I have a question about how auctions work and how to pay?
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I'm pretty sure you have to pay upfront
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Try the Yahoo Auctions!!  They don't charge listing fees!!\n\nAlso, list unique things!!\n\nEBAY is alright as is Yahoo Auctions......just be extremely careful NOT TO LOOSE MONEY!!\n\nWhat I did, I went to auctions sales myself and purchased items for a reasonable amount of money.  Turned around and placed the items on EBAY and YAHOO AUCTIONS.  Don't expect to become a millionaire overnight.  IT TAKES TIME!!
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There are two ways to go about it:\n\n1. Buy from other sellers. What I did when I started was to look for any $0.99 items or cheaper, bid on it to get my score up.\n\n2. Review the way you sell your items. Many members realize that everyone starts from 0. In my other eBay account, I did not do #1 and instead proceeded to sell with 0 feedback. Buyers bought from me, no problem with 0 feedback. \n\nCheck if your item actually fits well with ebay - one of the realities of ebay is NOT all items can be sold on ebay. Do a search for completed items to see if people are buying your type of products, and for what price.\n\nAlso check your actual listing. Check the photos, check the titles of your listings to make sure the keywords are there, check the description, check your shipping and handling policies, check your payment policies. And if everything else fails, try to lower your price to get some bidding nibble.\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\nI suggest she reads the articles on this page Success in Online Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auction.htm and read the following books:\n\nSell 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
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It depends on what style of auctioneering you are going to do. If you are going to call bids, you need some practice with terminal numbers, linked with a few phrases ie. will you bid? will you give? how many dollars? and just develop a method of your own. For example: Alright now the next item is ?????? How many dollars for it, set it in, let's go boys, will you give five, yes I got five, now who'll give ten, ten ten, and now fifteen, will you bid fifteen? thank you and now twenty, twenty dollars for it, are you all in ? all through, I have sold it for fifteen dollars. you develop a chant and rhythm is important. From a 38 year veteran of auctioneering.
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A money transfer how? Through Pay Pal? You won't be able to prove you have paid unless you send it in some way that the seller's name will be printed to the receipt or if you pay by credit card or check card through pay pal...the problem is if you agreed to pay through money transfer when you bid...did the auction state that that was how the money would change hands? If it was you are stuck paying that way or suffering the reporting. If it was not then you should report the seller...he is changing terms of the sale after the fact and he shouldn't.  If no payment arrangement at all was listed then you have as much right as he to report or to demand to pay by check or in some other manner which will provide proof that he received payment.
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She needs to contact the seller. When is the auction ending? Only the seller can retract the bid but you have to contact them before the auction ends. Even if she bid 2 pounds, there is a limit of increments...so if she bid 2,000 pounds and if the bid was at 2 pounds, then it would only go up .10 penses at a time. I dont think its possible to bid 2,000 pounds and have the auction set at 2,000.\n\nTell her to contact the seller as soon as possible. As the seller, it is his responsibility to retract bids when the buyer requests it, otherwise, he has to pay seller fees again if he doesnt retract it right away and if the buyer bails out too late.
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The seller can put something up for a specific price if he chooses.   This is independent of the bidding process.\n\nSo, for example, you can offer something for sale starting at, say, $5.00, or "buy it now" for $10.00\n\nIf the bidding gets up to $10, that would constitute a "buy it now" purchase.   This is a way to let someone who wants to pay more get something immediately and "for sure", since it stops the bidding.   If there's no "buy it now", you can always be outbid at the last moment (and that often happens!), giving you no time to respond.   (This is the worst thing about eBay, I think.)
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ok first u tell me some sites for auction \n\n\nthen i have a very good answer for u\n\nrj_jocky@yahoo.com
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Here is the ebay page about various ebay fees for a seller:\nhttp://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html\n\nNormally, the seller pays: \n1. listing fee (to put the item for auction) - this has several options that could have additional fees.\n2. final value fee (when the item is sold)\n\nFor a item in $5-15 range, the most plain listing costs $.60 (assuming your starting price is in that range), and 5.25% of closing price.\n\nThen if you use Paypal to accept credit card payment, then Paypal charges transaction fees. See this page: http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside
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♡First, you have to sign up and get a Yahoo Japan ID to be able to log onto Yahoo Japan Auctions.\nhttp://auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/\n You then have to register with Yahoo Japan Auctions to use their service, there is a monthly service charge for doing so! It will be billed to your credit card on a monthly basis. I also think you must be fluent in Japanese to avoid any problems! You must then be able to read and write Japanese so that you can post, answer and carry out your auction from start to finish. Also, many times questions are asked about your item, you have to be able to give details. You have to be able to view Japanese characters on your computer as well. I'm an American living in Japan and my hubby is Japanese, so I have no problem because he helps me! Also, you have to take into consideration that many Yahoo Japan Auctions DO NOT SHIP INTERNATIONALLY. I occasionally order things from Japanese living in the US who use Yahoo Japan Auctions and have something I need/want, but the payment is done to a Japanese bank transfer. And many people don't want to pay the high postage from another country too. These people are fluent in Japanese and English usually. People may also be hesitant to forward money outside of Japan. But, if you're fluent in Japanese, sign up and give it a try! Hope this helps and good luck!♡
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What business?  What bids? & What type of accounts?\n\nSorry, can't answer this without more info:-)
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One reason that you may not be getting bids is that if you are new and have no feedback, buyers may be leary to buy from you. I know when I scope out products and sellers, I would like a little history of satisfaction. Have you reviewed your ads from the standpoint of the buyers? Are you setting your pricing low enough to attract bids or thinking as a seller of how much money you're going to make? Are you stressing the features and benefits of the products or just writing an ad thinking the product will sell itself? Do you have decent photos? There are no great or bad products to sell. I have sold a bag of M&Ms for $2.99 that retailed for $2.50. I have not sold a $100 stained glass Kinkade suncatcher that I started bids at $25. There's no logic. Trying buying a few items, researching the ads of successful completed auctions for similar items, and understand that the key to finding your products is in your searchable titles. I have over 150 feedbacks now which took me several years to get to. Ebay, like any business, requires you to put in 100% of your effort. Be the best seller you can be and the rest will fall into place. Your local library will have several titles with various tips and tricks... check them out.
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You're not going to like this, but no. NO! and NO again.\n\nI suggest looking at the help section more closely. eBay deals with a crapload of situations much like yours on a daily basis. Its actually the person bidding on your items' fault.\n\nYou don't need a person to credit your fvf, you can do it yourself at the help section.
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I'm assuming the auction has already ended and you can no longer simply retract your bid and move on.\n\nWhat was the shipping, and was it explicitly stated in the auction?  If the charges were stated and the seller then accurately charged only what was stipulated in the auction, then you're at the mercy of the seller to release you from the contract.\n\nIf the seller is asking for money in addition to all the costs stated in the auction, then he is breaking the rules and you need to inform eBay of the situation.  Sellers may not jack up the price after the fact because they were hoping for more money.  On the other hand, you can't just not pay because you didn't read the auction.\n\nIn all likelihood, though, if it was an extremely low price for the item and there's an outrageous shipping charge, what the seller is doing is avoiding paying eBay's final value fees so he can maximize his profit, and the shipping is actually what he's selling the item for.  Unfortunately, while this is a type of fee avoidance which eBay says isn't allowed, they refuse to do anything about it, even when it's an egregious abuse... so you're boned on that front.  Even more unfortunately, as most sellers who engage in that tactic are ultimately only interested in their own bottom line and are perfectly willing to screw eBay to put more money in their pockets, it generally means they're willing to do the same thing to you, too, so you're probably either going to have to pay, or take the unpaid item strike and the negative feedback which goes with it.\n\nSorry.
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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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Ask PayPal first, they'd be the first one's to know and the best help you'll get.
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There are fees based on the amount that you earn for selling, and there are also fees for paypal, and other features you choose. You can see the list of fees here: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/fees.html