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Making a Success of Buying and Selling
on Auction Sites like eBay – getting ready to make money!
You have heard it said, read about it in the paper and seen
endless references to it on the internet – but is it really
possible for anyone to make money from online auctions? Could you really create a business
so successful that you could give up your job? Could you maximise income with the minimum
of outlay? Could you do all this by only investing a couple of hours or less a day? The
answer to all these questions is an undeniable YES!!!
Using our tools and the tips and information
throughout this site, you can make valuable extra income or
even make auction trading your livelihood. Success will depend on
following some basic rules, using a little imaginination, and investing a little
hard work to get things started. The rules we can give you, and we will provide you
with as many tools and tips as we can to minimise the hard work. So the only
thing that you need is a little imagination – but even here will
will try to provide you with inspiration and ideas to help you generate that idea to
propel you to your fortune!
It's not just eBay!
We will concentrate on eBay
for now as the biggest and best known worldwide auction, but
there are HUGE opportunities for both buying and selling through
other online auctions. Here are a couple of examples of other UK auction sites
that you can use to buy and sell your products:
www.CQout.com
www.QXL.com
Soon we will soon be widening the scope
of this site to include these alternative auctions and sharing with you
how to increase your buying and selling advantage. These alternative auction sites offer you
opportunities beyond eBay, but they are often overlooked. Using them could give you a
significant advantage over competitors that look no further than eBay, so sign up – it costs nothing!!
We will soon being adding a page to show you how to take full advantage of these alternative auction sites,
so be sure to visit us again soon!
We welcome your feedback
As you can see, we are constantly developing this site, so if you would like us to keep you informed of our developments, or if you run
an auction site that you would like us to review or provide a link to your site, please do contact
us.
So, down to business........
eBay
does a great job of covering the mechanics of buying
for the buyer and selling
for the seller and anyone can read it, so we won’t repeat
it here – we want you to have an advantage! But first
let's get set up ready to go;.
The first thing that you need to do is register here on eBay.co.uk
– this really is quick and easy, and please do trust eBay.
They haven’t become this successful without being very
careful with your personal details!! Go ahead and register,
then we will take advantage of your new found entrepreneurial
spirit!
We would also recommend setting up a paypal account - click here if you are
an individual trader:
PayPal Individual
Or lick below if you are serious about this and want to set yourself up
as a business or want to be able to accept credit and debit cards:
PayPal Business
The importance of feedback
OK – ready to go? Not quite….a minor thing like
feedback
is now the only barrier to your success. No-one is going to buy anything from someone
without a positive feedback score. Even as a newbie seller you
really need a feedback star – even a yellow one will do!
No problem – use our search tool
to find some really cheap items in a category that you are interested in,
or simply search for buy-it-now items
that don't charge you shipping and cost less than £1!
Pick at least ten items, bid
for them and follow eBay’s buyer guidance.
Go to our Buyers Guide for more info.
You can buy lots of items for under £1, so there is no
problem in bidding for anything cheap in order to get positive
feedback, you may even find some useful products or information
that will be useful in the future! Remember though that the object of this
exercise is to get 100% positive feedback and a yellow star feedback – so don’t worry
too much what you buy, the cheaper the better really!
Now you are almost ready to go on to make fortunes – but
we would like to give you one more tip before we move on. Feedback
is the most important asset that your business has – remember
to always keep your customer happy and maintain that feedback
score (we will cover this in detail in the Seller’s Guide),
however as we will cover in the Buyers Guide one of the best sources for items to
sell is eBay itself. We would recommend creating a
new account
and follow the steps above a second time to create
one account for buying and one for selling – all you need
is a different e-mail address (create a new yahoo email
or new hotmail account
if you don’t already have one).
This way you can protect
your business from poor feedback that is not your fault –
again we shall cover the reasons for this in detail in the buyer
and seller guides so onwards towards your fortune!
The Fast Guide to Success
Register with auction sites:
eBay
www.CQout.com
www.QXL.com
We recommend having at least two accounts with any auction site that uses feedback
Get a PayPal business account if you think you will ever need to accept credit card payments:
PayPal Business
Buy cheap lots to generate at least 10 positive feedback scores:
Cheap buy-it-now items
That's it for now, but make sure that you
bookmark the homepage and visit us again soon - this website
is in development, and we have only just started to scratch the
surface of what is possible!!!!
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