Anybody knows how to sell things in ebay? How does it works? What are the startup cost?
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Type ebay on your browswer. Once there it is simple they walk you through it. Start buying or selling. Imagine it is like having a garage sale. Sometimes you make money on things sometimes you lose money but you get rid of things. It is a win win situation.
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Ebay is the largest auction website you are able to place bids on items put up for sale, they have many many categories for sale and you can find almost anything there! The best way to start on ebay as a seller is To look around your house for anything you already would like to sell, May people have unused cell phones, videos, games, and other collectible items. YOU will have to pay ebay a small fee for everything you sell and also have to pay paypal if you use it, almost 75% of ebayers use paypal so it is a good idea to use this form of payment if you are going to start to sell items. Then after you have made a few bucks you could buy wholesale lots and resell them. But you do not have to have any start up money after you have sold something or when you list your item is when you have to pay, if you sign up for automatic pay you only have to pay once a month so chances are that you will sell your items before you have to pay fees.
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I sold some stuff, the listing fee was .55 cents and the pay pal ee was based on what item sold for. also ebay charges depending on starting bid etc. The fees are not that much
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Sell some of your stuff on ebay
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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.
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Login to ebay.com and get registered there and there is guide "how to sell"
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First decide how you want to sell -- via your own website or through eBay. \n\nHere are the pros and cons of each approach\n\nCREATING YOUR OWN WEBSITE\n\nPros\n- allows you to establish your own "real estate" on the Web;\n- allows you to attract a bigger audience; not limited to eBay buyers (not everyone buys on eBay)\n- scaleable as it allows your business to grow; \n- allows you to give more information about your business to your visitors and give them reasons to trust you\n- allows you to give more information about the product, play around with factors that can increase conversion\n- gives you a more professional look \n- makes you look like a "big" business (an e-commerce seller that also sells on ebay "looks" so much bigger than a purely ebay seller)\n- you can put in as many items you want without paying listing fees\n- you can sell as many items as you can without paying value added fees\n- less restrictions than eBay (you are more free to write your sales copy)\n- easier to market on the Web\n\nCons:\n- requires technical knowhow to create a website (or money to pay someone to do it for you)\n- fixed price (price you set is what you get)\n\n\nSELLING ON EBAY\n\nPros\n- auction format; prices can go up higher than you originally set it for\n- eBay's brand and size of its market \n\nCons\n- listing and final value fees\n- lots of restrictions \n- harder to get onto search engines\n- link exchanges are more difficult \n- increasing competition (it is not as easy to sell now on eBay compared to others)\n\nI would say it depends on what you want with your business. If you have a steady supply of product to sell (not just based on what you can find in your attic), I would go create a website - and THEN use eBay as an additional sales channel. You just have more room to operate and grow your business with having your own store.\n\nIf you are starting your own online store, here are the components of an ecommerce store http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol13/components.htm\n\n1. Website - Your online connection to your prospects and customers. \n\n2. Merchant account - Bank authorized account which allows you to accept major credit cards, electronic checks, etc.\n\n3. Payment Transaction Software - Software which actually processes customer order information, address, credit card number, etc. \n\n4. Secure Server Connection - https:// - Link to a special computer which encrypts confidential ordering data for customer protection. \n\n5. Shopping cart - Software which allows you to accept product orders for multiple products from your website.
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Your first stop should be eBay's Guide to Seller Services http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/services.html\n\neBay's Seller Central has all the resources you need to learn about the basics of selling on eBay http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/index.html\n\nThe key to a successful eBay selling is simple -- 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.
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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\nTo get products, I import them from other countries. A partner of mine sells high-end bike parts on eBay imported from Taiwan and other Asian countries -- and she does extremely well. I import pearls from the Philippines, where you can get freshwater pearls for only $0.20 wholesale price or even less. You can make HUGE markups through this approach (e.g. get a real freshwater pearl necklace for $0.20 and sell it for starting price of $36)
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I have my own eBay business.    The first thing I would do is buy some inexpensive things on eBay, just to get some positive feedback.  The first thing I bought was a VHS tape for $.99.  The trick to being successful is to pick a category that doesn't have that many sellers, and is something that people want.  If you pick a category that comes up with 500,000 items up for auction, people just aren't going to browse through that category to see what everyone has.  Even when you refine your search on a category that big it usually comes up with 30,000...still too many for browsing.  I always ship USPS Priority Mail because there is a flat rate box (12x14x3) that is one price, no matter how much it weighs....so if you can fit it in that box it's only one price. The Post Office will also come and pick your shipment up for free with Priority Mail, so there's no going to the Post Office and customers get their product in 2-3 days.  (I've found that people don't want to wait for their stuff longer than 3 days.)  I don't want to tell you what I'm selling because I don't want the category to get overloaded with sellers.  But I do well, I am able to support myself, no problem.  I actually started out with only $500.  When you put your product up for auction you have a choice of a 7 day or a 10 day auction.  I always do the 10 day auction starting it on a Friday.  That way you have 2 weekends for people to look at your stuff.  Some sellers don't accept PayPal as a method of payment because you have to give a percentage of your profit of a sale to them if it is used by your buyer.  I personally won't buy from people that don't take PayPal because you have protection against a seller that is trying to rip you off.  I have only had good experiences with my customers and  with PayPal, and I have a 100% positive feedback rate.  If you have any more questions you can email me at:\n\nebayenigma@luv2kre8it.com
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Well it looks like your off to a good start. Ebay is an excellent way to sell things. Good luck!
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register for an account and put up an item for sale in the listings.  any other information you need is listed on eBay's help section
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Ebay has a step by step tutorial...just use that. When you go to Ebay click on Sell and take it from there..
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sell things on ebay \nwww.ebay.com.au\nit doesn't cost very much to put things on ebay and its mostly free.
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Here is a complete listing of fees on ebay\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html\n\nBasically you pay\n\n1 - listing fees, whether your item sells or not\n\n$0.01 – $0.99 $0.20 \n$1.00 – $9.99 $0.35 \n$10.00 – $24.99 $0.60 \n$25.00 – $49.99 $1.20 \n$50.00 – $199.99 $2.40 \n$200.00 – $499.99 $3.60 \n$500.00 or more $4.80 \n\n2 - listing features, if added. Includes gallery, more than 1 picture, bold, subtitle, featured listing, auction for 10 days duration etc.\n\n3 - auction features, if added, such as Buy It Now, reserve auction\n\n4 - final value fees - only if your item sells.\n\nItem not sold No Fee \n$0.01 – $25.00 = 5.25% of the closing value \n$25.01 – $1,000.00 = 5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the remaining closing value balance ($25.01 to $1,000.00) \nEqual to or Over $1,000.01 = 5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the initial $25.00 - $1,000.00 ($29.25), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1,000.01 - closing value)
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The very first thing you need to know on eBay is that NOT EVERYTHING SELLS on ebay. Just browse through auctions that are closing and count how many you see that do not have a single bid. You don't want your auctions to end that way.\n\nThe only way is to sell the right products - products that fit well in ebay and has proven demand in ebay. eBay 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\nFor success tips, read the articles on this page Success on Internet Auctions  http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auction.htm\n\nYou may also want to read the following books:\n\n  Sell it on eBay: TechTV's Guide to Creating Successful eBay Auctions  \n  Starting an eBay Business for Dummies  \n  Branding: Brand Strategy, Design and Implementation of Corporate and Product Identity  \n  How to Sell Anything on eBay . . . and Make a Fortune!  \n  Ebay Business the Smart Way: Maximize Your Profits on the Web's #1 Auction Site  \n  The Official eBay Bible\n\nHow to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay\n http://www.powerhomebiz.com/102005/ebay.htm
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sell something on ebay, it always works for me