NT Put me on EBay - Tips?

[politics as usual 22]

I want to start selling stuff on ebay. Old shoes, stuff around the house, etc.

I already get the general basics of it, but do you have any tips to help me ?

 

[meangene]

ebay for dummies helps

 

[3miyasaki3]

Don't do it unless your selling things with high value.

 

[mateen cleaves]

ebay sucks

 

[kdawg]

Download Turbolister if you're listing things that are similar - you can make auctions offline, duplicate and modify them to save you typing everythingagain.

I use tinypic to put high-res pictures in the auction - just using HTML - instead of paying ebay for the same thing.

 

[politics as usual 22]

Originally Posted by kdawg

Download Turbolister if you're listing things that are similar - you can make auctions offline, duplicate and modify them to save you typing everything again.

I use tinypic to put high-res pictures in the auction - just using HTML - instead of paying ebay for the same thing.

Elaborate?

 

[kdawg]

I do it in turbolister but I think you can just dump pics in an auction box too. I'm selling some bike shoes right now here - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/...IT&item=170361567842All I paid for was a regular auction - but I added them in. Just upload them to any image hosting site then you need to put:

<p align="center"><a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img *alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" src="http://yourimageurl.jpg" border="0"></a></p>

obviously putting the right url for the image in the part where it's red. All that stuff isn't needed but that's the way my code is on thatauction. Take the star out too - I had to put that there so it wouldn't show a picture instead of the code.

You can make the pictures as big as you like - I normally do about 600 pixels just so it fits the page. Depends what I'm selling though.

 

[nationaltruckerdave]

I'm tired of these stupid "Put me on" post..

 

[young halo]

Originally Posted by kdawg

I do it in turbolister but I think you can just dump pics in an auction box too. I'm selling some bike shoes right now here - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/...IT&item=170361567842 All I paid for was a regular auction - but I added them in. Just upload them to any image hosting site then you need to put:

<p align="center"><a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img *alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic" src="http://yourimageurl.jpg" border="0"></a></p>

obviously putting the right url for the image in the part where it's red. All that stuff isn't needed but that's the way my code is on that auction. Take the star out too - I had to put that there so it wouldn't show a picture instead of the code.

You can make the pictures as big as you like - I normally do about 600 pixels just so it fits the page. Depends what I'm selling though.

good lookin out

 

[craftsy21]

ebay really sucks... make sure you factor in listing fees, selling fees, shipping fees, paypal fees... every kind of fee, into your mind when you'refiguring out how much you want to get out of something.

If you're just straight moving crap you have laying around, I guess it doesn't really matter... but just remember all these little fees you can'treally avoid will cut into your profits big time.

 

[russ tha g]

Craftsy21 touched on a good point. Final value fee is something like 10%, then Paypal is going to hit you for around 5%, then there's the actual listing(usually only a handful of bucks for a decent listing with subtitle and pictures). The very, very bright side is that you reach a LOT of potential buyers onEbay. I listed some Jordans on here three times, no luck--put them on Ebay, sold them for $20 more than my NT listing in two days.

 

[andrew630]

after all the fees and shipping costs

you basically get like 20% taken away

 

[we get money]

For stuff around the house Craigslist >>>>>>>>>> ebay

Free
And you wouldn't believe some *#** that people would buy...old silverware, carpets, man anything

 

[young halo]

Originally Posted by Andrew630

after all the fees and shipping costs

you basically get like 20% taken away

really? 20%? damn....

 

[18key]

Dont forget the 'sellers invoice' eBay sends you at the end of the month, telling you to pay them even more money for selling stuff

 

[bowzer blitz]

And now I see PayPal holds your money until you ship...Thats crazy. EBAY changed a lot.

 

[fundamental21ticket]

Ebay/Paypal compensation fees are very high now. Like someone said earlier, sell things that have high value only.

 

[finnns2003]

eBay SUCKS! take it from a powerseller, do NOT use eBay.

 

[lunatic 809]

USE TRACKING when selling. Trust

 

[thenewjs23]

Dont sell to anyone who wants there stuff rerouted to African. Even if they offer more than what they bidded.

 

[drips510]

Originally Posted by NationalTruckerDave

I'm tired of these stupid "Put me on" post..

really aint much different like back in the days when they use to say "school me on blah blah blah"...

 

[crank lucas]

craiglist is the truth, just leave your number and you move your item mad fast

I use craiglist is mostly for local though

 

[xislandzstylezx]

set up bidder requirements. Have it so that they have to have a paypal account to bid on your auctions.

Hate the way eBay does things now. Sellers can't give deadbeat bidders negative feedback and deadbeat bidders can have 5 non paying bidder filed on theiraccount before eBay does something

 

[krispacinla]

Originally Posted by finnns2003

eBay SUCKS! take it from a powerseller, do NOT use eBay.

This Man speaks the truth. Ebay is mad shady now. Fees all over the place. Try Craigslist. Might be better.