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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Ebay Sales
I'm trying to clear out a load of stuff from my room at the moment and some of it is in really good condition and could be incredibly useful to some people. Take the IT books I bought just a year or so ago when I first started getting into web design - I must have shelled out £150 or more on these things and yet there they are getting dusty sitting on a shelf day after day. So, I figured I'm going to give Ebay a try.
The thing I find most difficult with Ebay, though, is the decisions I have to make during the process of putting together adverts for the items I want to sell. For example, is it worth being included in the 'gallery' feature (that Ebay charges another 40p or something for) rather than just have a picture of the item on the ad itself? And, then, how do I lay the description out? Would should and shouldn't be included? Will the layout of the ad really matter given that everyone is so used to seeing these amateur jobbies posted on Ebay?? I really just don't know - I suppose the best way to do it is experiment a little bit until the way becomes clear. Only trouble is that I could spend days of my time and quite a bit of my money messing about with these things without ever actually managing to sell the various miscellaneous items from my room.
Ah well, maybe a bit of marketing here would help..?!!! :)
CLICK HERE to see the items I'm currently selling on Ebay. Hey, if you come through FinishMySong I might even be tempted to give a discount!
The thing I find most difficult with Ebay, though, is the decisions I have to make during the process of putting together adverts for the items I want to sell. For example, is it worth being included in the 'gallery' feature (that Ebay charges another 40p or something for) rather than just have a picture of the item on the ad itself? And, then, how do I lay the description out? Would should and shouldn't be included? Will the layout of the ad really matter given that everyone is so used to seeing these amateur jobbies posted on Ebay?? I really just don't know - I suppose the best way to do it is experiment a little bit until the way becomes clear. Only trouble is that I could spend days of my time and quite a bit of my money messing about with these things without ever actually managing to sell the various miscellaneous items from my room.
Ah well, maybe a bit of marketing here would help..?!!! :)
CLICK HERE to see the items I'm currently selling on Ebay. Hey, if you come through FinishMySong I might even be tempted to give a discount!
