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In a recent survey, it was found that 76% of buyers said that they never used
the private auction option and 65% of all those who responded to the survey said
that an auction being private would make them less likely to participate in it.
The reasons that were given for not wanting to participate in a private auction
were:
1. They thought the seller had something to hide.
2. They thought that the auction might be a scam.
3. They thought that the private auction defeated the protection of transparency
of eBay auctions.
Buyers who participate in private eBay auctions cannot be warned that an item is
bogus by other sellers or buyers.
This does remove some of the safety that bidding on items through regular eBay
auctions provides.
The private eBay auction smacks of deceit and maybe even of intrigue. Yet there
are many sellers on eBay who always use the private auction option.
They say that it protects them as sellers and that it also protects their
customers. The majority of eBay members, however, do not agree with their
assessment.
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6 Ways to Increase Profits on eBay
You may well have been selling on eBay for quite sometime and consider yourself
as doing alright but there are ways that you can do better than just alright.
Consider using these techniques to raise your profitability on eBay:
1.Choose a niche and stick with it: What is meant by niche is that you market to
the same general part of the buying public by offering varying products that
will be attractive to the same people.
If you sell pots and pans for cooking, you might also offer dinnerware, for
example.
2.Use an auction management service or buy auction management software. Be sure
that the service or software that you buy supports eBay. This can save you a lot
of time and effort.
3.Coordinate your auction ending dates: Try to have all your auctions end on the
same day and at about the same time. You can save yourself a lot of time and be
better organized with shipping and shipping schedules.
4.Sell it, Ship it: Dont delay shipping items that you have sold. This is
another reason to have all your auctions end at about the same time.
When people pay for an item, they want it...and they want it yesterday. Sixty or
seventy percent of your feedback should be comments about prompt shipping.
5.Brand yourself: Use the templates that eBay makes available to make yourself a
recognized eBay seller. If you can become recognized by your logo, you will
increase your sales.
6.Sell one item at a time on auctions: Lumping a bunch of products together and
offering them at auction might seem like a good idea but it has been proven that
items that are offered one at the time do considerably better than multiple
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