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Do you monitor the competition?Always keep an eye on how much other items the same as or similar to yours are selling, and what prices they're being offered at.An ebay Seller's Checklist.If not or before you use it -It's worth sending a brief email when transactions go through: something like a simple "Thank you for buying my item, please let me know when you have sent the payment". Are you emailing your sellers? I use Selling Manager Pro that automates all of the stuff below. Reserve: the minimum price the seller will accept for the item. Shill bid: a fake bid placed by a seller trying to drive up their auction's price. By now, you're well prepared for ebay life, and you're probably ready to get started with that first auction. If someone else is selling the same thing as you, then always try to provide more information about it than they do. The chances are that you'll find more specific jargon related to whatever you're selling, but it'd be an impossible task to cover it all here. Firstly, you need to know what it is you're going to sell: what's your specialisation?You'll do far better on ebay if you become a great source for certain kind of products, as people who are interested in those products will come back to you again and again.Do your item description pages have everything that buyers need to know?If you're planning to offer international delivery, then it's good to make a list of the charges to different counties and display it on each auction. There are going to be ups and downs when you sell on ebay. If you can think of a "physical" product of that you are experienced with and it's small and light enough for postage to be comparatively cheap, then that's great!Don't worry if you think the thing you're selling is too obscure - it isn't. The chances are that someone, somewhere will have seen fit to explain it. You will be surprised how many problems you will avoid just by communicating this way. Sniping: bidding at the last second to win the item before anyone else can outbid you. Being a really good ebay seller, more than anything else, is about providing genuinely good and honest customer service. Out of the things you know enough about, you should then consider which things you could actually get for a good enough price to resell, and how suitable they would be for posting. What to Sell. Oh, and always use first class post - don't be cheap. " This might sound like giving the customer an opportunity to complain, but you should be trying to help your customers, not take their money and run. Snail Mail: the post, which is obviously very slow compared to email. Here's a little list of some of the most useful jargon to know, but you don't need to memorise it - even the most common lingo is only used relatively rarely. Have you found out everything you possibly could about your items?Try typing their names into a search engine - you might find out something you didn't know. You might think you are not particularly involved in anything, but if you think about what sort of things you commonly buy and which websites you go to most a great deal, I'm sure you'll identify some sort of interest. If you get serious about ebay but don't have a camera, then you will probably want to invest in one at some point.
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