Selling & Making Money Successfully on ebay is Work! By Dr. Michael Stachiw January 2009.

Selling & Making MoneySuccessfully on ebay

is Work!

By

Dr. Michael Stachiw

January 2009

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• Starting to sell on ebay is relatively easy

• But like most business ventures, the easy part is getting started, it’s the day-to-day details that can (and will) cause failure

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As the old saying goes, “The Devil is in the details”!

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Let’s start by defining a few items:• ebay is a large on-line auction/mall of

items that are for sale. On a yearly basis, the sales on ebay are greater than Kmart, Sears and Macy’s combined.

• You can be either/both a seller or buyer on ebay

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• Usually a person sells items on ebay in using one of three methods:– Auction. Maximum of 10 days– Buy it now ( ), maximum of 30 days*– Buy it now or best offer ( ), maximum of 30

days*

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* Can be set to automatically relist “till cancelled”

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• Each of these three methods has advantages, as well as disadvantages.

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• Auction: + Can gain highest $ on sale - Shortest sales interval (10 days) - Most expensive posting fee (% of

initial requested bid) Items need to be auction “friendly”

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• Buy It Now: + Like selling in a regular storefront + Longer sales duration (30 days) + No haggling on sales price + Great when

you have multiple items

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• Buy It Now: + Lowest sales/posting fees ($0.35

to post + % of sales price) - If buyers don’t like price, harder to

sell

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• Buy It Now, with best offer: + Like selling in a flea market + Longer sales duration (30 days) + Supports haggling on sales price + Great when you have multiple

items + Lowest sales fees ($0.35 to post +

% of sales price)

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• Buy It Now, with best offer: (Cont’d) + If buyers don’t like price, they can

make an offer easily & you can accept easily

+ Most likely to sell - Can easily lead to less $ per sold

item

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• Last, but not least, what payment methods are we willing to accept & delivery method?

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• Payment methods:

– Check

– Money Order

– PayPal (required as an option)

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• Delivery Methods & Pricing– UPS/USPS

– Local pickup

– Handling Charge

– Shipping fixed or based on weight

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Ok. So let’ s look at actually selling something. Steps involved are:

1. Create PayPal account if you do not have one

2. Create eBay account if you do not have one

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3.Take photos

4.Write-up technical description of what we are selling.

5.Decide on selling price. (Research selling price or do we already know our price?)

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6. Decide on shipping & handling issues

7. Start posting, by selecting a category

8. Then complete all posting questions

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9. Select photo(s)

10. Enter item description. Be descriptive

11. Select payment and shipping options

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Let’s take a look at actually going through the process

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Now what?

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Much like a physical store, you will have daily tasks to perform.

Like . . .

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• Answer questions

• Haggle over price

• Collect money

• Prepare items for shipping

• Ship items

• Answer even more questions

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• Give refunds

• Rate customers

• Answer redundant questions

• Do bookkeeping

• Do banking

• Answer endless questions

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