i would like to know if opening an ebay store is adviseable? would like some feedback from experienced people?
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It is a great home-based business. The hardest part is finding products to sell. Many people are in this business and there is a lot of competition. If you have a product that is not available everywhere else, or if you can compete on price and still make a profit, an ebay store can make you a lot of money.\n\nI have done wery well there when I have been early with a product, have gotten a great low price lot, or picked up an estate of good quality rare items.
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If you are not good with websites and you don't want to or find it difficult to learn, you should find someone who can sit down and either do it for you or walk you through. Any kid can do this these days, but you should find someone who is online on a regular basis, preferrably someone who already sells on eBay. If you don't have anyone in mind who would do it as a favor, you should find someone who will help for a fee.\n\nIf you only make a few purses/ponchos per week or month, all you need is create an ebay account and list your items as an auction or with a buy-it-now flat price. If you have many items to sell, you could open up an "eBay Store." There's a monthly fee, but you'll be able to customize it, create different categories, cross-advertise your items, etc. The store makes it easier for potential clients to view everything you are offering.\n\nIf you don't want to deal with any of this online stuff, you should be prepared to share the profits. There are companies that run brick and mortar stores -- you take your merchandise to them, they'll create an ebay auction. If and when it sells, they take a fee and pay you the rest. One of such companies is called Net2Auction (link 1 below). They may not have a location in your area.\n\nAnother good place is on eBay itself -- they have a service called Trading Assistant (link 2 below). It is basically the same thing -- you find someone in your area (make sure they have good feedback on eBay and their auction listings look professional), take your item to them, and they'll sell it for a fee.\n\nThe biggest problem with the above is that these places may not want to sell your items because if the prices of your items are too low (oversaturated marketplace, not enough interested buyers, etc), it won't make sense for them to help you because their fees will eat up all the profits.\n\nBut those would be good places to start. If business goes well, then I'd go back to my first suggestion -- learn the ropes and start listing the auctions yourself and/or open an eBay Store..\n\nGood luck.
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Hi i am a member of Ebay since 2000 and i can tell you that if you are intelligent, hard-working, patient and consistent with and original plan or idea, then you can certainly make a fortune on Ebay.\n\nBut the real problem is that most of us lack in some of the above mentioned qualities. Like any other business this Ebay business takes time to gather momentum since you have to first build your image as a reliable and responsible seller and notch up good ratings.\n\nIf you wish to make a fortune on Ebay just follow my simple steps:-\n\n\n1. Get a small but a very unique and lovely product to sell from the local manufacturers. Remember your this choice will determine the amount of fortune you make. Ensure that the product is the best in quality and your first time customers just love it and tell it to other buyers.\n\n\n2. Now when you list your product for sale just ensure that you include a high resolution picture of your product from atleast 2 or 3 angles so that the prospective buyer knows what he/she is buying and make up his mind more accurately. Also describe the product you are selling in great detail and mention all of its possible features and uses.\n\n\n3. Be very careful that you clearly mention accurate Handling and Delivery charges in your payment terms and conditions and clearly enumerate the ways of payments permitted by you and also the warranties and return methods if available.\n\n\n4. Now clearly include Your decent profit percentage in the cost of the items which you want to sell. Remember it is this profit which will pay for all your expenses and which will keep you up and going in times of tough competition.\n\n\n5. Ensure that you include some good sounding personal notes with all the items you send to the buyers. Take care of the packing standards. Offer your customers speedy problem resolution so that they are not dissatisfied and do not give you negative ratings as this may cause much damage to your image as a seller. Maintain regular contact with your old buyers and offer them your new products on regular basis.\n\n\n6. Generally it is seen that if you have an offline sales channel, then ebay can complement your sales very effectively and can result in generous revenues from the online sales channel. Just keep the postage and handling costs in check and just document your offerings in very clear terms.\n\nIf you follow all these steps and try to be innovative, creative and caring then you can certainly make a fortune on ebay but with some patience and not overnight as many people may suggest.\n\nTake Care.\nBye.
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Selling on eBay is Fast, fun and easy. You can start with things lying around the house that you no longer need such as books, furniture, toys, gifts you don't like and more. Sell on eBay as a hobby or even start a full time business.\n\nLearn the basics\nThe Basic selling guide will take you through Seller Registration, Researching eBay before you sell, listing your item for sale, completing your transactions with your buyers and managing your eBay business.\n\n\n\nAdvanced Selling\nOnce you have mastered the basics and started selling on eBay, here are some tools available to help you become faster and more efficient at selling. Plus, you'll learn great tips on how to help attract more buyers and sell more products.\n\nThis Advanced Selling guide will help you as a reference for all your selling related information and also help you take your business to the next step.\n\nFrom a beginner to a regular seller or from hobby to full-time business.\n\n.
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Hi... \nSetting up a business on e-bay is easy jus go to www.ebay.com , and sign up as a new user. From there, you can start to post pics of merchandise u are sellin and browse what others are sellin too. Sign up for paypal too. It enable u to receive payments from overseas buyers. \nIn my own opinion, setting up a business on ebay is not tedious however it requires some of ur time to maintain ur account... as u have to keep updating ur merchnadise, replyin enquries from intrested buyers. \nPlus... include pics if possible and include details of ur merchandise as it will increases ur chance of ur stuffs being search by interested buyers.\nGood lucks!
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It's an excellent way to buy and sell goods but there are people out there who will try and rip you off.\n\nIt's worth reading the full text of the advert first and check what the postage is - some people will sell an item with a really low starting price then kill you with extortionate postage.\n\neBay has a feedback system where the buyer and seller in a transaction can rate the other's performance, this can be positive, neutral or nagative.  Always check this and be very wary of people with lots of negative feedback.  I generally make it a rule not to trade with anyone who has a score of less than 99.5%.  The buyers and sellers can also leave comments about the transaction - read what other people have to say about potential trading partners.\n\nIf you're selling you can impose your own rules - some sellers won't sell to people with a feedback rating of less than a certain amount or to people who are new to eBay.\n\nIf you're selling goods then only ever post them to the buyer when you haev received cleared funds - most transactions on eBay are paid for using Paypal which immediately transfers funds from the buyers account to the sellers account.\n\nWatch out for people who insist on unusual payment methods such as Western Union - these are much more open to abuse.\n\nWatch out also for people trying to hijack your account - if you get e-mails that require you to login to your account then be sure it's a genuine ebay site (the address must be ebay.com, ebay.co.uk etc).\n\nPersonally I've bought and sold well over 10,000 items without encountering any serious problems.  The worst I've had is people not sending payment once they've bought an item - the solution is not to send the goods.  There's been lots of minor problems and almost always this has been with people who are new to eBay.\n\nI for one would certainly recommend it.\n\nGood luck.
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I have a very successful eBay store, with a net result of approx. $ 500 per day, by targeting international markets instead of selling in the US (90% of my sales are cross-border sales to Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East, Africa).\n\nMy eBay store will be featured in September's Entrepreneur magazine (for the 2nd time, my store was also featured in Entrepreneur in September 2004).\n \nAs nothing comes from nothing, it does require dedication, innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, and the will to succeed.
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Buying from garage sales and selling on eBay is fun, and good getting a few dollars here and there from ebay. Sometimes, you luck out on an item and hit big, but many times it will just be so-so (assuming you can even get the price you paid for it). In terms of fun factor, it is great. But from a business stand-point, it is not. Not sustainable.\n\nIf you want to earn serious money from eBay, you need to have a well-thought out business model. Selling on ebay is getting tougher -- just look at the number of auctions that closes without a bid. Go to the boards on ebay and you will hear even oldtimers complaining about how stiffer competition plus higher fees make it so much harder to sell on ebay.\n\nThe key success factor is: Sell products that people actually want. \n\nSelling on eBay is not as easy as some portray. In fact, go to eBay and check out the number of auctions that end without a single bid. Competition is getting tough, as more sellers go to eBay; even the big boys are joining in the eBay marketplace. Add to that the increasing listing and final value fees.\n\neBay has several ways for you to determine exactly what the hot items to sell on their marketplace: \n\nItems In Demand = the most popular items currently within that particular category. To see the In Demand page, go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/sellbycategory.html  \n\nHot Items by Category Report = a monthly report that lists the fastest growing categories on eBay for the previous month. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/whatshot.html and select "Hot Items by Category" from the menu on the left. \n\neBay Pulse = "a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks, and cool stuff on eBay". Go to http://pulse.ebay.com/ to see eBay Pulse in action. \n\nMerchandising Calendar = eBay promotes specific categories on its home page each month. Savvy eBayers know that this home page exposure results in more interest in such categories. Go to http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/calendar.html  to view the current Merchandising Calendar.\n\nAs for items to sell, you can:\n\n1. Buy bulk liquidation items such as those at Liquidation.com. The capitalization may be big, but the idea is to sell the items individually and profit from it.\n\n2. Find manufacturers of items you want to sell and buy discounted items from them\n\n3. Make deals with retailers in your area, and offer to buy their unwanted items for deep discounts. jayandmarie - the most successful ebay sellers - made deals with music stores where they will buy the entire inventory in the discounted bins, and then sold the items on ebay for 1-cent starting bid.\n\n4. Look for possible partners on the Web, preferably outside of the US. Import items from them and sell them on ebay. There's huge profits to gain from this approach.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm
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I just did, not a pro store but an ebay store and its great.  The listing fees are by far less expensive though your items are not auctions people see them whenever they search on important key words.  I like the ebay store...very affordable...good service.
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Whenever I need to buy something, I check eBay first. I look first at auctions that have a reasonable shipping cost and a Buy It Now option at a reasonable price. I stay away from sellers that don't accept Paypal or charge excessive S&H. If I ask a question and don't get a response within a day, I skip that auction. I consider feedback also. Everything else being equal, the auction that provides the most complete information is the one I'm most likely to pursue.
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eBay is a business like any other.  If you invest the time, energy, and money into it; you can make money from it.  Like any business, you can also lose money if you don't know what you're doing.\n\nBusiness 101:  To run a business, you need a product / service, and you need sales.  eBay can help with sales because it exposes you to a large potential marketplace -- but you still have to do the selling.  As for a product / service -- you either create your own, or sell someone else's.\n\nIf you've never run a business before, eBay is probably a good place to get an education.  You can learn more, and quickly, by doing research there than anywhere else.\n\neBay 101:  Search the ads to find one that resembles what you want to sell.  Watch the item.  See how the ad is formatted, what the starting price is, how many people bid on it, and what it sells for -- if it sells.  Do this at least 10 times, at different times of the day, and days of the week.  You should start to see patterns of what is selling, when, and how to sell it most successfully.\n\nBest of luck !
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I had never heard of it so took a look after seeing your question.\nIt looks to be quite good, and there is a reference to ebay on it (Obviously trying to steal some ebay customers).\n\nSo at first glance - yep - it looks good and I will be taking a better look at what they have on sale there. Of course, until you can find someone who has actually bought something, then you will not know for sure, but I might just buy a small item, just to test them out.\n\nI'll post a question if and when I have a go, to let you (And anyone else) know.\n\nHows that? Sorry I did not actually answer your question, but at least I took a look at the site.\n\n:-)
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ebay may be a good place to start
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Generally it's not that realistic.  I've been there and generally eBay IS wholesale price.  Most of the time you will buy an item from a wholesaler and see that eBay is listing it for the same price.. A lot of these people dump products at their cost and make money on the shipping/handling aspect.  \n\nAlso, to get real wholesale prices... you generally need to have a business license, tax id, and setup a real wholesaler account with these companies, and even then you may find their prices aren't giving you much profit margin on eBay.  \n\nIf you are considering buying into a wholesale list or something like that, I wouldn't recommend it.  \n\nI know a couple people that make some money on the side selling things they've got wholesale (it's not enough for a full time income)...but generally they are buying something like books by the truckload for $1 each.  25% of them end up being garbage, 50+% end up selling for break even (considering ebay fees, paypal fees, your time) and they make some money on the rest.  \n\nBut I would say unless you have a real legitimate source with someone and you can get prices at least 20-25% below what the eBay items are actually *selling* for (not what you see them listed at), I wouldn't even bother.\n\n- aba
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It's easy to find out what sells on eBay (besides EVERYTHING).  Think of something you can sell, go on eBay and look it up.  Look at completed listing and you'll see what the going eBay rate is for that item.  If you can get it cheap enough to create a profitable margin and if the market is big enough (ie. how many of said item are actually selling on eBay) then you can probably make a sustainable profit.  That being said, finding the right items to sell on eBay involves a lot of trial & error.  \n\nNow for some specifics - once you've found an item, here are things that can help a lot:  First off, always write an EXCELLENT description.  The more info the better.  People are lazy - if they have to ask you a question, they probably won't do it, they'll just buy the same item from someone else.  Next, lots of pictures!!!  It's true when they say a picture is worth a thousand words.  Third, pay extra for BOLD listings and for a gallery photo - these increase your odds and amount of sale by A LOT!!!  Finally, don't start your auction off too high - set a reserve instead.  A low start price will get people interested in your item and get them to bid.  A high price will scare them off.  It's a lot easier for a person to bid incrementally starting at a low price than it is for them to make a large bid up front - it's all psychological.\n\nGood luck!
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for someone to get started with very little I would suggest them to first have capital. a freind is on his way by making first a go with  with e-bay by just knowing a few people with items and has blossumed like you would not believe.it can be a money maker for some and some excellent finds for other, whichever you choose.\n\nfor some that may not know how much fun it is to browse and/or shop on e-bay-here are some instructions to a very good spot to start out finding excellant products at very reasonable prices. this fellow starts out at very low starting bid prices on knives, i-pods, all tools, fishing equiptment, computers, printers and changes his items maybe every other day.how I think he makes it so good on there is he guarentees his items, sends to any country, and he keeps a 100 percent feedback which means the customers have all been happy.\nsome folks dont know how to dig in there so here is how to get to his site fairly easy and from there click around to an entire new trend for shoppers and sellers alike and.b.t.w., (2000canary is his i.d.)--just get to e-bay and click "buy" then under "buy" theres 2 boxes (go under them)is a search option--click "e-bay stores" search and put in the "2000canary"(dont worry about filling in the other blanks)then click search again. you will notice that its also known as his "liquidators companys" because he has done so well hefeatures a store spot on ebay as well. then happy hunting!!gradually you will learn to watch on ebay and deal with folks that have lots of great feedback to avoid problems, which is tricky at first until youve learned the ropes. this I know, will at least send you to an awesome spot to start with some great deals daily.\nthe items also display a current picture of the product that is up for sale as well. I have alot of fun in there myself. I love to buy fitness c d's because I get bored so easy and I mostly pay 2-3 bucks for them if you catch them on a good day where theres few bidders on line. thats when you can scoop up on the deals, my freind!! \n\niso it seems to me that perhaps to buy and resell if one is agressive enough could prosper well. ywe all have to start somewhere!!\n\n\n \n\nWhat kind of company (with the minimum investment) would be successful ing some type of capital backup.
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DVD is huge and quick to sell but you need volume to make money. \n\nBig time growth on Clothing too, a good categories because it's easy to buy clothing for 80% off and resell them on ebay at 25-50% off but this take a lot of time in the listing because of pictures and description. \n\nRemember the rules number one en ebay: buy low, sell for higher and do volume....\n\n2 good books to buy right now on ebay: Ebay Millionaire, insane books with a lot of good stuff and The Perfect store, the story of ebay. After reading these 2, you will never go out of the ebay way! \n\nGood luck!