Before I ever listed anything on eBay I had been selling on Amazon for a couple of years. Given how large the eBay marketplace is I was totally shocked about the lack of tools available to help sellers. On Amazon, I could access a huge amount of research and analytics to help me price my …
If you are a responsible individual, you have a bank account. If you are a thrifty individual, you sell on eBay. If you are both, you are awesome and probably have an eBay account just for your store. Or at least you should. But what if aren’t quite there yet? What if you’ve been limping …
In the golden days of eBay, fees were a flat 10% of the sale price per item (they didn’t take fees from the shipping cost). Then they started taking fees out of the shipping as well. Then they moved to managed payments where they also charged a transaction fee and (even more sneakily) did away …
When you first start selling on eBay (or Poshmark, Mercari, etc.) you’re going to mess up some things. If you’re anything like me, you’re probably going to mess up a lot of things. It probably won’t be anything too egregious but you’ll definitely lose some money, waste some time, and delay growing your business as …
When I was in 5th grade a kid came to school and told me about something called “eBay” where he had just won a Playstation 1 for $.01 Naturally, I found the site as soon as I got home and tried to find a similar deal. I bid on dozens of penny auctions and didn’t …
When we first started selling on eBay we were listing a couple of items per week. Even though I knew that people made big money doing it, it was just a way for us to get rid of things around the house. It wasn’t until two of the best items in our eBay store sold …
Shipping on eBay is hardly a mystery. For most items, it is a matter of about 3 clicks and you can print out the label. eBay handles the transaction with the carrier, puts in your return address, and even sends the tracking to the buyer automatically. All in all, it works great…until it doesn’t. This …
When I first started selling on eBay I wanted to make sure that I filled in every Specific that I could. I figured that, if I left any blank, I was missing out on potentially showing up in search results and making a sale. One of the Item Specifics that plagued me the most was …
If you are an eBay seller, the feedback you receive is the lifeblood of your eBay store. It’s something that might never occur to you while the getting is good, but as soon as you get some negative feedback you can expect it to become a big deal very fast. When I first received negative …
The comic book is one of the hardest things to judge when looking for valuable resale items. Sure, we all know to grab vintage Marvel or Star Wars comics but what about the weird stuff that’s worth big money? Well, until recently I hadn’t put in the time to really understand which comic books are …