How To Sell On eBay Tips for Beginners
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Do you need tips for beginners to sell on eBay? Then your in the right place. These tips for selling on eBay will get you started. Selling on eBay can seem intimidating, but it is not! You just need to become comfortable with the site and where to click.
eBay is a great place to sell all kinds of the and to make money. Seriously, anything that is lying around the house could be a possible sale, which means more money in your pocket! There are a few things you should do before stating to sell on eBay.
If you have never been to eBay, you should go there and check it out. Have you been thinking about buying a new TV? Search eBay for exactly what you are looking to buy. eBay is easy to navigate. Check out eBay Pulse. It shows you the most popular eBay listings.
After you become comfortable on eBay and you are going to sell something, you should first create your accounts at eBay and PayPal. eBay owns PayPal and nearly every transaction is done through PayPal. Both sites are going to collect your contact information and you will need to verify both accounts through and email address. Depending on how your business grows, may need to have more than one PayPal and eBay account, but you don’t need to worry about that now. You will need a verified credit card for PayPal.
Now that you are all signed up and ready to sell, you can consider the item(s) you will be selling on eBay. You will research eBay on eBay. Search for items like yours or as similar to yours as possible. I am getting ready to sell my wife’s maternity clothes and when I first researched, I searched for the term “maternity clothes”. At the top of the list was a pair of designer jeans for $80. I realized, that I was not trying to compete with 1 pair of NEW designer jeans. I needed to dig deeper and search for a more specific phrase. I tried “used maternity clothes” and I had found 12 listings that had recently ended. All of the listings were “lots” and contained 9-18 articles of clothing in them. 9 out of the 12 listings closed with a sale well above the starting price. Now I know how to set up my auction, determine the amount I should start the auction and determine how long to let the auction run.
Also, you should be aware that eBay and PayPal charge fees. On eBay there are 2 fees you will pay to list your auction. The Listing Fee is a percentage of the starting value of the auction. The Listing Fee is NOT optional. The second fee you may pay would be from listing upgrades such as bolding your title or highlighting the entire listing in the search results. This upgrade increase your visibility, which may increase the probability of a sale. Bolding and highlighting are only 2 of the many options to choose from the upgrades available. There is a fee for all of these upgrades and all are optional.
Once an auction is closed or a sale is made, eBay is going to charge a Final Value Fee (FVF). Like the listing fee, the FVF is percentage based on the price at the closing of the auction. PayPal charges a fee. Depending on the type of an account you sign up for will affect the PayPal fee. Most of PayPal fees are a percentage of the amount of the transaction.
“All of the fee” are what keep some marketers away from eBay, but the amount of the fees is small compared to the amount of exposure and the amount of customers you can gain from selling on eBay.
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