As an eBay buyer or seller, one of the keys to establishing the value of an item is knowing the item’s condition, typically referred to as the item’s grade. [more…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
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…]
To have a successful eBay store, you need to bring in online customers. By using Google’s cost-per-click (CPC) offering, AdWords, you can run ads for your eBay store all over the Internet while still controlling [more…]
Have you ever Googled your eBay Store? Try doing a Google search for the name of your eBay Store, including the word eBay in the search parameters. The figure below shows the results of an eBay Store search [more…]
When you create a description of an item you’re selling on eBay, you can jazz things up with a bit of HTML coding, either manually or by using eBay’s HTML text editor. For example, you can make your text [more…]