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eBay online auctions is one of the most exciting money making opportunities on the Internet today"
Online auctions have given thousands of people just like you an opportunity to build up their own profitable part or full time business. Sites such as eBay.co.uk, plus the many others out there make it very easy for anyone to offer items for sale on the Internet. But they do more than that they offer you a low cost way of building up your own highly profitable online business either part or full time.
You will probably have either read or heard about the many thousands of people who have started their own online auction selling businesses. You may also have been told how easy it is to do. Yes, it is easy but only if you know what you are doing. It is just as easy to waste a lot of time and money if you go about it in the wrong way.
The purpose of UK Auctionline in to help you make a start and provide you with the knowledge and information that you will need to be successful. There are over 300 articles relating to all aspects of buying and selling through online auctions. Our free monthly newsletter is now in its 6th year of publication and it will also keep you abreast of the latest techniques, tips and news from the world of eBay and online auctions. New articles are added on an almost daily basis and we feature contributions from many of the leading names in online auction selling.
Although the site I aimed mainly at users of ebay.co.uk the information you will find is also applicable for users of many of the other eBay International online auctions as well as ebay.com users.
You can subscribe to our monthly newsletter and if you are new to online auctions then you may benefit from our free
6 part mini course, which takes you through the basic steps of how to get started on eBay. At one time it wa possible to sell practically anything on ebay with the minimum of effort but times have changed. Now it is the people who know what they are doing and why they are doing it who are coming out opn top. By joining the UK Auctionline community you can become one of those people.
UK Auctionline will help you get started and get the maximum returns both as a buyer and a seller on eBay. But eBay may be by far the biggest but it is not the only player on the block. We look at all UK sites, as well as specialist online auction sites.
Online auctions are changing the face of selling around the world with well over 200 million registered users on eBay alone. Some people have called it a marketing revolution and if you want to be part of that revolution make sure that you bookmark this page and become a frequent visitor.
Hi Everyone
An interesting article from the desk of our good friend Dave Bromley. Please read on.
Regards
Steve H
If you have been around as long as me you may remember when eBay was a novelty and you could just about sell anything through the online auction. How things have changed. Buyers are becoming more demanding, more critical and more cautious.
This means that to be successful in today’s market sellers have to change their approach. To be fair many sellers having been adapting their approach to the changing market conditions for many years have prospered as a result.
To put it simply to become a successful eBay marketer requires professionalism, a business like attitude and quite a bit of work. The days of quickly throwing something up on eBay are long gone.
Continue reading "The times they are a changing" »
Posted by Steve Haddock on Jun 7, 2009 | Permalink
Very important update from eBay, please read.
Regards
Steve H
As part of the Spring 2009 Update, announced on 16th April, we introduced a new, more efficient dispute resolution process that involves some changes to eBays User Agreement.
eBay Buyer Protection programme
The biggest change to the agreement is the inclusion of the eBay Buyer Protection policy. We intend to gradually extend eBay Buyer Protection to more and more buyers over 2009; not all buyers will be able to participate in eBay Buyer Protection straight away. Buyers will be able to get their problems resolved on eBay faster, and the new User Agreement incorporates the new policy and includes language, which describes the parameters of eBay Buyer Protection.
Continue reading "Important changes to the eBay.co.uk user agreement" »
Posted by Steve Haddock on May 28, 2009 | Permalink
Hi everyone
Some important updates from eBay I thought you might want to see.
Regards
Steve H
Buyers feel more confident about buying on eBay and sellers are more likely to see their listings convert to sales when PayPal is offered as a payment method. Through PayPal we can provide protection for buyers and sellers should things go wrong.
Here is an overview of the upcoming changes that will make it safer and easier for you to buy and sell on eBay.ie.
We're delighted to announce a significant expansion of the protection offered to buyers and sellers when using PayPal on eBay. These improvements will come into effect from June 2009.
Continue reading "Increasing buyer confidence & seller protection" »
Posted by Steve Haddock on May 27, 2009 | Permalink
In November 2006 we made bidder IDs anonymous on listings. This change has been very successful; research we conducted in 2007 showed a 90% reduction in fake second chance offers and other malicious emails.
To bring eBay.co.uk and eBay.ie in line with other global eBay sites, and to increase security for sellers, we will be going one step further and extending anonymous User IDs to winning bidders as well.
This change will be implemented this week.
Continue reading "Security update - making winning bidder IDs anonymous" »
Posted by Steve Haddock on May 6, 2009 | Permalink
Hi everyone
It is very easy to use eBay, you do not need any particular computing or marketing skills. In fact anyone can sell on eBay and while this is the sites strength it also leads many sellers taking the easy option and not bothering to build themselves a proper sales system.
If you are serious about becoming a regular seller and want to make the maximum number of sales you need to develop some sort of sales system. Think of this if you like as a kind of checklist.
Regards
Steve H
Continue reading "Ebay – Develop a sales system" »
Posted by Steve Haddock on Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink
