Thursday January 15, 2009
Image: Andres Addington-Barker / Fotolia Times are tough and margins are tight. Are you spending precious dollars and cents on fees that you don't need to be paying? If you've never taken a look at eBay's fee structure and considered using it as a way to guide your listing and selling strategies, now may be the time to start. But where does your advantage lie, and how do you go about figuring it all out?
Read on to take the first step in controlling your eBay fees.
See Also
Don't Overprice Your Goods
Don't Add Excessive Features
Manage Auctions Using a Spreadsheet
Tuesday January 6, 2009
Image:
Aron Hsiao If you've thought about joining eBay for years but have always hesitated because you didn't want to plod through some long, drawn-out registration process, today's the day to begin. Use this updated visual guide to breeze through the eBay registration process one step at a time, knowing what to expect and how to answer the questions at each step along the way.
See Also
Why must I join to buy or sell?
What is eBay?
How did eBay start?
Saturday December 27, 2008
Image: Andres Rodriguez / Fotolia The holiday season is winding down, bills are preparing to come due, and once again it's time to begin making resolutions for the new year.
Have you resolved over and over again to start selling on eBay only to lose your resolve each time because there's just too much to read, too much to understand, and there are too many steps to wade through before you'll feel comfortable taking the plunge? Do you wish there was some way to learn about eBay
without having to read what seems like a disjointed set of instruction manuals? If this sounds like you, maybe this is the year to finally make keep your resolution to become an eBay seller.
Read on for a quick and dirty list of essential and
interactive resources that can help total beginners to get started selling on eBay, without simply reading article after article or book after book. Point, click, watch, and
go forward into a new year selling on eBay.
See Also
Ten eBay Holiday Shopping Tips
Five "First Items" to Sell
Ten Things You Didn't Know About eBay
Thursday December 18, 2008
Photo:
Andrejs Pidjass / Fotolia.com With online shopping becoming a bigger and bigger part of the holiday shopping experience, more and more gift-getters each year are getting something that was bought on eBay. But as we all know, it's impossible for every gift to be the perfect gift. Sometimes that great idea wasn't so great after all, leading giver and receiver alike to want to return the item in question for a refund or an exchange. Despite conventional wisdom, holiday gift returns or exchanges
are possible on eBay in many cases.
Here's how to go about making it happen.
See Also
Refunds and Exchanges for eBay Purchases
Dealing with Buyers' Refund Requests