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Written by Lily Boynton
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008 15:25 |
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Copyright @ http://www.plug-in-4-profit.com Selling through eBay has become popluar among many home bnased business opportunities online. eBay is the world's largest online auction site, and it is host to many thousands of online retailers who make either a part or full time living from their eBay businesses. Getting started with eBay is simple enough, and eBay has the advantage of having the traffic already built in. As with any other site, the first step is to register and open an account. If you are planning on using eBay seriously, then you will need two accounts eventually. This is because you never want to buy through your main selling account. If you have a dispute with the seller, and have to leave negative feedback, the seller may well leave retaliatory negative feedback for you. If you have bought through your selling account, that is where the negative feedback will end up.
When you are starting, it pays to buy a few cheap items through your selling account, and leave positive feedback for the people you have bought from. If they reciprocate, you will at least have some positive feedback when you come to start selling. From that point on, you should never again buy through your selling eBay account. Once you are registered on eBay, and have set up your PayPal account if you have not done so already, you can begin listing items immediately. The eBay site has very comprehensive instructions for every part of the process.
The one piece of hardware you can't really manage without is a digital camera. Tests have proven beyond any doubt that listings with a photograph do far better than ones without. The only possible exception to this would be if you were selling information products, where you could take a screen shot of the info product and use that as a photograph. Assuming you have a digital camera, you will then need to source stock to sell, and also packing materials. Packing items well yet still being cheap on shipping charges is one good way of getting happy customers, who will hopefully become repeat customers.
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