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  • Staying Out Of Trouble With Ebay’s Listing Policies.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    While you can sell most things on eBay, quite a few things are banned. If you try to sell any of these things then eBay will remove your auction and all bids will be void. Here is eBay’s full list of prohibited or questionable items:
  • Ebay Income Possibilities.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make – it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay. Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that’s eBay’s requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each mont...
  • What You Need To Know Before You Get Started On Ebay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    So you’ve decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end.
  • A Beginner’s Guide To The Different Ebay Auction Types.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their things on eBay. For every seller who doesn’t like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend, there’s another who wants to shift hundreds of the same item quickly. eBay tries to cater to all tastes. This email gives you an overview of the different kinds of auctions and their advantages for you.
  • The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Buying On Ebay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Whatever you want to buy, whether it’s large or small, cheap or expensive, everyday or just plain weird, the chances are you can find it on eBay. It’s the largest auction site in the world, and when it comes to the variety of what’s on sale, size is vital. When was the last time you heard of someone getting a great deal on a weird and wonderful item at uBid or Yahoo Auctions?
  • Doing Your Holiday Shopping On Ebay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Most people do far more shopping in the holiday season than they do for the rest of the year – and now you know how to use eBay, why not do it there? If you know what kind of thing your friends and family like then eBay’s categories are ideal places to get ideas. Plus, you won’t have to fight your way through the holiday rush when you’re getting everything posted to you at home!
  • Ebay: The First 10 Years.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site – then called ‘AuctionWeb’ – to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ‘eBay’ comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company’s name was Echo Bay, and the ‘eBay AuctionWeb’ was originally just one part of Ech...
  • Top 10 Strangest eBay Items Ever Sold.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    eBay can be a very odd place, given that you can sell almost anything you want. Here are the auctions we’ve picked as being the strangest ever.

    #10 - Girlfriends: Some girls auctioned their services as ‘imaginary girlfriends’, who would send the winning bidder pictures of themselves and loving letters, which they could use to pretend they had a girlfriend
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    #9 - Wedding dress: Nothing strange about selling a wedding dress, you might think – but this was the guy’s ex-wife...
  • How To Become An eBay “Sniper”.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    If you bid for a few things on eBay, the chances are that sooner or later you’ll end up getting your bid beaten at the very last second by a ‘sniper’. This can be a frustrating experience, and while in theory sniping is against the rules and you can report it to eBay, in practice they never do anything about it.
  • Understanding Ebay Buying Tools.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    eBay offers quite a few simple tools to help make your buying easier, so you don’t lose track of what you’re doing. Most of them are on the ‘My eBay’ screen – if you’re logged in, you can go there just by clicking ‘My eBay’ on the toolbar at the top of any eBay page.
  • Tips For Buying Collectibles On eBay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Buying collectibles is one of the most enjoyable things to do on eBay, simply because you can find so many things that you just can’t get anywhere else. Here are a few tips to help you on your way.
  • When Things Go Wrong: How To Resolve eBay Disputes.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    eBay has quite an intricate and long-winded dispute resolution procedure. In this email, I’ll try to break each step down for you, so you can see what’s involved and how long it takes. As an example, let’s go through what you would do if you paid for an item but didn’t receive it from the seller.
  • Watch Out For eBay Automobile And Computer Scams.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    There aren’t that many scammers on eBay – but the ones there are tend to be greedy. This means that they will always try to pull their scams on high-value items like cars and computers, so that they can make a lot of money quickly. Since buyers generally buy these items very rarely, they may not know about the various scams out there.
  • Tips And Tricks For Using eBay Search.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    If you know what you’re doing, you can quickly find what you’re looking for on eBay. Here are a few golden rules. Be specific: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original Harry Potter book, you’ll get further searching for ‘harry potter rowling philosopher’s stone first edition’ than you will searching for ‘harry potter’. You’ll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be far more relevant.
  • Introducing The New eBay “Buyer’s Credit” Program.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    In an effort to compete with more ‘traditional’ shops, eBay has started to offer finance agreements though PayPal for expensive items. This means that, if the seller decides to offer it, you can now spread the cost of an item into affordable monthly payments.
  • How To Get eBay Coupons.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    You have to be very lucky to be one of the chosen few who receive an eBay coupon by email. These coupons are just like cash that you can use towards anything you buy on eBay – the only conditions being that you pay using PayPal, and that you are using eBay in the USA, Canada or the UK.
  • How Important Is Your Buyer’s Reputation?  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Your reputation as a buyer (or ‘feedback rating’) is the most important thing people see when they deal with you on eBay. It is on the basis of this little number that they will decide whether they can trust you or not.
  • 10 Ways To Avoid Being Ripped Off On eBay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    It is important to remember that eBay is a lot like a marketplace. There will always be a dodgy guy in the corner, selling things that most people wouldn’t touch. The trouble is that, on the Internet, these people can be a little harder to spot. Here are ten tips to help you keep an eye out for the rip-off merchants
  • How To Cash In on Weird Auctions on eBay  By : Gerry Lacuarta
    Until recently, online auction sites such as eBay have been the usual marketplace for bargain hunters and thrift shoppers looking for cheap used or surplus products. But a new breed of sellers are now coming up with very unusual auctions on eBay.
  • How To Think Like An Ebay Powerseller.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    So what’s a PowerSeller? PowerSellers are the people on eBay who’ve made it, recognisable by the little ‘PowerSeller’ badge next to their name. You’ve probably seen these people around – and to succeed on eBay, you want to think the way they do.

    How to People Get the Right to Call Themselves PowerSellers?

    eBay gets to decide who can be a PowerSeller and who can’t, and they have strict requirements. To get in at the minimum PowerSeller level, you must have a feedback rat...
  • How To Use Ebay To Grow Your Other Businesses.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Most of the people who make money from eBay don’t actually make all of that money on eBay. There are all sorts of ways you can use eBay to give your existing businesses a helping hand.

    The Supply Side.

    If you have any leftover stock or used items from another business you run, then why not sell them on eBay? You can make this a regular thing, using it to get rid of things that won’t sell for the premium you ask for in a shop, or items that are no longer in demand in the...
  • 10 Sure-Fire Ways To Kill Your Ebay Business.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    It’s surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you’re not careful – sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are some simple ways to do it.

    Lie about an item: Say it works fine when it sometimes doesn’t work. Say it’s in perfect condition when it has a scratch. Your customers will hate you!

    Post whenever you feel like it: Make sure to leave ...
  • Ebay – Part Time Or Full? How To Decide.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    Going full-time as an eBay seller is living the dream: making a real income, working from home, being your own boss and all the rest of it. It’s the promise of a million scams, and it’s finally come true – at least for some.

    What they don’t tell you in the success stories, though, is that becoming a full-time eBay seller is by no means for everyone. You really, really ought to try it part-time before you even consider taking it up full-time, and even then, caution is advis...
  • 10 Steps To Successful Selling On Ebay.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    So you want to be a successful seller with your own eBay business, do you? Here’s a simple, ten-step path to eBay enlightenment.

    Step 1: Identify your market. Take a while to sit and watch for what sells and what doesn’t out of the items you’re interested in. Any market research data you can collect will be very useful to you later on. You’ll probably see the ‘sweet spots’ quite quickly – those one or two items that always seem to sell for a good price.

    Step 2: Watch th...
  • Is The Ebay Customer Always Right?  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    I can answer this question for you right now: the answer is ‘yes’. In fact, the answer is ‘YES!’ – the biggest yes you’ve ever heard. Of the course the customer is always right. If you want to be a successful eBay seller, you should go miles out of your way to make sure every single one of your customers is 100% satisfied, however much time or money it might cost you.

    A dissatisfied customer will leave negative feedback, and negative feedback is to be avoided at all costs....
  • 5 Simple Steps To Posting Your First Ebay Auction.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    It’s surprisingly simple to get started posting your very first auction on eBay. Here’s what you need to do.

    Step 1: Open an eBay seller’s account.

    If you’ve bought things on eBay, then you already have an account – just log in with it and click ‘Sell’ in the toolbar at the top of the page, then click ‘Create a seller’s account’. If you’ve never used eBay before, then you’ll need to open an account first using the ‘register’ link underneath the toolbar, and then click ‘...
  • What Else Belongs On Your Ebay Shipping Box?  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    The quickest answer I feel I should give to this question is this: not your handwriting! Scrawling addresses on boxes with a pen is extremely amateurish, and you shouldn’t do it. Print your own labels instead. But what should you put on them?

    The buyer’s address: This might sound obvious, but you need to make sure the full address is there, including country and zip or postal code. Make sure you spell their name correctly, too, as they might be a little insulted if you don...
  • The Ebay Buyer’s FAQ.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    So you have a question? Has something gone very wrong and you don’t know what to do? Well, fair enough. Here are the questions that I hear all the time from buyers.

    Does eBay have a Customer Service Department I Can Phone?

    eBay are notoriously hard to contact, should you ever need to – it sometimes seems like they expect the site to run itself. You can email them, as long as you don’t have your heart set on a coherent response: go to http://pages.ebay.com/help/contact_u...
  • What? You Don’t Have An Ebay Store?  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    In fact, you might not even have heard of eBay stores. Read on to find out what you’ve been missing.

    eBay stores come at three levels: Basic for $15.95 per month, Featured for $49.95 per month or Anchor for $499.95 per month (yes, that is typed correctly: almost $500). The best place to start out is with Basic (you can even get a month’s free trial), but if you like what you find then you should upgrade to Featured quickly, simply because it has so many extra features. Not...
  • 10 Tips For Increasing Your Ebay Response.  By : Kirsten Hawkins
    So you’ve got the buyer in front of your auction, and they’ve read the description. They’re must be interested, or they wouldn’t be looking… but just how can you push them over that line and make them leave a bid? Read on for some tips.

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