EBay on the Cheap End
As a long time fan of EBay I deplore what they have done to the venue while still maintaining a toe hold with a store presence. This allows me to leave items parked there at a minimal cost. It allows me to continue my purge of personal items which are not necessary.
It will also be helpful when I get back to selling digital products even though they have changed the rules on doing it there. I will investigate that later in this series.
To get started on EBay, First things first:
When you start to sell on eBay you need some basics: an eBay account, an email account, and a Paypal account.
You probably bought some things on eBay so you may already have an account with some feedback. That helps since potential customers will be more likely to trust you if you have some positive feedback there. If you have no experience with EBay I recommend Turbolister which can be downloaded free here: http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/
There is a quick guide there and their FAQ's are here: http://pages.ebay.com/turbolister2/faq.html No point in starting to sell one way and then having to learn a different way when you want to increase your volume of items. Turbolister will also retain your listings so re-listing becomes super simple.
A separate email account is not required but it does keep things sorted out for you. Your ISP probably offers you multiple accounts or you can go to http://www.Yahoo.com or http://gmail.google.com/ to get a free email account. I prefer Google's Gmail but it does take some getting used to at first. It utilizes labels instead of folders which allows you to have one copy of an email that you can access from multiple searches.
Paypal is essential to sell on eBay. It's the only method I use for Payment and with a Premier account I can accept credit cards, checks or direct transfers from bank accounts. People who use eBay are used to using Paypal. Becoming Paypal Verified puts another level of trust out there for
your customers.
A digital camera is pretty necessary to get the photos you need without spending a fortune. You also need to get a photo editing program. EBay University recommended Irfanview which is a free download at: http://www.irfanview.com/
The other thing they recommended at eBay University is Notepad for lots of things, even creating listings because it adds no formatting or other characters. I store all kinds of things there, html cheat sheets, listings I am likely to modify and reuse, backgrounds in html format, lists of book titles, wording I may want to paste into a listing, etc.
To find Notepad: click start, all programs, accessories and notepad should be in the drop down. If you can't find it there you can search for it from the start button and then double click the result that shows as an application.
To work with Notepad, once you open it, just type in the small window. I like to check word wrap under the format drop down so it doesn't run off the page. I have a shortcut on my desktop and on my start menu too since I use it pretty much every day.
Notepad is very handy and doesn't close when you get one of those horrible "Microsoft has encountered an error and needs to close" messages that make me want to scream. Recently I started using Foxfire and that seems to have the same instability but when it reopens it tries to reopen all your tabs.
For more on how to get started on EBay see my other blog:
http://bluesandmore.blogspot.com/
It will also be helpful when I get back to selling digital products even though they have changed the rules on doing it there. I will investigate that later in this series.
To get started on EBay, First things first:
When you start to sell on eBay you need some basics: an eBay account, an email account, and a Paypal account.
You probably bought some things on eBay so you may already have an account with some feedback. That helps since potential customers will be more likely to trust you if you have some positive feedback there. If you have no experience with EBay I recommend Turbolister which can be downloaded free here: http://pages.ebay.com/turbo_lister/
There is a quick guide there and their FAQ's are here: http://pages.ebay.com/turbolister2/faq.html No point in starting to sell one way and then having to learn a different way when you want to increase your volume of items. Turbolister will also retain your listings so re-listing becomes super simple.
A separate email account is not required but it does keep things sorted out for you. Your ISP probably offers you multiple accounts or you can go to http://www.Yahoo.com or http://gmail.google.com/ to get a free email account. I prefer Google's Gmail but it does take some getting used to at first. It utilizes labels instead of folders which allows you to have one copy of an email that you can access from multiple searches.
Paypal is essential to sell on eBay. It's the only method I use for Payment and with a Premier account I can accept credit cards, checks or direct transfers from bank accounts. People who use eBay are used to using Paypal. Becoming Paypal Verified puts another level of trust out there for
your customers.
A digital camera is pretty necessary to get the photos you need without spending a fortune. You also need to get a photo editing program. EBay University recommended Irfanview which is a free download at: http://www.irfanview.com/
The other thing they recommended at eBay University is Notepad for lots of things, even creating listings because it adds no formatting or other characters. I store all kinds of things there, html cheat sheets, listings I am likely to modify and reuse, backgrounds in html format, lists of book titles, wording I may want to paste into a listing, etc.
To find Notepad: click start, all programs, accessories and notepad should be in the drop down. If you can't find it there you can search for it from the start button and then double click the result that shows as an application.
To work with Notepad, once you open it, just type in the small window. I like to check word wrap under the format drop down so it doesn't run off the page. I have a shortcut on my desktop and on my start menu too since I use it pretty much every day.
Notepad is very handy and doesn't close when you get one of those horrible "Microsoft has encountered an error and needs to close" messages that make me want to scream. Recently I started using Foxfire and that seems to have the same instability but when it reopens it tries to reopen all your tabs.
For more on how to get started on EBay see my other blog:
http://bluesandmore.blogspot.com/
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