How To Start Selling On Ebay
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When you start selling on Ebay, you have to build up your feedback. That is one of the MOST important things to do on Ebay. See you are trying to establish yourself as a trusted seller on Ebay. Search Ebay for .99 cents item and purchase 20-50 of them, however much you can afford. After you purchase the item, go back and leave a positive feedback for the seller. The seller will in turn leave a positive feedback for you as well. See on Ebay, feedback is feedback, whether you are selling or buying. When you start out, people will not really buy from you if you have no feedback or just one feedback. They will look more to the person that has more feedback than you.
What I am doing that is helping as well is I will place cheap items on my ebay site and ask my friends and family to purchase them and leave me a positive feedback as well to boost my ratings. Another good tip would be to do a garage sale on Ebay. Everyone has something in their house they have not touched for forever, why not make some money off of it. Make sure you take good clear pictures and place up to 3-12 pictures of the item if possible. Ebay looks for sellers with up to 12 pictures of their items. Be descriptive and make sure you state your shipping terms as well.
Ok, so Ebay works hand in hand with Paypal. When you start an account with Ebay, you have to open up a Paypal account; this is where people will pay you for the goods they brought from you. I would suggest for accounting purposes, you open up a new gmail email account to use for this purpose only.
What I am doing that is helping as well is I will place cheap items on my ebay site and ask my friends and family to purchase them and leave me a positive feedback as well to boost my ratings. Another good tip would be to do a garage sale on Ebay. Everyone has something in their house they have not touched for forever, why not make some money off of it. Make sure you take good clear pictures and place up to 3-12 pictures of the item if possible. Ebay looks for sellers with up to 12 pictures of their items. Be descriptive and make sure you state your shipping terms as well.
Ok, so Ebay works hand in hand with Paypal. When you start an account with Ebay, you have to open up a Paypal account; this is where people will pay you for the goods they brought from you. I would suggest for accounting purposes, you open up a new gmail email account to use for this purpose only.
The first 30-90 days on Ebay and Paypal is what I call the 30-90 day probation period. You will be in what I refer to as Paypal jail for 30-90 days. What does this mean? Paypal and ebay works hand in hand. When a buyer purchases an item from you on Ebay, they would pay using your Paypal email address. After this Paypal will inform you that the buyer just paid you, however, you funds are not available for you to use yet for about 15-21 days because you are in probation. This is Paypal protecting the customer by making sure that they don't get stiffed. Don't panic. This is normal.
You have to use your own money to front and pay for the product. With this in mind, if you don't have capital, don't post items that cost too much where you can't cover the fees. Well that should get you started. Good luck on your journey. For more training, click this link.
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