Tips for selling on Ebay

soolin

Steeev, the way I see it if you have an ebay shop with thousands of items you might want to advertise like a real shop. However I make the assumption, possibly wrongly, that like a number of new sellers you have started with a few dozen items in the ordinary listings.

So not so much BHS but a single stall holder at a car boot sale.

I'm going to try listing a few things today while the 10p listing fee is in operation, hopefully the sales have picked up a bit now. I listed a dozen items at the very beginning of August just as a trial to test the market and sold only 8 of them which is not good for me.

Soo

chitty

Referring to my previous post about using rubble sacks from morrisons for wrapping items ...

I recently found that a 10m roll of brown paper at Ikea is only 75pence.

Hope this helps,

steeev

Steeev, the way I see it if you have an ebay shop with thousands of items you might want to advertise like a real shop. However I make the assumption, possibly wrongly, that like a number of new sellers you have started with a few dozen items in the ordinary listings.

So not so much BHS but a single stall holder at a car boot sale.

well the way i see it, its a simple equation, eyeballs on auctions = potential customers, the more people who see your ads the more people who are likely to bid, and the greater potential for higher profits, doesnt matter whether you have 100s of items to sell or just 1, whether you are a super corporation or just a single person trying to earn some pocket money, advertising really does work.

just my 2p

Steeev

Debbie_S

I have been selling on eBay for a while now and use microsoft frontpage to design my page. The pros out there have wonderfully designed pages with pictures placed where they like on the page. Please can somebody tell me how this is done?

steeev

I have been selling on eBay for a while now and use microsoft frontpage to design my page. The pros out there have wonderfully designed pages with pictures placed where they like on the page. Please can somebody tell me how this is done?

the ability to place the pictures where you like on the page, is a feature of WYSIWYG HTML editors, i dont know whether frontpage has this capability. I do know that dreamweaver by macromedia has this functionality, and there are various free HTML editors you can get too. A search on google should turn up a few. There are also various predesigned HTML templates you can download in various places.

Another tip for saving the 7p that the listing designer costs: preview your image with the listing designer style you want to use, then view the source code for the page that is generated (you might have to do a right mouse click on the page to do this) then copy the HTML source code and then go back to your description and replace your existing description with the code you have copied and deselect the listing designer feature. Now your ad will look *exactly* the same as if you had used the listing designer, but you will have saved yourself 7p, i know its not much of a saving, but if you do lots of auctions it will all add up in the long run

loaded_2

"There are also various predesigned HTML templates you can download in various places"

hey, can you tell me where I can find these? I've been selling on ebay for ages but only have the most basic HTML knowledge - I know how to to "bold" !!

cheers

steeev

"There are also various predesigned HTML templates you can download in various places"

hey, can you tell me where I can find these? I've been selling on ebay for ages but only have the most basic HTML knowledge - I know how to to "bold" !!

cheers

ok i might have been exagerating a bit there, oops,
:-[ as i just did a search of google and didnt actually find many free useful templates. I guess I was thinking more of web-page templates, but having thought about it a bit, webpage templates arent all that useful for being used as auction templates as they are designed for a totally different purpose.

the best auction templates i found so far were here

http://nucite.com/templates/

in order to "use" them, you would need to goto the preview pages and view the source code of the page to see how they made the templates, then implement the code in your own auction description.

benjaminnel

Why not let an eBay store like SellStuffEasy (https://www.sellstuffeasy.com) sell your items for. They will do everything from store items, take digital photigraphs, writing a description, communicing with possible buyers to packaging and shiping the item(s) to the buyer. They have actually sold a friend of mines kitchen and a few other items lying around the house.

Ally

Don't know much about eBay fees but if they charge as much as 'sellstuffeasy.com'

"SellStuffEasy commission is based on the final selling price per listing:
25% of the first £500
20% of any amount over £500

SellStuffEasy minimum commission is £5.00 per listing"

benjaminnel

Ally

That seemed a bit high to me also until I realised how much time and effort it cost to do a professional  listing on eBay. I had to go through the hassle of setting up a paypal account and learning HTML, buying a good digital camera to take pictures, then getting my pictures hosted on a website, having enough feedback so buyers would trust me, not to mention all the queries that has to answered from buyer about the product or the viewings that need to be arranged etc etc.  

B  :)