Hey! I don't consider myself an expert in any sense of the word--and welcome any and all tasty little morsels of experience and/or wisdom that anyone more experienced than I can offer. That being said, I'd love to share what I have learned thus far and welcome discussion.

Most of you know that I'm a Mom...Shiro, Ash, Scarlet and Katie102--whom you've not met--since she doesn't type or read yet...are all mine. I love to keep my beloveds in shiny pixels--but that was getting WAY more expensive than even I could attempt to justify to their Dad eek SO, I've been trying to make gold using gold instead of buying with REAL money. As the crazy guy says: Buy Low Sell High!

Here are all the helpful tips and hints that I've gathered so far:

1) Use Firefox instead of Explorer since Firefox allows you to have your password already loaded--which could cut your "sniping" time down by as much as half. If you absolutely can not use Firefox, at least have your password saved on your "clipboard" by typing it and copying it--so you can just use "control" V to paste it where prompted to.

2) Use F11 to increase your page size so that you may see more of the page, this is especially useful when checking through any set of listings that allow for multiple listings, like inks for example.

3) When you are going through multiple listings--use the "Display 100" option, this also allows for faster viewing.

4) "Camp" on the "Just Added" page in the MarketPlace--clicking on "First" to refresh the page this allows you to check for multiple item listings and for different items--be especially alert though--it's killer competition!

5) You're other option as far as "camping" is concerned, is the item description page of your particular item--the advantage to this is that the "Buy Now" is always in the same spot--so you can once again, cut down on sniping time by clicking on the first item link--and then moving your cursor over the first "Buy Now" before the page even finishes loading--this way you can JUMP on it--move your cursor over to where the password field will be before it finishes loading too--as I mentioned, competition is TOUGH in the MP.

I would love to encourage any/everyone to learn marketing skills, as they have certainly enhanced my enjoyment of the site--it's NICE to be able to donate some when I want to....and of course--I LOVE to give stuff to my kids.

Please-PLEASE share any helpful hints I may have missed!