Selling to Business.



If you're selling business equipment and have mostly business customers, you should really aim to have your auctions finishing between 9am and 5pm on weekdays. It is worth, however, trying to avoid mornings and avoiding the ?lead-in? and ?lead-out? that takes place on Monday and Friday themselves.

Selling to Home.

If most of your sales are to private customers having it shipped to their own home, then you want your auctions to finish when these kinds of customers will be around. Unfortunately, these times are the opposite of what they are for the business customers. The ideal time to catch a home customer is on a Sunday evening.

List for Durations.

In order to get your listings to end on a particular day, you can simply change the duration of your auctions depending on what day it is. For example, if you mostly sell to home customers and the day today is Thursday, then your auction needs to run for either 3 or 10 days to hit a Sunday. If you sell more to business and the day today is Friday, then:

a 1 day auction would be bad (finishing on Saturday),

3 days would be alright (Monday),

5 days would be good (Wednesday),

7 days would be good (another Friday),

and 10 days would be alright (Monday again).

You could draw up a little timetable of when you should and shouldn't be listing depending on the days of the week ? make it red, amber and green, traffic light style, and stick it on your wall.

Be aware that you might have to pay a few cents per listing for this if you do it through eBay. With some software, you may also need to leave your computer on all the time, so the software can start the auctions when it's supposed to. for more details visit to www.auction-entrepreneur-kit.com. The advantage of this method, however, is that there will be no per-listing fee, since the auctions were scheduled through your computer and not through eBay.

Tips for Selling Collectibles on eBay.

Yes, collectibles! Collectibles are where eBay started, and they're still one of its biggest areas ? however much they might want you to believe they're not. eBay's most hardcore and long-time users are almost all collectors of something or other ? it is quite common to post what you think is a mundane item, only to have collectors suddenly go to war over it because it is somehow linked to something they collect.

Do lots of research. Never list something you think might be valuable without searching and searching to dig up every piece of information you can on it. for more details visit to www.mining-auction-gold.com. Everything you find out is likely to be useful when you come to list it.

When you are listing items that require close research and description down to the tiniest detail, however, don't be tempted to steal someone else's work! Whatever you do, don't take another seller's description and try to pass it off as your own, as this could have all sorts of consequences for you. Our next email gives you a guide to eBay's policy on ?description theft?.