I saw another one on a local TV newscast a few days ago…
you know…one of those stories about a stay-at-home mom who
had turned eBay into a stay-at-home job.

I like stories like that, and I especially admire people who
have found a way to make more money on eBay (without leaving
their house) than they could commuting to a “regular” job.

But I also know this: even most people who are doing eBay
“full time” haven’t figured out yet how to make really big
money with it…like Sydney Johnston is doing.

Sydney is known as “The Queen of eBay” or “The Auction
Queen.” She was one of the original sellers on eBay and has
been selling on eBay since the winter of 1996.

She told me during a recent interview on my San Antonio
radio talk show that she runs her eBay business very
differently from most people.

“You can spend all day Saturday going to garage sales,” she
said. “And that’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with it. But
if you want to make a real a business of it, you better have
a systematic method. The problem with going to garage sales
is, you can’t rely on your inventory.

Sydney also mentioned the stories we’ve all heard: how
someone found a trinket in their attic, put it up for bid on
eBay, and sold it for hundreds of dollars.

“There ARE some incredible stories out there,” she said.
“But they’re flukes. You have to have a steady source of
supply and it’s got to be something you can rely on. That’s
step number one”

“Step number two is to take that steady source of supply and
sell the same items — over and over again — using the same
listings.”

She says her one of her other big secrets is selling to the
same people — over and over again.

“If you buy a men’s shirt from me on eBay,” she continued,
“I assume that you’ll buy more shirts in the future. And if
I’m selling men’s shirts, you’re going to keep hearing
from me. I’ll email you, for instance, to let you know about
my Fourth of July sale on men’s shirts. You’re going to keep
hearing from me until you tell me that you don’t want to
hear from me anymore.”

“Furthermore, when you buy something from me, there will be
an invitation to buy something else inside your package when
it’s delivered.”

Sydney shared about a dozen of her “secrets to success” on
eBay during our time on the air. To read a transcript of the
entire interview, or to listen to an MP3 recording, click on
http://www.ebay-auction.ws/sydney.htm

Or of course, you could spend a couple of hours this weekend
cruising the garage sales…

There might even be a TV crew hanging around one of them.

Award winning TV anchor George McKenzie
offers a free 7-part email “Publicity Crash Course” at
http://www.publicity-pro.com During his 33-year
broadcasting career, George’s work appeared on ABC, NBC,
CBS, ESPN and CNN.

The first thing you need to do is write an auction title.
This is the most important part of your auction. If your title doesn’t interest anyone no-one will read your ad.

You could have written the most compelling auction description ever written. But unless anyone reads it you’ll get no sales.

All professional ad writers agree that the title is 9x more important than the ad itself. Before you read a newspaper article, what’s the first thing you read?

That’s right. The headlines. Only when a headline interests you will you attempt to read the actual article.

The most effective way of coming up with the best title.
The best way is follow the 100-1 rule. First write 100 titles then pick the best one. Why?

Professional writers do this because 100 seems to exhaust all possible titles. You’ll find when you’ve finished that the best one jumps off the page at you.

Try it! It works. It takes time but nothing comes without effort. And the results will outweigh the work.

There is however a better way that I stumbled across. This method is used by one of the most successful writers on the web.

He simple asks a special question that just gets headlines flooding from your fingers. I must say, it works like magic. He always gets his headline in less than 5 minutes. And what’s more, always gets amazing results. Everytime!

Sorry I’m not going to reveal that question here, because I’ve included it in my best-selling ebook about ad writing. And it would result in less sales, because that would be one of the main reasons people are buying it. Amongst others.

How to write the auction description.
Your description is the part that needs to get the person to place a bid. So you better make sure it’s persuasive.

Just about everyone reads the first paragraph. If this doesn’t grab em, then they’ll quickly leave and look for other auctions.

The best first paragraph is always the one that grabs the imagination. When they read it they should see themselves with your item. A bit like the car salesman who gets you to sit in the vehicle.

Hopefully you’ve done a good job of that so now they begin reading the rest of your ad.

People want to see the benefits of owning your item. So you need to show all the benefits of having your offering.

You also need to present the benefits in a certain way. The best way I’ve found for presentation is shown in my book. It always gets the best response whenever I do this in my auctions.

If possible you should always use a photo. When people see what your offering they’re much more happy to buy.

So to summarise…

Get the auction title right. This is the most important part by far.

Use a powerful opening paragraph.

Present all the benefits of your item.

If possible use photos.

Copyright 2005 Ian Stables All rights reserved.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ian Stables shows eBay sellers the best ways to get extra bids to their auctions in his ebook “The 37 Effective eBay Ad Writing Secrets. http://ebayadsecrets.tripod.com/

Finding hot items on eBay can be surprisingly simple using a few little-known tricks.

Let’s get started…

You can easily search through eBay using their advanced search tool and look for items that generate over 25-30 bids.

eBay recently integrated an advanced search option where you can select the minimum and maximum number of bids per auction listing.

Set the minimum to 25 and the maximum to 1000.

Then, browse through these auctions and look at the number of sales the corresponding member has made over the past month.

You can do this by checking their feedback comments.

Also, if the item is a buy-it-now item and they listed more than 1 item, then you can see how many purchases were made by going to the ‘history’ link.

Plus, it is important to check out the number of unique bidders.

In most cases, you will see that only a few bidders are battling for the auction, therefore not really identifying a true hot item.

Another identifying feature to look out for is the number of hits the auction has received. You can safely assume that the item is hot if the number of hits are over 300-500.

However, there has been incidents of ebay users refreshing their browser 100′s of times to increase their auction hit counter, therefore tricking buyers into thinking that the item is in demand.

Therefore, by using the following 3 guidelines you can easily determine if a particular item is hot:

1. The item has over 25 unique bidders. (check the ‘bidders’ link and ‘history’ link)

2. The item has sold several times over the past month. (check the items in the feedback comments)

3. The hit count is 300 or higher.

Additionally, you can easily uncover hot items by browsing through eBay’s completed auctions. This feature is also available in the advanced search section.

Using the same guidelines above, you can uncover hot items searching through eBay’s completed auctions and therefore, possibly find your hidden niche on eBay!

Dave Guindon is a software developer and online marketer that designs software tools for ebay enthusiasts. Find all the eBay hot items in seconds at http://www.hotitemfinder.com

The auction title you use is vital, and you only have 55 characters to play with.

In these 55 characters you have include strong keywords to make sure you are returned in as many relevant searches as possible. Plus you want to persuade prospective bidders to click through to read your auction page.

In effect the title is the heading of your advertisement.

Fifty five characters isn’t much when you consider what the title has to achieve.

1. Bidders will use eBay search to find auctions matching their requirements. As you may know, by default eBay’s search facility only checks auction titles for the presence of the keywords input by the searcher.

So, the title has to contain keywords which bidders might use to locate auction items such as yours.

(Just in case you weren’t aware, eBay’s auction search takes no account of capitalization. So a search for madonna would return titles which included madonna and Madonna – and indeed mAdonna, if someone’s finger had slipped when typing the title in.)

2. And, assuming as a result of the search your auction has been returned in the list along with many others, the title now has to persuade the searcher to click through onto YOUR auction description page – your sales pitch.

So, in your 55 character title what you’re looking for is a mixture of:-

a) Keywords
b) Powerful influencing words
c) An outline of your item.

Well, that sounds easy, doesn’t it?

One of the determining factors in assessing the weight to give to each of those three elements is the item itself.

Branded item with model ID
In this instance the title is all about the specific item. Bidders who will be interested in this item will know the make and model they’re after.

For example:

Aiwa HV-FX5850 6 Head Nicam Hi-Fi Stereo VCR

There is no need to expand on this title, unless to add the word NEW as appropriate.

Unbranded item with no obvious model ID
The vast majority of auctions will be like this. There is no standard brand, model or reference number, so you need to describe the item yourself.

As an example, I was recently selling a tool set for use on mobile phones. This is the title I went with:

Torx Hex Mobile Cell Phone Tool Set – NEW

Mobile cell phones is a “hot topic”. To work on a Nokia (the most popular make) mobile phone requires a torx screwdriver.

I added NEW, as it is still one of the most persuasive marketing words you can use.

Named item

If you have a name to latch onto, this can bring plenty of keyword hits. For example, anyone interested in Hank Marvin and his musical instruments would find this auction through eBay’s search.

Rare Hank Marvin autographed guitar STUNNING

Note the use of a couple of power words to encourage the viewer to click through to the auction page.

Additional tips on auction titles

1. Capital letters

Many people on eBay now create their full auction title in capital letters. This advice is given in several of the established “how to sell on eBay” books. Capital letters do have one significant advantage over lower case – they’re larger and therefore take up more line space. So, with all capitals, your auction title is more likely to run to two lines on search returns, giving your entry a bigger physical presence on the screen.

My own opinion is that a mix of capital letters and lower case is a slightly better option. Your auction title will take up more space than all lower case, but it allows you to give emphasis to selected words.

2. Use of underscore

If you use underscore between words, rather than spaces, this will make your title physically longer – and therefore look bigger than other peoples’. This is because eBay uses a PostScript font where the underscore character is longer than a space.

3. Power words to optionally use sparingly in titles

Be aware that searchers will not normally key in words such as those in the list below. But where a title is returned in a keyword search results list, and it contains one of these influencing words, you could get more click-throughs to your auction description page. Here are some of the words that can help in this respect:

Stunning
Limited edition
Unique
Rare
New
One-off
Exclusive
Distinctive
Dramatic
Striking
Vivid
Unusual
Handsome
Beautiful
Vibrant
Brilliant
Mint
Exquisite
Perfect
Quality

Use power words selectively and appropriately in your title, bearing in mind your item.

4. Unusual characters

Don’t be tempted to use characters in words such as L@@K or save $$$$ or **** see here ****. First of all, it’s usually a waste of your precious 55 characters limit and conveys nothing. Second, who searches on 4 $ signs or 4 asterisks? Also, in my mind it portrays the seller as someone slightly suspicious, perhaps unprofessional, who isn’t confident enough to let their words do the talking. Finally, think now as a bidder, do you react positively to this kind of device or not? I know I don’t.

5. Be creative

There are opportunities to think creatively about your item. For example, if you’re selling a device which is a nasal hair trimmer, there’s not much more you can put in the title is there? Well, whilst the item is primarily advertised as a nasal hair trimmer, it is also useful for trimming ear and eyebrow hair.

So the title could include the words “nasal hair, ear and eyebrow trimmer”. This way your entry will be in the results of people searching for nasal hair trimmer, ear hair trimmer and eyebrow trimmer.

If you’ve room in your 55 characters therefore, think “outside the square” and try and appeal to groups of potential buyers who may not necessarily have been the immediate target for your item. (The torx hex tool set mentioned earlier is another example of this)

6. It’s not an English exam

Writing titles is difficult enough without having to worry about grammar. Don’t be too concerned that your title doesn’t “scan”, or tell a story. Remember the objective with titles is to be returned on searches, and then to induce a click-through to the auction description page.

Here’s an excellent example of an auction title – it contains strong keywords, and also uses humor to tempt the reader onto the auction page.

ANTIQUE BRASS BELL-PULL “You rang m’Lord?”

By the way, it worked well. At the time of writing the auction was still open. The item had a starting price of 99p (50c), and is now at £117 ($240), having had 18 bids and 240 auction page views.

Spend as much time as you can on your auction titles. It is your best chance of being found by bidders amongst those 1 million other items on eBay.co.uk or 10 million items on eBay.com.

Having decided on your title, the next element is a sub-title.

This is an optional facility which allows you to show more information about your item. If you use it, whenever your auction is returned in searches or is listed via a category listing, your sub-title appears directly under the auction title.

As the name implies, sub-title provides you with a special area to add information about your auction item. You can use this in any way e.g. to mention some specific term or condition such as a moneyback guarantee, or to add further details about the item itself.

Within sub-title, you have the same size limit as the item title i.e. 55 characters.

The downside of sub-title is that it is not searched when a bidder enters keywords into eBay’s standard Search Box. For searching purposes, eBay treats sub-title as being part of the auction description.

Also, it is a fixed fee facility. This makes it a more attractive option the higher the value of your auction item. For low value items you will need to weigh up carefully the additional cost of this facility against the likely increased exposure i.e. click-throughs to your auction page.

I hope this article outlining the considerations for auction title creation proves useful to you in your eBay activities.

Brian McGregor is an eBay and internet entrepreneur. He recently created the ‘eBay Master Class’ for eBay sellers. For your free copy, please go to http://www.workwinners.com/ebm-request.htm

If you’re involved as an affiliate for any product, you’ve probably wrestled with how you can sell the product on eBay.

After all, eBay offers you a massive potential audience of 168 million members. And people who read about your product will likely have found it by searching, thus saying they are interested in the product area in which your product resides.

The bad news, however, is that there is no easy way to market affiliate products on eBay!

First of all, if you haven’t heard of affiliate selling, here’s a very quick description of how it works.

Fundamentally, selling an affiliate product requires that you get interested buyers to click on a special link. This link takes the person to the product owner’s sales page. More importantly, the link also contains your unique affiliate code. It is this code which ensures that sales made from your introductions are recorded in your affiliate account. Finally, if your prospect purchases the product, it is the owner who handles product delivery and who also pays you your sales commission payment.

On eBay, you could easily set up an auction saying how marvelous your affiliate product is. You will certainly attract a number of people who would be interested in buying. The problem is, you have no legitimate way of selling it to eBay members!

This is because it’s against eBay’s rules to have a link in your auction page which takes your readers away to another website to make a sale. So, you can’t just create a sales page with your affiliate link.

Also, if you think about it, you don’t even have the affiliate product to deliver. There’s no mechanism for you to make the sale on eBay, and deliver the product. If you recall, this is handled automatically by the product owner.

So here are two ways in which you can tap into the eBay market with your affiliate products.

1. The Simple System

You create an auction which explains the benefits of the affiliate product you’re promoting. This would be the normal sales page for the product you’re promoting.

But what do you offer on your eBay auction?

What you sell is the information on where to get hold of this superb product. And you “sell” this knowledge for just one penny.

Whenever someone “buys” your information, you send them an email saying thank you for your purchase. You then explain they don’t really need to send you a penny, and you give them the link to the fantastic product in which they’ve expressed an interest.

Of course, the link is YOUR affiliate link.

By the way, in your auction description page please think of a new angle for the product. You’ll find almost everybody who is an affiliate for any popular product will be using the suggested sales material supplied by the product owner.

If you use the standard sales pitch, you will just appear to be one of many. Your interested purchaser has probably seen some of these already. Why should they take notice of you?

Lace your auction description with personal and credible information about the product, and you will get some of those prospective buyers to go with you.

Incidentally, you could find that your one penny auctions are removed by eBay. After all, a one penny auction doesn’t bring eBay very much by way of listing or final value fee.

If this happens to you, you could try system 2 below, and you can also place your one penny auction on other auction sites such as Yahoo, Amazon, QXL etc

2. The Not as Simple System

With this system, you need to do a little research before you launch your eBay auction for your affiliate product.

The objective here is to create a package of items which are related to your affiliate products, and which you auction at 99 cents or 99 pence.

First off, you need to create a 2 or 3 page report about your affiliate product. Ideally this should be based on your personal experience with the product. Failing that, it should be written in your own personal style. The key points are that these are your own words, and the report includes your affiliate link to the product.

The next step is to find other items for your “package”. You do this by using Google search to locate related free products.

Let’s suppose you’re an affiliate for an ebook which teaches how to paint and draw figures. On Google you would search for something like – figure drawing free.

It took me under 10 minutes to locate the following freebies:

Photographing Your Artwork (free ebook)

3D Figure Drawing Studio software (free trial)

How to Sell Your Art (free newsletter)

And there are many more you could unearth given a little more research time. Be a little careful in your selection – you don’t want to give away something which will compete with your affiliate ebook.

Having found your items, what you now do is bundle them up and add them to your 2/3 page report. You then create an auction which offers the whole package for 99 cents or pence.

There’s no way eBay can possibly object to this auction.

As you can see, all it really takes to get your affiliate product in front of eBay’s massive market place is a little creativity.

Brian McGregor is an eBay and internet entrepreneur. He recently created the ‘eBay Master Class’ for eBay sellers. For your free copy, please go to http://www.workwinners.com/ebm-request.htm

I guess you might have seen those adverts where people offer to show you how to make oodles of money online. I know I have.

You might have tried things yourself, but not yet come up with a solution that works for you.

Well, here is a formula to make some quick money online. It may not be a fortune, but it costs you nothing and it should help to pay the bills.

In brief, with this formula you’ll be finding out the most popular searches being made on Google. Then you’ll generate a short report on that subject. And then you’ll sell the report on eBay – hopefully many times over.

Here’s the formula:

1. Visit http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html and see what are the hot searches at this moment in time.

2. Select one of them, ideally one in which you are interested or at least curious about.

3. Research that topic online, and gather information on the subject. This will be the basis for your e-report. What you need to do is develop something which will be wanted by people searching for this topic. (Some examples are shown later)

4. List your e-report on eBay. And keep re-listing it as long as it is selling.

5. Do it again, with another subject.

What you’re doing here is riding on the crest of a wave of public interest, and this is a tried and tested way of making money!

I know of one person who produced a report with questions and answers about the film, “The Passion of the Christ”. The report came out around Easter to coincide with the launch of the movie when there was a frenzy of interest in it and in Mel Gibson.

Another timely report was produced based on the Donald Trump TV program “The Apprentice”. It was called “You’re fired!”, and did great business especially when the program became highly popular.

A top 10 gainer this week on Google Zeitgeist is Emma Watson. For the oldies amongst us, Emma is a star of Harry Potter films. You could compile a directory of the main websites showing pictures of her. Or you could create an Emma Watson cookbook, beauty tips, joke book or anything else depending on what your web searching turns up. Or you could be contentious, and produce a report on “Why I Hate Emma Watson!”.

I hope you get the idea.

Your report can simply be a Word document, which you attach to an email to your eBay buyers.

Now I know that not everyone reading this will act on the idea. But those who do have a good chance of making some quick eBay money!

Brian McGregor is an eBay and internet entrepreneur. He recently created the ‘eBay Master Class’ for eBay sellers. For your free copy, please go to http://www.workwinners.com/ebm-request.htm

As eBay has grown and evolved over the years savvy eBay sellers have
had to adapt, as is the case in any business. In the early days of eBay,
virtually any items put up for sale would receive multiple bids. This
allowed the sellers to start an auction at $1 and not have to worry
about the final winning bid amount. The market price on eBay would
dictate the true value of the product.

As time passed, more and more sellers entered the eBay arena which led
to a dramatic shift in starting bid techniques. A majority of eBay
Powersellers now use the fixed price format. In order to do this
effectively, the seller needs to do a lot of eBay research prior to putting
auction items up for sale.

By using the eBay Search Function and researching the last two weeks of
completed auctions on an item, you can gauge what that item should sell
for. It is a good idea to eliminate both the high and low final sale
prices and then take an average of the remaining items to determine the
fixed auction price.

There are several reasons top eBay Powersellers use this pricing
strategy. Even though there are more sellers and increased competition,
buyers are also more knowledgeable and they will also do a simple check of
recent sales before they look for the item priced in the average range
and simply buy it now.

This allows Powersellers to obtain market price and actually increase
their sales because they do not have to wait for the end of the auction
to complete the sale of their items. Another plus, this also thwarts
the auction sniper who uses automated programs to shoot off a
computer-generated bid in the closing seconds of an auction.

Use the pricing technique that the top tier of eBay’s elite sellers are
using today to increase your monthly sales and receive fair market
prices for your auction items.

Tim Gilberg is able to provide information and insight from a unique
perspective – that of someone who is actually doing what others just
talk about. Ebay Power Seller Platinum Status was Attained by Tim Gilberg, which is one of the highest sales levels attained selling on eBay. Tim is active on Ebay and liquidation.com as well as consulting
and working with other Top ebay Power Seller’s to give you real life
in use insight, not theories.Visit Tim Gilberg at his website Make Money on eBay

There are more sellers
on eBay today, but there are also more buyers. As you browsed eBay, I’m
sure you noticed or purchased from several high profile, high volume
eBay sellers. I always marveled at the amount of sales generated by
these Powersellers so I decided to find out how they accomplished this.

There are niche products that sell on eBay. However, if you want to
earn more with less work on eBay, it’s a good idea to target name brand
products. Having a background in information and technology sales, I
decided to target top eBay sellers in these categories and try to locate
their product sources. You don’t need to target technology. I have
worked with many successful eBay sellers who achieve great success with
home appliance product lines, cosmetic lines, and automotive products,
to name a few.

eBay buyers use the name brand in their search so target products lines
with excellent branding. After researching one eBay Powerseller, it
was very evident that the name brand he was selling was Gateway. He was
generating high volume sales by selling their liquidation and overstock
items.

It was fairly simple to obtain Gateway’s telephone number, so I called
and asked for the Liquidation Department. I said to myself, “It can’t
possibly be this easy!” It wasn’t! After leaving several messages
with no reply, I found an auction website in which Gateway was offering
some bulk liquidation loads.

My thought process was that if I could win at least one of the
liquidation loads, even though the price was higher than I wanted to pay, I
would gain access to the department head. I did win one load. I hardly
broke even on the price, but it did enable me to have contact with the
person handling the Gateway Liquidation Department. I was also
contacted to see if I wanted to be notified of any other closeout loads.
“Mission Accomplished!” I was put on their bidder list.

Contacting the liquidation or overstock departments of major
corporations may take more than a few phone calls. Be creative and try to
purchase some of the lesser sought after items. Once you are in the company
database as a buyer, many opportunties will become available to you to
obtain excellent wholesale products.

Tim Gilberg is able to provide information and insight from a unique
perspective – that of someone who is actually doing what others just
talk about. Ebay Power Seller Platinum Status was Attained by Tim Gilberg, which is one of the highest sales levels attained selling on eBay. Tim is active on Ebay and liquidation.com as well as consulting
and working with other Top ebay Power Seller’s to give you real life
in use insight, not theories.Visit Tim Gilberg at his website Make Money on eBay

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Quickly boost your eBay feedback score in just three days using these simple tips.You can use this system to buy liquidation or wholesale lots and double or even triple your bid.

Your feedback score on eBay and any of the other auction sites allows you to have instant credibility with both buyers and sellers. I will explain in the following paragraphs a quick way to add 10 to 50 positive feedback points for under $5, and you may get also get some great new information.

Important – You will only receive one feedback rating per eBay User ID, no matter how many products you buy from that user. For example, if you purchased 10 books for 1cent/each from the same seller, you would only be credited with one positive feedback point. In the beginning, my advice to you would be to buy multiple low cost items from different seller id’s. This will allow you to build a great feedback record in a matter of hours instead of the normal 2-3 months time frame it usually takes.

There are many people selling information products for pennies on eBay. Log on to eBay and do a Search. Types in book then choose Lowest Priced Listings; you will see a multitude of offers, many as low as a penny, for books that can be downloaded with no shipping charge. This is a great way to build instant feedback. You can pay via www.paypal.com. Click their link to sign up. You can send payments in seconds with PayPal, which was purchased by eBay last year.

I also recommend you buy any consumables, such as inkjet and toner cartridges on eBay. You will find they are super values! When you shop smart on eBay, you can pick up many items at wholesale or below. You can buy these using the auction sniping service Bidnapper. This will allow you to become familiar with auction sniping (winning the bid in the last seconds with automated bid software). The ideas and concepts will be much clearer when you actively participate in the eBay community as both a buyer and a seller.

There are definitely many positive aspects to having 10 or more positive feedback points. First, it allows you to use the Buy It Now feature when you are selling products on eBay. Many eBay buyers search for these listings if they don’t want to wait for an auction to end.

Your auctions will receive more bids, and in turn sell for higher amounts, when your feedback is over 10. Auction studies have shown that when feedback achieves 50 or greater, you will see an additional 10% increase in views and prices.

Tim Gilberg is able to provide information and insight from a unique
perspective – that of someone who is actually doing what others just
talk about. Ebay Power Seller Platinum Status was Attained by Tim Gilberg, which is one of the highest sales levels attained selling on eBay. Tim is active on Ebay and liquidation.com as well as consulting
and working with other Top ebay Power Seller’s to give you real life
in use insight, not theories. Visit Tim Gilberg at his website Make Money on eBay.

Selling on eBay can be a lucrative business if you know what you’re doing. More and more enterprising people are learning the secrets of making money on eBay. We are here to show you all the tips and secrets you need to be successful and learn How to make money selling on eBay.

eBay is a great site to use if you want an alternative to a garage sale. But keep in mind that it can be a somewhat more complex process than a garage sale. You are relying on pictures and your product description to sell your goods to someone who is taking your word that the item is as described, and you are taking their word that they will come across with the payment.

I have made over $1000 in the past month selling both used and new goods. I also have an eBay Store, which is a good idea to showcase items you have plenty of stock. One of the great things about eBay is their search tool, in which you can search for the hottest sellers on eBay. I also use PayPal, eBay’s payment processor and one of the largest payment processors in the world.

Selling on eBay, has been lucrative, but the amount of work involved can result in a feeling that it’s just not worth it. Don’t forget, at a garage sale the person picks up the item and leaves with it. Sales are final. With an eBay sale, you have to wrap it carefully and take it to the post office or UPS for delivery. You have to notify the buyer that the package has been sent (usually just an email), and hope that it is delivered. In some cases, if your descriptions are not crystal clear, the buyer will feel that the item doesn’t reflect your description and will want a refund. This occasionally happens, and out of 200 successful transactions, has only happened to me once.

In the early days of eBay, the sellers were just regular people who wanted to clear out their garages or attics. Now, the site and interest has grown so significantly that “mainstream” businesses sell on the site. For example, you will see products offered by “Sharper Image” and other well-known companies. You can buy automobiles, boats, and almost anything imaginable. With reference to your concern about where sellers get their items, many buy discontinued goods from major retailers, so I wouldn’t necessarily suspect the source. Just like any other business, eBay is “buyer beware”, because there are scam artists out there who will take your money and give you nothing or inferior products. That’s why it is very important to read the seller/buyer feedback.

How To Make Money Selling On eBay

I have enjoyed my experiences on eBay and would recommend it to potential sellers who are well organized and have the time to photograph their items, write descriptions, track the bidding, and package and mail their items in a timely manner. Not only can you make a few dollars but you also get to meet some really neat people. Although this site is designed to show you How to make money selling on eBay, we also show you how to build a good reputation and make some good friends.

Lonnie Robinson is a new einfopreneur, who is making a great income, selling information products on the net. His new membership website, The Ultimate software Membership Pak, has over 200 members and counting. To view his blog, please visit: http://resell-rights-club.blogspot.com