Giranimo.com
  Article Directory
Search:

Home | Internet Marketing


Giranimo.com Article Directory

Ensure Your eBay Selling Chance By Avoiding This Trap
By: Michael Tasker

As part of increasing your eBay knowledge and becoming a successful seller, it is often beneficial to understand the bidding philosophy from the point of view of the buyer. Even on an auction website, perception is everything and if the prospective bidder does not feel comfortable they will then have a reason not to bid on your item. Unfortunately, a major reason for sellers not succeeding is a lack of effort leading to others to profit from your mistakes.

You should never be victim to a tactic adopted by savvy buyers that can be avoided very easily. The general advice to any seller is to have items that have good pictures, clear descriptions and a user friendly experience to ensure the buyer is given maximum confidence to buy from you. A great service will boost your feedback rating and therefore other bidders will be more likely to bid on one of your future items.

But what if you are lazy and offer an item for sale that has no picture, one line of description together with a very low feedback score or none at all? You should ask yourself if you would bid on someone's else time if it was presented in this manner. Well, it may very well surprise you yet some do. A savvy bidder could take a calculated risk and bid anyway thinking that the seller does not really know what they are doing and would be happy to accept any bid as until then, with the poor presentation and low feedback score, your auction item has been ignored.

The bidder may submit a bid for a very small amount and actually win as there was no minimum bid placed on the auction. There are those on eBay who spend time searching for the exact sellers that have just been described. You ask yourself why they do this. It is because they have identified a demand for a product and have found your auction that is very poorly presented with a low feedback score and thus everyone else has avoided you like the plague. No-one is willing to risk doing business with you even though you may well be the most trusted person on the planet. On eBay, perceptions count and an auction presented like this will never be successful for you.

The savvy buyer will then take attractive pictures of the item, write an enticing description and then offer it again on eBay for a much higher price. Prospective bidders will search for such an item and find it. And as it has been presented very well the bids will start to flood in and the profit will go into the new seller's pocket rather than yours and you will have lost out. It does take a little work to ensure it is your item that attracts the attention of prospective bidders and entices them to start the bidding process. Once other searchers witness this bidding activity it is only human nature for them to join in. Just a little bit of effort has transformed your fortunes from selling an item to the only bidder for a very low price to selling the same item after a flurry of bids from hungry would be buyers.

Article Source: http://www.giranimo.com/articles

Discover the secrets to become an Ebay power seller in the new A-Z guide and power yourself into the 2% Ebay elite. The audio and transcript guide shows you everything that the elite use to generate a huge income selling on Ebay. Sign up for a free report and course at: www.goodbyemoneyworries.com/ebaycashpoint/ebaysign.html

Please Rate this Article

 

Not yet Rated

Click the XML Icon Above to Receive Internet Marketing Articles Via RSS!
Additional Articles From - Home | Internet Marketing
Sign Up for a free account or learn more.
Submit Articles
Member Login
Top Authors
Most Popular Articles
Submission Guidelines
Ezine Notifications
Article RSS Feeds
SFI
Empowerism
Host4Profit
Warrior Pro
Traffic Swarm

Are you smart enough to make money online? You could be...

Click here to get your FREE copy of "Dotcomology - The Science of Making Money Online" TODAY!

Link to Us
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service
Article Directory Software
Click here to download the exact software that powers this directory for FREE. Start your own article directory today!

Powered by Article Dashboard