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Buy Merchandise to Resell on eBay from Wholesale Trade Shows
If you have a state resale license to buy wholesale, then a great way to find potential eBay merchandise is through the thousands of wholesale trade shows that go on across the country each year. Trade [more…]
Buy Merchandise to Resell on eBay from Online Wholesalers
If you have a state resale license to buy wholesale, then a great way to find potential eBay merchandise is through online wholesalers. Following are a few sources that have some unusual merchandise. [more…]
Choose the Best Auction Type for Your eBay Merchandise
eBay offers several auction types. Most of the time, you’ll run traditional auctions, but other auctions — best offer, multiple-item (Dutch), private, and restricted access — have their place, too. After [more…]
Selling on eBay Motors
Anything and everything automotive can go in the eBay Motors category, and it will sell like giant tires at a monster truck rally. Following are just a few of the car-related items that fit in the eBay [more…]
Selling Real Estate on eBay
eBay Real Estateisn’t quite an auction. Because of the wide variety of laws governing the sale of real estate, eBay auctions of real property are not legally binding offers to buy and sell. However, putting [more…]
The Strategy behind Setting a Low Starting Bid for an eBay Auction
When you sell an item on eBay, you are required to set a starting price, also called a minimum bid — the lowest bid allowed in an auction. You may be surprised to see stuff worth tens of thousands of dollars [more…]
What Is an eBay PowerSeller?
When you browse through the items on eBay, you’re bound to notice a PowerSeller icon next to some members' user IDs. To the uninitiated, this may look like an award given to a used car salesman for bullying [more…]
How eBay's Buy It Now Option Works
eBay’s Buy It Now (BIN in eBay-speak) option is available for single-item auctions only. This feature allows buyers to purchase an item now. Have you ever wanted an item really badly and you didn’t want [more…]
Holding a Reserve-Price Auction on eBay
When you sell an item on eBay, you can set a reserve price for the item to protect yourself from losing money. The reserve price is the lowest price that must be met before the item can be sold on eBay [more…]
How to Use the Outlook Payment Request Wizard
The Outlook Payment Request Wizard lets you send a PayPal request to a customer through e-mail. After you follow the preceding link and download and install the wizard, you’ll see a new option at the top [more…]
What the eBay Listing Page Contains
Every item for sale on eBay has a listing page. The listing page gives you a lot of information about the item for sale, including how much has been bid and how much time is left in the auction. [more…]
Buying Refurbished Electronics on eBay
You can find great deals on refurbished electronic merchandise on eBay. Unfortunately, refurbished merchandise gets an unnecessarily bad rap. Very smart people may tell you to be wary of refurbished merchandise [more…]
How to Open a PayPal Account
If you want to be an eBay seller and you aren’t registered with PayPal yet (what’s holding you up?), eBay provides a convenient link on your My eBay All Selling page in the Selling links area. To register [more…]
Know Your Responsibilities as an eBay Trading Assistant
What is an eBay Trading Assistant? Simply put, an eBay Trading Assistant sells merchandise for people on eBay. A more complex definition is that a Trading Assistant sells items on consignment for those [more…]
Advertise Your Services as an eBay Trading Assistant
When you sign up as an eBay Trading Assistant, you have to fill out a form describing your business to prospective customers. Think through the things you want to say before posting them. Your information [more…]
Researching the Market to Find What and When to Sell on eBay
To get a leg up on your eBay competition, you need to know how the current marketplace is doing. Here are some questions you should ask yourself as you contemplate making buckets of money by selling items [more…]
Watch Trends to Find Lucrative eBay Selling Opportunities
Taking advantage of market trends is a great way to make money on eBay. You can find all kinds of inside information from newspapers, magazines, television, and of course, the Internet. Believe it or not [more…]
How to Use eBay's Tools to Find Out What Buyers Are Looking For
Everyone wants to know what the hot ticket is on eBay. They want to know what’s selling best so that they can run out, buy it, and make big money on eBay. Unfortunately, nobody has or can give you secret [more…]
What Items Are Prohibited or Restricted on eBay?
As you might expect, eBay either prohibits or restricts the sale of some types of merchandise. eBay sets these limitations as a result of input by members of the eBay Community and examination of local [more…]
How to Find Items to Resell on eBay
The trick to making money on eBay is selling the items that people want to buy. It seems like a simple idea, but most of the auctions on eBay are based on what a seller wants to get rid of and not what [more…]
Timing Your eBay Auction for High Returns
Because there are so many buyers visiting eBay each day, you can choose almost any ending time for your auction and know that you’ll still have some healthy bidding action. Now that eBay spawns as many [more…]
How to Subscribe to eBay's Selling Manager Trial Program
When you start becoming a more serious eBay seller (say, 50 or more items a month), you should consider using Selling Manager. It can help smooth your transition from selling a few items to selling many [more…]
What You Can Do with eBay's Selling Manager
When you subscribe to Selling Manager, it replaces the All Selling area of your My eBay page with its own summary of your current transactions. Many sellers [more…]
Starting Your eBay Auction at the Right Time
Knowing when to end your eBay auction can mean the difference between a low and high winning bid. The only way to figure out when to end your eBay auction is by planning when to start it. For example, [more…]
Create the Perfect Title for Your eBay Item
After you choose a category for the item you want to sell on eBay, your next task is to think up an absolutely ingenious title that will make it stand out from the competition and grab the attention, and [more…]
