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Affordable Online Car Auctions

Gepost door admin op 08/02/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

Still hunting for the car of your dreams? Public car auctions online are becoming a happy hunting ground for car aficionados for they bring you a huge selection of affordable cars in various models at unbelievable prices.

With online car auctions you can buy a new car at prices, which are quite less than the manufacturer’s price in the retail showroom. You can buy a car at price that you can afford. Automobile auctions have car prices which are among the most affordable and there are all kinds of options available to suit every kind of budget.

For instance, you can find all kinds of auto auctions online - from recreational vehicle auctions to buying used cars on line. Buying used cars online is a win-win situation for you for you can find cars that are practically new in their look and feel but have prices far less than the new ones. Some of the vehicles listed in internet vehicle auctions are still under factory warranty.

Internet auto auctions is open to the people residing anywhere. Online auto bidding auctions include quality vehicles, used luxury and economy cars and even online auctions for car parts and accessories.

Buying car of your dreams at affordable prices gives you immense joy. To make your dream a reality, all you have to do is review all the listed cars in the internet vehicle auctions sites. Most online car auctions try their best to ensure that the cars, which are listed for online public auto auctions are high-quality, well-maintained vehicles. You can decide how much you would like to spend after referring to the catalogues, which have a huge selection of cars in different categories.

But always keep in the mind that our public car auctions online do not give you a GUARANTEE or imply a WARRANTY of any type, kind, or nature on any purchase so make sure you know what you are bidding on.

This is a wholesale exchange between, you, the buyer, and the seller, this is not a retail used car showroom. Please make certain that you are comfortable buying in the “AS IS/Where IS” arena - you will be held financially responsible for any bids tendered.

If you are on the hunt to buy your dream car, visit Auctions4Wheels.com for some truly affordable online car auctions. Registration is FREE with this auction site. You can choose to place a bid and if successful you will receive a confirmation message. If your bid fails to outbid the current high bidder you will be offered the option to place a higher bid.

Ben Stewart

How Ebay Consignment Centers Work.

Gepost door admin op 26/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

You might not ever have heard of eBay consignment centers - don’t worry, most people haven’t, as they’re a relatively new concept. The idea is that you drop off anything you want sold, and then the consignment center will sell it for you and share the profits.

You Can Sell at Consignment Centers.

Just find something to sell and take it to a consignment center - they’ll sell it for you on eBay, handling all the listing, description and shipping.

You do, however, give up some profit when you sell through a consignment center, not to mention losing all control over your auctions - and who’s to say that you couldn’t sell it better than they can? The chances are they will only give you a fraction of the item’s real value, to the point where you might as well have just taken it to the pawn shop.

You Can Be a Consignment Center.

A better option is to be a consignment center for the non-eBay-using public in your area. After you’ve been selling things on eBay for a while and you’ve told a few people about it, someday a friend will walk up to you and say “Hey, could you sell this on eBay for me?” Give it a try - if you like doing it, then why not start up your own consignment center business?

Put an ad like this in your local newspaper or anywhere else you think is appropriate:

“Create Space and Get Money For Doing It! How would you like someone to come and clean out the old stuff in your house that’s taking up all your space, and then give you cash for the lot? I am currently looking for things to sell on eBay and I can do this for you. Call me on [your number].”

Go round to a few people’s houses and take some things that you think are sellable, giving the items’ owners a sensible amount for them - not too much, since they don’t know how much they’re worth. It’s best to try to take things that are part of a set or collection, so you can sell lots of the same kinds of items. You’re in a strong position: why would they so no when you’re offering them money for things that, to them, are rubbish?

The only requirement to be successful with this is that you need to know what you’re doing, and be able to spot a high-value item when you see one, regardless of what it might be. It’s also worth opening a new account to sell items you get from other people. You can’t guarantee quality as well, and your regular account should only be used to sell the one kind of item that you decided you’re an expert in.

One thing many sellers don’t realise when they sell items is that they need to change their strategy depending on what season it is - things sell for different prices depending on the time of year. We’ll take a look at this in the next email.

Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.

How to Request a Member’s Contact Information on eBay?

Gepost door admin op 15/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

eBay enables you to directly request the contact information of your trading partner in case you are unable to do so through email. You can request for eBay users who are engaged with your current or recent transactions. A seller in any active transaction can request contact information of bidders on eBay for current transactions as well as in closed transaction of the winning bidder. Similarly, a bidder can request contact information of a seller during an active transaction or a closed one if he is the winning bidder. Moreover, access to international users might be limited due to the International laws.

Open an eBay page. On most of the eBay pages you will see the ’search’ button in the top right corner. For requesting the contact information of a person, click on the link ‘advanced search’ under the search button. On the left side of the page click on the link ‘find contact information’ under the members section.

Next type the ‘user id’ of the member and the item number for the current transaction or closed transaction. The requested information will be received on your registered email id. But this information can be used only in the way listed in the eBay’s Privacy Policy. The user will also get your information of whose information you have received.

If after requesting you get an invalid contact information then go through the contact information policy on eBay. Also, keep your information updated too.

Donny Lowy runs http://www.closeoutexplosion.com an online wholesale and closeout business that supplies eBay sellers, retailers, and flea market vendors.

He also manages http://www.wholesalecloseoutforum.com an online wholesale and closeout forum.

Donny can be reached at 718-389-5502.

Finding Products to Sell on eBay

Gepost door admin op 07/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

Do you know how many people in US are earning their livelihood
with the help of eBay? According to a new survey conducted on
July 2005 by ACNielsen, a leading research firm, an astounding
724 thousand Americans respond that they rely on eBay for their
main or supplemental income. Apart from these professional
sellers, another 1.5 million people confirmed that they generate
additional income by selling goods on eBay. Last year alone,
around 150 million registered users have sold over US$ 34 billion
worth of goods on eBay. Isn’t it amazing?

Why entrepreneurs are flocking into eBay? Some of the reasons are
quite apparent.

• Starting a business on eBay is easy and quick

• You don’t require large investment

• Anybody can start an eBay business, no special skill is required

• You can sell virtually anything on eBay

• With your eBay business you can have flexible work time

• You have a ready-made market of over 150 million people and
counting

• eBay get 1.5 billion page views each month. You get access to
this massive traffic almost paying nothing.

So, there is no wonder that anybody with slightest penchant to
have their own business will jump into this great opportunity.
But, there are two major problems that many of the would-be eBay
sellers encounter. The first is what to sell and the next is
where to find it.

What to sell?

According to Forrester Research, a major research company, this
year, categories with products purchased by women will have the
most growth in online retailing. Some categories are already
getting more than ten percent of their overall sales through the
Internet, which include: computer hardware and software, tickets,
travel, books, consumer electronics, cosmetics and fragrances,
toys and video games, and flowers, cards and gifts. While
choosing items to sell on eBay, you should also explore the
features available on eBay and other places on the Internet that
show items people search and items people actually buy.

eBay has a complete section called “Seller Central” dedicated to
delivering utmost information to help you succeed in selling
products through eBay. Two links from this section should
interest you. One is What’s Hot
(http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html) and the other
one is Category Tips
(http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html).

When you go to the subsection ‘What’s Hot’, check out the
following three areas:

Hot Items by Category

This is a comprehensive report of categories, and products within
a category by the ratio of bid to listings growth rate in PDF
format. The report gets updated monthly and shows which products
have increased demand in comparison to last month. Super hot
products, for example, have over 35 percentage point difference
between bid growth rate and listing growth rate. According to the
latest report, by the way, Sunglasses for men, in particular
Prada sunglasses are super hot.

eBay Pulse

This is another area where you can see the top ten searched
categories, ten most widely watched auctions, list of stores with
most active listings, and other cool stuffs on daily basis.

eBay Summer Catalog

This is a new subsection. It’s a real catalog with pictures and
average price of products. In each category of products there is
a list of top ten summer trends. You, definitely, should check
this out if you are planning to start selling now.

In Demand

On the page “Category Tips” under each category you will see a
link under the name “In Demand”. This area will show you a list
of ten most sold items of this category as well as most searched
items for each subcategory.

You might also like to see what people buy on non-eBay part of
the Internet. The Shopping.com Consumer Demand Index (CDI)
(http://www.shopping.com/CDI/cdi.cmp) makes a weekly list of
most sought after items. This list could give you the needed
glimpse to the future market trend!

Where to find items to sell on eBay

Your own home

If you are just planning to start selling on eBay, your first
option is to go through your attic, closets and garage. Find
those long stashed items that you will probably never need. These
may include: books that you will perhaps never read, CDs that you
out grew, gifts that you received but did not like much, the list
can go on! Take them out, brush them off and post them on eBay
for sell.

Flea markets and garage sales

Every body knows that garage sales and flea markets can be real
treasure troves! Well, now you can look at them from a business
point of view. Your sales experience with own home items,
hopefully, will help you understand what will sell well and what
won’t. Don’t go for any costly items as yet.

Local liquidators and auctions

Classified sections of local Newspapers’ week-end editions are
good place to look for estate auctions. While buying items from
local auctions determine what are you going to buy and for what
price beforehand and stick to them no matter what! At an auction
there is always a risk of getting carried away!

Go visit some local business liquidators. These are excellent
places to find items for bargain price.

Drop shippers (http://ezine.rusbiz.com/article/39)

When a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor or importer, after
receiving an order from their retailers, individually pack and
deliver the product to the customer of the retailer with
retailers address as shipper, this selling technique is called
drop-shipping. This is an excellent way to find products to sell
on eBay. Drop ship source directory
(http://www.worldwidebrands.com/wwb/?8188) is the place to go if
you are looking for drop-shippers.

eBay

eBay itself can be a great sourcing place for you. Check out
wholesale items and eBay business marketplace from your chosen
fields. In order to find wholesale listing, while searching a
product select “Items listed as lots”. You can buy goods in
wholesale and then sell them piece by piece and make decent
money. Of course, you have to develop good knowledge of the
products before doing this.

If your business has grown and you are considering importing
products to sell on eBay, read my article “Importing Products to
sell on eBay” (http://ezine.rusbiz.com/article/52).

The bottom line is there was never a better time to start a
business. If you feel this is really your cup of tea, just go for
it!

Nowshade Kabir is the founder, primary developer and present
CEO of Rusbiz.com - a Global B2B Exchange with solutions to
create e-catalog, Web store, business process management and
other features to run a business online. You can read various
articles written by Nowshade Kabir at http://ezine.rusbiz.com.

How To Make Money On eBay

Gepost door admin op 03/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

Today, many people are choosing to work at home and make money selling on eBay. As you’re reading right now thousands are making a full or part time income with online auctions. Why? Well, because the concept is simple, you can make money from home and you can have a lot of fun doing it. Of these people who choose to start an online auction business and make money from home, many will use dropshippers to get their business up and running. Then once they have products that are selling really well, they will look to locate these products at a better price. But where? Where does one find products at a better price? The answer is right here is this article.

You see, once you are comfortable with what you are doing, have run several regular auctions and have products that are popular and selling really well, it’s then time to do some research on getting these products at a better price. This will allow you to offer these products to your customers at a better price and thus increase your auction sales which in turn will increase your auction profits. O.K. I can hear you asking “But Joe, where do I get these products for a better price?”

The answer is Liquidators! As explained in my book, a Liquidation Company is a company that buys surplus, over runs, bankruptcies, going out of business inventory and the like. They purchase this merchandise for pennies on the dollar, and can afford to sell this merchandise at below wholesale prices and still make a profit. Therefore they sell for less and you reap the benefits.

There are many Liquidators who could have just what you’re looking for. There are General Merchandise Liquidators who basically purchase and sell all sorts of general merchandise. At any given time you can find anything from housewares to kids toys. Collectables to clothing. Jewelry to cosmetics. All for a fraction of the price of dropshippers.

Then, there are Liquidators who specialize and only purchase and sell merchandise in a specific niche. This niche could be electronics, jewelry, brand name clothing and so on. Whatever the niche is, this will be the only type of inventory that Liquidator will carry. For example, a Liquidator who specializes in only kids toys would purchase products from toy stores or department stores with a kids toy section that are going out of business, declaring bankruptcy or have overstock. From that inventory, you can find some of the latest and most popular products on the market.

Liquidators are similar to Wholesalers and Dropshippers in that you will have to become a member to have access to their inventory. Most require no fee to become a member, while others may charge a nominal fee. The one thing that does differ is that Liquidators have a set number of units you must purchase in order to get a great price. A Liquidator will purchase their inventory in bulk enabling them to get the merchandise for pennies on the dollar. Therefore, they will want to sell the merchandise in cases or lots.

If you have done your due diligence, have ran several regular auctions and you know you have a Hot Product, then Liquidators are your answer to more auction profits. Remember that selling products is all about research. What products are Hot? How much can you sell the product for, and where can you get the product at the best price.

Copyright - Joe Clare

Want to make some Real Money on eBay? We have access to over 200 Reliable Wholesale Dropshippers and Liquidators, and the eCommerce know how to make it Profitable. Joe Clare http://www.ebooksnsoftware.com

Use The Global Reach Of eBay To Save Money

Gepost door admin op 02/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

Maybe like you, when I need to purchase items I always do a search online first. Normally using two of my favourite websites, eBay and Google to search for a suitable item and get some idea of the appropriate cost.

However, I’ve been making a mistake. An absolutely huge mistake. It will have cost me money over the years. Today, in a phone call with a friend I’ve only just realised it. It’s like someone slapped me across the face.

I thought I was saving myself time & effort, but it seems like I’ve been actually throwing money away, wasting time and putting in more effort than was necessary.

It’s not like I’m new to the internet, or even eBay or Google. I’ve written hundreds of articles on eBay, published three eBooks & complied an eBay mini course. Friends and family call me regularly and ask for assistance online, especially when dealing with eBay - even those who work within the computer trade & already market online.

I was only looking for relevant products. Trying to remove all the crap that is presented to you that is not relevant to me.

Anyway today, I’ve had a few problems with my car. It’s actually in a few pieces at the moment as she’s (yes, it’s a she) having a new clutch fitted. However, while she’s been taken apart it’s also been discovered the turbo is leaking oil.

This morning I had a phone call from a friend. I’ve just been to see Graham, said Tom on the other end. Grahams the mechanic that normally works on my car. Your cars in quite a few pieces at the moment, hopefully he’ll get the part delivered on Monday (for the clutch) but your turbos leaking oil as well.

I’m not a mechanically minded person. Maybe the turbo unit can be repaired or rebuilt, maybe it needs to be replaced completely.

However, to get an idea of the cost if it needs to be replaced I searched on eBay. After all, you can buy anything on eBay can’t you? I found a few used ones on eBay priced at £300. However, as I read down the description, most of them had exactly the same problem as mine - “This unit has been removed as it leaked oil and the seals are split.”

And if they didn’t specifically state faults within the description, as they had all been used they’re was no guarantee the same faults wouldn’t occur within this unit. I could end up replacing it again, a few months down the line.

I’ve looked on eBay, I told Tom. I could only see a few used units.

Then Tom said something I would have never have thought of doing. Not in a million years, even though it’s such an obvious thing to do. It’s probably one of the biggest advantages arising from the birth of the internet.

“Have a look at those from America”, said Tom.

Well. I would have never of thought of searching on eBay.com instead of eBay.co.uk. After all, even it was cheaper the shipping costs would not push the price up and wipe out any savings I made. Or so I thought.

“I’ve bought loads of stuff from the states for my VW” he boosted, stuff that’s not available in the UK went on Tom. So, I searched on eBay.com.

I found a brand new shining turbo unit on eBay, with no bids starting at $395. The shipping was a massive $125 to the UK, however this converted to a total of just £290.

All these years, I’d been clicking on the option to restrict searches to UK only. Trying to avoid the irrelevant ads.

But, by looking at the international options that were always in front of my eyes I had not only found a brand new unit but also for less than the price of a used one in the UK.

And hopefully, you’ll do the same if you haven’t already been doing the same. Use the advantages of the internet today, to start saving money, time and effort.

Mark Kenny - EzineArticles Expert Author

Mark Kenny is an eBay expert who specialises in launching eBay related online businesses. You can visit his forum at http://www.AuctionCUT.com (where you get a free dropshipping report) or read his blog via http://www.Trading-Web-Solutions.com/blog

When and How to Cancel an eBay Auction Early

Gepost door admin op 01/01/2009
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

If you’re strongly considering ending an auction early, remember that cancelling auctions upsets buyers and upsets eBay! So before you do anything, read this article. There might be a better to way to get what you want.

Reason 1: “I Want to Change my Listing.”

If you just want to revise your listing, you don’t always need to end it. For listings that have more than 12 hours left to run and haven’t received any bids, you can revise almost everything. You can remove the Buy it Now price or reserve price, change the duration of the listing, or add listing upgrades.

If the listing already has one or more bids, you can still add upgrades or add to the description. You can add more pictures too. Once the listing gets into its last 12 hours, however, what you can do becomes far more limited even if it has no bids. You can only revise the description at this point.

It’s not a good idea to cancel one listing and ask bidders to bid on another listing for the same item instead. Chances are they’ll be annoyed with you and won’t bother.

Reason 2: “The Item is No Longer for Sale.”

Perhaps you sold the item to someone else, you lost it or it got broken. Whatever happened, if you no longer have the item to sell, you should remove your listing at once. In fact, this is just about the only situation when eBay allows you to. However, if you leave it to the last 12 hours, eBay will refuse to let you remove it, no matter what has happened. This might seem cruel, but keeps people from backing out in the last few hours because they want to try again for a better price.

If you still want to end your listing early, be very careful. The option you almost certainly want to choose is “Cancel bids and end listing early” rather then “Sell item to high bidder and end listing early.”. You’ll be asked to choose a reason why you ended the listing and then your bidders will be emailed to let them know what happened.

Note that ending a listing early because it looked like it wasn’t going to get a good price is against the rules and a very upset eBay could come after you for this.

Copyright 2006 J. Sheridan

For more free information on ebay selling, drop shipping strategies, handling bid snipers, and to find out what’s the hottest selling items on eBay, visit http://www.Ebay-Selling-Tip.com

How Do Dutch Auctions Work On Ebay?

Gepost door admin op 31/12/2008
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

A multiple-item (’Dutch’) auction is an auction where more than one of the same item is being sold at once. There are two kinds of Dutch auctions.

Without Bidding.

The most common Dutch auctions are actually a combination of two auction types: they’re multiple-item fixed price auctions (Dutch Buy it Now auctions to you and me). This just means that you can offer more than one of an item at a time for a fixed price.

This is very powerful if you’re selling something small in large quantities. You can just say how many of the item you have, and the Buy it Now auction will stay there until its duration is up or all the items have been sold.

Buyers aren’t limited to only buying one item at a time, either: they can enter how many they want and then just click Buy it Now to get them. If you’re selling small things loose, then this can be really great - instead of selling them in packs of 50, you can sell 24 to one person and 95 to the next. It lets buyers save money by buying exactly what they need, and it lets you offer them the flexibility to have as many or few of an item as they want.

With Bidding.

Dutch auctions can also be done by bidding, but the process is rather complicated. Buyers bid a price and say how many items they want, and then everyone pays the lowest price that was bid by one of the winning bidders. Let’s say there are 10 of an item for sale. Anne bids $5 each for 4, while Bob bids $4 for 6. Anne will get her 4 and Bob will get his 6, but they will both only pay $4.

Here’s another example. If there are 5 items for sale and Anne, Bob, Carol and Dean want to buy 2 each, then obviously someone is going to lose out. Whoever bid the lowest will only get one of the item. If Anne bid $5 each, Bob bid $4 each, Carol bid $3 each, and Dean bid $2 each, then Anne will get 2, Bob will get 2, Carol will get 1 and poor Dean gets nothing. So then: how much they pay for the items?

Starting to sound like a particularly evil math problem, isn’t it? The answer is that everyone will pay $3, as Carol’s bid was the lowest one that won anything. If you have trouble getting your head around that, then don’t worry - everyone else does too! That’s why Dutch auctions with bidding are so rare.

In fact, even eBay’s normal one-item auction format has all sorts of problems, not least of which is auction sniping. Snipers are buyers who come along at the last minute to bid a few cents more than the highest bidder and win the item. Your buyers will find this infuriating - and you’re the only one with any power to help them out by stopping it. The next email will show you what you can do.

Kirsten Hawkins is an Ebay and internet auction enthusiast from Nashville, TN. Visit www.auctionseller411.com/ for more great tips on how to make the most from Ebay and other online auctions.

Clever Sellers Scoop Up Bargains On eBay And Resell At A Profit

Gepost door admin op 18/12/2008
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

Did you know that everyday there are hundreds (maybe thousands) of eBay auctions that have misspelled words in the titles and descriptions? Auctions with misspelled information do not come up on the regular eBay search, so frequently these listings have no bids and can be scooped up at a bargain price. This means you can profit by locating these misspelled auctions before anyone else does!

If a seller is trying to sell “jewerly” instead of “jewelry” they are extremely likely to lose out on a ton of potential customers. If someone is an avid collector of “vintage costume jewelry” you can bet that the search term they use will be “jewelry” not “jewerly”.

Remember - “If you can’t spell it……you can’t sell it!”

The one and only way to seriously earn money on eBay is to take it into your own hands! Find deals whether it be locally or online. You should know a great deal when you see one. If you have trouble recognizing a good deal from a bad deal you may not want to get into eBay selling at all. That’s not a slam on you, that’s the reality. You have to be a “natural” when it comes to finding deals.

I want to share with you a really foolproof and definite way to make profits on eBay. Clever sellers purchase bargains on eBay all day long then turn around and re-sell those same items making a huge profit! This is a unique opportunity for those selling on eBay.

Benefits Of Selling This Way:

No more shipping supplies to buy. You buy misspelled items, they are shipped to your house in boxes with packaging - do you understand where I’m going with this? You never have to pay for shipping supplies again. As soon as you receive the package, open it, inspect it, close it and re-label it!

Job security. With literally thousands of items per day being misspelled and listed…..even if 1,000 people were doing this, you would still never run out of opportunities and eBay has no spell check and never will!

Low investment. Try this method once and discover for yourself how easy it is. Buy something for $10 and re-sell it in days for $20. This happens ALL the time.

You should be able to pick up some true bargains with no one else bidding against you. Just bear in mind thousands of items on eBay are listed with misspelled descriptions and item names, from a single word to multiple words. These items often close with no bids on them as no-one can find them. Uncover those hidden gems.

Teresa has been quietly making money online for 3 years. Discover her secrets and use the misspelling tool by visiting http://www.power-buys.com/spelling.php

Learn To Make Money On eBay

Gepost door admin op 17/11/2008
Toegevoegd onder: Bids

So you want to sell stuff on eBay, but you have two minor problems: you don’t know how and you don’t have stuff. Not a problem. Keep reading for some tips to get you pointed in the right direction to learn to make money on eBay.

Before you begin you’ll need some basic equipment: Computer, Internet access, digital camera, and some space to put your stuff. That’s really all you’ll need to get started. You’ll also need shipping and packing supplies but that is addressed later.

Next you’ll need to learn how to list auctions. Go to the eBay sellers overview: http://pages.ebay.com/education/sellingtips/index.html. This will be your lifeline. There is a plethora of information there on everything you always wanted to know and more. Don’t be overwhelmed; just take it one step at a time. You’ll see there is information on listings, on bidding, on photos, on feedback - it’s all there.

Next you’ll need to figure out what to sell. Before you zero in on a particular niche you need some experience and some feedback. Buyers are generally leery of buying from someone who is brand new and has a feedback rating of less than 10 evaluations. While you are getting your feet wet, look around your own house first. You’d be amazed at what people buy. You could list outgrown clothing, magazines, candle holders, CD, books, flannel sheets, recipes, the ugly old lamp that was Aunt Mildred’s, all those goofy Christmas gifts sitting in your basement, that old baby gate with a stain on it. Get the idea? You never know what someone will want.

Although you need experience, you don’t want to list something that isn’t likely to sell. Do your research first before you invest the time in putting together a listing. An easy method to use is do a “search” on eBay, then look up COMPLETED ITEMS, then sort by HIGHEST price. Then you’ll see if your Tommy Bahama shirt is really worth anything. Or you’ll see that your old baseball cards had 23 listings and not one of them sold.

Pricing is another challenge. Again, you’ll need to do your research. See what they’re going for. Don’t have overly high expectations. You know how you feel when you go to a garage sale and you see a pair of jeans for $15 or books for $4 each. Many people come to eBay to look for a bargain. Consider how much you have into the item. If you have an item from around the house, you may consider that something is better than nothing, so you may be inclined to start the bidding quite low. If you bought it with the specific intention to resell, you will, at the very minimum, want to break even, so take the price you paid for it and consider other costs, i.e. listing fees, final value fees (all explained in your lifeline - eBay seller overview above). People are much more apt to bid if the bidding starts LOW. Sometimes though, you will have collectibles that are worth a chunk of money. Don’t give away that vintage postcard that is worth $56! Do your homework.

The next big question is how do you get paid? You determine what you would accept. Online payments such as PayPal (paypal.com) are very convenient. You can also decide that you’ll accept money orders or personal checks. The more options you leave your buyers, the more likelihood you’ll get more bids.

You also need to decide how you want to ship your items to the winners. Many sellers use USPS, others prefer UPS. If you use USPS and ship via Priority Mail, you can get your envelopes and boxes free from USPS. If you ship First Class or Parcel Post or UPS, you’ll have to shop around for deals on boxes or envelopes and bubble wrap or packing peanuts.

Overwhelmed yet? Yes there is a lot to learn, but it’s not nuclear science. Just take it one step at a time. It’s a learning process. Some yahoo groups (or MSN or AOL, or whatever your preference) are great sources for support and camaraderie with others who are doing the same.

So in summary, if you want to just “start pushing buttons” and learn to make money on eBay on your own, YOU CAN DO IT. If you do better chatting with others, those resources are available too. Use what is available.

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