Bkheavy, the forum on eBid is full of advice from regular forum posters to new sellers about how to do business on this site. New sellers can get a rough ride here if they make comments that the regular posters to the forum do not like. The one thing that is missing from all of this is feedback from the new sellers on what difference taking the advice makes. Would you mind to do this site a favour please. Do what everybody is suggesting in this thread and then in two months time come back and let everybody know what difference it made. I think that it would be really helpful to have that feedback so that the relevance of the advice can be assessed.
To give you a different viewpoint, I had a look at some of your listings and if I were into collecting photos of trains would be quite happy to buy from your listings without an About Me page and flashy listings. If I buy from a site like eBid, the most important factors influencing my purchasing decision are having enough information about what I am buying and having confidence that I will get what I have paid for and that the site will take action against any problem sellers. There was enough information about your photos in the listings that I looked at for me to decide to buy. I would usually have a quick look at selling feedback if I wanted to check out the reliability of a seller but obviously that it not possible for new sellers here. In your case, having been on eBid for a while, I know that eBid management would deal with any problems that I had with you as a seller.
I am not interested in About Me pages as they are not particularly relevant to the product being listed and anyway I do not have the time to keep looking at About Me pages. Also, about Me pages have to be written carefully. Some of the About Me pages that I have seen on eBid in the past have not been very business like and have given a poor impression of the sellers and would have put me off buying.
As it is supposed to be the Season of Goodwill, I hope that you are able to take some time to enjoy the festive season and send you friendly Seasons Greetings! I hope that you will have a successful time on eBid.