eBay Listing How To

These listings are the bread and butter of eBay. This is traditional selling as most people know it when it comes to auctions. You know how it goes: a buyer bids, someone outbids them, they bid again, and the high bid gets the item. This is just traditional auction business right here.

Reserve auctions are for sellers that have a minimum selling price for their item. This is common with real live auctions. These work just like normal eBay auctions. The difference is that the bidding has to reach a minimum amount (reserve) or no one will actually win the item. Basically, the seller is setting the minimum price they will accept for the item even though they let the bidding begin at a level well below the minimum price they are willing to accept for their item. If no one bids above the reserve price then no one wins and you keep the item.

Personally, these are my favorite listings but are not always going to get you the best price for your item.

Buy it Now auctions can work in one of two ways.

You can assign a Buy it Now price to a normal auction. This let's buyers bid but if someone wants to bypass the bidding process and pay your fixed (Buy It Now) price, which is usually at a premium, then they can choose to end the bidding and pay the preset, fixed price for the item.

The other way to use this option is to just assign a fixed price as if your customer were shopping on any other website. The price is what it is and that is what the buyer will pay if they want to purchase that item from you. This lets you avoid all the complications of the auction format and simply list your items for however much you want to sell them for.

Recently, eBay added the 'best offer' option to their listings. This allows buyers to submit their best offer to you. Every time someone submits an offer, you get to review it and can either accept it (ending the auction instantly for that price) or you can reject the offer and the auction will go on as planned.

These listings allow you to sell more than one of any certain item and all in the same listing. Dutch auctions are auctions that buyers bid on. If you have five items, then those items will sell to the top five bidders when the listing ends. These auctions are rare but are still an option nonetheless. The other option here is to just set the fixed price for the items. You will sell the items one at a time until the listing ends or all of the available items are sold.