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Advice On Selling My "Tips"
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Just looked at google.......and well over 2000 betting service on there.
Like soolin and others say.......... you're asking for serious trouble if you go ahead.
You can't provide a tangible service .....so anyone who loses can claim their money back from you and Paypal will side with them ( they always do...lol! ).
If nothing else.... by your own admission you're not a very good or succesful gambler.....so why even bother?
The practicalities strongly suggest it'll never even get off the ground since you can't get a link from eBay to your betting information...let alone set it up to expire at an exact time every day!!
mikeif i had known then what i know now0 -
The only way I can find the OP's proposal infringes ebay policy is in the prohibition of sale of URLs. http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/items-ov.html The actual description is more pertinent to catalogue sales but assuming they mean sale of any URL too then I would offer the following advice:
Sell your service in a listing, but provide no direct link to your website within the listing - although make your username relevant (ie. www_isellbettips_com).
Send the information to the winning bidder in email form or possibly in printed hardcopy form (get around the PayPal chargeback issue - you can claim against the PO if claimed undelivered for the value of the document). Include the link to your site.
After the transaction has been completed, follow-up to your buyers with an aftersales email explaining and linking to your website.. perhaps offer them 5 (unconditionally) free tips on signing up or some other lucrative offer.
The main thing that will make or break your endeavour will be the quality of your website (and to an extent tips that you offer for customer retention!). You need to allow the customers to manage their accounts entirely through your site so that they don't need to rely on ebay every time they want to buy your tips. From the sounds of your original post, you're not going to have any kind of customer management - just a static link that you provide to everyone who buys from your listing.. that's doomed to failure. imho.
Good luck!0
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