How to start selling on eBay

Why sell on eBay as opposed to selling on a website??

There are numerous answers to this question. These are the main ones listed below..

1) eBay is a ready made market place with a reported 250 Million+ users.
2) eBay is a community with discussion groups and review platforms.
3) Use eBay to test your products you have a captured audience.
4) An easy platform to list your products. No need to know fancy HTML listings are easily manipulated
5) eBay is an easy way to sell a large variety of goods until you refine your Niche.
6) Use eBay to refine you customer relations skills and postage fees.
7) Your "About Me" page can be used to drive traffic to you website.
8) And most importantly it is the smartest and easiest way to have an online presence.

Every household has over $2,000 worth of items in their home to sell that they are no longer using.

When you start to look for items to sell, go through every room and find things you no longer want or need.
You will be amazed at how many items you will find that you no longer need or use.
Tips:
1) If you are struggling and don't like parting with your items. Then go to friends and family, ask them for 3-5 of their unwanted items, to help you start your eBay business.
2) Still finding it hard? Go to garage sales or thrift shops. Buy items that are not to large and popular eg. CD's DVD's and books. Also brand name clothing is a great seller. Remember not to pay to much!!
3) Still struggling? Go to large department stores such as Target, etc.
Get their super, super specials and sell those, people in remote areas will snap them up.
The main thing to do is research your items.

To sell on eBay is a very simple process just follow the tutorials step by step.
Then you will be well on your way to making money online. The first listing is the hardest and once you have done that it gets easier.
Now there are several different listings you can use.
Note: For beginners Stores are not available and neither is selling worldwide. You must have 6 DSR's to open a store and to sell internationally.
DSR's(Detail Seller Response) are the star ratings that customers leave you. This you will find in your feedback section.
You can list your items for 3,5,7 or 10 days.
Or 30 days buy it now
Or good till cancelled.
To start with you will mainly list in the 7 or 10 day Auction format. Until you have your feedback up to 10 from customers.
When listing your items I strongly recommend that you list at a good time for your local area. A good time is generally on a week day in the evening.
I do not recommend your Auction finishing on a Saturday night. You would be leaving too much money behind.
Different items are best started at different times. Again this is where your research is very important.

Some Seller's make a lot of mistakes unbeknown to themselves. We can learn from these sellers, so that we can become better sellers.
Here is a list of what not to do:
1) Not enough information, sketchy descriptions
2) Threatening notes in listings pay or else you will get reported.
3) Bad photo's - very unclear and blurry.
4) Unnecessary colour and flashing add-ons in background.
5) Wrong listing titles and not utilizing all 54 characters
6) No shipping details
7) Not understanding eBays policies

Don't sell anything Fake unless you state similar to and don't use Brand names in Title if they are Fake.
Not doing the right thing can get your eBay account suspended.
As we are building a business we want to do the right thing.

Take a look around at what the successful sellers are doing and base you listing on what they are doing.
P.S. Do not copy the exactly but create your own theme in a similar fashion. You are only looking for ideas better to brand yourself early with your own style.

If you do not want to continue to sell pre loved goods then you need to source Brand New products.
At this point there are only three words that need to be spoken.
RESEARCH!! RESARCH!! RESEARCH!!
This research can be on and off eBay. Look at what consumers are buying and why. Walk through shopping Malls and see what young mum's are buying for their children. See what is popular with Teenagers. Ask your friends what their last purchase was and why.
You will suddenly look at all shoppers in a different way. If you see 6 people in a shopping mall all buying the same item, then you can be sure there is a pattern occurring here.
If you don't get to the shopping mall much there are places online were you can do the same research.
Here we are looking for a Niche as opposed to a trend; trends can die out to quickly leaving you stuck with the product.