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How to begin making money on eBay.

So you have decided to start an eBay business. Just where do you start?

Well first you would need to sign up for an eBay account if you don’t already have one. Here’s a link to the eBay Australia site to sign up. http://www.onlineauctionresources.com/go/eBayAustraliaSignup/

The best place to learn about selling on eBay is actually on the eBay site. There is no need to re-write how to do this when there are fabulous instructions already available. Here is all the help you will need to learn all about selling. http://www.onlineauctionresources.com/go/HowToSelloneBay/

When you start selling on eBay you may wonder what to sell. The eBay Australia site has an incredible way of giving you ideas about what to sell. See it here. http://www.onlineauctionresources.com/go/eBayWhattoSell/

As you will see from the previous link the best place to start is with items you already have lying around your home. We all have ‘stuff’ that we no longer use. I read somewhere that the average family home has $2000 worth of unused stuff that you could sell on eBay. If you have a good look around your home you too are bound to find a bounty of items that you no longer use. Look at items around your home and seriously think, “Have I used this in the last 6 months?” Because if you haven’t then chances are that you will never use it again.

Start off with selling some things that you have no emotional attachment too. This means that you really don’t care what you sell them for.

I have a personal rule when I list items on eBay. I ABSOLUTELY NEVER start an auction for less than the price I am willing to sell it for. If I start an auction for 99 cents then I am happy to sell that item for 99 cents. I never assume that the price will go higher than my starting price. Anything over my starting price is a bonus for me. Again, this is just my personal rule, many people may disagree with me.

Selling small items around your home also gives you a feel for how the eBay process works. It also helps if you have bought a few things. This way you can see how other sellers do things, ie. how you pay them, how they package items, how they communicate with you.

I’ll be posting more great hints and tips for starting your eBay business soon. Subscribe to my blog to be kept up to date.

How to find out what ebay buyers want now!

Have you ever sat around wondering what eBay buyers want right now?

Well there is an area of eBay that you can go to to see what people are seeking. It is called “Want It Now”. You can get to the page through this link http://www.onlineauctionresources.com/go/WantItNow/.

Here is a short video that shows the different ways you can use this site. (This is my first attempt at video. They will get better!!)

For those of you who prefer reading to watching videos, here is the written version.

As a buyer eBay ‘Want It Now’ is very handy if there is something very specific that you are after. You can post a request and people who have the item you are after may see it and contact you.

So how do you use this as a seller?

There are two ways to use this site to find ‘in demand’ items to sell.

1. You can look through this site each day and view the most recent posts and if there is anything there you can provide a buyer you can contact them through eBay and direct them to an auction or ‘Buy It Now’ listing that you have running. Looking through this site each day only takes a few minutes as you are only viewing the previous days posts.

2. The other way to use this site is to view what people are asking for and then you may be able to go and source that item for them. Also if you see a few similar items that are being requested you may have just stumbled upon a niche market that you could start selling in.

Australian spelling versus American Spelling #3

Welcome to the third post in my series on words that have different spellings in Australia than in the USA.

The purpose of my whole blog is to make everything directed to specifically using, and getting the most out of selling, on eBay Australia. However, it is beneficial to make your items available worldwide as it infinitely expands your potential customer base. So we need to take into account that some words have slightly different spelling variation in the USA and some other countries. If possible we need to incorporate both the Australian and USA spelling in our titles and descriptions.

I have researched this topic and found, what I hope, is a complete list of all the words that have spelling variations.

I will included ALL the words that I have found. I figure that just about anything can be sold on eBay today and you never know what words some people will use to research an item, so don’t laugh if there are words that you feel would never be in an eBay title or description, you just never know when or how they may be used!

This is quite a large list so I have broken it up in to ‘bite-sized’ chunks and will post a list of 10 words each week. So if you know of any words that I have missed, chances are that they are coming up in a future post.

So, here is my third list of 10 spelling variations:-

1. aluminium (Aust)          aluminum (USA)
2. bogeyman (Aust)        boogeymen (USA)
3. defence (Aust)          defense (USA)
4. endeavour (Aust)          endeavor (USA)
5. further (Aust)          farther (USA)
6. kerb (Aust)          curb (USA)
7. mould (Aust)          mold (USA)
8. organisation (Aust)          organization (USA)
9. revelling (Aust)          reveling (USA)
10. targetting (Aust)          targeting (USA)

Check next week for another 10 words that have different spellings from Australia to the USA.

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