Online there are a handful of eBay membership sites, showing you how to succeed on eBay. There's no doubt about it, eBay is a brilliant opportunity that you can use to maximise your online sales, run a home business or just clear out your house from unwanted goods.
Ideally an eBay membership site would guide you though everything you need to know from registering on eBay to becoming an eBay powerseller. So, Firstly the most important two questions I'd ask are:
1) Who's behind the site?
Anyone can claim to be an eBay expert, but there are truly only a few people who have had a positive effect on my eBay auctions - Brian McGregor, Mark Kenny, Tim Knox to mention a few names. There a lot of other people out there - claiming to be experts who I found offered recycled material with is not really relevant or even upto date.
So before I'd join any eBay membership I'd ask the following questions.
a) What have you done on eBay & what did you sell?
b) Are you still trading on eBay?
c) When did you register on eBay?
d) Is your information relevant to my local eBay or only useful to eBay.com?
e) Can I see your eBay feedback ranking?
f) What's included in my membership fee?
g) How long has your site been running?
These should give you a pretty good idea of what the sites like. Also, see how long you have to wait before you get a response back as this will be a good indication of the service you'll receive.
2) Membership Fee?
How much do you expect to pay or more importantly how much do you expect to make? If your membership fee is $197, that's not a problem as long as you learn enough to make that back.
I've paid thousands before for courses & membership sites & it's not been a problem as long as you put into action what you learn to make that membership fee back - Otherwise you might as well throw that membership fee away.
Also, be clear to find out if the fee is a one-off fee, a re-occuring annual fee or a re-occuring monthly fee. Can you pay via paypal or only via credit/debit card & also find out if it's possible to cancel or is there a minimum term to membership.
Trinity Tooke specialises in running eBay related turnkey websites. You can see her blog at: http://turnkeywebsites.blogspot.com/