1. Determine if the product that you are going to auction is a one time sale or if you have a continuous supply of this item. This means that if it is a one time item that you are going to want to get the best price for it. The best way I found to do this is to put a reserve price on the item close to what you need to get out of it. I know that alot of people say that a reserve price will hinder the chances of selling an item, but it won’t if you try not to be greedy. If you have a continuous supply of a product, taking a $15-$20 profit is the way to go on something like a $200 Digital camera because you will have many more sales.

2. If you want a steady income on Ebay you need to find suppliers. The best way to do this is to determine what type of product you want to sell, and then start researching what that item is selling for on auction sites. Once you find a supplier that carries your product and you determine that you can profit at least 10% after your listing fees and Paypal fees if any, you are then ready to climb aboard the Ebay bandwagon.

3. The next thing you will want to do once you find the right supplier is to buy a few items to sell. This way you are going to test the suppliers quickness in getting the items to you. Also it is good if the supplier will dropship to your customers. The reason for this is sometimes you may get a item that is broke or scratched and you don’t realize it until it is time to ship to your customer. A dropshipper can send this item to your customer just like it came from you.

I hope these few little tips will help you get started in a hobby on Ebay or maybe a lucrative business.

About The Author

Kevin Anthony is an Ebay seller who makes a nice living selling consumer electronics. For Ebay products to sell try:

http://www.bestwholesaleelectronics.com

http://incomeblogs.blogspot.com

kanthony39us@yahoo.com

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Posted on November 8th, 2008 by sowhat2
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Millions of people have tried their hand at selling on eBay or one of the many other auction sites. Those who want to increase their eBay sales often find themselves in a position of not having anything to sell. Where do you turn when you’ve sold your garage sales items, your extra collectibles, and even the clothes your kids have outgrown? You need to find a source of items at wholesale prices, but you can’t seem to find a wholesaler anywhere.

Even when you can find a wholesaler, chances are that you are either paying exorbitant shipping costs to get the inventory delivered to you or that the wholesaler doesn’t have a wide selection of items. In the first case, you have to price your auction items so that you can recoup the shipping charges you paid, a strategy that just may prevent buyers from bidding on or buying your items. In the second instance, you may have thirty-five cases of pink widgets in your inventory, only to find that green widgets are selling like hotcakes but pink widgets went out of fashion last season.

For the person who is serious about selling on eBay or another of the auction sites, there’s an alternative - one that doesn’t saddle you with either shipping charges or excess inventory. There are companies that offer a complete dropship business solution specifically designed for those who run auctions on eBay or other auction websites. When you select the proper company, you can run auctions or set up an auction store with as many products as you wish - the best companies offer over 35,000 products - and set your price. You will always pay wholesale price. Best of all, you never have to buy or store inventory - the company will drop ship your buyers’ purchases so they arrive right on their doorsteps. An added bonus is that they can even generate the code you need to make listing your items on auction sites quick and easy.

Here’s how the process works:

1. You log in to the company website and select from among 35,000+ products.

2. When you find a product that you’d like to sell, you click on a special button below the product image.

3. A special program will launch and help you create the HTML code that you need for your auction.

4. You cut and past the code into the auction site’s item description box.

5. When your auction ends, your buyer pays you just as he or she would if you had your inventory on hand.

6. You go back to the company website and order the same product, but include your customer’s shipping address.

7. The company ships the item directly to your customer, and provides you with a tracking code from the shipper.

You have made a profit, since you bought the item at wholesale, and sold it for much more!

Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web.
Learn more about Wholesale Prices and Dropshipping or Majon’s Business and Entrepreneurs directory.

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Posted on October 28th, 2008 by sowhat2
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eBay is best known for its consumer to consumer sales. Most of the merchandise sold on eBay is by private sellers who end up selling to other private users.

When you search on eBay you will see that the majority of eBay auctions are for single items, or at best small lots of five or six units.

While the fact is that currently the majority of eBay buyers and sellers are private consumers, there is a growing business to business market on eBay.

Many wholesalers are starting to use eBay to sell wholesale merchandise to resellers.

Wholesalers understand that just as there are people searching for merchandise for their own consumption, there are also individuals who are looking for merchandise for resale purposes.

If you are an eBay seller, flea market vendor, dollar store owner, or even a wholesaler, you should be using eBay to find good wholesale deals on the merchandise that you need.

Did you know that pretty much every category on eBay now has a sub category called wholesale?

This means that if you are an eBay seller of clothing, or a flea market vendor who specializes in clothing, you can now visit the clothing category and click on wholesale. You will then see all of the wholesale deals dealing with that type of merchandise.

At this point you may wonder why everyone doesn’t simply buy at wholesale and then resell in individual lots.

Part of the reason is because many eBay sellers do not have the storage capacity, or the money, to buy large lots. If you have the storage capacity, and some extra money to spend, then you should definitely think about buying wholesale lots on eBay and reselling them in smaller lots.

There are times when you can buy a wholesale lot for a low price, take better pictures of it and write a better description, and sell it for up to double the price of what you paid for it.

To be successful at finding wholesale lots on eBay you need to understand the product. Make sure that the product being sold in the wholesale lot still is in demand.

Just because it’s not in demand on eBay does not mean that it will not be in demand elsewhere.

Many store owners and flea market vendors will buy wholesale lots on eBay and resell them at a profit in their own stores and flea market booths.

Reasons that will create situations that enable you to buy wholesale merchandise on eBay at a low price, can be because the eBay seller might have just closed his business, a flea market vendor might be moving, or the distributor’s merchandise is simply not selling in his area.

You can fully maximize the potential of your business by buying wholesale lots on eBay.

Donny Lowy is the CEO of http://www.closeoutexplosion.com, an online wholesale and closeout business, and http://www.wholesalecloseoutforum.com, an educational resource for the wholesale and closeout business.

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Posted on October 24th, 2008 by sowhat2
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