JPL

Hello chaps & girls,

Been selling on eBay for a while, I have a £3 item I can sell timelessly, so how best to sell it?

I normally do a featured multi buy every day, I sell a few every day, costs me £12 to do the featured buy.

What can I do to increase my sales? More featured buys per day? Would that work? How do I decrease the % eBay get?? (I currently only do it once per day, fleaby fees are killing me!!)

Knowing the eBay market is pretty wide, and you lot probably don't sell what I do, I was kind of hoping you could reveal some eBay selling tactics, I'd be very pleased to hear from you.

Cheers in advance, John

Notorious

I would be interested also!! Just started to use ebay in my Business and hoping to open a shop shortly although not sure how easy this is.

JPL

Need to spend a lot on the "featured" items I think, but useful to know what shortcuts etc. are out there. With featured, you are spending ££ per day, and you have to wait for the 7 day turnaround, but each day you still have to spend ££ in order for it to work! ... And it does work... kind of. I make more than I pay them. But not by much, hence this post.

People......... HELP ME!!!!!

OllyK

Look at Turbo Lister (freebie ebay tool) and other management tools, it can save ages in terms of setting up sales etc.

sarasquares

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i got bids of £98 for my used car graffix on ebay.

there is always a muppet out there that will buy anything

rik1471

They get "eBay fever" and bid like little crazy people!

cookstar

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sarasquares

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donch just love 'em

they make my world go round

cookstar

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Would have thought everything would be going round, being the dizzy one you are

JPL

Ahem, riiiiiight. Back on topic please for some eBay selling tips, specifically how to reduce fees but still get to the audience, i.e. anything I should consider other than featured listings?

Cheers

OllyK

I'm sure feature listing may work, but I pay them scant attention when I'm buying on e-bay.

I start with a well constructed search string to try and get back just what I am looking for. I loathe the adverts that are based around putting in a keyword with "Not". For example: "Chainsaw - not Stihl"

I then sort by price and look for 2 or 3 examples of what I am after, check the details and picture (big detailed picture is good IMO, with something to show scale, such as a pound coin or a ruler in the picture). Then check the seller's feedback etc. If I'm happy, I add them to "Auction Sentry" and set up a snipe with the max value I'm prepared to pay. I know some people don't like snipe tools, but it stops me getting in to a bidding frenzy (which I'm sure the seller would like), it avoids pushing the price up and saves me having to remember to be at my PC at a given time.

The other thing that will stop me buying from somebody is rip off postage costs. I know you have to buy a Jiffy bag and post it recorded, but I'm not going to pay £6 postage on an item that costs a couple of quid and weighs peanuts.

OK - not selling tips exactly, but some ideas about what a seller is looking for whcih may help you to target accordingly.