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Published October 15th, 2008
Some of eBay’s most successful sellers specialize in surplus, overstocked or closeout merchandise. You can earn large profits if you buy carefully, but, it is important to buy only desirable merchandise.
Surplus, or closeout merchandise, is merchandise sold at a large discount because it did not sell at full retail for some reason.
Usually retail merchandise shows up at closeout dealers because it wouldn’t sell in a store. This could be for many reasons:
Seasonal goods
Store closing or bankruptcy
Obsolete goods replaced by newer products
Customer returns after the holidays
(not warranty or defect returns)
Another category of merchandise... Read more
Tags: auction-sellers-resource.com, buying surplus, closeout merchandise, ebay, ebay power seller, Product Sourcing, Skip McGrath, source, sourcing closeouts, surplus
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On March 3rd Ebay launched a few new features. One of these was Best Match. Has this addition helped or hurt their business? Let’s take a look and find out.
Now when you log onto eBay and search for an item, instead of getting several thousand items that only match the words you type in, you get millions of items that all have the keywords you typed in - some not having anything to do with the item you are searching for.
Best Match - Changes Made
Along with the best match feature, they also made changes to their feedback... Read more
Tags: E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, eBay Edge, ebay seller, Leeia Ladipoh
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Published March 13th, 2008
If you have started your own online eBay business, you may have noticed that the constant circle of listing items, selling them, sending out invoices, receiving payments and relisting items for sale can take quite a bit of time out of your schedule.
If you are listing items one at a time, going page by page through the eBay program, this slowdown in your business life is even worse. While you may love the profitability of eBay, you may also wish for an easier, and less time consuming, way to take care of your online inventory.
Thankfully, there are many... Read more
Tags: E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, Generating More Sales, Leeia Ladipoh, online auctions, sellers, Small Business Resources, tools
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Published March 7th, 2008
In the last article, 5 Ways to be a Successful eBay PowerSeller , I talked about the huge benefits that achieving PowerSeller status can bring to your business, as well as 5 ways you can make your eBay listings stand out and bring in more buyers.
In this article, I’m going to tell you about 5 more ways to achieve that all important PowerSeller status - this time by focusing on customer service. Your customers are how you make sales, and no matter how pretty your pictures are, or how well written your titles and descriptions are - if your... Read more
Tags: boosting sales, E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, ebay powerseller, Generating More Sales, powerseller, Ryan Dube, Sales
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Published March 6th, 2008
There are a number of ways to successfully advance as an eBay PowerSeller. As an 8 year Seller on eBay, with a 100% feedback rating of over 1000, I’ve come to recognize several things that work, and several others that don’t, when trying to build a successful business as a PowerSeller on eBay.
What is an eBay PowerSeller?
eBay is constantly monitoring the volume of sales of its members. Any seller that can achieve a consistent Sales volume (at least $1000 in gross sales, or 100 items sold per month) for three consecutive months, as well as maintaining a feedback... Read more
Tags: boosting sales, E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, ebay powerseller, Generating More Sales, online auctions, powerseller, Ryan Dube, Sales
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Published February 25th, 2008
At the beginning of the month I posted about the eBay fee hike…
Since then, smaller sellers in the eBay community have rallied together to boycott the hike as eBay attempts to court the bigger sellers. Sadly, the mini strike apparently had little to no effect and eBay remains firm in going through with the changes on Wednesday.
It looks like smaller sellers or anyone not happy with the fee hike should look closely at the pros and cons of doing business through eBay. There are eBay alternatives that facilitate auctioning such as Amazon.com or you could even consider beginning... Read more
Tags: ebay, ebay alternatives, ebay fee hike, ebay sellers, feedback, online auctions, Rebecca Button
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Published February 22nd, 2008
As an eBay retailer, getting traffic to your store and auctions is critical to your business’ success. The most successful eBay businesses use search engine optimization (SEO) tips and tricks to get their eBay store and auction listings to show up in the natural listings of search engines like Google and Yahoo. An increase in traffic to your store and listings gives more people the opportunity to purchase your items, thus increasing your sales and profits.
The best SEO tips and tricks for eBay sellers
Make a keyword-rich listing title - The title of your listing is the number-one way... Read more
Tags: boosting traffic, Carrie Hinkel, E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, eBay Edge, SEO tools
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Published February 7th, 2008
If you are selling on eBay, your reputation is out there for everyone to see. The eBay feedback system is on every item you sell - and potential customers can click at any time to see whether other customers have had positive experiences with you.
It is important to keep a high positive rating on eBay to keep customers’ trust.
Let’s take a look at how to do this.
Keeping Customers Happy
The best way to do this is to do exactly what you promise. When it comes to selling on eBay, there are many levels of customer relations.
1.... Read more
Tags: customer loyalty, customer relation management, E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, feedback, Leeia Ladpoh
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Published February 6th, 2008
There are plenty of success stories and "Powersellers" on eBay, but what about the sellers who failed? What did they do wrong and how can you learn from their mistakes when starting your own eBay business?
The top reasons eBay sellers fail
They don’t accept credit cards or Paypal � Not accepting Paypal is pretty much a death wish for any eBay seller. Paypal is convenient, easy, and most eBay buyers and sellers use it. If you plan on selling on eBay, sign up for free at Paypal.com.
They have low or poor feedback � Buyers are many times hesitant... Read more
Tags: advice, Carrie Hinkel, E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, ebay power seller, Generating More Sales, online auction, Sales, tips
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Published February 1st, 2008
EBay’s announcement that seller fees are increasing February 20th is not going over well. The new rules go a little something like this:
"It reduces upfront costs such as listing fees, which will drop from a starting price of $0.20 to $0.15 for traditional auction listings, and makes gallery photos free. However, eBay is adding more costs to the back end for many sellers with higher final-value fees, the commission eBay takes after a sale. Top sellers will be rewarded with greater visibility and protections, but - in perhaps the most controversial aspect of the shake-up - sellers will no... Read more
Tags: E-Commerce and E-Business, ebay, news, online auctions, Rebecca Button
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