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Any selling advice would be helpful.

Here is what I suggest.

Find a few unwanted items around the house to start with. You can auction these off, to learn how eBay works.
Start off with a low asking price to encourage bids & run a full seven day auction.

Don't forget about it & check up on your auction while it's running to see how the bids are going & answer any questions.

Nice advice. You may want to purchase a few items first to be 100% certain how eBay works. Also, make sure you open a paypal account & get it verified - otherwise this will only cause delays later on.

The amount of times I've had to wait for a winning bidder to verify themselves with paypal before payment could be sent though is unbelivable. So, please get it sorted first.

This website might be useful to you if you're looking for some help starting out in the world of eBay:

www.silentsalesmachine.com
www.expressprofitsonline.com

Good luck!

Look around your house, make a list of thing you want to sell, research eBay to see how well those items are selling. Great way to start.

Another way to find merchandise to sell on ebay is by going to garage sales. I would also try looking on craigslist.com in the for sale section. People who sell on craigslist tend to sell items for a very low price so you can make a profit by selling it on ebay.

Hello,

I agree with K700. First you may start selling the goods around like old mobile phone. Run the auction successfully. In parallel think of buying low priced items like ebooks and complete transactions promptly. This will earn you good positive feedbacks which are very important to start selling.

In the second phase, think of some good hot selling product and research the market, its prices and suppliers...you may consider dropshippers.

Good Luck!!

Ebay is now the worst place to sell anything. Their traffic has dropped in half, and their fees have gone through the roof. Anyone that tells you that they make a fortune on ebay or that says they have never had a problem with ebay or Paypal, they are full of it. Ebay and Paypal are a monopoly. Just remember that. Also, good luck getting your cash out of Paypal. They will suspend your account for 180 days otherwise you have to gie them a rediculous amount of personal information. Go to Amazon.com. Much better, cheaper, and no stupid Paypal to deal with.

Check out Ebay and Paypal on BBB.
THOUSANDS OF COMPLAINTS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR!!!

Yes - the complaints filed against eBay and PayPal are indeed never ending But let's face it even if their traffic ratings have been cut to half, they are still the site visited by virtually everyone. I'm not anti- or pro- eBay but I accept the hard facts as they are. As terrible as the new eBay may seem people still go there whether to shop and really buy something or simply to browse through what's new - I'd still say its worth keeping a few listings up on eBay and continue selling elsewhere as well. With the great number of competition we need all the traffic we can get and eBay can give you that.

If you've got a few minutes, do visit our eBay tips section http://www.salehoo.com/education (not to mention our blog http://www.salehoo.com/blog), we have a handful of tips that may prove useful.

Cheers everyone! =D

Here is one of the most important things for new eBayers to remember:

Make sure you spell your item correctly in the listing! Many people lose money on eBay because of a simple typo. When the item is misspelled, potential buyers have a hard time finding the item. This reduces competition from bidders and results in a very low winning bid.

-Valentina

Here's another tip:
Write a strong listing! Make sure your listing title uses words that are search engine friendly. Also, if your item has a model number, then put that in the title. And make sure your description gives lots of details about the item. Convince the buyer that he or she is getting a great deal. Finally, make sure you don’t have any typos or bad grammar in your description. This will turn buyers off.

-Valentina

Great tips there, Valentina

But don't you know that many sellers are making lots of money using misspelled keywords too! Some sellers even misspell their keywords on purpose... There are several tools you can use to make the most out of misspelled words on eBay such as these below:

http://www.typobay.com/
http://www.missing-auctions.com/

And guys, you might find our ten commandments of online selling interesting and helpful:

http://www.salehoo.com/blog/the-10-comm ... ne-selling

All the best!

Here's a fun idea for all the newbies. Buy from Amazon Marketplace and sell on eBay. You can always find cheap, used textbooks on Amazon Marketplace. For some reason, people are willing to pay more for textbooks on eBay. Try this experiment. Cut and paste "0121822028" in the Amazon search box on the Amazon website. This is the product number for a popular college biology book. You'll see that the retail price for the book is $150-$200, but take a close look at the Amazon Marketplace prices. $20 to $30. Next, run an eBay search with the same product number. You'll see that this book(used) is going for $50 to $60. This is just an example. You'll obviously need to do some research to decide whether or not a particular book will make you money. Also, the prices I just listed are good as of today, June 24th, 2010. These prices will fluctuate, so you may find that the prices have changed for this particular book depending on when you read this post. But the principal remains the same. This strategy requires some research, but it has the potential to pay off!

-Valentina
I've got lots of great ideas for how to make money selling on eBay in my blog.

Nice one, Valentina

Yep! Your suggestion will entail a lot of research but if done correctly and diligently its a sure fire way to make some extra cash.

All the best!