March 12, 2008 – 10:43 am
It’s surprisingly easy to kill your eBay business, if you’re not careful - sure, you can start over from scratch without it costing you anything, but do you really want to? Still, if you want your business to end up dead in the water, here are the top ten simple ways to go about it:
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Running an eBay business is like running any other business, and in any other business that you run, the rules go as follows:
1. The customer is always right.
2. If you think the customer is wrong, read rule number one again.
Even though your eBay business is run online on a platform that you don’t own, the rules [...]
On eBay, reputation is everything. A good reputation is worth as much as every sale you will ever make and a bad reputation will lose you sales. If you have ever bought anything on eBay, consider how you react when you look at a seller’s feedback rating. Most people usually would not be comfortable buying [...]
Being a seller on eBay requires a lot of responsibility. Sometimes you may feel as though you are not doing everything you should be. The following 9 points provide a simple checklist that will help you keep track of things.
1. Do you know everything that you need to know about the items you are selling? Keying [...]
Getting started to post your first auction on eBay is a breeze. Here’s what you need to do:
Step 1: Open an eBay seller’s account.
If you’ve bought things on eBay, then you will already have an account - just log in with it and click ‘Sell’ in the toolbar at the top of the page, then [...]
If you are new to eBay, you may have some trouble understanding certain terms and words used? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Learning the lingo is part of getting involved with a new hobby, interest or business. Some of these words can have very obscure meanings, and you can’t be expected to understand it [...]
While you can sell most things on eBay, quite a few things are banned. If you try to sell any of these things then eBay will remove your auction and all bids will be void.
Here is eBay’s full list of prohibited or questionable items to help you stay out of trouble (updated to the date [...]
Over the years, eBay has introduced various types of auction in an effort to give people more options when they buy and sell their things on eBay. For every seller who doesn’t like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend, there will be another who wants to shift [...]
Before you sell anything on eBay, there are 3 things that you really need to know:
1. What to Sell.
Decide what you are going to sell and make it your specialty. You’ll do far better on eBay by becoming a great source for a specific kind of product, as people who are interested in those products [...]
The History of eBay
Created in September 1995 in San Jose by a man called Pierre Omidyar, eBay was formerly known as ‘AuctionWeb’. Omidyar intended the site to be an online marketplace and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name ‘eBay‘ [...]
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