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Reserve-Price Auctions on eBay

Unlike a minimum bid, which is required in any eBay auction, a reserve price protects sellers from having to sell an item for less than the minimum amount they want for it. You may be surprised to see [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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

How to Download and Start Turbo Lister

Turbo Lister is a great program that helps you prepare your eBay listings and launch them with a single mouse click. Or, if you want to start your auctions at a particular date and time, you can select [more…]

How to Prepare an eBay Listing with Turbo Lister

You can use Turbo Lister to prepare your eBay listings and launch them with a single mouse click. Or, if you want to start your auctions at a particular date and time, you can select a scheduled item-launching [more…]

How to Upload Listings to eBay with Turbo Lister

Turbo Lister makes it easy for you to upload your listings from your computer to eBay. You can even choose to upload these listings at a later date and time. [more…]

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