what will ebay do to shill bidding?
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If you do it? Suspend your account... indefinately...\n\n... you have to write to them and basically admit that you understand it is against the rules and ask them to activate your account again. I imagine if you did it a second time and they caught you, they would probably ban you.
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Go for E-bay auctioning.
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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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open a special auction ebay will show your auction with others
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I would suggest that if you can work out a way to live without the auction format you would do really well with the Classified sites that are growing out there right now. eBay certainly is focussing in on them with the launch of http://www.kijiji.com/\n\nMy favourite classifieds sites are http://www.gumtree.com/ and http://www.craigslist.com
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Try selling Information on http://www.g2bay.com  \nYou get $5 to register.  And the site doesn't ask any money from you.
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Mass mailings - no!  These will only end up in the SPAM or BULK mail of people and rather than promote could, if done incorrectly, generate bad publicity.\n\nBanner exchanges is a possibility...however, no flashing banners with gaudy colouring...small, well designed yes, could work.\n\nAdding a signature line to all emails you generate is unobtrusive and sometimes an effective way of generating traffic.  \n\nPossibly creating a Refer service would work...visitors to your site, when they sign up are asked to refer people they believe would be interested in your site offerings.  For, say, 5 referrals that prove productive they would receive a Free listing on your site for one auction.  \n\nCreate a "contest" and list it with some of the Contest sites...offering a free auction listing for one item, for instance and include the value of the "prize" in the contest information.\n\nMost sites that are seeking the generation of traffic have to come up with creative ways of doing it.  Creating hype with no rewards doesn't work any longer...\n\nRegister with Adsense and have your ad become part of the system to be added to  like sites.  These generate reasonable results because they are not imposing on the visitor and they are geared towards what the visitor is interested to begin with.  It's possible that your adsense ad could be posted on sites such as Amazon.com, Google, Ebay etc.  Any site that has related auction information...including when people search for auctions.\n\nCreate a newsletter or message board...add things of interest to not only your current clientele but incentives that will have them spreading the word for you.\n\nA site such as BzzAgent.com might be of benefit as well...word of mouth agents that talk to people about services and products they have tried.  \n\nDo up a very good ebook or pdf that relates to the Auction world in general...How to write a Winning auction, how to take effective pictures, best way to display your product/item etc etc.  By making this a really great item that is available for free and includes screen captures of your site as examples that when clicked, would lead the reader directly to that page on your site (this could entice the reader to then explore the site on their own) in each article...also including links to your site as well as perhaps incentives to join your site and use your auction service...can generate more traffic as well.\n\nGrabbing a book on how to run an auction site will garner more ideas about how to market it.  Searching on how to market an auction site will also get you more great info.  You want to stay away from any marketing scheme that irritates people however.  Bulk anything, annoying banners, overly large signature lines or blatant "advertising" of your site on other sites such as message boards sales pitch and nothing else that is remotely related to the site you are visiting, will result in bad press.\n\nGoes without saying...ensure that the major search engines are aware of your site.  Typing in "auctions" garnered no mention of your site up to page 5...ideally page 3 is the furthest you want to be, page one  within the top 10 is optimum.  "auction sites" was the same result, no mention as of page 5. \n\nEnsure the site is setup (in the html code) to optimally invite the crawlers and robots but to avoid the pages you do not want it to crawl.  The index is the main area therefore you want to direct the robots to this.  There is specific code that instructs robots to crawl only the index.  Ensure that the content is always fresh, this continues to  invite the robots to your site and boosts your standings.  The more visits made to the site, the higher the rank climbs to.  In the Meta Tags ensure that KEY words are included.  Don't place a truck load of keywords as the crawlers stop normally at about the first 10.  Make these 10 words count by putting the MAIN aspects of your site here.  If you hav
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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\nHow to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay\n http://www.powerhomebiz.com/102005/ebay.htm\n\nFor managing ebay listings, I use Timbercreek's Sold! http://www.timbercreeksoftware.com/... - it can create invoices, schedule your listings, manage multiple auctions, manage customers, track payments receive, etc.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm\n\nBuying 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\nOne success model of ebay is the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay. Their business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on ebay at a starting price of 1 cent http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886080.htm Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on ebay -- for $5 million! Now that is success.
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Yes, you are obligated to sell the item even if the bid is only $10.  The best way to protect yourself is to put a "reserve" price on the item.  That is, the least you will accept for the item.  If your reserve price isn't met, you are not obligated to sell the item.\nGood luck
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ebay and electronic web sites
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it's gonna be rough. you'll either have to choose between volume or quality. you can sell all the cheap aftermarket stuff for electronics and such or you can be an "elite" seller who sells stuff that people actually want like art, antiques, name brand electronics etc.  either way, what i've seen on ebay is that people will buy just about anything, crap or not on ebay.
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well, actually, you're looking at it wrong.\n\nlet's say that you put up an item for bid.  your asking first bid is 1 dollar.  now, i open that auction and i want it.  let's say that i bid $100.00\n\nit will say that the highest bid is $1.00 - in my favor.\n\nnow, let's say that no one bids at all, and the auction ends.  as far as you know, my highest bid was $1.00 - it doesn't show what my actual bid was.\n\nlet's backtrack.  let's say that one other person bid on that auction.  they bid $20, about an hour after i bid.  (i then went to the store to buy groceries).  ebay will automatically raise my bid to $21 - in my favor.  the bidding history will show my bid at 1.00, the second person's bid at 20, and then it will show another bid from me for 21.  the 21 dollar bid will have the same time as my original bid (that's important too)\n\nso it sits at 21 dollars for a few days.. and it's ending in 2 minutes!  now, two people go crazy bidding.  34!  56!  71! 83! times up!  i will have the highest bid, at 84 dollars.  i only bid once - at the beginning.\n\nbidding that early doesn't bring up the price.  what brings up the price is when another person bids high as well.\n\nwhat i don't understand is when items are moderately desired, and there is a listing price of... say 7.99, with a buy-it-now of 9.99.  again, this item is regularly wanted, and usually sells for 10.99.  why do some of these guys put in a bid at 7.99 when they can BiN for a dollar cheaper than the normal outcome price?
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eBay might list something from time to time.  Set up a favorites search so you'll be notified when one comes up.
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You could auction in on eBay.  Set a reserve amount (the least you are willing to accept as a bid).  If no one bids that much, you don't sell it.  Then you could offer it direct to see if you can do better.  Millions of people shop on eBay, though, so I would try there first.
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Ebay sucks I just quit useing them cause I wouldn't sell an item cheaper then what I wanted for it some guy keept getting all my auctions pulled....Saying I was violateing Ebay policy ....I lost over $3,000 cause of it....And I have had many friends have the same problem too.....And ebay does charge you to sell....And they will charge you weither your item sells or not or gets violated you still have to pay ....I know I am going through it now.....Try Yahoo auctions.....I have heard they are pretty decent
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The first rule in eBay: 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\nFor managing ebay listings, I use Timbercreek's Sold! http://www.timbercreeksoftware.com/... - it can create invoices, schedule your listings, manage multiple auctions, manage customers, track payments receive, etc.\n\nI suggest you read the articles on Success with Auctions http://www.powerhomebiz.com/internet/auctions.htm\n\nBuying 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\nOne success model of ebay is the couple Jay and Marie Senese (username jayandmarie) of the 1-cent CD fame. They have the highest positive feedback number of all sellers on eBay. Their business model is to buy very low cost CDs in bulk (those that CD stores sell in their discount bins) and offer them on ebay at a starting price of 1 cent http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_23/b3886080.htm Their success is based on the fact that they stumbled on a sustainable business model with products that people really want. They sold their business -- where else but on ebay -- for $5 million! Now that is success.
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Post it in the eBay to test market value