ATR is OTR! New Podcast Means We're Back "On The Air"

Well, we can now really say that Auction Talk Radio is back, since our bit of ersatz radio via the ol' www means ATR's once again "on the air."

To hear the complete episode, click here.
8 mb, MP3 file


(We may have a quiz later, so take notes, okay?)

In this edition of "Auction Talk Radio"....

*Sellers' Strike II or Boycott Blues?

*Just 'cause you're off eBay doesn't mean your auctions have to be offline!

*Fakes, Frauds, and Phishing, oh my!

And...

...more.

As we note in the podcast, Frank reviewed four online platforms eBayers may want to consider as alternate auction sales venues should they choose to participate in the upcoming boycott:

auctionPlanet.com

OnlineAuctions.com (OLA)

Overstock.com

eCrater.com

A few notes:

We'll also have the text of Frank's Rant up here soon.

At 23+ minutes in length, we'll concede this 'cast ran way long, but we had a lot to cover. Future 'casts will be under 20 minutes. On that note, constraints of time (really) meant we didn't get the chance to touch on a story about an online classified site targeting Craigslist. We'll have an outline of this on our main page Monday and more about it in our next podcast. Look for that April 1st - no foolin'!

New ATRcast COMING SOON!

Now that we're back up again, you're likely wondering about the "radio" aspect of Auction Talk RADIO. ANYBODY can put up a few bits of text and call their site a blog, right? True that. With our stated goals for the evolution of this enterprise, getting a new series of 'casts produced, regularly posted and available for you is a paramount priority. Yet producing a podcast requires a bit more in the way of equipment and time than does crafting our daily take on some of the news in and of the auction culture, at least by our standards.

Though it takes very little for anyone to make a podcast, our goal is to bring you something you can't get from just anyone: a professional, well-produced, informative and, we hope, entertaining audio presentation.

As can be clearly heard here, we haven't always been entirely successful to this end. Having, as we did, to sequester studio time when it became available, some our archived audio was recorded with less deliberation than we'd have otherwise liked.

Now that we're back at this, we aim to display an evolution in all that we present here, espcially our podcasts. Look for a new ATRcast sometime in the next week or so, at the latest. You deserve nothing less than our best.

(We got that last line right out of the book, "How to Kiss Up to Your Customers," now in paperback.)