| Making Money Selling on Ebay for Beginners | | | | low positive feedback and are a beginner. After selling |
| Ebay has been around for almost 12 years now (9 | | | | the 10 smaller items, you should have a +20 feedback |
| years mainstream). Every day people sign up and | | | | within 10 days, depending on shipping time. Again, not |
| expect to make a lot of money on ebay as beginners | | | | bad for a beginner ;-) |
| selling their items online. 90% fail, because they don't | | | | Now if a potential buyer checks your feedback, they |
| have a startup plan. The biggest problem is not having | | | | will see a +20 feedback (100%) and they will also |
| enough positive feedback. Once a potential buyer | | | | notice that NOT all of your feedback are from sellers. |
| sees that you do not have a high ebay feedback | | | | The potential buyer/bidder will read positive feedback |
| rating, they will immediately think that you are a | | | | comments from previous buyers and be more |
| beginner or even worse a scam artist. Here is a tip for | | | | comfortable. They can trust you. Trust is the most |
| you to make money as an eBay beginner : | | | | important factor on ebay. Remember that the buyer is |
| "It is not necessary to have an ebay feedback of 50+ | | | | not able to see you or the item face-to-face, so |
| to start selling, even if you are a beginner in online | | | | reading positive reviews from other people will make |
| auctions. | | | | them feel at ease and they won't even care that you |
| I would suggest that you buy 10 ebooks on ebay for | | | | are an eBay beginner. |
| around $2 each (from a DIFFERENT seller each time) | | | | Now you can start increasing the quality of the items |
| and once they have emailed you the eBooks, you | | | | you are selling and be assured that there will be more |
| immediately leave a positive feedback for them. | | | | bids on your items. When you started out a couple of |
| After that, you email each and every one of the ebay | | | | weeks ago as a new ebay beginner, there was the |
| sellers and ask them to also exchange a positive | | | | same amount of potential buyers looking at your eBay |
| feedback for you. That should give you a +10 | | | | auctions, but they were not comfortable enough to bid |
| Feedback within 2 days. Not bad for a beginner. | | | | on your items. But now you have given them reason |
| Then you start selling some inexpensive items for | | | | to trust you as an eBay seller (remember the +20 |
| around $3 each ... That way you are sure that ebay | | | | 100% feedback ? |
| buyers will bid on your items, even though you have a | | | | |