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How to Sell on eBay
- eBay The First 10 Years
eBay: The First 10 Years. Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site then called...
- EBay Income Possibilities
EBay Income Possibilities. If youve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make it isnt unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on...
- What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay
What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay. So youve decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw...
- A Beginner's Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types
A Beginners Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types. Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their...
- Staying Out of Trouble with eBay's Listing Policies
Staying Out of Trouble with eBays Listing Policies. While you can sell most things on eBay, quite a few things are banned. If you try to sell any of these things then eBay will remove your auction...
- Learning the eBay Lingo
Learning the eBay Lingo. Do you have trouble sometimes understanding when people talk about eBay? Dont worry, some of the jargon is really obscure, and you cant be expected to understand it until...
- 5 Simple Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction
5 Simple Steps to Posting Your First eBay Auction. Its surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Heres what you need to do. Step 1: Open an eBay sellers account. If...
- An eBay Seller's Checklist
An eBay Sellers Checklist. Being a seller is a lot of responsibility, and sometimes you might feel like youre not doing everything you should be. This simple checklist will help you keep on top of...
- What's Your eBay Reputation Really Worth
Whats Your eBay Reputation Really Worth? Your eBay reputation is everything you are on eBay without it, youre nothing. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make. If youve ever...
- Is the eBay Customer Always Right
Is the eBay Customer Always Right? I can answer this question for you right now: the answer is yes. In fact, the answer is YES! the biggest yes youve ever heard. Of the course the customer is always...
- 10 Sure fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business
10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business. Its surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if youre not careful sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you...
- 10 Steps to Successful Selling on eBay
10 Steps to Successful Selling on eBay. So you want to be a successful seller with your own eBay business, do you? Heres a simple, ten-step path to eBay enlightenment. Step 1: Identify your market....
- eBay Part Time or Full. How to Decide
eBay Part Time or Full? How to Decide. Going full-time as an eBay seller is living the dream: making a real income, working from home, being your own boss and all the rest of it. Its the promise of a...
- How to Think Like an eBay PowerSeller
How to Think Like an eBay PowerSeller. So whats a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are the people on eBay whove made it, recognisable by the little PowerSeller badge next to their name. Youve probably seen...
- How to Use eBay to Grow Your Other Businesses
How to Use eBay to Grow Your Other Businesses. Most of the people who make money from eBay dont actually make all of that money on eBay. There are all sorts of ways you can use eBay to give your...
- Taming the eBay Search Engine
Taming the eBay Search Engine. If you know what youre doing, you can quickly find what youre looking for on eBay and the more you know about how buyers find you, the easier youll find it to be found....
- How to Choose the Right eBay Product Category
How to Choose the Right eBay Product Category. Some people think its easy to choose the right eBay category, and often it is. Sometimes, though, it might not be quite clear exactly what to go for....
- eBay Title Writing Tips
eBay Title Writing Tips. Trying to be help your buyers find your auctions can be a truly daunting task. Most people only search eBay by title, not by description, and that means that you only have...
- eBay Description Writing Tips
eBay Description Writing Tips. Once youve drawn the buyers in with your title, the next thing to do is to tell them all about your item with the description. But just what should you write in your...
- 10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response
10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response. So youve got the buyer in front of your auction, and theyve read the description. Theyre must be interested, or they wouldnt be looking but just how can you...
- How to Turn eBay Bidders into Long term Customers
How to Turn eBay Bidders into Long-term Customers. Once someones bought something from you on eBay, you suddenly have all sorts of details on them. In marketing terms, this information is gold dust....
- What. You Don't Have an eBay Store
What? You Dont Have an eBay Store? In fact, you might not even have heard of eBay stores. Read on to find out what youve been missing. eBay stores come at three levels: Basic for $15.95 per month,...
- How to Avoid Being a Victim of eBay Buyer's Fraud
How to Avoid Being a Victim of eBay Buyers Fraud. From everything youve heard about the risk of fraud on eBay, you might think its only buyers getting scammed but you couldnt be more wrong. Here are...
- Should PayPal be Your Only eBay Payment Option
Should PayPal be Your Only eBay Payment Option? You may have noticed that many sellers list PayPal as the only payment option they accept they simply cant be bothered cashing cheques and money...
- What Else Belongs on Your eBay Shipping Box
What Else Belongs on Your eBay Shipping Box? The quickest answer I feel I should give to this question is this: not your handwriting! Scrawling addresses on boxes with a pen is extremely amateurish,...
- How to Increase Your eBay Backend Sales
How to Increase Your eBay Backend Sales. It shouldnt too hard to increase your eBay backend sales because the chances are you currently arent making any! Backend sales are sales to customers who have...
- How to Reduce eBay Buyer Complaints
How to Reduce eBay Buyer Complaints. Buyers are funny creatures, arent they? One minute theyre over the moon because theyve got themselves a bargain, and the next theyre upset because their bargain...
- How to Respond to an eBay Buyer's Complaint
How to Respond to an eBay Buyers Complaint. At some point in your eBay selling life, one of your customers is going to send you a complaint. As long as you respond to it properly, however, its easy...
- Turn Your eBay Shipping Costs into a Profit Center
Turn Your eBay Shipping Costs into a Profit Center. You might think that shipping costs are simple: surely you just add up the price of your items postage and the price of packing materials, and...
- When NOT to Use Buy Now
When NOT to Use Buy Now. As you get more experienced on eBay, you might be tempted to use fixed price auctions, just so you can budget better. Its often more reassuring to know that either you will...
- How do Dutch Auctions Work on eBay
How do Dutch Auctions Work on eBay? A multiple-item (Dutch) auction is an auction where more than one of the same item is being sold at once. There are two kinds of Dutch auctions. Without Bidding....
- How to Stop eBay Auction Sniping
How to Stop eBay Auction Sniping. Every day, hapless bidders get beaten to the punch by auction snipers who jump in at the last minute. I know how annoying it can be, as I once had it happen to me...
- How to Turn eBay Returns into Profits
How to Turn eBay Returns into Profits. Dont worry, getting items returned happens to everyone eventually. You cant satisfy all of the people all of the time, and occasionally someones going to want...
- The Myths and Magic of eBay Drop Shipping Vendors
The Myths and Magic of eBay Drop-shipping Vendors. If youve never heard of drop shipping, then prepare to be impressed it sounds like every eBay sellers dream. With drop shipping, you dont have to...
- How eBay Consignment Centers Work
How eBay Consignment Centers Work. You might not ever have heard of eBay consignment centers dont worry, most people havent, as theyre a relatively new concept. The idea is that you drop off anything...
- Seasonal Selling on eBay
Seasonal Selling on eBay. When you sell on eBay, its important to know how to take advantage of the kinds of markets you encounter in the different seasons. As a rule, the summer months are slow and...
- Are There Any eBay Secrets That Are Worth Buying
Are There Any eBay Secrets That Are Worth Buying? If you look around a little on the web, youll no doubt come across people trying to sell you ebooks about eBays secrets for as much as $20. Heres a...
- How to Use eBay's Second Chance Offer Feature
How to Use eBays Second Chance Offer Feature. When someone wins your auction, you might think thats the end of it. In fact, you can offer the item to anyone else who bid in the auction but didnt win....
- What You Can Learn from Competing eBay Auctions
What You Can Learn from Competing eBay Auctions. If youve a savvy businessperson, the chances are youve already taken a look at your competitors auctions. What you might not have realised is just how...
- How to Determine What's Really Selling on eBay
How to Determine Whats Really Selling on eBay. If you want to make the most money you can on eBay, then you need to know what sells. But how can you find that out? The Manual Way. If youre just...
- 10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay
10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay. So youre having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit? Well, youve come to the right place. Garage sales. The chances...
- How to Dispute Unfair Ratings on eBay
How to Dispute Unfair Ratings on eBay. So youve done everything you can to keep your buyers happy but still someones left you negative feedback! You dont think its fair, either because you fixed the...
- How to Get Help from eBay's SafeHarbor Team
How to Get Help from eBays SafeHarbor Team. SafeHarbor are the eBay police department. If a buyer does something they're not supposed to, then it's SafeHarbor you should be reporting it to....
- Top 10 Reasons Why eBay Auctions Fail
Top 10 Reasons Why eBay Auctions Fail. Are you finding that auction after auction fails to attract any bidders or buyers? It happens to the best of us sometimes take a good look at these things to...
- Should You Run Auctions on Other Sites Besides eBay
Should You Run Auctions on Other Sites Besides eBay? eBay doesnt have very many competitors, and the ones that there are remain small by comparison thats part of what makes eBay so powerful for niche...
- Is Your eBay Income Taxable
Is Your eBay Income Taxable? The income you get from selling items on eBay is just like the income you get from any other business: it is taxable, at least in theory. In practice, many get away...
- Why Adding Pictures Increases eBay Bid Response
Why Adding Pictures Increases eBay Bid Response. Buyers really like pictures. The more pictures you have, the more theyll feel like buying their item from you, and not from your competitor. In fact,...
- eBay Auction Pricing Strategies
eBay Auction Pricing Strategies. If your items arent selling, then you might have a bad pricing strategy. There as many pricing strategies in the world as there are buyers if you look at two...
- How Long Should your eBay Auction Run
How Long Should your eBay Auction Run? When it comes to durations, you have a wide range of choices: your auction can run for 10, 7, 5 or 3 days, or even only one day if you have a good enough...
- How to Increase Your Auction's Visibility on eBay
How to Increase Your Auctions Visibility on eBay. Once youve optimised your titles for search terms and your items have short durations to get them near the top of the results, theres really only one...
- Creating eBay Selling Opportunities by Communicating with Your Buyer
Creating eBay Selling Opportunities by Communicating with Your Buyer. One thing many eBay sellers neglect is to actually communicate with their buyers not with some automated suggestion system, but...
- How to Leave Great Buyer Feedback
How to Leave Great Buyer Feedback. So your buyer has paid on time, youve shipped them the item, and theyve left you positive feedback. Everything is going great! You know that leaving your buyer some...
- How to Use the eBay Checkout Service
How to Use the eBay Checkout Service. Back in the old days of eBay, getting payment for the item was entirely left up to sellers: you had to choose your payment service, sign up for it and then send...
- How to Use eBay Listing Tools
How to Use eBay Listing Tools. Listing tools automate the process of adding listings to eBay, to stop you having to go through the Sell Your Item process every time. There is a surprising amount of...
- How to Market Your eBay Business
How to Market Your eBay Business. So you want to market your eBay business? Well, you probably wont have too much luck with traditional marketing methods theyre just not targeted enough. The best way...
- How to Use eBay's Promotional Flyer Tool
How to Use eBays Promotional Flyer Tool. If you have an eBay store, then you can print off promotional flyers for it for free. You might have seen ones that other sellers have sent you theyre...
- How to Report and Handle eBay Transaction Problems
How to Report and Handle eBay Transaction Problems. Even when there arent any disputes, you might run into a few transaction problems on eBay glitches that arent really anyones fault, but are just...
- Tips for Managing Multiple eBay Auctions
Tips for Managing Multiple eBay Auctions. It can be very time-consuming to keep your auctions ticking along, especially if you have hundreds listed at a time. Dont despair, though: there are a few...
- When and How to Cancel an eBay Auction Early
When and How to Cancel an eBay Auction Early. One day, you might decide that you want to end an auction early. Before you do, though, you should consider why you want to do it: cancelling auctions...
- Special Rules for Selling Software on eBay
Special Rules for Selling Software on eBay. Computer software is one of the biggest sellers on eBay after all, everyone using eBay has a computer, dont they? There can be problems, however, if you...
- The Power of eBay Store Newsletters
The Power of eBay Store Newsletters. eBay Stores come with a very powerful feature: store newsletters. When buyers add your store to their favourites, you can offer them the chance to join your...
- 10 Tips for Being a Better Seller
10 Tips for Being a Better Seller. If youve got this far, youve got the basics of eBay. There are a few things left, though, that you might not have thought of trying. Quite a few of these tips go...
- A Look at Third Party eBay Tools
A Look at Third Party eBay Tools. There are plenty of companies out there offering third party eBay tools. Most of them are web-based instead of downloadable, so you pay a monthly fee instead of just...
- Tips for Knowing Your eBay Buyer Before You Ship
Tips for Knowing Your eBay Buyer Before You Ship. Before you send anything to that buyer, you might want to get to know them, especially if youre selling them a high-ticket item that you couldnt...
- How to Use eBay's Pre Approved Buyer Function
How to Use eBays Pre-Approved Buyer Function. For sellers who constantly have to put up with bid snipers, non-paying bidders and other anti-social, timewasting buyers, eBays pre-approved buyer...
- Design Tips for eBay Templates
Design Tips for eBay Templates. Templates are the design elements that you might have noticed some sellers using on their auctions, like the borders around the edge, and the different fonts. Many...
- Increase Your eBay Sales with A SquareTrade Seal
Increase Your eBay Sales with A SquareTrade Seal. SquareTrade are eBays chosen provider of dispute resolution services. If you want your buyers to have a little more confidence in you, you can get a...
- How to Place Your eBay Store on Vacation
How to Place Your eBay Store on Vacation. So youre going away for a while, and youre not going to be able to ship peoples orders from your eBay store? Imagine how youd feel if you got home from a...
- Understanding eBay's VeRO Program
Understanding eBay's VeRO Program. VeRO? What on Earth is that? Well, its a very scary eBay program that can get your auctions shut down, thats what it is. VeRO stands for Verified Rights Owner. It...
- Using the eBay Anything Points Program
Using the eBay Anything Points Program. eBay Anything points are a loyalty scheme, just like you might get in a shop. The buyer earns points on their purchases, which they can then redeem for money...
- eBay Auction Starting and Ending Day Strategies
eBay Auction Starting and Ending Day Strategies. Its usually when auctions are about to end that they get half their bids sometimes they even get their only bids. If you want your item to sell for a...
- Tips for Selling Collectibles on eBay
Tips for Selling Collectibles on eBay. Yes, collectibles! Collectibles are where eBay started, and theyre still one of its biggest areas however much they might want you to believe theyre not. eBay's...
- Understanding eBay's Description Theft Policy
Understanding eBays Description Theft Policy. When a seller writes an original description of an item or takes an original picture, they own the copyright on their work. This happens without any...
- How to Make More Money with eBay's Affiliate Program
How to Make More Money with eBays Affiliate Program. If youve been on the web for a while, the chances are that at some time or other you will have taken part in an affiliate program. They generally...
- How to Use eBay's Featured Gallery Section
How to Use eBays Featured Gallery Section. The featured gallery is a little-known and little-used eBay feature, but thats part of its power: it is far more used by buyers than it is by sellers, which...
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