Peoples top tips for selling on ebay

[Rob Holmes]

I was wondering if anyone had any pearls of wisdom to share with regards to selling on ebay?

e.g. whats the best length of listing?

auction or fixed price?

start at 1p or £5 ?

Whats the best time to finish an auction?..

etc etc..

Rob

 

[clickprofits]

Whats the best time to finish an auction?..

There was a good article of ebay tips in Web User magazine recently, will see if it is available online. Sunday is the best day to end your auction apparently (highest number of users)

edit - couldn't find the Web User article online but found these instead:

http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=121030,00.asp

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/cs/onlinebusiness/a/ebaysellingtips.htm

http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/advice4sellers.php

This forum has some tips too:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=33781&page=1

 

[Eagle]

 
Always leave feeback as soon as the customer has paid!

Few things are as annoying as holding a buyers feedback rating to ransom... and it's a sure-fire way to guarantee they won't buy from you again.

 

[DarrenH]

Hi

make your headline captions keyword rich, use the amount of characters your given wisely.

Go above and beyond the call of duty, overdeliver in serivce and you'll get repete customers.

make all transactions and simple as possible, keep people completely informed if thigns get delayed etc.

Darren

 

[kyber]

As mentioned above, auctions that end on Sunday afternoon generally do much better than auctions ending any other time. (By sheer coincidence, I brought a specialist in Business Intelligence out to work with me in Cork for a few days earlier this week and he shared this particular pearl with me over dinner one evening.)

(We built a 12 billion row, 1.7Tb, OLAP cube a few weeks ago on MS SQL Server 2005 - pre-release - to demonstrate scaling to analyse sales data and we needed some help in terms of leading practice in retail for management reporting.)

Stuart

 

[Rob Holmes]

Nice - I've got an item to stick up on ebay so I'll give it a go as above!

Rob

 

[APRogers]

I've only sold my own stuff to raise cash and reduce clutter but I've never failed to sell or astound myself at the prices people will pay. A few pointers:

• Take time to make the advert striking
• Don't put crap like L@@K or RARE in the title - use the words wisely
• Use more than one GOOD CLEAR picture
• Quote original specs from manufacturers web site if relevant
• Host your own pictures to reduce fees
• Invite questions
• Weigh the item and include postage options/prices
• Don't inflate the postage, just add a reasonable amount for packaging - better still pack it first, then you'll know!
• Include all relevant information, including what's substandard if anything - it'll save you so much hassle in the long-term for selling stuff poorly described

I could go on and on but the bottom line is to ask yourself 'Would I buy it, based on my advert?'

Enjoy

Alan

 

[Ravenfire]

Oh very useful..I have a mobile to sell on there so will try and follow these tips before adding it.

 

[chris1317]

The Sunday afternooon thing is interesting, im going to try that next time.

I have noticed also that you can pick up bargains at about 2 or 3 ish on a weekday. My girlfriend buys stuff when im at work. Must be less competition online.

Chris.