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Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

ThemedSEO — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:42:50 GMT

i have sold many products in ebay.its a good place to sell the products at reasonable cost.

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

TxMilette — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:16:25 GMT

I opened an EBAY store like a year 1/2 ago, but to be honest never dedicated enough time to it. Suddenly, I have had to refocus and try to make this work...so I started listing via auctions to drive traffic to my store. In a week 1/2 I have sold $500; so I know it can work, but you have to dedicate yourself to it like any other job. In other words, at first I said: I want to open a store and list via auctions once in a while as a hobby. If you make it a hobby, then your sales, profits, will be just that. If you take it to the next level and focus and treat it as a business or as your job, then you will start seeing results.

I had to refocus to save my home with the mortgage crisis. My mortgage went up $400 a month...so now everytime I sit to work on my auctions or store, I focus on selling $600 or more monthly...to cover the new overage on my mortgage...sounds like a plan; and I am sticking to it!!!

Milette@ClothingBay.US

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

carpdancer — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:39:56 GMT

I find that ebay is not always an easy company to deal with. I had a problem with them over charging me on billing. Be careful what you sign up for on ebay. They are not bashful about hidden charges, and they are not very responsive when you question them.

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

MiLo_22.0899 — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:31:16 GMT

I've sell something on ebay, as an ebayer I usually prefer to see the actual picture of the item that is why when I list my item I always take a picture of it to make it look like legit (No offense to anybody).

As a seller it's hard to sell something specially if your rating is low cuz that's what some of the buyers check out. I think it's a good idea to make an account as a seller & a buyer that way you can build up your rating. Also communication is the key for success. just my .02

Hopefully it works out for you. Good Luck!!

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

Mrs Snappy — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:37:20 GMT

I'm the owner of a local Washington DC eBay Drop-Off Consignment store since 2005. We have over 1200 consignors and maintain a powerseller rating on ebay with over 4000 items sold since 2005. The other posts in this thread are correct; it can be tricky, unfair at times and yes profitable. Any powerseller on eBay will tell you that using common sense, avoiding suspicious emails warning about your account has been comprismised "click here ot unlock it" and be wary of buyers feedback transaction comments. Ebay has some great tutorials available to help someone get started selling on their site and stores like mine often hold classes for people interested in doing it for themselves. BE CAREFUL eBay will not tolerate the listing of any name-brand items which have the appearance of being a knock-off. The eBay VERO program reviews auctions and can end your listing at any time if the manufacturer suspects your item is a knock-off or fradulent/tampered with such as a DirecTV receivers that have been modified with additional storage HD space or offer an access card in the listing. Happy Selling!

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

shoppinatwilk — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:03:29 GMT

We have been selling successfully on ebay for quite a while now. We are currently an active power seller and the profits are amazing. although the price of shipping has gone up, Ebay allows us to market our small business to over 60 million customers worldwide. yes there are several buyer scams out there but most of them are so obvious the become comical. we offer paypal on our listing which allows for immediate payment through check or debit/credit card. they even offer a debit card so you can have immediate access to funds.. guidelines are tightening on ebay must overall its a great experience

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

SoCalbiz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:44:40 GMT

Powerseller on ebay for over 5 years now. Do it for a living. 8/15,000+ feedback...I buy my products in large quantities and offer them in combination packages not found in retail stores. If you find the product you're selling is all over ebay -avoid it -especially if readily available in retail stores. Whatever your IDEA is that hardly anybody else on ebay is doing is what sells. If not your own creation, do NOT compete on price (only) unless you're buying power is EXTREMELY leveraged to almost the price point of the landed cost of imports. Emerging trend is that SOME retail manufacturers/distributors send in a shill (relative, friend, largest vendee) with a grey market account as an additional revenue stream and kickback to them. You could be competing with your supplier w/o knowing it...

At my current GSR level of about $26k/mo. I am paying combined ebay/paypal fees of over $3k/mo. My customers are returning at the rate of about 15%/mo. (5yr. following). I have to list a product 2.5x for 7 days before it sells at the ebay SP average for that product. If you don't maintain at least a 33% auction closing rate you will lose money.

Use an automated listing tool/management system like Selling Manager Pro or Blackthorne.

Get a UserID as close as possible to your website name. Use ebay as an advertising tool to steer to your website as much as possible while sticking to ebay's rules against it.

Be prepared for cutomer service. Track everything. Be aware of the BUYER 2 for 1 Combined Shipment Scams for mail &/or INTERSTATE/INTRASTATE FRAUD run on the SELLER.

...and be prepared to pay your "dues" to learn all these things for at least the first year. After that, you should begin to have more business than you can handle if you play your cards right...

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

NatOnline — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:18:27 GMT

Most scammers don't have a lot of feedbacks if you want my opinion.

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

NatOnline — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:16:06 GMT

I know about scams on ebay, I lost more than $300.

The Ebay contradictory is they want you to pay via your Paypal account, but if the things turn bad, you have a poor compensation from them. Now if you pay and with your credit card at least you can dispute the charge.

Re: Can you share your experience selling on eBay?

CorpCons08 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:06:35 GMT

I am very satisfied by that answer Lighthouse. I think I would feel safer buying from someone who displayed those items. It would be great if they displayed an actual website. I also think feedback ratings are good on ebay. If you do well and get increased feedback, that puts many peoples minds to rest when purchasing from you.