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Good communication is the key to encouraging your auction buyers to leave you positive feedback. Such communication also helps avoid most negative feedback on eBay. 1. Good Communication Prevents Misunderstandings Good communication helps to avoid misunderstandings. For example, if surface shipping takes six to eight weeks but the customer doesn't know this, he may expect almost immediate delivery. When such quick delivery doesn't materialize, he may feel that he...

Every seller on eBay understands the importance of feedback and how crucial it is to protect it. Feedback allows you to know what type of person you are dealing with and is perhaps the most valuable asset you can have when dealing on the largest auction site in the world – eBay!

I've gotten quite a few emails recently from ebusiness owners who seem to think that just because their business is conducted online or from the comfort of home that the rules and regulations that govern brick and mortar businesses do not apply to them. The ebusiness questions I get most often do not involve building websites or conducting ecommerce. They are more what I call the "Do I Really Have To" line of questions, such as: "Do I really have to get a business li...

Acknowledging higher demand for digitally delivered products, Mara Holian, from eBay’s Product Marketing team said that eBay is tightening the rules for egoods in an effort to "improve the way these items are bought and sold on eBay".

If you sell on eBay, or if you have an online business, listen up. There are several tax issues in the news right now that could have a huge impact on the way you do business.

Every day millions of eBay users log onto their accounts to buy and sell and don’t have any idea about the history of the company. This is the account of how one man created the revolutionary auction website eBay, why he gave it the unusual name, it's also an interesting story about the early days of the Internet.

How to make a killing on eBay without ever holding any stock, touching a product, or making any deliveries.

One of the questions I hear most often from eBay sellers is how to value inventory for purposes of preparing their tax return, especially if it was purchased at a garage sale, or if you used the item before you sold it on eBay.

When selling on eBay, time is the one factor that is never on your side. Obviously the longer your item can stop on eBay, the higher visibility it receives & the more bids it is likely to get.

Most people can make one sale on ebay, but very few people know how to make consistent, repeat sales--and even less know how to make those sales using mechanisms other than ebay.

Like auctions? How about starting your own home based business using the internet and getting involved with multi-million dollar business of online auctions. It's easier then you think.

If eBay’s figures are to believed only 6% of eBay sellers use the About Me page facility. If anyone doubts the effectiveness of an About Me page it is worth noting that over 30% of Power Sellers have one. There are three ways that any seller can benefit from using this facility. First of all it is the only place on eBay where a seller can advertise theirs or anyone else’s web site. This can be a powerful way of directing traffic to your site, especially if your site is rel...

Are you looking to buy a ready-made work at home website of business on Ebay? I'm floored at how many work at home "websites" and "businesses" are listed daily. They all promise to make you a millionaire fast or that you can earn $5000 a month starting right now

The first step to picking your products involves identifying you niche. It has been proven again and again that Ebay sellers who focus on a niche market are much more successful both in sales from new traffic and sales from repeat customers. How do you find your niche and once you do how do you pick the right products?

Many eBay sellers start out as a hobby, or just to clean out their closets. Many times, this hobby can lead to a profitable business. A hobby is an activity that you do simply because you love doing it, but it may also earn you some income. That income must be reported on your tax return, even if it is just a hobby.

In the ongoing quest to find great deal on eBay or even to find items you can flip, one of the interesting approaches is by looking for misspelled items. One of the most common misspellings was “labtop” for “laptop”. This misspelling is so common that some people listing laptops actually use the word “labtop” in their title. Check it out. You know the topics you are interested in. Look at how the word can be misspelled. For instance, if needlepoint is your passion, try sea...

Of the countless ways to make money working at home,selling goods on eBay is one of the most popular. To get ahead of the competition, you need to ensure 100% positive feedback from your customers.

Did you ever think about becoming a Trading Assistant? Where you basically sell other people's products and receive a comission? Alot of companies know about eBay but don't have the time to learn. Or are just "old school" and don't care to learn. So why not offer your services to them? You already know eBay. And now this lines you up for unlimited products to sell. There are ways that you should and should not approach a retailer to become their trading assistant. First...

When my column on paying income tax on eBay profits ran it brought a wave of emails on whether you were required to report income earned from eBay sales to the IRS sparked a number of additional questions and comments from eBay sellers who were hoping that I could somehow validate that their eBay activities were mere hobbies instead of actual businesses and therefore not susceptible to IRS taxation. Several folks argued that just because their little eBay hobby generated a...

eBay has become a household name for shoppers. A lot the buyers on eBay are not regular internet shoppers but they still shop on eBay. Such is the power of eBay giving simplicity of shopping and top bargains. From time to time, there is some fraud on eBay about fake fashion items, event tickets that do not exist, some expensive electronic items that do not exist. eBay does its best to intervene and resolve such disputes. As a shopper, you can follow these 10 safety tips t...

Ask most people what Aida is and they will tell you it is an opera set in Egypt. Ask a marketing person and they will tell you that it is the sales formula that all advertising must incorporate if it is to succeed.The letters stand for: A Attention I Interest D Desire A Action It is a formula that can also help you write better ebay auction listings. It does not matter how well your description is written, how good your product is or what terrific value it r...

A way for stay at home moms to make extra money online, by selling stuff on ebay.

Have various items to sell? Rather than hold garage sales or flea markets, sell them on eBay. You'll be joining thousands of other like-minded people who seek to make money selling their wares on this popular web site.

Did you know that the most important thing that separates ebay neophytes from successful ebay sellers and ebay powersellers is how they construct titles and descriptions?

Everyone who has heard of selling on Ebay has heard of power selling.

Did you know that eBay will help you locate products you can buy cheap, then flip for a quick profit? No? Then listen up, because I am about to let you in on a little known feature of eBay that can literally stuff wads of cash in your wallet in less than 24 hours. This is an eBay tool that I use every day to locate products that I can buy and resell or buy cheap and keep for myself and my family. And the great news is you can use it, too. What is it? It's eBay's Saved...

Remember the student in school who complained (or even cried) because they only got a ninety-nine percent mark on an assignment or test. Meanwhile, some of us were relieved (if not ecstatic) to have merely passed. I actually witnessed one case where the math student insisted that he was not wrong. On rechecking the test, the teacher realized the answer sheet was wrong and not the student. The student got one hundred percent correct. Realistically, however, most of us le...

Is it possible to start a successful Ebay drop-shipping business for zero out of pocket? Yes, it is! The problem is that there are hundreds of supposed drop-shippers online and many so called "instant auction success kits" and all but two are useless. There are only two Ebay approved drop-shippers and joining either one is the first step to creating an Ebay work at home business drop-shipping business.

Ebay selling tips are plastered all over the internet. Huge promises are made, though seldom are they ever kept, and millions of dollars change hands trying to get the most out of the Ebay experience.

When it comes to making money on the Internet, far too many entrepreneurs take a very casual attitude. There are plenty of ways to make big money online -- Adam Ginsberg has sold more than $20 million through the eBay auction site alone.