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NEWS | Message from DaveHello <$firstname$>
Welcome to the 45 th edition of the UK Auctionline Newsletter, and an especially big welcome to my new subscribers. I have been very pleasantly surprised at the recent increase in subscribers. I think this may be in part due to the changes we have introduced to the UK Auctionline web site. If you have not visited it recently you should really go and take a look. We are continually adding new items to our database of eBay related articles bank. I have also placed direct links to eBay wholesale offers and packaging suppliers, which could help you, save some money. Later this month we are adding a new 15-minute monthly audio talk to the site. Other plans include updating the product and books pages and here you can help. If you have bought an eBay related book or product why not let me know what you thought of it. I will be happy to publish your comments. Also if you have written or produced an eBay related product I will be happy to review it and if I think it will be useful to my subscribers I will feature it in the newsletter. In this issue I look at a new and rather unique eBay help site that has been launched by Michael Sheriff. Called “The Auction Help Desk” which is a members site that offers unlimited e-mail and as an upgrade you can also have a “private” members only telephone support line. Members also have access to Michael’s library of eBay related articles. For more information visit http://www.theauctionhelpdesk.com.Feature| The 5 Mistakes that lose you money on eBayby Dave Bromley I am often asked by subscribers to UK Auctionline web site to have
a look at their eBay listings. This is usually because they are not
doing as well selling their items as they had hoped. When I go and
look at the listing I will often find that they have made one or
more of the common mistakes that deter bidders. 3. Not using a Gallery Photograph.
I assume that no one who is serious about selling on eBay would
consider putting up any listing without a picture. I cannot
think of any item that would not benefit from a photograph. But there
are still a great number of sellers who do not use the gallery
feature to have a photograph next to their listing in the search
results. eBay’s own figures show that the use of a gallery
photograph can increase the final bid figure by as much as
12%. Feature: Selling through Amazon.co.uk Amazon is busy promoting its Amazon Marketplace at the moment. I have always thought of Amazon as booksellers but the marketplace allows you to sell new, used, collectable and refurbished items along side Amazons own range of new products. It is a good outlet for books, CDs, DVDs, videos, video games and electronics items . If you have ever purchased a book from Amazon you may have noticed that they also offer second-hand copies of the book as well as new copies. These second hand copies belong to people like us who have submitted them for sale. Amazon.co.uk Marketplace is not an auction; you set the price of every item you list and obviously the more competitive your price is the more likely you are to make a sale. Here's how it works: After you list an item it is displayed on the page on which we sell the item new, in the blue 'More Buying Choices' box. Items listed by individual sellers remain for 60 days, after which you can re-list them if they haven't sold. Items offered by Pro-merchant sellers remain until they are sold or until you remove the listing. When your item sells, Amazon send you an e-mail to notify you that payment has been taken from the buyer. You must dispatch the item to the buyer within two days of receiving this e-mail. Your earnings are deposited into your Amazon Payments account and funds are transferred to your bank account on a 14 day cycle. The costs are 86p per item completion fee plus 17.25% 0f the selling price. There is also an admin fee for the postal charges which are collected by Amazon at the time of purchase from the buyer. This ranges from 16p for DVD up to £1.64 for an item of software. For serious sellers they have a Pro Merchant scheme whereby for a monthly fee of £28.75 you avoid the completion fee although you still pay the 17.25% selling fee. This would be worth it if you aimed at selling more than 30 items a month through Amazon. For more details visit www.amazon.co.uk and click the “Sell Your Stuff” button. News| Global SourcesBy Dave Bromley In the Summer at eBay Live the big annual gathering held in San Jose eBay announced that they had partnered with Global Sources to promote a scheme whereby Power Sellers could import goods from China and the Far East in smaller quantities than the company normally sell them in. I discovered this reading Skip McGrath’s excellent newsletter (www.auction-sellers-resource.com) but it was not certain that sellers in the UK could avail themselves. I e-mailed the company and they told me they ship to all destinations. They told me that when you place an item in the shopping cart it will give an estimated shipping cost based on a shipment to the USA. But when you checkout, based on your shipping address, the system will indicate the actual shipping cost. The web site is www.globalsourcesdirect.com PRODUCT| Sellling eBay Information on eBayOne of the best information subjects to sell on eBay is anything connected with
eBay itself. I still have a few copies of my 5 CD eBay pack consisting of:
That is a total of 5 CDs that come with resale rights which mean you can offer them for sale on eBay or the Internet, (or any where else for that matter.) To avoid flooding the market I am only offering 20 of these packages for sale and once they are gone that is it. The cost of this package is just £59.95 which is very cheap when you consider we have been selling “How to Make Big Money on eBay” by itself with no resale rights for £49.95. To order make a payment through Paypal ( e-mail address: daveatebay@aol.com) for £59.95 or call me on 01472 593591 to pay by credit card.FEATURE| Professional Ebay Auction Templates Can Boost Your Ebay SalesBy Thomas Haselhorst Do you like to sell on eBay? It’s easy and fun, isn’t
it? In fact, it’s one of the easiest online business you can
start almost overnight, without any major investments. That’s
the best thing about it. But do you also know that only the minority
of the people selling on eBay are really successful and that most
of them quit after a little while or run it only as a hobby. Yes,
that’s true. Hard facts, but the truth. So, what are the secrets
of those successful eBay sellers? Well, the most important thing
to become successful is a unique product. That’s the first
thing. In case you don’t have a unique product, you can sell
products which are in high demand, eg. children clothing, designer
clothing, digital cameras, etc. But you have to keep in mind that
your item has to compete with 100 similar products – maybe
even to a better price. So if you are selling products which are
highly competitive, then your sales letter has to be DIFFERENT. No,
not only different, it has to be UNIQUE. And not only unique!! Your
listing has to be PROFESSIONAL.
Extra Reading How to Double Your Website Income As you may have heard by now eBay have paid over $4 billion for
Skype the online communications company. Some people are wondering
exactly why eBay have made this purchase. There are some thoughts
that eBay may incorporate Skype into their auctions so that sellers
and buyers can communicate directly. However, some observers believe that eBay had little choice but
to act and act quickly to acquire Skype. This is because in recent
months all three of its major rivals, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo
have acquired technology, which allows their customers to communicate. Even if eBay have difficulty in incorporating their new technology
into their auctions they will at least have a very good stand alone
phone business. We will watch developments with interest. |
CONTENTSThe 5 Mistakes that lose you money on eBay Selling through Amazon.co.uk Global Sources Sellling eBay Information on eBay Professional Ebay Auction Templates Can Boost Your Ebay Sales Dave's final thoughts Copyright & Info. |
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