Info and Tips to Help you Sell More on Ebay!
eBay is a huge marketplace with millions of visitors coming to the site to buy and sell every day. With all of this traffic, it's easy to have your auctions disappear into a sea of other auctions. It's also easy to miss a great deal with so many items to choose from!
Learn how to sell better, buy better, make more money, and save more money here on the Ebay auction site.
eBay Inventory: Where to Find It
What's here: Ever wondered how those Powersellers get all their merchandise? There are plenty of different places, we'll tell you all about it.-
Where to Find Inventory for eBay
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Finding a source for your inventory on eBay is the toughtest part of selling, hands-down. Customer service, shipping, creating a listing, even HTML are all CAKE next to the difficult task of sourcing. Naturally, other eBay sellers are not willing to...
"I don't know where to find stuff to sell!"
The answer might be lying right in front of you! eBay sellers find inventory from every corner of the earth, in person and online. Start selling more by finding out where you can get eBay inventory.
Conducting the Perfect Auction
What's here: Auctions are the reason eBay is so fun, addictive, and popular. Learn how, when, where and how you can make your listings excellent and make the most money possible.-
Make More Money With Your Ebay Auctions
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It's easy to learn how to make money online with eBay! Whether you're a big time eBay store seller or only an occasional seller, the same tips still apply to see a great final bid price on your eBay auctions. EBay is a huge marketplace, where the be...
A Quick Fact from the "How to Write an eBay Auction" Lens
It matters what time you start your eBay auctions. No one will see your items if you have them ending at 3:30 AM on a friday night. Schedule them to start during peak ebay times. See when those peak eBay times are here.

Check out our lens on writing an eBay auction for lots of useful tips!
Setting up your eBay Store
What's here: Setting up your eBay store can be exciting and fun, but there are some things that you should take care of when you set up shop.-
How to Open an Ebay Store
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Setting up an eBay Store is very easy, and can be profitable for you in a short amount of time. Ebay makes it easy for you to start an online business, complete with your own storefront, checkout system, and built in promotion that will start making...
Don't get Caught with a Fake!
What's here: Unfortunately, eBay is home to some unscrupulous sellers that might try to pass off a counterfeit item as the real deal. Learn how to spot fakes here.-
How to Tell if your Designer Handbag is Authentic
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We all know eBay is a great place to find a deal on items from hardware to cars, computers to artwork, ipods to cellphones, and clothing to handbags. But how do you know the handbag you're bidding on is the real deal? eBay is constantly working to r...
Ebay Books to Help you Sell
Google Base
What's here: Google Base is a huge tool for eBay sellers. You can increase your traffic immensely and open up new opportunites just by putting your items on Google Base. Learn how here.-
How to Use Google Base
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So you'd like to kick your sales up a notch but don't know how? After you've already optimized your eBay listings by completing the checklist below, you're ready to move on to download the Google Store Connector. If you don't have an eBay Store, Yah...
Your "About ME" Page
What's here: What's your About ME page telling buyers? Learn what you can do to make your page more professional here.-
Create an About Us Page for your Business
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An "about," "about us," "about me," "company information," or "about the company" page can be a valuable asset to a website, and is one of the most important web pages of your site. Often times an about us page will be one of the first results when s...
Marketing your eBay Store with Squidoo
What's here: Not using Squidoo to promote your eBay store? It's free, it generates traffic, and it generates sales. There's no reason not to use Squidoo!-
Marketing Your Ebay Store with Squidoo
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First off, what is Squidoo? Squidoo is a website that allows you to make free, customized pages on any topic, like your Ebay store. If you can make a keyword optimized Squidoo lens linking to your Ebay store, you can increase your sales and traffic....
eBay: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks
eBay: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks (Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks)
Amazon Price: $13.59 (as of 12/20/2009)![]()
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Not for the brand new seller, this book will show you how to make your eBay selling more productive. Above all, this book will teach you how to do one thing: save time.
Time is precious, especially on eBay, where auction last 7 days and listing can become tedious if you don't find shortcuts. Find those time-saving techniques in this book.
Scoring the Best Possible Deal on eBay
What's here: eBay was created for a few things: to find rare items for collectors, to offer items that may otherwise not be available, and to provide the best possible deal! Learn how to get the best deals on eBay here.-
How to Find Bargains and Deals on eBay Items
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The time has never been better to find a great deal on eBay. Whatever you're looking to purchase, eBay will most likely be the cheapest of all places to purchase an item. How is this possible? Serious eBay sellers number in the millions, and each hav...
Scoring the best deal...
Sellers are human, they make mistakes! Those mistakes might save you some cash, but don't feel bad. If it weren't for you, they'd be making less money! Bid on items that are listed in the wrong category to save some cash.
Using PayPal
What's here: PayPal makes your life easier, especially for buyers. If a seller doesn't take PayPal, think twice! Learn why here.-
How to Set Up a PayPal Account
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PayPal is a checkout feature that allows you to pay for items you have won on eBay or elsewhere online using your own bank account, credit card, or debit card. PayPal conceals the numbers of your accounts so the merchants or other users cannot access...
eBay Seller Secrets
What's here: The secrets! We'll let you in on some of the best ways to get traffic to your site, and some underutilized eBay features.-
eBay Tips and Secrets: Sell More!
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Buyers that visit eBay want a deal. They also want to be able to trust the seller they are dealing with. But first, they need to find you! There are many tactics that will help eBay users find your eBay store. Many eBay users arrive through search en...
An eBay Sellers Poll
Not using Squidoo to promote your eBay Store or items?
It's free, will give your items more exposure, and it's to sign up through this link.
Lacking Traffic to your eBay Store?
You might just need a little SEO!
Are you an expert about something that you sell?
Maybe you should write an eBay guide about it! The benefit is that you can link to your eBay store in the guide, as well as link to your other guides. You can link to any eBay page! They're highly indexed by Google and see huge amounts of traffic.
Pack it up, don't break it!
What's here: Learn how to package fragile items for shipment on eBay. It's easy! You just need to know a few basic things.-
How to Package and Ship Fragile Items
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It's your customers first physical experience with your product and it is detrimental to your business reputation. Leave a lasting impression by using these invaluable packaging tips! Not to mention, you'll be saving yourself some serious headaches!...
Forum Signatures
What's here: Learn the simple code that you must use to create a signature for Discussion Boards on eBay.-
How to Create a Forum Signature for Discussion Boards
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Ever wondered how all of those people have the picture underneath every post they make in a forum? It's easy! First of all, you have to choose a signature that works for you. More eBay Seller Help Lenses:
100 Easy Tips to Make More Money on eBay
Increase your eBay sales and traffic
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48 Easy Tips to Make More Money on Ebay
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eBay is one of the largest worldwide marketplaces available online today, with over 200 millions registered users. Millions of people use eBay as a source of secondary income, or as a full-time income opportunity. In the world of online auctions, you...
eBay Behavior
Finding Trustworthy Sellers
What's here: Find out how to read an eBay seller's feedback score quickly before you buy. This is important!-
How to Avoid Getting Scammed on eBay
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Finding a reputable seller, at first, can seem tedious. The quickest, easiest and most effective way to for buyers to find a trustworthy eBay seller is, quite simply, to read their feedback! It's tried and true. There is an easy-to-learn science to a...
eBay HTML
What's here: Not that familiar with HTML? You can copy and paste these codes into your listings and spruce it up a bit!-
eBay HTML
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HTML...it's an intimidating acronym. It stands for hyper text markup language, and you don't exactly need to know how to write HTML code to use it. There are simple things you can do to make your eBay listings cost less, look more professional, gener...
Hey Monkeybrain! eBay vs Amazon
What's here: The two biggest places to buy and sell on the internet battle it out. Which is the better place to sell? Which is better to purchase from? Weigh in with your thoughts!-
eBay vs. Amazon
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eBay vs. Amazon Both companies are huge. Both companies have their specialties and finer points. While eBay might be a great place to pick up a deal, Amazon might be just the right place to get a no-hassle item quick. Don't forget about the sellers!...
eBay Anacronyms
What's here: eBay lingo...why do they use it? Here are some common terms you might see while searching around that sellers have abbreviated.-
eBay Anocronyms and Abbreviations Guide
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What are all those letters in the title of this item? What's NWT? NIB? Huh? Well, there are only so many letters eBay lets you use in the title of each listings, so things have been abbreviated to save room for more important search words. Whether yo...
Recommended eBay Links
- eBay University Learning Center
- Easy viewable tutorials that will teach you how to sell. Perfect for the novice!
- Squidbids
- Promote your eBay store with Squidbids! This is an excellent opportunity to receive more exposure for your products.
- Photobucket
- Free photo storage. Make them any size you please, and generate easy to use tags that you can copy and paste into your listings so you won't be spending a fortune on photos.
- Camera Jim's Guide to eBay Photography
- An excellent resource to get you started in photographing your items correctly.
- Auctiva
- A free scrolling window appended to your listings? Why wouldn't you use this? Especially when it keeps the window even on your completed items, bringing traffic to your current items! AND they have free auction templates.
- Google Base
- Upload your products using the Google Base Store Connector and increase your exposure.
- eBay Discussion Boards
- Come to the forum, learn, gripe, make friends, share tips, share conversation...it's one of the most active forums on the net!
- Turbo Lister
- Have loads of products to sell? It might be worth it to use the Turbo Lister to make things quicker, especially bulk changes.
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Free Ebay Seller Tutorials
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Making money on Ebay isn't hard, without the right training. As long as you're dedicated, it can be accomplished! These free Ebay seller tutorials will get you started in the right direction so you can start making an income off the Ebay auct...
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