Help for Ebay Newbie please

BlueBella

LittleBeastie89 wrote: »

if you're a new seller with limited feedback people might be reluctant from buying from you at this point.

I agree - if I was looking to buy an expensive item on ebay I would avoid new sellers with no feedback. I know everyone starts off as a newbee and not all newbees are fraudsters, but I am just one of those people who is reluctant to take chances when buying from ebay (I have read a fair few horror stories) and I am not very trusting in those I come across online.

deb2112

I agree with BlueBella- There's nothing that puts a buyer or a seller off more than an inexperienced eBayer. We have 6500+ good feedbacks on our main account but recently tried to use a second account to sell a different range of items, as a way of keeping things separate. But this second account had only been used for buying bits and pieces for the kids and only had about a dozen feedbacks and we found we hardly sold anything. Moved things back to the original account and sales perked right back up.

woodie49

If you have a eBay account you should have a PayPal account too and that is run with your eBay account, so basically if you were to except any offers before ending the auction they should send money via PayPal account. But always remember don't send or post anything before money is in your account but on a safe note let the auction run and re-list it if it doesn't sale. Just another point have you set the auction to start at £125 because if you haven't and someone bids below that price there could get it at lower price and your be duty bound to send it at lower price. Auction rules

toniq

Maybe look at compers swap groups on fb, it might be an easier way than ebaying it with no feedback.


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lolamia

It's fake fake fake, I have been selling a hoard of electronics and I get loads, they ask to send them a PayPal request etc and they are normally from the other side of the world like Nigeria that's why they offer do much for postage. You will see that even if you send a money request through PayPal they will never pay but will keep annoying you saying they sent the money so you should send the product. I get ones like this all the time

Thanks for your mail,I will like to buy the item from you as I am buying it for my son as a gift and I know he would love it, i will be glad to offer you £400gbp.so if you accept my offer kindly get back to me with your PayPal email and name to mortonlewis63 AT yahoo dot Com so that I can proceed with the payment as soon as possible
I will be expecting your fast response
Thanks

Defoe

Good points made here. A few other suggestions:

a) if you choose to sell on e bay you should refuse all offers to buy outside. If buyers offer you a price, politely tell them to bid if they want the item;
b) price the item at the minimum that you would accept. Sounds obvious but there is a balance between recognising that you won it at no financial cost, avoiding feeling that you have been ripped off by pricing it too low, and being left with it;
c) accept that your item may not sell anyway, not a tragedy if you won it and there are always charity shops who may be interested;
d) don't dwell on making huge amounts of dosh. I view e bay as a way of recycling items I don't want.
e) don't let the hassle of what to do with it rob you of that "winning feeling"!

serenity2012

I have no idea whats been said before but if you have something up for auction on ebay just stick to that. Don't take offers outside the auction or you have no protection from ebay if it goes wrong. If someone wants it they will bid for it. Why would anyone who is a genuine ebayer be contacting you outside the auction instead of bidding. They are cons. Ignore and stick to those who bid so you are protected.