7 Serious EBay Home Business Tips

7 EBay Home Business Tips For The Serious EBayer

Tip #1: EBay description theft–don’t do it! It’s only likely that eBay will investigate description theft and go after you if the seller whose description you took actually takes the time

to report you. If you are competing with that seller directly, expect to be turned in – after all, you’re their competitor! Think of how you’d feel if someone was plagiarizing a description that you took the time to research and fine-tune. After all, they would be using your description against you to list competing items. It is a kind of creative property theft, and eBay comes down hard on it. It is perfectly ok to look at other descriptions for examples, but save yourself some grief and never take someone else’s description.

Tip #2: EBay search can be a valuable tool for both buyers and sellers. Be specific: If you’re searching for the first edition of the original copy of Alice in Wonderland, you’ll get further searching for ‘alice in wonderland first edition’ than you will searching for ‘alice in wonderland’. You’ll get fewer results, but the ones you do get will be far more relevant. Spell wrongly: It’s a sad fact that many of the sellers on eBay just can’t spell. Whatever you’re looking for, try thinking of a few common misspellings – the chances are that fewer people will find these items, and so they will be cheaper.

Tip #3: Over the years, eBay has introduced all sorts of different auction types in an effort to give people more options buying and selling options. There are many people who don’t

like the idea that their item might sell for a far lower price than they intend. Equally, there are people who have hundreds of the same item and don’t want to sell them individually. The main auction types you need to be aware of and learn how to use are: the normal auction, the Buy it Now auction, the Multiple Item auction, the Fixed Price auction, and the Reserve auction.

Tip #4: Let’s say that for some reason you start an auction, and then at a later point no longer have possession of the item. Perhaps you sold the item to someone else, you lost it or it got broken. It doesn’t matter what happened; if you no longer have the item to sell, you should remove your listing. This is just about the only situation when eBay allow you to do so. If this situation arises, you need to regardless of the reason. This might seem cruel, but it’s there to stop people from backing out in the last few hours because they want to try again for a better price.

Tip #5: Be nice to new buyers. Genuine new buyers will probably have a name ending in a number and a feedback score of zero. Don’t make the mistake of always thinking these people are fraudsters. Somewhat counter-intuitively, people trying to commit fraud will almost never do it when they have a feedback score of zero as they will think it’s too obvious. New buyers often have problems with being inexperienced on eBay, and you might have to guide them through things like opening a PayPal account. If you want to get to know your eBay buyer, why not have a little chat with them via email about the item, what they plan to do with it. Tell them you know they’re going to love it and ask if there’s anything else you can do for them. Very few buyers who seem chatty and nice will turn on you if you give back positive, good communication.

Tip #6: A Good Reputation Will Get You Sales. When a Power Seller gives advice, you generally want to take it seriously. They can be selling a pretty unlikely item, but if they guarantee it is what they say it is, then you can trust them. Power Sellers are not going to risk their reputation. This is the power of a reputation: people know you want to keep it, and they know you’ll go to almost any lengths to do so. And this sells products!

Tip #7: A Bad Reputation Will Lose You Sales. In fact, a bad reputation will lose you almost all your sales. If someone leaves you negative feedback, you will feel the pain straight away, as that rating will go right at the top of your user page for everyone to see. Who’s going to want to do business with you when they’ve just read that you “took a month to deliver the item”, or that you had “bad communication and sent a damaged item”? The answer is no-one. Your next few items will need to be very cheap things just to push that negative down the page. You might have to spend days or even weeks selling cheap stuff to get enough positive feedback to make anyone deal with you again.

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