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Important Update – USPS Ban
Starting on Wednesday, May 16 2012, U.S. sellers will no longer be allowed to ship lithium batteries, or any items that contain the batteries, with the U.S. Postal Service to other locations outside the U.S. You can still mail lithium batteries and products that contain them outside the U.S. via FedEx, UPS, DHL and other mailing services. Read an article about how this can affect you as an eBay seller here: USPS Bans Lithium Shipments Outside US Fire, explosion hazard sparked the … [Read More...]
What Sells on eBay?
Do you have extra stuff sitting around your home and wondering if it is worth anything? Take a look at the new eBay Selling Inspiration House. It may surprise you to find out how much some of that extra stuff in your house is worth. Explore virtual rooms and click on the items to see what they are selling for on eBay. There are other resources on eBay to help you determine what your items are worth. Take a look at the Fashion Selling Guide and the Tech Selling Guide. Start … [Read More...]
Free Webinar on May 15th 2012 at 7PM Central European Time, 1 pm New York Time
Do you generally feel overwhelmed by all the Social Media options and have not yet gotten any real leads from it? Do you have a nice website but don’t know how to use it to grow your e-mail list? Do you have a LinkedIn profile but have never thought of it as a client acquisition tool? If you nodded your head once or several times then you won’t want to miss this FREE webinar with Social Media specialist Sarah Santacroce in which she unveils 18 HOT ONLINE MARKETING TIPS The world is … [Read More...]
eBay iPhone App
Did you know that eBay has an iPhone App? Actually they have a few apps, but today I am going to tell you a little about eBay for iPhone. It's great for sellers, you can quickly look up items and determine their value. When you find an item at a consignment shop, or garage sale you could evaluate the possible income that could be made from it. You can also use it with the iPhone's barcode scanner to list new items quickly. You can also use the barcode scanner to look up listing … [Read More...]
List In Less Time or Automate Your Listings
eBay is endorsing Auctiva as a way to list in less time or automate your listings. Auctiva allows you to post items to eBay in minutes and add up to 24 super-sized images without paying the extra listing costs. You can even automate the listing process. Auctiva has a library of 1,800+ professionally-designed listing templates to help you catch buyers' eyes. You can also add a powerful Scrolling Gallery to each listing, enabling you to promote up to 16 items you also have listed on … [Read More...]
Celebrating Moms, Dads, and Grads
eBay's Marketing Campaigns - a heads up to help you make more. Moms: Mother's Day is the 4th largest retail holiday of the year. From now until May 13, eBay will be helping to drive the seasonal shoppers to listings in Jewelry, Fashion, Fragrances, Home & Garden, and Electronics. Be sure to list your inventory in these categories to make the most of this huge retail rush. Dads & Grads: Starting May 16 through June 17 eBay will be highlighting the great deals in top-selling … [Read More...]
How to Get Your eBay Listings in Internet Search Results
Get your eBay listings found on Yahoo!, Google, and other off-eBay search engines. When you include unique product identifiers like UPCs, ISBNs, and EANs in your listings, your items can be found more easily by buyers when they use off-eBay search, mobile apps, and even eBay search. Be sure you are including these identifiers in the designated field whenever you create your listings. Also, if you list in eBay Motors Parts & Accessories, be sure to include parts compatibility with … [Read More...]
Use eBay Labels When You Ship – Get FREE Delivery Confirmation
A great reason to use eBay Labels! eBay Labels allows you to purchase discounted postage, and now you also get FREE Delivery Confirmation™ on USPS® Priority® Mail, Express Mail®, and First-Class Package service. You can prepare multiple shipments at one time, print up to 50 shipping labels. Another bonus is that your tracking info will be emailed to buyers and even automatically uploaded to My eBay. This will soon be key to maintaining your status as an eBay Top-rated seller. … [Read More...]
Become an eBay Top-Rated Seller
eBay is changing the requirements to become an eBay Top-rated seller, they have expanded the requirements to include more sellers. Starting in June, eBay's requirements for maintaining or receiving Top-rated status will change: Right now eBay requires that you meet a $3,000 annual sales requirement. This will be lowered to just $1,000. They will remove the minimum average Detailed Seller Rating requirement of 4.60. You will no longer be required to have the PowerSeller status. When … [Read More...]
eBay’s New Photo Guidelines
This fall, eBay will begin enforcing new photo guidelines on all new, revised, and relisted listings. These guidelines will include the following: A new minimum picture size - you will be required to have a minimum length of 500 pixels on the longest side. However, they suggest you have a length of 1600 pixels on the longest side. Setting your camera to either medium or high picture quality should ensure that your picture is large enough. No borders on pictures - you can no … [Read More...]
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