from Rebecca
As the temperature starts heating up here in Chico, CA, so does the in-office competition for a friendly eBay sales challenge. It all started when Robert Green, our in-house “spokes model” (or communications manager, whatever you want to call him), successfully sold a few items on eBay this month. I was biding my time and hadn’t sold anything yet in June.
Mid-May to mid-June is a really busy time of year for me, with Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, graduations and several other important days all falling close together. So I rarely post eBay listings during these weeks.
But when Mr. Green started taunting me about how many sales he had already in June—a whopping four, woohoo!—I couldn’t just sit back and take his trash talk. It’s ironic how I use the word “trash,” considering what he sold: Used shoes and old phones. Hehe. He even went so far as to write the “score” on my whiteboard: “Robert 4, Rebecca 1.”
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Every spring, a storm begins a-brewin’ here at Auctiva. I like to refer to it as the battle of good and evil.
I’d compare it to King Leonidas vs. Xerxes, or Darth Vader vs. Luke Skywalker. I’m talking, of course, about the Oakland Athletics versus the San Francisco Giants. This past weekend was one of the interleague rivalry series, which meant the Giants made their way across the Bay to play the A’s.
The A’s swept the Giants, btw—something that made me very happy as a long-time A’s fanatic.
But Giants fans, no doubt, hated the loss. You see, when it comes to Major League Baseball, Northern California, where our Chico campus is located, has long been divided into two warring camps: Giants fans and A’s fans. Sure, some prefer other teams. For instance, our Communications Manager Robert Green is a Yankees fan and has a not-so-secret man crush on Derek Jeter. But most baseball lovers in our area consider themselves either A’s or Giants fans. You can see this division here in our Chico offices, too.
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To enter Auctiva’s Twitter contest:
- Step 1: Follow Auctiva on Twitter
- Step 2: Tweet any message including “#Auctiva”
Example: “I’ve been using #Auctiva for 3 years!”
- Step 3: Re-enter the contest as many times as you wish, limiting your contest tweets to once a day
* Entrants must have an Auctiva account (this includes our Free Tools account), be active followers of Auctiva.com on Twitter and have a minimum of 5 followers to participate.
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February 26th, 2010
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Here at Auctiva, we work closely with eBay to make sure we stay in sync with its policies and features, while providing you with the best service we can. As part of this close relationship, eBay employees occasionally visit our Chico offices.
Anytime eBay makes the three-and-a-half-hour drive from San Jose to Chico, you can feel extra energy in the air. Usually we don’t get more than a day or two notice before our guests arrive—which doesn’t give me much time to organize my junk—I mean, inventory. I have a mountain of shoe boxes, bags of Webkinz and Club Penguin plush toys, and stacks of anything and everything in my two cubicles—all waiting to be listed.
eBay’s most recent visit was last week. Most of their time here was spent in meetings with our management team, but our visitors did find a few minutes before they left to swing by my workspace and ask me a few questions about selling. I took it as quite a compliment to be a stop on their tour of our offices. And to be perfectly honest, I was a little nervous, too.
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September 22nd, 2009
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What does it mean to be “green?”
As Kermit the Frog once sang, it’s not easy being green—or is it? Of course our favorite Muppet wasn’t referring to the same “being green” that’s become the mantra of the 21st century.
With eBay launching its Give. Good. Green. campaign this month, we thought about the ways Auctiva tries to be more environmentally friendly. We’ve had separate recycling bins for aluminum, paper and plastic in all of our offices for a very, very long time.
There are also bins for recycling batteries and we donate used computers and monitors to our local Computers for Classrooms program.
The printers in our many offices sit silent for most of the day. Instead, our staff communicates via e-mail, instant messaging, phone and in person, of course.
Our break room has a water filtration system, but no disposable cups—you’ve got to bring your own reusable cup or your favorite Kleen Kanteen (which, by the way, originated here in Chico, CA).
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