eBay is not 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.
This is simple, but effective. Summer is the quiet season on eBay – almost everything sells for less. While everyone else is out enjoying the sun, invest a little time to find some real bargains.
Beat Them by a Few Cents.
Outbid people by a few cents instead of a few dollars – if they do not check back before the auction ends, then you will be the winner. To avoid people using this tactic on you, though, always bid strange, hard-to-guess amounts instead of round numbers.
Play Dirty.
If you know when the auction ends, you can get in there at the very last second and outbid your rivals. The chances are that they will not have the time to sit in front of the auction waiting for it to end – as a rule, he who stays wins. If someone else does retaliate at the end of the auction, though, try not to get carried away in those last few seconds and end up paying too much!
Take Risks.
This is a strategy for the braver eBay buyer. All of the advice you will see for eBay beginners tells you to buy items that have good pictures, clear descriptions, trustworthy sellers and all the rest. If you are brave, why not take a risk and do the exact opposite?
Many buyers will not want that item from the seller with a feedback rating of 5, no picture and a one-line description. If you take a calculated risk and bid anyway, you might be able to make a tiny bid and win by default. There are people on eBay who make their living from winning auctions like these, taking good pictures of the item, writing a good description and then reselling it at a huge profit. Be careful, though. Do this for long enough, and you will inevitably lose your money at some point. It is especially unwise to try it with very high-value items.
Avoid Bidding Wars.
There are few things on eBay that are so rare that you will only see them once and never again. There are usually quite a few sellers who have an item. What’s more, they will generally have more than one to sell, even if they have not listed them all at once. Always check your seller’s history to see whether they sell your item all the time – and if they do, then wait for the next one instead of bidding to the skies.
Now, there may come a time in your eBay life when you realise that you have screwed up your bid, and you wish there was an ‘undo’ button. Here’s the good news for you. There is!
The next posting will be all about withdrawing your eBay bids.
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eBay Lesson – 10 Ultimate Tips for Increasing Your eBay Customer Response
You have got the buyer in front of your auction, and they have read the description. They must be interested. Otherwise they would not be looking, right. But just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid?
Read on below for some enlightning tips.
- Improve your picture
In all that description writing, you might have missed the vital importance of your item’s picture. A picture with bad lighting or an intrusive background looks amateurish and will not make anyone want to buy from you.
- Add an About Me page
You will be surprised how much you can reassure bidders just by creating an About Me page and putting a little bit about yourself on your business on there. You can also have a few special offers there for people who bother to look at the page, and let people subscribe to your mailing list so that you can email them updates.
- Use SquareTrade
Signing up at SquareTrade and displaying their logo on your auctions shows that you are committed to have them resolve any disputes that arise. You always see this on PowerSellers auctions. It makes you look more professional.
- Write terms and conditions
Have the ’small print’ clearly visible on all your auctions, giving details of things like shipping times and prices, your refund policy, and any other business practices you might have. This helps build confidence with buyers.
- Show off your feedback
Copy and paste a selection of the feedback comments you are most proud of to each item’s description page, instead of making bidders go and look for it. If you have 100% positive feedback, be sure to write that on every auction too.
- Add NR to your titles
If you have extra space in a title, put ‘NR’ (no reserve) on the end. Bidders prefer auctions that do not have a reserve price, and doing this lets them see that yours do not have it.
- Benefits not features
Make sure your description focuses on the benefits that your item can give to the customer, not just its features. This is a classic sales technique. If you have trouble with this, remember - ‘cheap’ is a feature, ’save money’ is a benefit.
- List more items
If you want more people to respond to your items, then list more items! You might find you have better like listing items at the same time, instead of one-by-one. There is no need to use a Dutch auction – you can just keep two or three auctions going at once for an item you have more than one of in stock.
- Accept unusual payment methods
To reach those last few buyers, accept payment methods that many sellers do not accept, e.g. cheques.
- Buy some upgrades
The best upgrade is the most expensive one, which makes your item appear first in search results. In crowded categories, you might find that this is worth the money.
Once you have got some buyers, you want to keep them coming back to you. The next posting will show you how to turn one-time buyers into long-term customers.
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Another viable and most recommendable option, when starting up an eBay business, is to make use of the drop shipping concept, which you can read about in the post – eBay and Drop shipping – What Is It All About?
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Once you have 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’re trying to get buyers excited about your products, and that is usually hard – but on eBay, if you have the right thing to sell and give enough details, the buyers almost excite themselves.
Technical Details.
Include every technical detail you know, including the item’s manufacturer, its condition, how big it is, where and when it was made, its history, and anything else special about it. Do not be too boring, though! The best descriptions are written in friendly, conversational language, and show a real knowledge of the item. Whatever you do, make sure you tell the truth!
Remember that most of the people who will be buying your item will be just as knowledgeable about it as you are, if not more – this is their hobby, and they are experts. Do not feel like you need to explain the basics of the item! Just go into as much technical detail as you can. As a rule, do not write anything in the description if you do not know what it means, as the chances are someone will, and if you have got it slightly wrong then you will look like you do not know what you are talking about.
Interesting Details.
You might find that you enjoy writing a few things about how you got the item, why you are selling it, and whom you think might like it. This is not strictly necessary, but it gives your auctions some character and a personal touch, and can make people more likely to trust you. People might wonder what you are doing selling 500 CDs all at once, and if you tell them the reason, then they will feel reassured that nothing dodgy is going on. If you are selling them because you are having a baby and you need the space, just say so.
Write as Much as You Can.
Leave nothing out of your description, even if that seems to you like it makes it cumbersomely long. There is no way you can be too thorough! Someone, somewhere will appreciate that you took the time to write the extra information.
Do not assume that anyone who wants extra information will email you to ask a question. Many buyers are shy and will not do it. Think of questions that buyers might have and add the answers to your description, as people generally tend to ask the same questions over and over again.
Each time a buyer does email you with a question, you should both answer their question and update your description so that it will include the answer next time. If people ask questions that are answered in the description, try putting these parts of the auction on a line alone, or in bold, to make them easier to notice.
In the next posting, we will focus on increasing the number of buyers who respond to your auctions.
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If you seriously thinking of earning, not losing BIG money on eBay, I definitely recommend a very successful product how to market eBay(R) auctions
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Another viable and most recommendable option, when starting up an eBay business, is to make use of the drop shipping concept, which you can read about in the post – eBay and Drop shipping – What Is It All About?
Click here to find out more about drop shipping.
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Are you an eBay seller? If you have been looking for a relatively easy way to make money, there is a good chance that you are. Different individuals use eBay, but many use eBay to make a little bit of extra money or even to financially support themselves and their families. If you are an eBay seller, how is everything currently going? Are you making as much money as you had hoped to make?
If not, please read on, and you will find some tips are outlined below on how you can make sure that your eBay items sell better.
When it comes to buying items on eBay, there are many eBay buyers who are on the lookout for eBay scams. Before purchasing an item, one of the first things that an eBay buyer does is check the feedback of the seller. Doing business with a highly rated and recommended eBay seller reduces or completely eliminates the possibility of getting scammed on eBay. Feedback helps to give you a good reputation, but there is also something else that can help you get a good reputation, and this is an “About Me,” page. This is a page where you are in the position to introduce yourself and give a little bit of background information about yourself and your eBay business.
“About Me,” pages are optional, but there are a number of benefits in having one.
Once an eBay buyer has learned that a seller who has an item that they want/need for sale is a reputable one, they will most likely continue to examine the product being sold. This is where your biggest chance of making a sale comes in.
First, make sure that your products are being sold at a fair price. Keep in mind, when making your auction listings that you are after making a profit, but on the other hand, you do not want to scare off any potential buyers with a too high price. Just making sure that your prices are reasonable is enough to increase your chances of making a sale.
Secondly, make sure that you accurately describe all of your items that are being sold. For instance, if you are selling a lot of or a group of children’s toys, it might be a good idea to take the time to list the names of each toy being sold. Outline the condition in which each toy is in as well. If you are selling toys that require batteries, you should state whether the batteries are included or not. Providing a detailed, accurate description of all of your items will definitely increase your chances of having them be sold
In addition to a detailed description, it is also rather important that you have pictures of your items. eBay allows you to post one free picture, but more can be posted for additional fees. Do not let these additional fees deter you from posting additional pictures, as they are likely to increase the chances of making a sale. In fact, you may want to have a look into free photo sharing websites, such as PhotoBucket, as they allow you to post additional eBay pictures for free. When taking pictures of your eBay items, make sure that you take a number of close-up pictures. Also, make sure that the pictures are easy to see and that the light is good. Having poor pictures or no pictures at all is one of the many reasons why many eBay items end up not being sold.
The methods of payment that you accept may also have an important impact on how well your eBay items will sell. One of the most common forms of payments used, to pay for eBay purchases, is PayPal. The reason why PayPal is so popular is because it enables shoppers to buy items from you, without having to disclose their account numbers. If you do not already accept PayPal, please take a look into doing it. Although most eBay buyers use PayPal, you should also remember that not everyone does. For that reason, you may also want to accept other methods of payment, including money orders or personal checks. The only thing with personal checks is that you should wait until the check is cleared, before shipping the buyer their merchandise, especially with large and expensive purchases.
By implementing the above mentioned eBay seller tips, you may start seeing an increase in your eBay sales, even right away. In all honesty, you need to think of it from a buyer’s perspective.
Look at your auction listings and ask yourself: would I buy what I am selling from a seller like me?
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Are you interested in becoming an eBay seller or are you a relatively new eBay seller? If that is the case, you may still be in the learning phase regarding the ins and outs of eBay. Selling on eBay is a great way to make additional money or even enough to fully support yourself, but you have to be successful at what you do. Unfortunately, it can take time to fully come to grips with all the ins and outs of eBay, particularly how to become a profitable eBay seller – until now.
Below you will find some useful tips, tips that you not necessarily will find explained on eBay.
All eBay sellers are required to pay fees to list their items for sale on eBay.
You are charged two separate fees
- a listing fee or insertion fee
- a final value fee
For the final value fee, you are charged a percentage of the price that your item was sold for. The insertion fee or listing fee is calculated somewhat differently. Instead of being charged a percentage, you are charged a set amount.
For instance, momentarily, it costs .20 to list an item up to .99 cents and .40 to list an item for sale between $1.00 and $9.99, and the fee scale continues upwards in a similar fashion. Please remember that this is just a sample.
eBay regularly changes their fees; therefore, please do not rely on the aforementioned fee samples.
Although eBay sellers must pay the eBay fees mentioned above, many do not take the time to thoroughly understand those fees. You are advised to inform yourself, as it otherwise may end up costing you money. For instance, many of the price ranges for eBay’s insertion fee scale ends at .99 cents. For you, this is a great opportunity to save money, but you must know how to do so. As stated above, if you list one of your items at $9.99, the sample insertion fee would be only .40 cents. Did you know that if you listed your item for $10.00, your insertion fee could jump up to around .60 cents (+ 50%)! An extra .20 cents just for a penny is pretty expensive, don’t you think, especially if you list a number of eBay auctions that way. Before listing items for sale on eBay again, examine eBay insertion fee sale and see how you can easily save money, sometimes by just shaving a few cents off your asking price.
It has often been said that to be a successful eBay seller, you need to have good product descriptions and clear digital pictures of the item or items that you are to sell. Of course, having a number of pictures in your eBay listings is a great way to increase your chances of making a sale, but it can be expensive doing so. eBay allows sellers to post one picture for free. Additional pictures can be purchased for a small fee, but that small fee can add up over time. With that in mind, many eBay sellers limit the number of pictures they put in their auctions. However, you do not want to do this. Instead, you should examine photo sharing sites. Photo sharing websites, like PhotoBucket is a nice, free way to add more pictures to your eBay auctions. Register with a photo sharing site, like PhotoBucket, follow the instructions and you should be saving money in no time at all.
The aforementioned ways are just a few of the many ways that you can save money on eBay, not lose it. In all honesty, you should do a little bit of research first. Using the Internet is a great way to research selling on eBay, as many other eBay users are prepared to share their money-making secrets with you - free of charge.
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If you seriously thinking of earning, not losing BIG money on eBay, I definitely recommend a very successful product how to market eBay(R) auctions
- eBay Fortune , The Definitive Roadmap To Auction Riches -
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Take Action – Click Here to Download “eBay Fortune , The Definitive Roadmap To Auction Riches”
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