Tips for selling on Ebay

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Martin Lewis, Money Saving Expert.
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*Have a good rummage round your home for items you never use.
*Be careful to list any faults with the item, try to turn the negatives to positives!
*Take a look at similar items to what you want to sell and price your goods competitively.
*Buy your brown wrapping paper from the cheapest shops, ie wilkinsons, I usually get my bubble wrap from the fruit and veg boxes in tescos and asda....saving a small fortune.
*Look out for people bidding on the same item as you are selling and email those bidders to let them know you are selling the same item also.
*Dont over price, people look on ebay for a bargain, I always find that with most items if you start the bidding at 99p more people will be interested and will start the bidding straight away.
i didn't say that....... honest
also a warning about the free listing days you have to pay up front and then you get it refunded, i warned my friend but she put all her crap great merchandise on and it ended up costing her about £90 she will get it refunded at the end of july but has had to pay for it before then, also it comes as a credit on your account so you have to use it for e-bay!!!
1. I can see some of the logic for avoiding the free listing days as 7 days later the site is flooded with stuff and prices may be lower than the 15p you save. BUT, how about listing for 1,3,5,10 days instead....that might avoid the flood and still benefit from saving 15p.
2. Is the free lsiting days available for all terms 1,3,5,7,10 days or just for 7 day listing???
Things to make sure of when listing items is make sure the descirption is Detailed & Readable, the amount of auctions i've seen with one line of text or 400 words all in one paragraph making it a chore to read.
Also with the Auction Title Try and Think of what words you would want to look for when trying to find something.
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Megazoid
****** Free Listing Day Credits Clarification ******
Date: 06/07/04 Time: 05:57:39 PM BST
Many members have asked us to clarify the refund/credit details on our forthcoming 1p-99p Free Listing Day promotion this Thursday, 8th July 2004. If the criteria are met no charges will be applied to your account at all. The "sell your item" form will show that no listing fee has been charged.
For further information see this page:http://www.ebay.co.uk/sell/080704_Q3ftfld.html
So unlike the last time,w here you ahd to have charges refunded, there will be no charge made to your account tomorrow at all, as long as your sale meets their criteria. HTH.
I find that you have to take into account simple things, like if the weather is good or bad? People dont want to be sat a PC on a nice sunny weekend.
Bargins can be found in the early hours as there are fewer users on