http://www.article-tips.com/ Auctions tips, advice and Auctions articles Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 en 2007 Article-Tips.com http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/why-you-should-always/3803 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 When you put a item up on sale on eBay dont forget to include some product images in your listing. By not doing so you will lose a lot of bids. Even if you write a detailed description of your item product images are still essential. Despite your past history as eBay seller and even if you have a very positive feedback score people are always somewhat reluctant to buy online due to the lack of a personal contact with the seller. And I couldnt honestly say that this attitude is injustified because unfortunately eBay frauds do exist Images will help you demonstrate that you arent hiding anything with regards to the quality of the product you sell. Depending by the nature of the item you sell several pictures from different angles can be the optimal choice. eBay sellers often offer slightly defective items at a greatly discounted price. If this happens to you and even if you have well documented the item conditions in your listing try to include a detailed picture of the flaw. You will show to a potential buyer that you are completely honest about the nature of the item you sell. Selling tutorials available on eBay site will give you some tips on the best way to take picture of your eBay items with a digital camera or a scanner. They are very basic advices but still useful if you are completely inexperienced with digital photography. - Optimize your images Images have also some drawbacks. You should always try to find a good compromise between details and image size as biggest images can considerably slow down your eBay listing page and make you lose some bids. Buyers are impatient and not everyone has a fast Internet connection. Usually digital cameras or scanners are sold with a photo retouching software that allows you to convert images in a file format suitable for the Web JPEG and reduce the file size by reducing image dimensions or the number of colors. - No broken images please Nothing will drive potential buyers away from your eBay listing page more quickly than a broken image. When you create your listing you are allowed to load images from your hard disk and store it on eBay server. This is the safest choice because your images will be surely available when people visit your listing. But you can also include externally hosted images by using the HTML img tag in your listing. If you choose to do so be sure to host your image files with a reliable service. If the host where your images reside becomes inaccessible for any reason eBay users visiting your listing will see a broken image. If you run your own website you can save the images in a directory on your hosting account. Be aware that some web hosting services dont allow remote linking of images i.e. using your host web space as a storage area for images you use on other sites in this case eBay. This is usually true for free hosting services so if you have a paid hosting account you should not have problems. Alternatively you can utilize one of the many image hosting services. You can find many of these services with a simple search on Google. Usually every site offers clear instructions that will make the entire procedure really simple even for the most inexperienced users. Whatever is the service you use to store images for your eBay auctions always preview the listing page to be sure that images are displayed correctly. An image is worth a thousand words. This is true also when you sell on eBay. Make good use of images in your auction listings and you will always receive more bids. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/why-buy-diamond-watches/3490 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Article is about why should one buy diamond watches and diamond jewelry from online watch auction and jewelry auction http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/sell-the-dental-drills/1998 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Do you have Dental Drills Handpieces you are no longer using Whether they come from Your Retirement Closing your Practice or From Replacing the Drills you could be sitting on a lot of Money. Maybe you even have a drawer full and you cannot remember why you donamp039t use them any more. Itamp039s time to sell them http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/how-to-waste-time/1997 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 In conclusion auction web sites can be a useful distraction for a few hours whether they will retain their dominance in the over buying and selling needs of web surfers only time will tell... http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/ebay-selling-strategy-#3/1996 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Number three in a series of articles on eBay selling. This article focuses on items to avoid when selling one eBay. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/ebay-shops-enough-niches/1995 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 You have probably read plenty about niche marketing on the internet - but what does it really mean This article takes a look at niche marketing in its context as an eBay shop based business. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/selling-on-ebay-its/1994 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Do you sell on eBay If so have you ever wondered why some sellers seem to convert their auctions into sales more than others Hereamp039s one reason why- http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/get-rich-quicka-new/1993 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Set your goal to make a lot of money in 2007. An insightful look at some of the pitfalls to making fast money on the internet http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/discover-how-you-can/1992 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 To be successful in eBay you will need to outsell other sellers in your category. There are eight proven techniques where successful eBay sellers employed them. These technique are not difficult to implement if you wish to. This article discusses these techniques. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/the-ebay-hustle-buying/1991 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 How to spend less time in grungy garage sales less money on overpriced wholesalers and still find good stuff to sell on Ebay. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/how-to-make-money/1990 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Do you want to learn how to make money selling on ebay Thousands and thousands of average people just like you have made a full time income just by selling on ebay. From its humble beginning in a garage in 1994 ebay has become the largest flea market on the internet with millions of dollars of transactions taking place every day. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/find-auctions-of-cars/1989 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 There is a way to get cars at below wholesale cost. One of those ways is to bid on them at auctions. To find auctions of cars that you are interested in you need to do a little research. You also need to know about the prevailing laws especially the ones regarding purchasing cars out-of-state. Although you donamp039t need to know everything it is important that you know a great deal about the car auctions that you decide to use before you jump into a car buying frenzy. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/sellers-with-higher-ebay/1988 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 According to economics researchers at the Universities of Bonn and Aachen an eBay selleramp039s feedback level positively correlates to higher final sales prices. Professors Oliver Gunter and Christian Grund concluded that a one percentage point increase in eBay feedback translates into an average final bid price increase of four percent. Therefore it pays to build your feedback as rapidly as possible. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/earn-fast-cash-on/1987 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Want to learn how to take your hobby or passion to the next level and make almost instant money on it We learned how to do this on E-Bay over the past 8 years and have thousands of positive feedbacks to show we can help you learn how to use E-bay to make money. The more you learn about how to sell.. the more money you will have for dabbling further into your hobby or using on other projects you have in mind. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/is-winning-an-online/1986 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Successful bidders for online auctions are often referred to as ampquotwinnersampquot as if the process was some form of race to be first past the post - but was the effort really necessary or worthwhile to take part http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/government-seized-properties-countless/1985 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 You can choose from stamps furniture real estate and other unusual items from police and government auctions. These items and properties are considered seized or surplus having been bought using money associated with the crime committed. And if youamp039re quite lucky you may be able to find new amongst old ones. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/handbag-wholesale-where-to/1984 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 This article is about places where traders are trading from how they go about finding a good wholesaler what they need to look for in the market what to avoid. Different ways of gathering their information. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/how-to-build-a/1983 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 This article portrays those several reasons due to which dropshippers may not succeed online. Such as improper selling techniques and lack of online marketing tools poor client retention and bad product image. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/dropship-on-ebay-who/1982 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 All the so called ampquotinternet guruamp039sampquot sell stuff on eBay- at least that is what Iamp039ve learned so far in my search for internet riches. Iamp039m not an ampquotinternet guruampquot or expert but I can still tell you how to make money on eBay. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/how-to-buy-and/1981 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Launched on April 24 2004 eBay Motors has succeeded beyond anyoneamp039s wildest expectation. The prediction that consumers were generally hesitant to purchase used autos online was completely wrong. By August 2006 eBay Motors sold its two-millionth car. Your car just might be next. This article introduces the reader to buying and selling on eBay motors. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/6-secrets-to-online/1980 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 There are literally hundreds of online auction sites across the internet all seeking to capitalize on the auction buying and selling action. Almost monthly there is newspaper or television coverage of someone selling something outrageous. You can sell almost anything online. If you are smart and persevere you can get good results. If you just ampquotput something upampquot you can loose your shirt at auction. The following are some tips to help you get the most from your auction at any auction site. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/using-ebay-to-get/1979 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 EBay is a fantastic tool for buying and selling of virtually anything. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/what-is-shill-bidding/1978 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Some people might even buy items which they see others bidding on because it looks appealing or because they feel as if they will miss out on a good buy. However there are some sellers on Ebay that might have you believe they have an auction of an item with importance or more value than other buyers really place on it. http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/how-do-swap-sites/1977 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Online auctions have grown immensely in just a few years to a point where most web surfers use at least one to regularly buyer or sell just about anything. BUT a new breed of trading site which swaps goods are growing in popularity how does each stack up http://www.article-tips.com/auctions/build-a-niche-store/1976 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:40:24 -0500 Build a Niche Store is a new software that brings eBay auctions onto your own pages and allows you to profit in the process. Hereamp039s a review of the software and what it can and canamp039t do for you