eBay

Study the current listing fees for eBay UK and decide whether asking a penny more is really worthwhile based on likely final value of your product and optional cost of setting a reserve price. You’ll find them at: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/fees.html

Here’s a great idea. Turbo Lister is eBay’s free bulk listing programme, it can be used to store regular listings, keep records of one-off unrepeatable listings, and it is a great way to calculate fees much faster than by testing directly through eBay’s main site. Go to: http://pages.ebay.co.uk/turbo_lister/index.html to learn more about and download Turbo Lister.

Visit eBay’s selling forums which also feature heavily in supplier recommendations and warnings. You’ll find it all at: http://pages.ebay.com/community/boards/index.html

Recent articles

eBay Classified Ads – Are the Rules GONE? By Jim Cockrum Feb 15, 2009: I’ve been watching eBay classifieds closely during thepast few months (since about August ‘08) and I’m seeing something very interesting happening (actually not happening).

There is virtually ZERO enforcement of the ‘policies’ that are supposedly in place for classified ads on eBay. I put the word policies in quotes because the actual policies aren’t spelled out ANYWHERE on the eBay help menus.

To clarify – I’m NOT talking about the auction listings that make up 99.9% of all listings on eBay. I’m talking about the far lesser known (yet VERY POWERFUL) classified ads that show up in the regular searches, but no bidding takes place. They are simply a ‘lead generation’ tool.

Profit Strategy: Top ‘Pound Shop’ Profit Makers for 2009 Feb 8, 2009: You may recall our last monthly newsletter (November 2008) focused on Pound Shops which are a source of potentially high profit products to resell on eBay. A number of you wrote to say you had already started using Pound Shops and reported good buying and selling results in the run-up to Christmas.

Some of your ideas and experiences got me thinking about other ways to cash in big time on Pound Shop finds. Here are a few ideas from me and some from our readers (with permission)...

How to Import Products From China to Sell on eBay Jan 10, 2009: Are you tired of getting scammed by fake Chinesewholesalers? Do you need to find a reliableChinese wholesaler in order to give your eBay businessa boost? If so, this article will help you sort out thewrangle of good and bad information surrounding howto import successfully from China in expectation ofhigh resale profits on eBay.

Altered Art Revisited Dec 8, 2008: A feature in eBay Confidential a few months backled to a deluge of questions and requests for moreinformation about the subject concerned, namely ALTERED ART. In fact, this generated so much interest I thought you’d all like to see a genuine piece of altered art in the making.

It’s one of my own unique product ideas and it involves creating stunningly beautiful and hugely innovative pieces of jewellery that sell incredibly well, especially at Christmas.

The trick is to find antique paper items, such as postcards, prints, photographs, Victorian scraps and maps, which can be cut to shape and used as the illustration for charms, cufflinks, watch backings, and so on. The finished items look spectacular and all the essential jewellery components can be found very inexpensively on eBay or direct from a massive wholesale company called Burhouse Ltd. www.burhouse.com.

Using 3rd Party Programs to Aid your EBay Experience Dec 8, 2008: There is no doubt that eBay offers a great number of tools that make the selling experience easier for those who really want to do it properly. eBay shops, automated selling emails and many more items all help make the process more straightforward.

But if you only focus on what eBay can give you, you are missing out on a myriad of other websites that have even more to offer...