id="mod_9097853">You've been watching and maybe buying on eBay for awhile, and you figured: I can do this also, I can be an eBay seller.
However, selling on eBay may have financial repercussions, and you don't want to make any greenhorn mistakes that might penalise you financially.
Methinks you've come to the right place!
I'll show you how to make your first sell ad on eBay, without paying (what eBay calls) insertion fees.
It may not be common knowledge, 메리트카지노쿠폰 but eBay allows you to create up-to a hundred auction-style listings for free (per month), if the starting or reserve price is between US$0.01 and US$0.
r />There would be some features you won't be able to use (e.g., displaying more than one photo on the main page of your listing) but for training purposes, and to get your feet wet, the listing you'll create will be more than adequ
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r />First thing we need is something to sell. It could be anything you have which you won't be too sorry if it sold for a Dollar (or le
r />I looked around my office, and decided to sell the March 2008 issue of Popular Photography magazine. It's almost new and though the price at the news-stand in the USA is 5 Dollars, I wouldn't mind getting less than a Dollar for
r />Log into your account on eBay, choose from the top menu sell/sell an item -
r />and press the Start Selling button.
r />This is the window you're presented with.
r />We'll start filling it presently, 007카지노쿠폰 but I want to draw your attention to the lower half of the Window: Sell with a t
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After you spend the time to create your entry, eBay gives you several ways to create similar entries in the future: using templates is one
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We'll start by fillscriptdescription of the item we want to s
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In this case, I entered: magazine photogra
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After pressing the search button, eBay gives us some choices for categories. We seem to be lucky, as the first choice - Magazines back issues - looks to be exactlscriptdescription for our item. So, we can tick it and move on by pressing C
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However, if eBay would not have been so good at guessinscriptdescription of our item, we could use the Browse categories or Recently used categories and choose the category that best describes o
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This is the form you are presented with.
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It may be adequate, but eBay offers another form with more entry choi
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I'll chose that form (always better to have more choice) by pressing on Switch to form with more
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Now choose from the pull down menus the relevant choices for our i
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We now come to the point where we need to decide what graphic/photo we want to represent our i
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Since my item is a magazine, the best representation would be its front cover.
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Using scanning software, I scan and save it to my hard drive (if you need a refresher on how to scan, d
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Note: if you are going to scan for inclusion in eBay selling ad, there's no need to go beyond 150 DPI. What you need is to crop your scan intelligently: nothing broadcasts un-professionalism more than a badly croppe
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Press Add pictures and in the pop-up window choose the Basic or Standard tab.
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Use the Browse button to locate the scan you saved on your har
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Finally, press Upl
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Depending on the size of the file you upload and your Internet connection, this may take
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Another alternative is to link to a photo on the Internet. You can choose the Self hosting tab and enter the URL (Web address) of a picture to link to on a Web
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While you are waiting for the file to upload to eBay, you can creatscriptdescription of the item.
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I find that it is easier to create the HTML code and images oscriptdescription in another HTML editor/processor, and then copy-and-paste it to the eB
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Choose whatever you want the potential buyer to know as well as any other data the buyer may need - to make an informed decision to buy yo
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Take the opportunity to press the Save draft and look at the Preview.
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In Starting price, put whatever price up to US$
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Leave Buy It Now pric
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Leave the Duration at 7 d
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Mark the PayPal box and enter your PayPal e-mail addr
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Enter shipping and handling for USA addresses (yes, eBay is quite Amri-centr
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Don't put a shipping price above the maximum that eBay in
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Fill in Handling time.<
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Enter International shipping costs. You can break down - geographically - the shipping costs, but eBay does not allow you to create costs for a list of countries of your c
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If you want to be on the safe side, you can Exclude shipping locations.
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Make sure the Item location is correct, as this is where the Local pickup above refers to.
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If applicable, fill or change the Buyer requirements, Sales tax, Return policy, and 우리카지노계열주소 Additional checkout
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Et voilà, as promised - your first eBay selling entry, and it costs you
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Note that after your item is sold, there will be fees you'd have to pay eBay, based on the
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Press C
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You are transferred to the Review your listing window: so, review your entry and make any changes that oc
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You do this using the Preview your listing or the Edit listing options at the botto
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There, you also have the option to Save this listing as a template and use it to sell
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After all is to your satisfaction, you can press the List your item at the bottom of
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or press the Save for later icon at the top
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If you pressed List your item, you'll see how your item looks to buyer
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Hi Ron!
I hadn't actually thought about this (and I've been selling on eBay since its earliest days). I almost never start items for under a buck... but will test that out! Strangely, though, in some auction categories, you can also start for under $10, and still have z
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I'm also a brand new hubber, and found your article when I published my first eBay piece yesterday. So our little eBay co
rowing!
cerely,
Dave Powell