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by Anooprajputchd21, Ano

If you are interested in selling your products on EBay, now is the best time for you to do it. In a recent press release, Ebay has announced that it will cut listing prices on its site by up to 50%. This includes listing fees as well as other fees and expenses you may face when selling something on the online auction. Ebay's decision was its latest effort to stay competitive against up and coming e-commerce sites, particularly free sites such as Craig list. The cut in prices will come to EBay on February 20th. Sellers will be able take advantage of discounted auction fees. However, this decrease in fees, will lead to an increase in commission on goods that sell. For example a 5% commission on an item that sells for $100, will now increase to a 7% commission. However, this decreases the risk you have when you list your items for sale on EBay. If your item does not sell, you are not paying such high listing fees, and then losing the money when no one bids on your item.

"A majority of sellers will see their fees go down," said company spokesman Usher Lieberman. "We are basing our success on their success and we want to encourage sellers to list more items with us."

Though most EBay users are honest, and are truly offering to buy your item, there are a small fraction of users who will try to scam you. For more details go to www.auction-words.com. The most popular form of scamming on EBay, and on the Web in general, is known as phishing. Scammers try to get you to reveal your personal information, which they then use to make purchases. If you live in the United States or Canada then you are one of the lucky ones as these changes will only affect sellers in North America, but EBay hopes to expand these prices changes to the UK and Germany in the next few months.

Because it almost impossible for you to have a face to face transaction through Ebay this has led to a slew of frauds and scammers who are only after your money. To help you avoid getting scammed there are certain things you should make sure you doing before buying or selling your item.

Firstly, you should always check the person's feedback. In general, I only deal with buyers or sellers with a rating of 95% or greater. You can also see what other EBay members say about the member you are buying from or selling to, so you can be sure that you are informed before you go through with the transaction. To know more about it login to www.auctions-profits.com. Watch out for new users. Though everyone starts as a new user, some new users are really old scammers who open up new Ebay accounts as there old ones gain too much negative feed back. Sellers or buyers from countries like Nigeria or Indonesia are most likely scammers, but don't classify all your buyers or sellers as scammers if they are from these countries, there are still many honest people out there.

There are certain scams you can look out for. One is known as the advance fee scam. This is when a buyer contacts you and claims to be a third party broker dealing with the transaction for his ?client.? You will most likely be offered double the price of your item, but the catch is that you must send the ?broker? his ?commission fees? before you receive the money. After you send the money, you will not hear from him again and you will know you have been scammed.

That face or facial expression has a tremendous influence over the people we meet day in and day out!

I'm only guessing at this but I believe most salespeople could immediately increase their sales by 30% if they an a

simple on/off switch.

Yeah - this on/off switch would be used before and after every sales call.

I'm not sure why, but many salespeople truly believe their personalities are sufficient to win all the business - no

special preparation necessary.

Why prepare?

You're bringing all of your experience to the sales call.

You're bringing all of your education to the sales call.

You're bringing all of your brains to the sales call.

You're bringing all of your attitudes to the sales call.

You're bringing all of your personality to the sales call.

Simple reasoning suggests why do anything else?

Well you can chase prospects and customers or you can attract them.

Just showing up has never been enough and now with global competition and web competitors lusting for your business,

you best be seeking ways to take your selling skills to the next level.

And be careful - you probably think your selling skills are at a much higher level than they actually are. You aren't

the judge - your prospects and customers are.

Look the secret to getting more people to buy your products really works.

This secret is easy to do.

This secret has an unbelievable power to attract business.

Let me digress for a minute to give you an example.

The cruise ship pulls into a Turkish port for a one day visit.

Bernadette and I get off the ship to see the sights and do some shopping - the shopping is her idea.

We're not 500 yards from the ship when Bernadette does a 90 degree turn to check out a jewelry store display case.

She's eye-balling everything in the display - especially the bracelets.

Remember we're still outside the store. Behind the display case is a sheer curtain.

As we're looking at the stuff - the curtain parts and out pops one of the happiest faces I've ever seen.

He was gesturing. He was nodding his head. He was pointing at things my wife was looking and kept smiling, pointing

and nodding. He had the look that every sales person should have when working with their customers.

Dr. Bernadette Meisenheimer, is no easy target. She's got street smarts. She know how to deal with people.

Nevertheless - she says to me, "Let's go in the store - he's expecting us to."

So in we go - because the sales person was expecting us to.

Imagine just before your next sales call you turned on the switch.

You turned on the switch to smiling.

You turned on the switch to positive thinking.

You turned on the switch to positive expectations.

You turned on the switch to solving your customer's problems.

You turned on the switch to high energy and lots of enthusiasm.

You see it's because very few people are always smiling, always thinking positively, always have positive expectations,

always focused on solving problems, and always have high energy and lots of enthusiasm - that you have to turn it on,

you have to turn the switch on.

This switch is not automatic - it's manual and you have to turn it on.

The secret to getting more people to buy your products and services is as easy as A, B, C!

Try saying "SHOW TIME" before you open the door to your next sales call and see what a difference it makes.

It's "SHOW TIME!"

You'll have success written all over your face - as soon as you say "SHOW TIME."

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