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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…]
Send Personalized Invoices to Your eBay Buyers
Although it can be helpful to automate your eBay business, you should take the time to personalize even your canned e-mail responses. If you decide to send automated responses, choose a program [more…]
Keep Your Buyer Informed about an eBay Purchase
You probably aren’t going to send out a payment-received letter for every eBay transaction, especially when they’re paid through PayPal. But it would surely be nice if you did. Staying in constant communication [more…]
Knowing eBay’s Listing Policies
To provide a safe and profitable venue for its sellers, eBay must govern auctions that take place on its site. eBay has some hard-and-fast rules about listing your items. Although some of them are discussed [more…]
Edit your eBay Pictures for Free on LunaPic.com
If you don’t have an image-editing program on your computer, you can use LunaPic to edit pictures of items you want to sell on eBay. LunaPic is a free online photo-editing site that works great for quick [more…]
Prepare and Upload eBay Pictures with Fast Photos
If you want a simple, all-in-one photo-editing and FTP program designed especially for e-commerce and eBay sellers, then you should give Fast Photos by Pixby Software a try. The developers knew exactly [more…]
Installing eBay’s Enhanced Picture Services
When you take pictures of merchandise that you want to sell on eBay, you can easily upload these images by using eBay’s Picture Services program. eBay offers two versions of Picture Services. The basic [more…]
Upload Your Pictures Using eBay’s Picture Services
After you take pictures of merchandise that you want to sell on eBay, you need to get those pictures into your listing. You can easily upload these images by using eBay’s Picture Services program. If you're [more…]
