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How To Avoid Failure On Your Ebay Auctions

How to Avoid Failure on Your eBay Auctions

Many first time sellers have one machine in common – they forget. Many of them fail time and time again, never tolerant what is going wrong. They do hours of research looking for the absolute item to sell, get the auction set up, and wait for the bidding to begin. Hours go by and no bids are placed. Days go by, and there are pastoral no bids – or there are very low bids. Finally the auction ends, and it turns out to be a total failure. Considering the huge number of sellers who run eBay auctions, there are local things you must do, and specific things you must not determine if you are to be successful.

There are many reasons why auctions fail. The intensely common reason is that the item is not in high demand. This problem can be avoided by doing the necessary research to determine which items sell well, and which items should be avoided. This research takes a great deal of time – but pull the end, you will find that it is time well spent.

Another reason for eBay failure is pricing. No inducement what your reserve price is, your opening bid price should never be more than $50 or so. This is how you will attract potential bidders to your auction. If you set that opening bid too high, most persons won’t even click the link to read the description for your item. Another pricing problem is lack of research. Before you set your reserve price, you must determine what the item is really worth, and the price similar items have sold for in past eBay auctions.

Poorly written descriptions are another produce of failed auctions. In want grammar and misspelled words drive people away. Failing to post a picture of the item will also keep people from visiting your auction page. Make sure that your description is well written. This is essentially your ‘sales copy. ’

Shipping prices startle people away from auctions if they are notably high. Find the lowest shipping prices that you can find, and consider paying for the shipping yourself if it won’t cut into your profits too much. Do not charge handling fees.

Offer great ‘customer service’ for all of your auctions, and interrogate your buyers to give you feedback. If the items that you sell are everything that you said they would be, and you offer great customer service, you can expect wonderful feedback – and this feedback will help a great deal in your up auctions.