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| How To Avoid Being Scammed on eBay |
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It is important to remember that eBay is a lot like a marketplace. There will always be a dodgy guy in the corner, selling things that most people wouldn’t touch. The trouble is that, on the Internet, these people can be a little harder to spot. Here are ten tips to help you keep an eye out for t |
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| Want to Know about Buying & Bidding on eBay ? |
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Have you noticed that whenever you open a newspaper, watch the TV or have a conversation, people seem to be talking about eBay? If you’ve never used it and you’ve no idea what it’s all about, then the chances are that you’re starting to feel a little left out. But don’t worry! This article contai |
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| Doing Your Holiday Shopping on eBay. |
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Most people do far more shopping in the holiday season than they do for the rest of the year – and now you know how to use eBay, why not do it there? If you know what kind of thing your friends and family like then eBay’s categories are ideal places to get ideas. Plus, you won’t have to fight you |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| eBay Auction Buyer’s Tips and Tricks. |
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eBay isn’t just an auction and a marketplace: often it can feel quite a lot like a game. Like any game, you can get ahead if you think strategically, using your head to outwit the other buyers and get the best price. Here are a few things you can try.
Shop in the Summer.
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How Important is Your Buyer’s Reputation? |
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Your reputation as a buyer (or ‘feedback rating’) is the most important thing people see when they deal with you on eBay. It is on the basis of this little number that they will decide whether they can trust you or not.
Each time you buy or sell something on eBay, people can leave feedback for |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How to Become an eBay “Sniper”. |
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If you bid for a few things on eBay, the chances are that sooner or later you’ll end up getting your bid beaten at the very last second by a ‘sniper’. This can be a frustrating experience, and while in theory sniping is against the rules and you can report it to eBay, in practice they never do an |
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| How to Check an eBay Seller’s Reputation (and Why You Should Do It). |
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When you buy something from an eBay seller, you are giving them your money and hoping that you will get something in return. However many guarantees of safety eBay might make to you, nothing is certain: if you just give your money to scammers all the time without doing any checks then the chances |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How to Get eBay Coupons. |
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You have to be very lucky to be one of the chosen few who receive an eBay coupon by email. These coupons are just like cash that you can use towards anything you buy on eBay – the only conditions being that you pay using PayPal, and that you are using eBay in the USA, Canada or the UK.
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Introducing the New eBay “Buyer’s Credit” Program. |
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In an effort to compete with more ‘traditional’ shops, eBay has started to offer finance agreements though PayPal for expensive items. This means that, if the seller decides to offer it, you can now spread the cost of an item into affordable monthly payments.
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| SafeHarbor; eBay’s Own Scotland Yard. |
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SafeHarbor are the eBay police department. If you break the rules, commit fraud or try to buy something you’re not supposed to, they’ll be after you.
When You Don’t Pay.
This is the most common rule buyers break – it’s all too easy to just change your mind and try to get out of the auction. |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Taking Advantage of “Slow” eBay Auctions. |
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Some auctions get hundreds of bids, but some go much more slowly, getting only a few bids or even none at all for days. Auctions are generally much slower during the summer months than they are in the winter – and sales on eBay are slowing each year, as more sellers than buyers sign up, hoping to |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| The Advantages and Disadvantages of Buying on eBay. |
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The Case For.
Whatever you want to buy, whether it’s large or small, cheap or expensive, everyday or just plain weird, the chances are you can find it on eBay. It’s the largest auction site in the world, and when it comes to the variety of what’s on sale, size is vital. When was the last time |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| The eBay Buyer’s FAQ. |
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So you have a question? Has something gone very wrong and you don’t know what to do? Well, fair enough. Here are the questions that I hear all the time from buyers.
Does eBay have a Customer Service Department I Can Phone?
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| Tips and Tricks for Using eBay Search. |
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If you know what you’re doing, you can quickly find what you’re looking for on eBay. Here are a few golden rules.
Be specific: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, you’ll get further searching for ‘harry potter rowling philosopher’s stone first edition’ |
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| Tips for Buying Collectibles on eBay. |
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Buying collectibles is one of the most enjoyable things to do on eBay, simply because you can find so many things that you just can’t get anywhere else. Here are a few tips to help you on your way.
Find your Category.
You’ll probably find that all the items you’re after are listed in a sing |
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| ÿþT o p 1 0 S t r a n g e s t e B a y I t e m s E v e r S o l d . |
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e B a y c a n b e a v e r y o d d p l a c e , g i v e n t h a t y o u c a n s e l l a l m o s t a n y t h i n g y o u w a n t . H e r e a r e t h e a u c t i o n s w e v e p i c k e d a s b e i n g t h e s t r a n g e s t e v e r .
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| Understanding eBay Buying Tools. |
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eBay offers quite a few simple tools to help make your buying easier, so you don’t lose track of what you’re doing. Most of them are on the ‘My eBay’ screen – if you’re logged in, you can go there just by clicking ‘My eBay’ on the toolbar at the top of any eBay page.
My Summary.
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| Understanding the Different eBay Auction Types. |
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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 things on eBay. There are many people who don’t like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend. Equally, there are peopl |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Using PayPal on eBay. |
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PayPal and eBay were made for each other – and now that eBay own PayPal, using them together is getting even easier.
What is PayPal?
People with PayPal accounts can send money to each other securely online. You can deposit money in a PayPal account from a bank account or a credit card, and |
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| Watch Out for eBay Automobile and Computer Scams. |
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There aren’t that many scammers on eBay – but the ones there are tend to be greedy. This means that they will always try to pull their scams on high-value items like cars and computers, so that they can make a lot of money quickly. Since buyers generally buy these items very rarely, they may not |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| When and How to Withdraw Your eBay Bid (and Why You Might Not Want To). |
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eBay are a little strict about letting you withdraw your bid. They call it a ‘bid retraction’, and have a stringent set of conditions that you must meet before you are allowed to do it. Here are eBay’s three acceptable reasons for withdrawing a bid.
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| When Things Go Wrong: How to Resolve eBay Disputes. |
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eBay has quite an intricate and long-winded dispute resolution procedure. In this email, I’ll try to break each step down for you, so you can see what’s involved and how long it takes.
As an example, let’s go through what you would do if you paid for an item but didn’t receive it from the sell |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| When to “Buy Now” and When to Bid. |
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You will often find yourself facing the choice of whether to pay a fixed price or keep on bidding. This choice might be presented to you in a single auction, or you might be choosing between different auctions of the different types. So should you use that ‘Buy it Now’ button or keep on trying to |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| You Won that eBay Auction! Now What Do You Do? |
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It’s a heady feeling when you win your first eBay auction: a mixture of happiness and perhaps just a little fear. After all, there seems to be so much to do before you can actually get your item. What do you do next?
The simple answer is: you send payment to the seller, as quickly as possible. |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Your Rights as an eBay Buyer. |
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When you buy things on eBay, you pay the seller before they send you anything. This means that you, as a buyer, are vulnerable to all sorts of problems. You might not get the items you have paid for, or they might be damaged or faulty. Luckily, you have two very important rights when you buy on e |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| 10 Great Ways to Source Low Cost Products for eBay. |
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So you’re having trouble finding stock cheaply enough to sell it for a good profit? Well, you’ve come to the right place.
Garage sales. The chances are you’ve gone most of your life seeing ads for these and ignoring them. Start going to as many as you can. You won’t find good things at every o |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| 10 Steps to Successful Selling on eBay. |
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So you want to be a successful seller with your own eBay business, do you? Here’s a simple, ten-step path to eBay enlightenment.
Step 1: Identify your market. Take a while to sit and watch for what sells and what doesn’t out of the items you’re interested in. Any market research data you can c |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| 10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business. |
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It’s surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you’re not careful – sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are some simple ways to do it.
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| 10 Tips for Being a Better Seller |
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If you’ve got this far, you’ve 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 against the advice many give for eBay selling – some are a little risky and some are just odd. They’re all worth a try, though, and I |
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| 10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response. |
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So you’ve got the buyer in front of your auction, and they’ve read the description. They’re must be interested, or they wouldn’t be looking… but just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid? Read on for some tips.
Improve your picture: In all that description writing, yo |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How To Start & Post Your First eBay Auction |
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It’s surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here’s what you need to do.
Step 1: Open an eBay seller’s account.
If you’ve bought things on eBay, then you already have an account – just log in with it and click ‘Sell’ in the toolbar at the top of the page, |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| A Beginner’s Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types. |
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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 things on eBay.
For every seller who doesn’t like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend, there’s another who wan |
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| A Look at Third Party eBay Tools. |
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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 buying the software. But do you know what these sites can do for you? It can be hard to get to grips with what’s out there using a |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| An eBay Seller’s Checklist. |
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Being a seller is a lot of responsibility, and sometimes you might feel like you’re not doing everything you should be. This simple checklist will help you keep on top of things.
Have you found out everything you possibly could about your items? Try typing their names into a search engine – yo |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Are There Any eBay “Secrets” That Are Worth Buying? |
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If you look around a little on the web, you’ll no doubt come across people trying to sell you ebooks about eBay’s ‘secrets’ for as much as $20. Here’s a sample:
“Along with 400,000 other excited eBay fanatics I now make a living using the Internet and eBay. I can go days without ever speaking |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Creating eBay Selling Opportunities by Communicating with Your Buyer. |
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One thing many eBay sellers neglect is to actually communicate with their buyers – not with some automated ‘suggestion’ system, but with actual person-to-person contact. If you can be friendly and sound nice, then you can make them think you’re doing them a favour while you make a few extra sales |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| Design Tips for eBay Templates. |
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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 sellers who are new to eBay don’t bother using them, and you might not have either – generally, a descriptive listing and a good pict |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| eBay: The First 10 Years. |
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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 ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of |
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| Tips On How To Price Your Items On e-Bay |
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If your items aren’t 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 businesses selling the same thing, often the only difference you’ll be able to find between them is pricing.
The ‘Few Dollars More’ S |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| When To Start & End Your Post on e-Bay |
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It’s 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 good price, then, it makes no sense to let it finish on a day and time when no-one’s going to be around to care.
Selling to Business.
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| eBay Description Writing Tips. |
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Once you’ve 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 description?
At its heart, your item description is an ad. Without making it too obvious, you should be writing sales copy. You |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| EBay Income Possibilities. |
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If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make – it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider tha |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| eBay Title Writing Tips. |
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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 those 55 characters of the title to cover all the possible search terms. That’s not easy. In this email, I’ll give you a few |
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| http://www.e-bookssite.com/ebay2.htm |
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| 10 Sure-fire Ways to Kill Your eBay Business Be Careful - Don't Kill Your Business |
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It’s surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you’re not careful – sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are some simple ways to do it.
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| 10 Tips for Being a Better Seller Winning Over Customers - Building Up Trust |
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If you’ve got this far, you’ve 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 against the advice many give for eBay selling – some are a little risky and some are just odd. They’re all worth a try, though, and I |
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| 10 Tips for Increasing Your eBay Response |
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So you’ve got the buyer in front of your auction, and they’ve read the description. They’re must be interested, or they wouldn’t be looking… but just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid? Read on for some tips.
Improve your picture: In all that description writing, yo |
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| I am a glazier by trade. I've also been learning about marketing. I enjoy writing articles like these hoping that they will help someone. My web site is http://www.itrustgodonly.com |
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| How do Dutch Auctions Work on eBay? |
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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.
The most common Dutch auctions are actually a combination of two auction types: they’re multiple-item fixed price auctions (Dut |
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| How eBay Consignment Centers Work. |
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You might not ever have heard of eBay consignment centers – don’t worry, most people haven’t, as they’re a relatively new concept. The idea is that you drop off anything you want sold, and then the consignment center will sell it for you and share the profits.
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| How Long Should your eBay Auction Run? |
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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 feedback rating.
There’s a reason why you get to choose your duration, and that’s because different durations are good for different things. |
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| How to Avoid Being a Victim of eBay Buyer’s Fraud. |
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From everything you’ve heard about the risk of fraud on eBay, you might think it’s only buyers getting scammed – but you couldn’t be more wrong. Here are a few common scams that sellers fall for every day.
The Rubber Cheque.
This one obviously isn’t limited to eBay – it’s been going on for |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How to Choose the Right eBay Product Category. |
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Some people think it’s easy to choose the right eBay category, and often it is. Sometimes, though, it might not be quite clear exactly what to go for.
Why is it Even Important?
Plenty of people use the category system to find items, when they’re not looking for something specific. If your i |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| How to Determine What’s Really Selling on eBay. |
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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 you’re just starting out, you might find it easier to simply go to your category, tick ‘Completed listings’ in the left-hand menu, and then click the ‘Show |
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| How to Dispute Unfair Ratings on eBay. |
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So you’ve done everything you can to keep your buyers happy – but still someone’s left you negative feedback! You don’t think it’s fair, either because you fixed the buyer’s problem, or they never gave you a fair chance to fix it. What can you do?
Communicate.
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| How to Get Help from eBay’s SafeHarbor Team. |
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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.
Non-paying Buyers.
This is the most common rule buyers break -- it's all too easy for them to just change their minds and try to get out of the a |
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| How to Increase Your Auction’s Visibility on eBay. |
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Once you’ve optimised your titles for search terms and your items have short durations to get them near the top of the results, there’s really only one sure-fire way to make your auction stand out from the crowd. Unfortunately, it involves paying eBay more money – but it can really pay off, espec |
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| How to Increase Your eBay Backend Sales. |
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It shouldn’t too hard to increase your eBay backend sales – because the chances are you currently aren’t making any! Backend sales are sales to customers who have already bought an item, also known as ‘up-selling’. These are usually easier sales to make than normal sales: in sales-speak, your exi |
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| How to Leave Great Buyer Feedback. |
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So your buyer has paid on time, you’ve shipped them the item, and they’ve left you positive feedback. Everything is going great! You know that leaving your buyer some nice feedback will finish everything off, and make them glad they chose to buy from you.
When you see that little feedback box |
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| How to Make More Money with eBay’s Affiliate Program. |
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If you’ve 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 work by giving you a URL to send people to their site that contains your affiliate number, and then giving you a small amount for each person who come |
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| How to Market Your eBay Business. |
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So you want to market your eBay business? Well, you probably won’t have too much luck with traditional marketing methods – they’re just not targeted enough. The best way to do things is to pay for targeted advertising, which comes up when people search for keywords you specify: they’re looking fo |
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| How to Place Your eBay Store on “Vacation”. |
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So you’re going away for a while, and you’re not going to be able to ship people’s orders from your eBay store? Imagine how you’d feel if you got home from a nice vacation, only to find that your feedback rating had been trashed!
Buyers can find your store, pay for items, and then complain ab |
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| How to Reduce eBay Buyer Complaints. |
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Buyers are funny creatures, aren’t they? One minute they’re over the moon because they’ve got themselves a bargain, and the next they’re upset because their bargain seller doesn’t provide first-class customer service. There’s only really one way to reduce complaints: give these people what they w |
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| How to Report and Handle eBay Transaction Problems. |
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Even when there aren’t any disputes, you might run into a few transaction problems on eBay – glitches that aren’t really anyone’s fault, but are just the result of a technical malfunction or another situation beyond the buyer or seller’s control. The number one cause of problems like this is emai |
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| How to Respond to an eBay Buyer’s Complaint. |
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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, it’s easy to keep a complaint from turning into a crisis.
Respond Immediately and Grovellingly.
Someone might complain to you directly, or they mi |
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| How to Stop eBay Auction Sniping. |
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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 three times in a row on the same item! The thing is that the only people who can help the poor bidders are us, the sellers.
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| How to Think Like an eBay PowerSeller. |
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So what’s a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are the people on eBay who’ve made it, recognisable by the little ‘PowerSeller’ badge next to their name. You’ve probably seen these people around – and to succeed on eBay, you want to think the way they do.
How to People Get the Right to Call Themselves P |
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| How to Turn eBay Bidders into Long-term Customers. |
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Once someone’s bought something from you on eBay, you suddenly have all sorts of details on them. In marketing terms, this information is gold dust. If someone’s bought from you once before, then the chances are that at some point in the future they’ll want to buy a similar item, and you can take |
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| How to Turn eBay Returns into Profits. |
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Don’t worry, getting items returned happens to everyone eventually. You can’t satisfy all of the people all of the time, and occasionally someone’s going to want to send something back to you. Turning returns into profits isn’t easy – but with a little determination, you can manage it.
Don’t r |
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| How to Use eBay “Listing Tools”. |
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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 choice out there when it comes to eBay listing tools, to the point where you might not know what to choose. Here’s an overview o |
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| How to Use eBay to Grow Your Other Businesses. |
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Most of the people who make money from eBay don’t actually make all of that money on eBay. There are all sorts of ways you can use eBay to give your existing businesses a helping hand.
The Supply Side.
If you have any leftover stock or used items from another business you run, then why not |
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| How to Use eBay’s “Featured Gallery” Section. |
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The ‘featured gallery’ is a little-known and little-used eBay feature, but that’s part of its power: it is far more used by buyers than it is by sellers, which means you can pick up some new buyers by advertising there.
Basically, the featured gallery works a lot like ‘Featured Plus’ for norma |
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| How to Use eBay’s “Pre-Approved Buyer” Function. |
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For sellers who constantly have to put up with bid snipers, non-paying bidders and other anti-social, timewasting buyers, eBay’s ‘pre-approved buyer’ feature is a godsend.
Pre-approving buyers lets you choose in advance who you’re going to allow to bid: not by banning people you don’t want, bu |
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| How to Use eBay’s “Promotional Flyer” Tool. |
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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 – they’re basically lists of items available in their eBay stores, usually bearing this default message: “Thank you for your purchase! Please visit m |
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| How to Use eBay’s “Second Chance Offer” Feature. |
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When someone wins your auction, you might think that’s the end of it. In fact, you can offer the item to anyone else who bid in the auction but didn’t win.
Why Would I Do That?
There are three reasons you might want to do this:
1. Your top bidder never paid. Unfortunately for sellers, i |
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| How to Use the eBay “Checkout Service”. |
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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 links to your buyers. Now, though, eBay handle most of the complexities of payment for you with their checkout.
How Do I Offer the |
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| Increase Your eBay Sales with A “SquareTrade” Seal. |
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SquareTrade are eBay’s chosen provider of dispute resolution services. If you want your buyers to have a little more confidence in you, you can get a SquareTrade seal, and put it on each one of your auctions.
The chances are that you’ve seen these seals around. They show SquareTrade’s blue an |
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| Is the eBay Customer Always Right? |
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I can answer this question for you right now: the answer is ‘yes’. In fact, the answer is ‘YES!’ – the biggest yes you’ve ever heard. Of the course the customer is always right. If you want to be a successful eBay seller, you should go miles out of your way to make sure every single one of your c |
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| Is Your eBay Income Taxable? |
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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 without declaring profits from their eBay sales just because they’re hard for the government to track. If you want to be strictly wi |
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| Learning the eBay “Lingo”. |
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Do you have trouble sometimes understanding when people talk about eBay? Don’t worry, some of the jargon is really obscure, and you can’t be expected to understand it until someone’s told you what it means. Here’s a little list of some of the most useful lingo to know, but you don’t need to memor |
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| Seasonal Selling on eBay. |
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When you sell on eBay, it’s 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 the winter period is fast, but there’s more to it than that.
It Depends What You’re Selling.
Your sales won’t necessa |
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| Should PayPal be Your Only eBay Payment Option? |
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You may have noticed that many sellers list PayPal as the only payment option they accept – they simply can’t be bothered cashing cheques and money orders, never mind any of the other strange ways some people want to pay. Like all things in life, though, PayPal has its advantages and disadvantage |
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| Should You Run Auctions on Other Sites Besides eBay? |
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eBay doesn’t have very many competitors, and the ones that there are remain small by comparison – that’s part of what makes eBay so powerful for niche items. If you’re selling more common things, though, you might like to list auctions on other sites besides eBay, to increase your potential custo |
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| Special Rules for Selling Software on eBay. |
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Computer software is one of the biggest sellers on eBay – after all, everyone using eBay has a computer, don’t they? There can be problems, however, if you try to sell certain kinds of software that eBay doesn’t allow. Used software is a minefield, and you could end up buying something dodgy to r |
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| Staying Out of Trouble with eBay’s Listing Policies. |
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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 and all bids will be void.
Here is eBay’s full list of prohibited or questionable items:
Academic Software
Airline and Transit Related Items
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| Taming the eBay Search Engine. |
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If you know what you’re doing, you can quickly find what you’re looking for on eBay – and the more you know about how buyers find you, the easier you’ll find it to be found. Here are a few golden searching rules.
Be specific: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original Harry Pott |
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| The Myths and Magic of eBay Drop-shipping Vendors. |
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If you’ve never heard of drop shipping, then prepare to be impressed – it sounds like every eBay seller’s dream. With drop shipping, you don’t have to keep any stock at all. You simply list auctions for what your drop shipper sells, without actually seeing it yourself.
Each time something sel |
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| The Power of eBay “Store Newsletters”. |
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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 mailing list. You can then send highly targeted emails to people who you know were at least interested enough in your products to add the st |
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| Tips for “Knowing Your eBay Buyer” Before You Ship. |
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Before you send anything to that buyer, you might want to get to know them, especially if you’re selling them a high-ticket item that you couldn’t afford to lose. Even if the buyer has paid, the PayPal transaction could still end up being reversed, leaving you out of pocket. So how do you figure |
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| Tips for Managing Multiple eBay Auctions. |
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It can be very time-consuming to keep your auctions ticking along, especially if you have hundreds listed at a time. Don’t despair, though: there are a few things you can do to take the weight off you.
Use My eBay.
If you want a broad overview of where you are with your auctions, make sure |
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| Tips for Selling Collectibles on eBay. |
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Yes, collectibles! Collectibles are where eBay started, and they’re still one of its biggest areas – however much they might want you to believe they’re not. eBay's most hardcore and long-time users are almost all collectors of something or other – it is quite common to post what you think is a m |
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| Top 10 Reasons Why eBay Auctions Fail. |
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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 see if any of them could be making your bidders avoid you.
The starting price was too high: People don’t want to have to make a high b |
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Truth - Just How Does One Know?
It breaks my heart to see people seeking the truth in man and not having that one on one relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, bless His heart and soul. The great thi |
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| Turn Your eBay Shipping Costs into a Profit Center. |
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You might think that shipping costs are simple: surely you just add up the price of your item’s postage and the price of packing materials, and charge that – right? Well, you could do that, but there are better ways to make your shipping costs work for you.
Find Cheaper Materials.
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| Understanding eBay’s “Description Theft” Policy. |
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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 requirement for them to register or even to want the copyright – that’s just the way copyright works. What that means is that it’s actually illegal |
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| Understanding eBay's VeRO Program. |
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‘VeRO’? What on Earth is that? Well, it’s a very scary eBay program that can get your auctions shut down, that’s what it is.
VeRO stands for ‘Verified Rights Owner’. It is the eBay policy that deals with complaints about your auctions from companies who own copyrights, patents or trademarks on |
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| Using the eBay Anything Points Program. |
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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 off when they pay for items through PayPal.
Buyers can also earn eBay Anything points when they use the eBay credit card, or exchange t |
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| What Else Belongs on Your eBay Shipping Box? |
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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, and you shouldn’t do it. Print your own labels instead. But what should you put on them?
The buyer’s address: This might sound obvious, but |
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| What You Can Learn from Competing eBay Auctions. |
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If you’ve a savvy businessperson, the chances are you’ve already taken a look at your competitors’ auctions. What you might not have realised is just how much you can learn if you know what you’re looking for.
To begin with, don’t bother looking at listings that haven’t ended yet – you don’t k |
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| What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay. |
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So you’ve 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 yourself in at the deep end.
What to Sell.
First off, you need to know what it is you’re going to sell: what’s your speciality? You’ll do far bette |
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| What’s Your eBay Reputation Really Worth? |
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Your eBay reputation is everything you are on eBay – without it, you’re nothing. Your reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make.
If you’ve ever bought anything on eBay (and the chances are you have), then think about your own behaviour. Buying from a seller with a low feedba |
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| (Published: Tue, 05 May 2009 22:23:04 -0600) |
| When and How to Cancel an eBay Auction Early. |
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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 upsets buyers and upsets eBay, and there might be a better to way to get what you want.
I Want to Change my Listing.
If you just want to rev |
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| When NOT to Use “Buy Now”. |
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As you get more experienced on eBay, you might be tempted to use fixed price auctions, just so you can budget better. It’s often more reassuring to know that either you will make a small profit on an item instead of having to wait and see whether it makes a big profit or a big loss. However, you |
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| Why Adding Pictures Increases eBay Bid Response. |
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Buyers really like pictures. The more pictures you have, the more they’ll feel like buying their item from you, and not from your competitor. In fact, there are plenty of buyers who will literally leave your auction within 5 seconds of arriving if they don’t find a picture there waiting for them. |
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