Gaining insite into your customers shopping habits will help you to structure your offers more effectively.
This video will give you some insites and suggestions as to what your customers exptect from your auctions and how you can make them more comfortable and make purchase more convenient.
Think Like Your Buyers And Make More Sales On eBay
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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 the competition.
Before you invest any money, see what the other sellers in your category are up
to, and what their strategies are. Pay special attention to any flaws their auctions
might have, because this is where you can move in and beat them at their own
game.
Step 3: Find a product.
Get hold of a supplier for whatever it is you want to sell, and see what the best
rates you can get are - don’t be afraid to ring round quite a few to get the best
deal. If the eBay prices you’ve seen are higher than the supplier’s, then you’re set.
Step 4: Start small.
Don’t throw thousands at your idea straight away - get started slowly, see what
works and what doesn’t, and learn as you go. Remember that it’s very cheap to try
out even the craziest ideas on eBay, and who knows, they might just work!
Step 5: Test and repeat.
Keep trying different strategies until you find something that works, and then
don’t be ashamed to keep doing it, again and again. The chances are that you’ve
just found a good niche.
Step 6: Work out a business plan.
A business plan doesn’t need to be anything formal, just a few pages that outline
the market opportunity you’ve spotted, your strategy, strengths and weaknesses
of the plan and a brief budget. This is more for you than it is for anyone else.
Step 7: Invest and expand.
This is the time to throw money at the problem. Buy inventory, and start
spending more time on your business. Set a goal number of sales each week,
increasing it each time.
Step 8: Make it official.
Once you’ve made a few thousand dollars worth of sales, you should really
register yourself as a business. Don’t worry, it’s not expensive or hard to do - a
lawyer is the best person to help you through the process.
Step 9: Automate.
You’ll probably find that you’re writing the same things again and again in emails
or item descriptions. This is the time to give up on the manual method and turn
to automated software that can create listings for you, and respond to completed
auctions and payments with whatever message you provide.
Step 10: Never give up.
Even when it looks like it’s all going wrong, don’t stop trying until you succeed. If
you keep working at it then you’ll almost always find that you make a real
breakthrough just when things are starting to look desperate.
Once you get into the swing of things, you might start thinking that you should
quit your job and take up eBay selling part time. But it’s not always as easy as that
- there are all sorts of factors that you need to consider. The next email will weigh
up the case for and against taking up eBay full-time.
Learning to sell products on ebay does not have to be hard. In fact with the Ebay Startup Kit it is down right easy, fun and free. Just click below right now to get yourself started on the road to freedom and fire your boss!
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I am wanting to set up an ebay store. Is the only way I could do that is through ebay stores or can I still have a store on ebay through another designer?
You do need to set up your store through eBay. There are ways of creating store fronts using templates outside of the company’s website that you can use to design. As for the store though, it does have to be open through an eBay account. I have one myself.
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I know there are some eBay stores that sell DVD’s, and no matter how many you buy the shipping stays the same.
Unfortunately there’s no search capability at eBay that allows you to do a search over how much shipping charges are, or how much you’re willing to pay for shipping. They only offer an option to search for "free" shipping.
While eBay is huge and smart shoppers can find really great deals there, the fact remains that the shipping is one area where the consumer often gets ripped off. Sellers will often increase their shipping prices, even double them, then what they actually cost to ship that item, just to make a few extra dollars. So while the price of the item you bid on might sound reasonable, ALWAYS check the price of the shipping first.
If the shipping seems high, for example shipping a DVD for $9.00 when you know it cost less then $1.50 to send to you, would be considered to me a consumer rip-off. Read the fine print in the item description too as they might say something about an extra handling fee and don’t be affraid to "Ask the Seller" a question about the shipping cost before you make a bid. Those sellers who don’t answer you, don’t buy from them.
Many people don’t realize that eBay sellers can even hide the cost of the shipping and not have it printed out on the shipping label. Sellers can also add a ‘handling’ fee that is hidden within the total cost of the item you might be buying.
Smart shoppers on eBay will avoid those sellers trying to rip them off with high shipping costs. Again, the seller is trying to increase his profit by adding a few extra dollars to the shipping when in fact the majority of eBay shippers use regular USPS parcel post, or Priority Mail, services. It’s not hard to take an educated guess on what the "true" shipping cost should be.
Of course, I don’t mind paying $1-$2.00 extra for a handlling fee as just about all sellers everywhere, not just eBay, must charge something for the packaging and handling. Again, always check the shipping costs first before making a bid or buying the item.
I like to use eBay to search for something I want, then I will do some comparison shopping using Froogle that gives me an expanded list of other stores selling the same item I’m looking for and then I search the web too. You would be surprised at how many other places you can find the same item on eBay AND save so much on a realistic shipping cost.
I love eBay, but I will only buy from sellers who have reasonable shipping charges and not trying to insult me and rip me off by jacking-up their shipping charges to hide their extra profit off me.
Good Luck!
i see on ebay people with stores that have a ton of broken ipods they sell i was wondering were do they get them from?
Apple gives people a 10% discount on a new iPod if they bring in their old one. I think Apple refurbishes the ones that work fine, and sells the ones that aren’t worth refurbishing.
