7 Common Mistakes That You Must Avoid At All Costs

By Ricky Figueroa

My friend, let me tell you this. No matter how much information you have read before about how to sell and make money on eBay, if you are doing even just ONE of the following mistakes... you are losing money! Straight to the point:

1. Don't use eBay's pre-filled information when creating your auction listings! This feature may save you time, but you have to know that your listings will look like everyone else's and you don't want that. You want to stand out from your competition. There are other ways that you can save time on creating listings--such as automation software without compromising their quality.

2. Don't use big type, lots of fancy graphics, and crazy colors! Especially if you are new to HTML, keep your description visually simple. Fancy description are not only hard to read, they can also make it look like you are trying to hide something among all the different type sizes and styles, graphics and colors.

3. Don't gloss over any defects in your product! Show images of any imperfections, describe them, and use them as an opportunity to reassure bidders of your honesty. You'll also save yourself all the hassle and negative feedback involve with selling people items with defects--feedback that can seriously hurt your chances of growing your eBay business.

4. Don't use a standard description copied from a product web site! You can use copy from elsewhere as the basis for a description, but it's much better to provide a link to a manufacturer's web site instead (as long as it's not a sales site) and use your own words to give your own auctions more individuality.

5. Don't discourage bidders! It's a bad idea to threaten potential bidders up front or generate negative feelings by saying something like " Auction winners who don't pay will receive negative feedback or be reported to eBay." You run the risk of scaring off bidders and eBay newbies, who may worry that the slightest mistake on their part will lead to negative feedback. Instead of treating everyone like a potential scammer, you should assume that your bidders are genuine. Invite questions as a way of avoiding problems later from someone who didn't read your listing properly.

6. Don't rely only on manufacturers' stock images! Take your own photos so bidders can see EXACTLY what they're bidding on. Good pictures also increase desirability. And don't forget to take pictures of any defects, too.

7. Don't make it hard work for people to read your description! If you write a long rambling piece of text with no paragraph spaces or line breaks -- as many eBay sellers do -- you won't get many people reading it, and you won't get many bids. By using some simple HTML, you can make your listing much more readable for your visitors.

It's vital to avoid all of these eBay "don'ts" if you want to create a successful eBay business. The good news for you, however, is that all this mistakes are made by thousands and thousands of eBay sellers every day.

That means learning how to write descriptions properly will immediately put you light-years ahead of your competition!

~Ricky Figueroa~
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