How to sell on eBay

Ultimately, you’re talking about starting a business. Starting a business requires resources, mainly time and money (well, with dropshipping it’s mainly time). You already have a job, thus time is probably not something you have (unless you really have time after work which you can spend on the new business). Even if you sell online, you need to put in time if you are dealing with physical sales (meaning, you don’t do the dropshipping so…

Today you can sell almost anything online (from iPhone covers to Yachts…), The one big advantage in buying in bulk is, of course, the lower shipping cost you’ll pay. For example: let’s say you decided to buy 20 Canon cameras, the supplier is located in China and you are located in the States. You would want to send them with full online tracking since it’s not a cheap item. You will most likely use FedEx,…

I assume that you are asking about net profit. Based on my own experience, yes it’s possible, eBay has become a marketplace where even big consumer chains sell products and some of them have sales volumes of tens of millions. Just to give you an example, this is a link to the top eBay sellers as of last year and the number of feedbacks they have: The World’s Top eBay Sellers – Lean Commerce Let’s…

There are many activities related to selling on eBay, I will concentrate on the side related to creating eBay listings which is essentially how your business is seen by potential buyers. There are several ways to create eBay listings: eBay offers its own editor, it’s fairly simple and old fashioned, you can’t really design something unique, all you can do is add text, change colors, size of text, bold…the most simple of stuff. In order…

It’s not easy to start an online business from scratch. You probably won’t be able to get to the big names immediately, so you have to look for those smaller suppliers who are looking to expand their business and share the same hunger for success as you do. You need to present yourself as someone with serious goals who knows what he’s doing and has a plan to get from A to B. The bottom…

A repricing software’s main purpose is to keep your prices competitive. These types of softwares are usually used on the most popular eCommerce platforms which are also the most competitive (eBay, Amazon, price comparison platforms such as Shopzilla). What they actually do is drive the price down. This lowers the seller margin and eventually leads to less profit. The practice of price war is not a wise practice in the business world, because in almost…

There are many parameters that affect your eBay sales, I saw some answers advising to open stores on other platforms, which is great if you want to get more exposure, but in my opinion, this is a step you should take only after optimizing your sales on eBay since eBay alone is big enough to sustain a business (although I would always prefer to sell multi-channel just to decrease my dependence on a single channel).…