If you use Auctiva or Selling Manager Pro, you can have it set up so that feedback is automatically left when you receive feedback.  I don’t want to use that option, because I have auctions running from 1p, and I find people buy these from me, not because they want the item, but want the feedback.  This is called ‘feedback manipulation’, and is against eBay’s policy.  Therefore, I don’t want to be leaving feedback for these items.  I have auctions starting at 1p as a traffic generation technique.  So I don’t want to be leaving feedback for the buyer, as I could be seen as manipulating feedback too, which ofcourse, I don’t want.

Up until now, I have been leaving feedback for one item at a time, and takes up a lot of time.  Time I could be using listing more products.  But now it only takes me one minute to leave feedback for many items at once.

I have made this short video showing you how to do it:

For more ways to minimise your effort on eBay, allowing you more time to maximise your sales and profits, then I recommend The Lazy Way to Wealth on eBay.

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If you have lots of eBay listings, it could take you a very long time to edit all your listings, but it doesn’t have to.  I have made this short video to show you how to edit the postage and packaging charges quickly and easily, and will only take you a few minutes.

Hope you found it useful.

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Watch this video to see the results.  Remember this video is just to show the procedure of what I do in this method of product sourcing.  Each auction ended up with a higher price than those auctions that I won.

I use this method regularly, and it is very successful.

To learn more about this subject, I recommend eBay arbitrage, the complete guide to flipping, which will show you in more detail how to search, find, buy and re-sell products on eBay for huge profits.

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In the below video, I will show you the listings which I won, and the new listings I have made to relist them, and you will see the big difference in the listings.

This is how much I spent, including postage, on the items shown in this video:

Bundle of teddies – £3.49
The two me to you bears – £8.50
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Total spent – £11.99

So, for this to be a success, I need for these combined auctions to finish for more than £11.99

I will write another blog post and make another video after the auction has ended.  Depending on how the auction goes, I may well do a post and video half way through the auction too.

So, watch this space to see the results of this live eBay arbitrage experiment.

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This product sourcing idea is going to use eBay to source products to then resell back on to eBay for profit.  This may seem strange and even unlikely that it is possible, but trust me, this is one of the most profitable ways of sourcing products.  Just like the other methods I have written about, I use this method regularly too.

I have three different ways of sourcing products on eBay, and this method actually is my favourite.  It involves finding auction listings that are poorly listed.  A poorly listed item can have one or all of the following factors:

• poor auction title – misspelt words, not using all the characters available in the auction title, not including vital keywords that get searched for to find the item
• bad photograph, or not having one at all
• poor description

The first of the above is the most important, because without having a good auction listing, an item is less likely to show up in search results, or if it does show up at all, it will be nearer to the bottom on eBay’s default search of ‘best match’.  This will result in fewer visitors to the listing, meaning fewer bids, meaning a lower ending price on the completed auction.

Once you have found a badly listed item, you need to know if you are likely to make a profit on it if you were to bid and win the auction.  You can find this out by looking at completed listings.

Once you have found a poorly listed item that you want to bid on, you then want to win it at the lowest price you possible can.  You do this by putting your bid on as late as possible.  For this you use a sniper tool.

I have made two videos showing how to do all of the above.

Video one – finding a poorly listed item, how to find out if you are likely to make a profit from it and how to snipe the auction.

Video two – more examples of poorly listed items, and how to find 100′s more with one click of a mouse.

It is a really good idea to win at least half a dozen items from the same niche and list them all on eBay at the same time.  This way you can attract the visitor to your other auctions as they will be interested in those too.  I will cover more about this in my next post.

That basically covers eBay arbitrage in a nut shell.

I do have two items to list that I acquired by using this very same technique.  In my next post and video, I will show you the items I won, and list them on eBay.  I will then do another video while those auctions are running and then another video after the auction has finished so you can see it live as it happens.  This will be a live eBay arbitrage experiment right in front of you eyes.  I could not do a video with me bidding on the auction that I have won, because I did not want anybody else bidding on it.

For more information on eBay arbitrage, I would recommend eBay arbitrage, the complete guide to flipping, which will show you in more detail how to search, find, buy and re-sell products on eBay for huge profits.

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I have found a 100% free eBay market research tool.  It will search up to the last 90 days of completed listings on eBay.co.uk, eBay.com, eBay.ca, eBay.com.au and eBay motors.

You select which site you would like to research on from a drop down menu, then select if you want to search back on the last 30, 60 or 90 days of completed listings.   There is a search box where you enter the key words of what you want to research.

The results that come back will tell you the following:

• the number of listings there have been and the sell through rate
• the average sell price
• keywords that were used
• the average selling price on each day for the period of time you selected
• the category the listings were in and the average sale price for each category
• the average price on each day of the week
• the percentage of listings for each day of the week

The name of the website it Get4it.com.

I have made a video to show you how it all works and explain the results for an example research term

From now on, I will be using this tool as a part of my eBay research techniques in conjunction with using the completed listings information on the eBay site itself.

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There are however, in my mind, a couple of disadvantages over using high street retailers when they have a sale on.

• it is not so convenient to return merchandise to the retailer, as you have to pack and ship it which costs you, so you need to be more careful when selecting products to resell, else you could end up with stock you can’t make a profit on or worse, sell at all.  With the high street retailers, at least you can do that with ease.
• there is the potential for the competition to be greater, as the online retailer has it’s doors open to a wider audience than your high street retailer, therefore you may find more people selling the same product as you.

These are small disadvantages though if you do your research properly and buy sensibly.  I have created two videos for this post.  One shows you how I search for products with an online retailer that I use, and the other shows bad products to buy to resell for profit.

The first video shows how I find items to resell using an online retailer. Enjoy…..

In the second video, I show you examples of bad products to buy to resell, and explain why….

This is another very good method of getting started to sell in the world of online auctions, as your initial outlay is low, and risk very minimal if you research.

If you use or are already using this method of product sourcing, let us know how you get on.

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Welcome to the first post about product sourcing for your online auction business.   Remember, I am going to write about my own personal experiences and tell you and show you what I do.  This way you know that you are getting information from a real eBay powerseller, as it is the same methods I have used.  I make 100′s of £££’s a month on eBay.  I hope that each post will spark a little bit of excitement inside you. 

As the title of this post suggests, I am going to talk about sourcing products from around your home.  The reason I am starting with this, is this is how most people get started.  This is how I got started a few years ago.  I am also going to show you my eBay store.  Not to advertise my listings to you, but to show you items I have found from around my own home, one which when I tell people I sell them, they can’t beleive that people pay money for these items.  I will show you this in a video below.

When I got started selling on eBay, I needed to raise some money quick.  I took a load of CD’s that I didn’t listen to any more down to one of those cash converter places.  I got such a small amount of money for them, I could have cried walking back out of that place, but I needed the money.

I then discovered eBay.  I can’t remember how exactly.  Most probably from a television advert.  Anyway, I opened up an account, read through some tutorials and started selling my CD collection on eBay.  I put each one on an auction and sold each CD for much more than I would have got at the cash converters place. 

Of course, I soon ran out of CD’s to sell, but I was hooked and wanted to keep selling.  I started looking for other ideas of sourcing products.  Basically I just rummaged around the house some more and found some stuff that was just sitting in drawers and on shelves etc.   I listed and sold these items.  I generally didn’t make as much per item as with the CD’s but I didn’t care as it was only things not wanted any more.  Things like ornaments, clothing, books, key rings, video tapes etc.

In this video, I am going to show you some listings in my shop and a recent auction that ended, just from items I found around the house.

To browse around my eBay shop, click here www.marcsampson.com/eBay_shop

Another way of getting ideas of things around your house to sell, is to look in the ‘home & garden’ category of eBay’s main listings.  To go straight there, click here http://home-garden.shop.ebay.co.uk/.  These links will open in a new window so that you don’t loose this blog post.

Watch this video to see how you can get a rough idea of what to expect to receive for the items you find around your home.

I do hope that this post has given you food for thought.  If you haven’t yet started to sell on eBay, but would like to, this is the perfect way to get started, mainly because you do not have any initial financial outlay.

Good luck!

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I just made a quick video to illustrate a very simple eBay listing technique that I have been using.  I’m sure this has helped increase my sales and contributed to me getting powerseller.

One thing I didn’t mention is that video is that, because most people will bid on an auction as the listing is coming to an end, this listing will probably get number one for the search term, ‘digital watch’, for several days.

It is also a good idea to do a search using the keywords you are aiming for before you list your item.  If there are lots of people also listing from 1p with free postage, then it probably isn’t worth doing.  If this is the case, experiment with different key words.

Lets say, for example in my listing, there were other listings with 1p and free postage for the search term, ‘digital watch’, then I could have seen how many listings are coming up for ‘men’s digital watch’, or ‘men’s watch’.  Then when I get a results page where there are no other 1p listings and free postage, I would put these key words in my title.

Hope that if you use this technique, that you see favourable results.

Share your experiences by commenting below.

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Since I last made a post, I have done a couple of things to help increase traffic to my listings.

I have continually added new products to my store, as usual.

I have been increasing my twitter followers which in turn will increase traffic to my eBay store.   I now have over 1,000 followers.

One of the new products I have added to my eBay listings is the series of videos which has taught me all I know about Twitter.    Here are just a few things the video series will teach you

• How to quickly increase your followers
• How to design your own graphic for use as your twitter background and how to upload it
• How to integrate Twitter with Aweber
• How to integrate Twitter with your wordpress blog
• How to automatically follow people when someone follows you
• How to automatically send a customised message to your new follower
• plus much more

I now have these videos available on CD ROM viewable on all PC platforms, via my eBay store.   Click HERE to see the Video CD ROM category of my eBay store.  Hint: especially for my blog readers.   I have not advised of this anywhere else.   I have set this up on ‘best offer’.  It is on a buy it now for £9.99, but if you put in an offer for £5.00 or higher, I have set the listing up to automatically accept your offer.

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