July 9, 2007

Top 10 Ebay Tips

Filed under: SEO & Web Marketing — Damian Montero @ 4:32 pm

1) Download and run Turbo lister: pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/ (it’ll let you create a template and upload the pages when you’re ready, plus it doesn’t look like your surfing ebay all day.)
2) Sell them on wednesday at noon if you can (there are more on wed at noon that at any time) although I’ve found later in the afternoon on wednesday also works fine.

3) Take a picture of each item seperately (unless it’s a “group” of
things) and take it with a plain background. (maybe a white kitchen
counter)

4) Don’t do a reserved price (everything will sell better without it)

5) The title is king. Put “Keywords” in there, more than a “description”
(i.e. “Apple iPhone Smartphone with Cingular AT&T (ATT) SIM not UNLOCKED” instead of “That awsome iphone everyone’s talking about”)

6) Ignore offers to “finish early” specially if they involve shipping outside the country. (you can specify you only ship within the US)

7) PUT a shipping price (even if you put in the description that it may go up if you’ve guessed wrong.) I always ignore auction without shipping price. I can help you guess how much to charge for shipping. I did that for 2 years.

8 ) Start everything at under $9.99 ($1 is fine) as ebay has different “listing” prices and the first range is “under $10″. It’ll get up there.

9) List for a week unless you’re not listing on a wednesday, then list it for the number of days it takes to end on a wednesday.

10) Take all the pictures and upload them right away to your webserver.
You can do the listing, typing of the description and turbo listing at work. It’s not as easy as it looks so you’ll tend to give up. (I’m lazy, so many you don’t have to worry about this point)

Del.icio.us Digg Reddit
&

No Comments »

No comments yet.

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL

Leave a comment

Damian Montero Lacasa

Useless Information for Damian Montero.com: 19 DB queries in 0.189 seconds.

free website hit counter
Unique Visitors