself.

If you haven’t been to eBay lately just drop in and take a peek at the new look. It’s lighter and faster. Not that it ever really stopped me from using eBay but it had become cluttered somewhat.

Areas they are changing that you can opt in to during their testing include:

• Streamlined search
• New Homepage Concepts:

Concept 1 – Fast and Simple

Concept  2 – Simple and Engaging

Concept 3 – Rich and Robust

• eBay Simple Lister
• Diamond Ring Designer

Some of these probably aren’t for you to worry about but now is your chance to take part and speak your mind on their “improvements”. After they implement changes I always hear complaints about how terrible they are so be sure to go by, test them out, and report your feedback.

Read more about the announcement here.

You can visit Garden by eBay here.

Signing up was relatively painless so I will browse around a bit and post more at a later date with more details on how easy it is to use and some ideas of how to use this site to your best benefit.

I would like to point out that new and growing auction sites offer a great deal of benefit to anyone looking to find a good deal. Less competition than the big sites means more opportunity for those who like to swoop in and get a great bargain.

Here is an example of a potentially good opportunity this site has an auction I will be watching closely for a PS3 that is used but still a great bargain with a bid start of $.01. See the auction here

A couple more auctions that have potential to be great steals are listed below.

Wii System w/Wii Sports

Windows XP Professional

We all know what happens when an item becomes hard to find anywhere else it ends up on eBay with jacked up prices. Recently I have been researching the Nintendo Wii Plus with Balance Board listings on eBay and have found that they are going for as much as $168.50 when the original list price is $99.99. I wanted to wait to get one until the prices went down when it was released in October, 2009 so my son bought me a regular Wii Fit with Balance Board to get me by.

I am going to show you some listings that as of today are all under $10 bidding and maybe you can get a good deal on the Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board.

Since you are looking for a Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board I will not go into details about the product because I assume you know what it is. I am just going to list 3 links here in no particular order  and tell you what the bid price was at the time I looked it up today but at the bottom I will put an eBay widget with all of the search results for that listing.

New NINTENDO Wii FIT PLUS GAME WITH BALANCE BOARD .99 bid

NEW 1 NINTENDO Wii FIT PLUS WITH BALANCE BOARD No bid start .99

New Wii Fit Plus (with Balance Board) (Wii, 2009) NIB 2 bids 1.30 (comes with a bonus item check it out!)