Should you sell internationally? The answer to this isn’t a simple one. It depends a lot on your tolerance for differences (in money, in language, in routine), and your ability to deal with unusual post-auction activity especially in regard to payment and shipping.
The pros of opening your auctions to non-U.S. bidders include [...]
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17 Apr 2009Maybe you find the whole eBay process a little intimidating. You have some things you’d like to sell, but don’t want to bother with the online auction process. What do you do?
If you don’t want to sell your own stuff on eBay, you can let someone else sell it for you. In [...]
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14 Mar 2009If the listing title is the headline of your ad, the listing description is your ad’s body copy. Which means it’s time to put on your copywriter’s hat and get down to the nitty-gritty details.
What makes for good copy? First, you have all the space you need, so say as much as [...]
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13 Mar 2009Let’s start right at the top, with the title of your item listing. You can use up to 55 letters, numbers, characters, and spaces, and you need to accomplish two things:
Include the appropriate information so that anyone searching for a similar item will find your item in his search results.
Make your title [...]
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11 Mar 2009Write the Right Description
If the listing title is the headline of your ad, the listing description is your ad’s body copy. Which means it’s time to put on your copywriter’s hat and get down to the nitty-gritty details.
Take All the Space You Need
What makes for good copy? First, you have all the space you need, [...]
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9 Mar 2009Buy It Now is the option that lets you sell your item to the first bidder who offers a specific fixed price. If the first bidder bids lower than the Buy It Now price, the Buy It Now option disappears and the auction continues as normal. To add the BIN option to [...]
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7 Mar 2009eBay also lets you choose a specific start time for your auctionwhich, of course, also becomes your auction’s end time. By default, an eBay auction starts as soon as the item listing is placed, so if you place your listing at 10:00 a.m., that’s when the auction starts and ends. However, you [...]
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6 Mar 2009Setting the right price is very important.
I like setting a price that’s low enough to get some interested initial bidding going, but not so low that it won’t get up to the price I think the item can really sell for. So how do you know what the final selling price will [...]
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4 Mar 2009Most eBay users get started by selling items they find in their attics, garages, and basements. (Makes you think of eBay as a giant garage sale, doesn’t it?) But what do you do when you’ve completely cleaned out the attic?
There are many places to find quantities of items to sell on [...]
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3 Mar 2009Mistake #1: List in the Wrong Category
You have to put your item where people will expect to see it. The problem is that eBay has all those categoriesalmost too many of them, especially if you’re not sure just what it is you’re selling.
If you list your item in the wrong category, many people [...]
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