Category Archives: ebay

Biggest Advantage of eBay Store

Once you’ve opened an eBay Store, a red sales-tag icon will appear next to your user ID anywhere it appears on eBay. A bidder looking at one of your eBay listings can click the icon to enter your store and shop among your items. You’ll also receive a tidy URL in this format: www.ebaystores.com/storename You [...]

Also posted in ecommerce | Tagged | 3 Comments

Practice Good Habits at eBay Marketplace

From David Karp It goes without saying that there are some very simple things you can do on an everyday basis to avoid negative feedback, and most of them involve simple etiquette. For example: 1. Be friendly, even if you’re not in a friendly mood. 2. Write in complete sentences. 3. Respond quickly when someone [...]

Also posted in The Internet | Tagged | 2 Comments

How to increase my sales in eBay

Here’s a way to increase sales on your ebay store—and it won’t cost you anything up front. Say you charge $6.99 to ship a single item. In reality, this shipment actually costs you about $2 in materials and postage. Obviously, this allows you to turn a tidy profit of about $5 for each sale. But [...]

Also posted in business tips | Tagged | Leave a comment

History of eBay

Contributed by David Karp eBay is big. Very big. At any given time, there are over 18 million items for sale, with an average of $680 worth of transactions taking place every second. And these numbers will undoubtedly be even higher by the time you get around to reading this. But like most big things, [...]

Posted in ebay | Tagged | Leave a comment

What is eBay Powersellers?

eBay recognizes sellers who meet certain sales quotas as “PowerSellers” and awards them a few extra perks, most relating to enhanced technical and customer support. Whether or not they’re the “pillars of our community” as eBay claims is a matter left to the pundits. But for many sellers running businesses on eBay, the PowerSellers program [...]

Also posted in ecommerce | Tagged | 3 Comments

How To Open An eBay Store

For sellers who want their presence on eBay to be more than just a collection of running auctions, eBay allows you to open a Storefront, complete with the following perks: Longer-lasting items. You’ll be able to create fixed-price listings that last 30, 60, 90, or even 120 days. These listings don’t show up in standard [...]

Also posted in ecommerce | Tagged | 1 Comment

How to Sell at Ebay Website

On eBay, research is money. A seller who knows how much an item is worth will be able to choose the selling options more appropriately, and as a result, get more money for it. And a buyer who knows the worth of an item will more readily recognize a good deal, and as a result, [...]

Posted in ebay | Tagged | 2 Comments

Avoiding Ebay Scam: Ask the Seller Specific Questions

You’ve heard it before, and it undoubtedly runs through your head when you’re looking at certain auctions: if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Now, there are certainly more exceptions to this rule on eBay than at most other places, mostly due to sellers who don’t know what they’re selling or [...]

Posted in ebay | Tagged | 6 Comments