Have you ever been delighted after a huge sale on Ebay. . .only to
find out that your massive profit margin was whittled away by fee after fee
after fee after fee?
Ebay charged you to list your item; they charged you to add
pictures; they charged you to add upgrades; they charged you to use a
template; they charged you to put your auction up at a certain time; and
then, on top of everything else. . .they charged you AGAIN for closing the
sale.
At this point, you would have been happy to walk away from
your huge sale with the shirt on your back. But no. Paypal arrived on the
scene to process your transaction for a small fee - your shirt.
. . .and there you sat at your computer, frustrated and
shirtless. You were probably ready to just throw your hands up in dispair
and quit selling on Ebay.
But you didn’t. You stuck with it. Maybe you haven’t had any
success on Ebay since then, but what matters is that you stuck with it. And
that is easily the most important part about selling on Ebay: sticking with
it until you get that breakthrough.
And for that, I am going to reward you by showing you some
simple tricks I have used to prevent the fee-mongers from extracting all of
my profits. Hopefully this will help you to do the same and find your
breakthrough.
The first method is using free hosting services for all of
your auction pictures. If you sell a lot of small items on Ebay, this will
save you a considerable amount of money in fees. If you only sell large
items, this will allow you to cut back on unncessary fees on each auction.
I personally suggest using Geocities.com for this. All you
have to do is upload the pictures you want in your auctions and then then
reference them in the actual auctions.
The second fee-saving method I suggest is creating or
purchasing a template for your auctions. I personally suggest learning HTML,
which doesn’t take very long, and using it to create your own template.
In the long run, this will save you a lot of time and
frustration, as you will be able to create the exact look and feel you want
for your auctions.
However, if you don’t have the time to learn HTML, you can
either purchase a template online for a dollar or less or you could have one
professionally- created to fit your specifications at elance.com.
Not only will this save you additional auction fees on Ebay,
but it will boost your credibility as a seller, potentially raising the
amount of bids you receive--and subsequently increasing your profit-margin
The third and last method I will go over involves improving
the mechanics of your auction, so you can pull just as many customers as a
featured listing would, but without using one.
This is actually quite simple. All you have to do is
carefully construct your title to accomplish the following two goals: 1)
include as many targeted, high-traffic keywords as possible; and 2) form a
coherent and compelling message that will entice these new streams of
traffic to click through to your auction.
If you can achieve a better balance than what you have right
now, you will notice an enormous boost in traffic. In fact, it can easily be
the difference between 25 auction visitors and 250!
Some people make a full-time income buying from the auctions
that get 25 visitors and then reselling with this tactic, which gets them
250.
By now, you know what you need to do to cut a serious chunk
out of your Ebay seller’s fees. Put this to work in your auctions - and you
could be seeing that breakthrough I talked about in a matter of weeks.
http://www.workathomerightnow.net/ebay.html - Written by Isaiah Hull,
author of "How to Profit on Ebay In Seven Days Without Spending A Single
Penny." For a limited time only you can get a pre-publication copy of his
book for ONE-FOURTH the post-publication price!
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