1.We will assume that you are not registered on eBay as yet. Taking this into consideration, you will first go to eBay's signup page.
2.After you have signed up, login to eBay and click on "sell". This can be found at the top of the page, or in the navigation menu if you are in "my eBay"
3.You'll be asked to enter a keyword related to the item you are selling. This is EBay's way of helping you to find the appropriate category. If you would rather go through and choose your own category, simply click on the select category tab.
4.After selecting the category, you will be asked to enter the title and description. You should be very detailed in your title and your description. This will help those searching to find your product. You should always include a photograph. It boosts sales dramatically.
5.Continue to follow on-screen instructions. The screen will direct you to do things such as entering the starting price, etc.
6.You will be asked to enter whether or not you would like to feature the item on a given category, or even on the home page, if you would like to include a gallery photo, etc.
7.After you have completed the form, eBay will give you an opportunity to look the listing over, to check that everything is correct. After you are satisfied with the listing, click the submit button and your auction will be queued for listing, but you aren't done yet!
There are other things you should know. When you first begin selling on eBay, you will be "unknown". You may be wondering "how do I get Known?" eBay has devised a simple way for other users to rate their experience with you. This is known as "feedback". Your feedback accumulates both as a buyer and a seller. This gives you a total score based on feedback as given by others to you. There are three types of feedback. The transaction that was good will result in a positive feedback. From time to time, a buyer may not necessarily be happy with the product received, but may not have a problem with you. This will result in a neutral feedback rating for that transaction. Still other times may occur when a buyer (or a seller) just did not like anything at all about the transaction. He leaves a negative feedback for the transaction which will take away a point from your total feedback. Your overall feedback is still visible to a potential buyer, but that out front will reflect only the current number. Each potential buyer is also able to view the feedback so they can try to find out why a negative was given.
Obviously, the higher your feedback rating, the better the price you will realize on your items, so it's in your best interest to make sure you do your very best to keep all feedback positive.
We hope this article on how to sell on eBay was helpful to you, and gets you started on the proper path to setting up shop and selling your merchandise on eBay.
Next to the photo that you provide for your buyer, the next most important tool you give to your buyers is the written description of the item you are selling. If you really go through the auction listings for any popular selling item you will start to see that many of the descriptions for the items that are being sold are not actually unique descriptions. Many times the descriptions are generic and pulled from a manufacturers web site only to be cut and pasted into the auction listing. This can work for items that are brand new and still in the box, as there should be little or no difference from one new product to the next. However, when it comes to collectables, antiques, high end sporting goods like competition class bicycles, etc., even the most minute difference in the tolerance of a critical part, or the slightest deviation from what would be considered a normal wear and tear pattern associated with some collectables can affect the value to such a degree that it might render a given item as being absolutely worthless, as opposed to being a fine example of the character common to the era.
If you are trying to start the type of eBay business that builds and snowballs into a respected, trusted, professional, enterprise that is known for its reliable auctions, and ethical approach to on-line commerce, take the time and the effort to examine and describe every aspect of the item in question from its basic measurements and dimensions, to any blemishes and/or damage that may exist, or offer the item on an ?AS-IS? basis with no other descriptive statements.
Regardless of how you choose to proceed, my advise to you is to be honest above and beyond the expectations of potential buyers you may have contact with ? even if that means saying that you don't have certain information, nor the ability to find it. Honesty is not the best policy, it is the mandate by which your eBay business will thrive or whither on the vine.
Great! So, we've decided to be honest! The next question might very well be in what form do we present our honest and truthful descriptions to our lucky sellers?
There are a thousand different sites that will help you tweak your eBay auction sites into gleaming, steaming, beaming, dreamy HTML creations of fantasy that would have no problem engulfing a would be buyer and spiriting that person off into the nether reaches of the cosmos where magic and fantasy are the reality and your wildest imagination controls the hue of every sunset. Unfortunately, my experience has been that although these digital manipulations are showy and impressive, they do little if anything to actually focus the buyer on the quality and features of the item being sold.
An eBay seller would do well to gain a basic familiarity with the HTML language for basic text and site features, however, dancing pandas that sing the national anthem while morphing into 20 year old college co-eds throwing wads of cash around will not sell your father's Canon AE-1 SLR 35mm Camera as well as four crystal clear photos, and a rundown of the features and usage history of that individual item. Really.
If you are ever in doubt, you can never go wrong by keeping your descriptions brutally honest and simple.
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