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Tips for Creating a Great Description for Your eBay Item
Writing a good description of the items you sell on eBay can mean the difference between success and failure. There are many ways you can improve your description, by using the right tone, knowing how [more…]
Designing Your eBay Listing with Turbo Lister
When it comes to designing your listing, eBay's Turbo Lister is a great tool. With Turbo Lister, you can create an eBay listing that looks good, covers all the bases, and attracts and impresses potential [more…]
How to Organize Your eBay Listings with Turbo Lister
You can download Turbo Lister for free from eBay and use it to organize your eBay listings. Go to the Turbo Lister home page to download the latest version. Being able to organize your listings can help [more…]
How to Install SeaMonkey Composer
Few things in this life are absolute necessities, but photos in your eBay listings definitely are! Enter SeaMonkey Composer, a free HTML editor that you can use to develop a simple listing template that [more…]
Create an eBay Listing with SeaMonkey Composer
SeaMonkey Composer, which you can download from the SeaMonkey home page, offers many features for creating an attractive HTML template for your eBay listings. The most important features in the Composer [more…]
How Much Does It Cost to Sell an Item on eBay?
Every item listed on eBay is charged an insertion fee. There’s no way around it. The insertion fee is calculated on a sliding scale based on the minimum bid [more…]
Help Your Sales with eBay’s Optional Listing Features
Although eBay’s display options aren’t quite as effective as a three-story neon sign in Times Square, they do bring greater attention to your auction. Here are your options: [more…]
Review Your eBay Auction Listing before Submitting It
After you’ve filled in all the blanks on the Sell an Item form that describes the item you’re selling on eBay, you come to the Preview Your Listing page. Scroll down the page and confirm that all the information [more…]
How to Revise Your eBay Listing before Bidding Starts
Don’t worry if you make a mistake filling out the Sell an Item page but don’t notice it until after the eBay auction is up and running. Pencils have erasers, and eBay allows revisions. You can easily make [more…]
How to Revise Your eBay Listing after Bidding Starts
If your eBay listing is up and running and already receiving bids, you can still make some slight modifications to it. Newly added information is clearly separated from the original text and pictures. [more…]
eBay Abbreviations You Should Know
As eBay has grown, so has the lingo that members use as shortcuts to describe their merchandise. The following table gives you a handy list of common abbreviations and phrases used to describe items. [more…]
How to Choose the Right Category for Your eBay Listing
On the first page of eBay's Sell an Item form, you need to select the main category for your item. After you select your main category, you land on the official working portion of the Sell an Item page [more…]
How to Select a Category for Your eBay Listing
When you sell an item on eBay, you need to select a category for the item to make it easier for buyers to find. Once you’ve decided on a sales format (for example, auction or fixed-price listing), you [more…]
Guidelines for Photographing Your eBay Items
The idea behind using images in your eBay auctions is to attract tons of potential buyers. With that goal in mind, you should try to create the best-looking images possible, no matter what kind of technology [more…]
How to Photograph Shiny Items with a Cloud Dome
Some of the more challenging types of eBay merchandise to photograph are coins and jewelry. A common problem is that when you use techniques that work fine for most items, silver can appear gold, and vice [more…]
Preparing Clothing to Photograph for eBay
If you're going to sell clothes on eBay, you need to take the best pictures possible to make the apparel appealing and attract eBay bidders; this involves a bit of preparation on your part. [more…]
How to Improve Your eBay Product Photos
In the competitive world of eBay sales, you want your merchandise to look its best, so that you attract interested buyers to your auction listings. However, pictures don’t always come out of the camera [more…]
How to Build an eBay Listing Description with Cool eBay Tools
If you need to create your eBay listing in a hurry, but you don’t have time to learn new design software, then the Cool eBay Tools site is for you. They offer a free ad tool that takes your title, description [more…]
Formatting Your Images for eBay Listings
eBay buyers expect images of your merchandise to download quickly and look good. To keep them happy, you can use the following checklist to prepare elegantly slender, fast-loading images to display on [more…]
Finding a Digital Camera for Great eBay Product Images
Buying a digital camera makes sense if you're going to do a lot of selling on eBay. When you start looking for a new digital camera, you need to look for certain features, such as a quality lens, a tripod [more…]
Using a Scanner to Capture Images for Your eBay Listings
If you sell books, autographs, stamps, or documents, a flatbed scanner may be all you need to capture your images for eBay. Scanners have come a long way in the past few years, and a once-expensive scanner [more…]
Getting Good Lighting for Your eBay Images
Trying to take good pictures of your eBay merchandise can be frustrating. If you don’t have enough light and use the camera’s flash, the image might be washed out. If you take the item outside, the sun [more…]
Great Tools for Staging Your eBay Photos
When you take pictures of items that you sell on eBay, you want your merchandise to look its best. Fortunately, you don’t need to spend a lot of money to create high-quality photos. Using a photo cube [more…]
What Do the Stars Next to eBay User IDs Mean?
When you see a star next to an eBay user’s ID, check out the color of the star. This tells you that user’s feedback rating. When you first join eBay, it seems like everyone on eBay has a star next to their [more…]
How to Leave Feedback for an eBay Seller
After you buy something on eBay, it’s always a good idea to leave feedback for the seller. Feedback helps sellers develop their reputations on eBay. Several ways are available to leave feedback comments [more…]
