Selling your stuff on EBID. advice for new sellers

Mayday

You'd be better off on the eBid Forums with queries like these where there is plenty of advice and help available with links to all the eBid FAQs and Help videos.

http://forums.ebid.net/

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TinyTasha

Hi All,

I have recently taken the leap from Ebay to Ebid. I usually sell women's clothing and accessories but was wondering what sort of things sell best on ebid, I was also wondering about pricing? is it best to start low and let people bid or stick to price wanted and let people bid from there. I was also wondering the best time length to allow the auction to complete, I use the 3 day system with Ebay.
I hope Ebid works for me like it seems to for some many others and I am certainly willing to give it a good go. Any help anyone can offer will be very much appreciated :beer:

Mayday

As not many of the big eBid sellers come on this Forum, I'd suggest you go over to the eBid Forums/Message Boards http://forums.ebid.net/forum.php and ask over there

You will have to register for the Forums in order to post, but you will get loads of advice and help.

soolin

TinyTasha wrote: »

Hi All,

I have recently taken the leap from Ebay to Ebid. I usually sell women's clothing and accessories but was wondering what sort of things sell best on ebid, I was also wondering about pricing? is it best to start low and let people bid or stick to price wanted and let people bid from there. I was also wondering the best time length to allow the auction to complete, I use the 3 day system with Ebay.
I hope Ebid works for me like it seems to for some many others and I am certainly willing to give it a good go. Any help anyone can offer will be very much appreciated :beer:

There are very few bidders on ebid so never risk a low start, it isn't like ebay where a good item will find its own value. List at the absolute minimum you will accept, and be prepared to relist for a couple of years before you get bored and give up.

One tip though, the forums there will encourage you to sign up for lifetime membership- be very careful. With virtually no sales (seriously, check out completed listings to see) and no real buyers paying for lifetime membership will make it more expensive than ebay.

By all means try a few things out, who knows someone must have found a niche on there by now. I do speak from experience as I have been listing there for what must be 10 years now, and have not even sold enough to cover my lifetime membership.

TinyTasha

Thank you for your replies. I will head over to the ebid forums :beer:

patman99

Genuine ink carts sell on ebid for 3x what they sell for on ebay.

soolin

patman99 wrote: »

Genuine ink carts sell on ebid for 3x what they sell for on ebay.

Searching for HP ink on Ebid closed listings show 1 successful sale since 23 rd feb. that sale was for 2 ink carts and went for £9.49 plus £2 postage.

Searching for Lexmark ink shows 8 closed listings since feb, no sales.

Epsom show no closed at al, either sold or unsold.

Searching for Canon shows no successful sales at all.

I think they need to sell to actually beat eBay prices, just being listed doesn't count.

Frugaldom

I need to defend the eBid lifetime membership because it provides you with the cheapest online stores facilities I've ever used. Get a cheap domain name, point it at your eBid stores and then promote your site. I know it's not generating many sales from the eBid side but the facilities they provide for the price you pay are brilliant. It's an added bonus if someone finds you via the auction. Just my opinion, but we've been selling on there for years.

RHemmings

I gave ebid a try some time ago, but there simply wasn't enough to buy there. I've bought the occasional thing.

Right now I'm interested in buying a gent's drop-bar racing bike at the moment. Seeing this thread, I went over to ebid to search. There are 126 bicycles on sale on ebid at the moment compared to 29,389 on ebay.

And how many of the 126 bikes on ebid are drop-bar gents racing bikes? One!!!! yes, that's one. Selling for over £3900. Just a touch out of my price range.

However, there is this 'STEEL NUT SPLITTING TOOL as photo'. http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/steel-nut-splitting-tool-as-photo-bike-cycle-workshop-75806187.htm What's that about?