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[DMRick]

Putting pictures up on eBay is very easy if you are using eBay's service. The give you one picture for free. I don't happen to think their pics are the best, clearest pics, but it is easy, and lots of people use it. When you go to the eBay sell form, as you fill it out, you will be given an opportunity to go to wherever you have that picture, and upload it into their system. If it's on your harddrive, you wil navigate to wherever on your harddrive it is. If it's on a CD, then you would just click on the browser that comes up when filling out your eBay sell form, and click on whichever drive your CD is, and then navigate to the picture you want on. I assume that you would have already looked at your pic tures and written down the numbe rof the one you want to use.

Some people, as I mentioned, would rather sign up for auctionwatch.com, and use their picture hosting. You do have to pay a dime for the first picture, but each picture in the same auciton is less, so this is best if you are putting up several pics, and are very nice looking, and I put mineup as thumbnails to load fast, then people can click to make them bigger..

The best way is to go to eBay and go through their tutorials for new sellers..then, after doingthat, if you have a specific question, I can try to help you. Auction watch also has free community boards, where questions can be asked, as do eBay.

If you have more expensive items to sell on eBay, I suggest selling smaller items first, and building up some feedback.

 

[gm]

thank you so much dmrick. I am printing your thread right now to keep next to the computer. Thank you

 

[Cinders]

Just Bumpin for a friend with garage sale leftovers.

 

[MaggieMouse]

I'm glad this was bumped.

I just started selling on EBAY and I'm getting some good tips on how to cut down costs. Also, my DD has some beautiful clothes, My Mom and Auntie are always buying her stuff. I would have never thought to sell these on EBAY. Looks like I will be listing more stuff to save for my next WDW trip!

I couldn't believe how much money I made in just three weeks on EBAY. I made $200 towards this trip and that's not including the stuff I just listed this weekend!

I just want to comment to make sure you keep your end of the deal, those feedback comments go a long way.

 

[cindala]

MaggieMouse,
Good for you!! What did you sell so far?

 

[Momto2funkids]

Make sure you keep good records.

We use just a simple spiral bound notebook. On it we divide into sections across the two open pages. The categories we use are

Auction number & date of closing

Item name

Winning bidder and address (filled in later)

Communication (when emails were sent, when buyer contacts us and how he will pay, etc)

Mailing date (when the item was shipped)

Winning Bid

Listing Fee

Final Value Fee

Shipping cost (noting whether we pay or buyer pays)

Cost of item (if something specically bought for selling on EBAY. If it just something we have around the house anyway, we ususally just mark it as $0.00

Other costs + / - (sometimes shipping is more/less than you estimated)

Profit / loss

With the winning bid and the listing fee, Final Value fee and cost of item across the top, we simply subtract all those and come out with the profit / loss.

But definitely write everything down as far as communication with the buyer. It is very easy to get mixed up and / or forget things if you are selling many items at once.


As far as other hints go, when setting a minimum bid, set it the very lowest you can afford to go without losing money. Higher starting bids tend to steer people away from your listing. The final price will be determined by market demand anyhow, so it often doesn't really matter if your starting bid is low. I've put things up for $.01 just for the heck of it. Doing that tends to generate interest.

Also, check out how other similar items have their titles listed. The inclusion of one word could make a big difference in how many "hits" you get. Example, when selling Legos, most people list them as Lego Legos so that people searching for either will get their listing.


Hope this helps,
Jo