eBay

When to Use Buy It Now and When to Bid

You will often find yourself facing the choice of whether to pay a fixed price via a Buy It Now button or to place a bid. This choice might be presented to you in a single auction, or you might be choosing between different auctions of the different types. So should when should you click […]

How to Check an eBay Seller’s Reputation (and Why You Should Do It)

When you buy something from an eBay seller, you are giving them your money and hoping that you will get something in return. However many guarantees of safety eBay might make to you, nothing is certain: if you just give your money to scammers all the time without doing any checks then the chances are […]

How Important is Your Buyer’s Reputation?

Your reputation as a buyer (or ‘feedback rating’) is the most important thing people see when they deal with you on eBay. It is on the basis of this little number that they will decide whether they can trust you or not.
Each time you buy or sell something on eBay, people can leave feedback for […]

Learning the eBay “Lingo”

Do you have trouble sometimes understanding when people talk about eBay? Don’t worry, some of the eBay jargon is really obscure, and you can’t be expected to understand it until someone tells you what it means. Here’s a little list of some of the most useful eBay lingo to know, but you don’t need to […]

Staying Out of Trouble with eBay’s Listing Policies

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:
Adult Material (see Mature Audiences)
Alcohol (see also Wine)
Animals and Wildlife Products - […]

A Beginner’s Guide to the Different eBay Auction Types

Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types, 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’s another who wants to shift […]

What You Need to Know Before You Get Started on eBay

So you’ve decided you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end.
Selling on eBay.
First off, you need to know what it is you’re going to sell: what’s your speciality? You’ll do far better […]

EBay Income Possibilities

If you’ve ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn’t unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.
Next time you’re on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you’ll find quite a few. Now consider that […]

Here’s a Couple of Free eBay Related Ebooks For You

Hi all! I hope your new years is getting off to an awesome start. Mine sure is!
It’s been a while since I posted anything about eBay, even though I’m still actively involved. Because of this and because it’s the New Year, I wantes to share this post with you. There are 2 free eBay related […]

eBay Auction Starting and Ending Day Strategies

It’s usually when auctions are about to end that they get half their bids – sometimes they even get their only bids. If you want your item to sell for a good price, then, it makes no sense to let it finish on a day and time when no-one’s going to be around to care.
Selling […]