“to Sell Or Not To Sell,” Should Not Be The Dilemma For Ebay Sellers

By Author: Lucy Newman
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I’m well aware of the fact that most of the readers of this article are either established eBay sellers or novices looking for useful tips to improve their sales on eBay. Let me make it clear from the beginning that your familiarity with eBay doesn’t approve that you have mastered the art of selling eBay. There is always more scope for learning and harnessing your selling skills on eBay, because World Wide Web facilitates evolution, continuously. Before discussing eBay selling skills, let’s revisit the recent status of eBay as a selling platform.
The New eBay vs. The Old eBay – a Major Transition
Just two years ago, CEO of eBay Inc. John Donahoe informed Wall Street analysts about massive changes to upgrade the eBay platform. Now the so-called New eBay has come out with loads of fundamental changes to improve both selling and buying experiences of users. Changes the New eBay offers as:
Changes that eBay Reflects:
• More relevant search result per every product search
• The website is much faster than ever before
• New Design format for web stores
• New Analytics Tool ...
... for Better Understanding of Traffic
Secured and Versatile PayPal
• PayPal is getting into mobile and micropayments.
More Localised, More Portable and More Social
• With growing numbers of mobile users and profiles on social community websites have offered new opportunities to expand business. eBay well understands this and aptly taken a step ahead to mark its presence. This has really made the New eBay more popular and more profit making platform for sellers. Sellers now can easily pursue their business on these platforms without much worrying about extra service cost or any extra investment in any third party solutions.
With this ever growing eBay as a selling platform, how well you prepared for facing all screamed and demanding buyers from all over the globe. Mind it; your complacency can make your valued investment into buying peanuts. Thus here I can argue that there is still time left to learn new tips and tricks on eBay selling. Here follows the list of some major tips that are considered as building blocks of successful eBay selling.
Managed Storage
Storage is one of the most critical aspects of eBay business. If you are left with complete mess in your storage department, then your business won’t be benefited much. Quick shipping should be followed by an order placement. A delay may earn you a negative feedback on eBay. Properly managed storage keeps your business smooth and helps you shipping items quickly. Thus you can establish a good customer care service and make your business more professional.
Research is Always Welcome
Research is an undeniable unavoidable part of online selling, especially on eBay. The more you research about which item sales more and which are not, who are you competitors and how their items are performing on search results; better will be your understanding the market status. Thus you can improve your inventory details to have leverage on customers against your competitors. Being a successful seller on eBay can be immensely rewarding, but requires lots of research.
An Image can worth 1000 Words
Buyers love to see items before they buy. One single and poorly shot photo on each of your items is not going to help you getting a shooting star beside the feedback numbers. Make sure, ever item you sell on eBay should have multiple professionally taken photographs. This improves buyers’ confidence in making a purchase from you.
Describe your Items
Buyers are pretty these days. A single complacency or negligence of yours can easily be identified and that may help them skipping your items without a second thought. Want to be skipped frequently by buyers on eBay just because you have no item to write decent description or just ignored it? I hope you do not subscribe this idea. Writing a decent description either invokes bidders to get into a bidding war, or lures to make an instant purchase using "Buy it Now" button. A descriptive, informative short description is essential to optimise your listing above your competitors.
Write to your Customers
Customers love to receive. A hearty thank for their purchase doesn’t cost you extra, but it earns you that tiny little trust from buyers. Always communicate with the customers regarding orders. Keep the informing about the status of their order regularly. That makes them feel that you care about them. This helps you getting positive feedbacks. If you do receive some negative feedbacks, remember that you will be judged by how you respond to these negative feedbacks. Some sellers have realised improvement in sales after they responded positively to the negative feedbacks.
If you are really interested to try your luck on eBay, you should follow a strategy. The strategy should be learnt and applied properly. A proper execution of your best strategies would certainly help you bring accolades and your business will surely flourish on eBay. Keep following 247 TopSeller blog for more such useful eBay selling tips and guides.
Till then Good Bye!