Ten Tips for eBay Buyers and Sellers
1. Keep secure
Make sure your passwords are really complicated. A mix of upper
and lower case letters plus interspersed numbers is best. Use
what are termed as "dictionary obscure" names too, not obvious
ones such as a Christian name.
2. Save time
Whenever you find you are typing the same thing over and over
e.g. usernames, use a lovely piece of software called ShortKeys
Lite. It's free, and you can download it from www.shortkeys.com
3. Get organized
If you use eBay regularly you will already know how quickly the
emails mount up. Get your folders in your email program set up
properly now! Don't delay, you will save loads of time in the
coming months.
4. Squeeze your graphics
Whenever you put a picture on your auction page you add download
time. You can make sure your images are compressed to the lowest
file size possible by using SmartSaverPro. You can download a
free trial version from www.ulead.com.
5. Quote the auction
Whether buying or selling, always quote the auction number in
the subject and body of any emails about that auction. So,
whenever you get a query about it from your seller or buyer you
can always find the email communications about that auction.
6. Accept credit/debit cards
If you're selling, you WILL attract more bidders if you offer to
take credit/debit cards. Fortunately you don't need a merchant
account to be able to do this. Just open a free account with
PayPal - the most used payment mechanism on internet auctions.
With PayPal you can accept all the usual credit cards plus Solo
and Switch debit cards. If you don't have a PayPal account, you
can instantly create one by going here:-
www.workwinners.com/PayPal_application.htm
7. Become a Search expert
When you're looking for items on eBay, don't forget the Advanced
Search facility. Next to every search box you will see an
Advanced Search link. You can be much more specific, and save
yourself hundreds of hits which you have might have to scroll
through to find the one item that you really wanted in the first
place.
8. Be polite
Whether buying or selling, always try and be polite. As a
priority, you want to avoid any negative feedback. Although it
might appear that feedback is more important to sellers than
buyers, this isn't necessarily the case. Even if you're only a
buyer at the moment, you might find sellers exclude you from
bidding if your negative ratio is poor. Also, even though you
might only buy on eBay at the moment, you could decide to try
selling in the future. Your eBay feedback rating remains with
you whether buying or selling. 9. Become a Help expert
I recommend you spend some time on eBay Help pages. Hidden in
there are jewels like Proxy Bidding. No, I'm not going to
explain this for you - have a look in Help!
Finally, you will noticed this is only nine tips, and I promised
you ten! Well, my tenth is, if you're looking to sell
professionally on eBay you should read my ebook 'The eBay
Formula'. This shows you how to create successful auctions on
eBay time, after time, after time. You can find out about 'The
eBay Formula' at www.more-auction-sales.com