Selling for my first time on eBid

[DTCopperhead]

Hello All! I'm trying out Ebid for the first time selling the comic book Devil Dinosaur #1. Jack "King" Kirby is at the rains for this book. I hope you like it. Thanks for looking:

https://www.ebid.net/us/for-sale/dev...-187153144.htm

[shortstuff01]

Welcome Dave.

Good luck selling on ebid, hope that you sell lots of items and enjoy being a member for a long time

Jan

[HerMajesty]

Welcome! Be sure to click the help button at the top R of the page, and look for the FAQ's on listing and selling.....lots of good info there.

[DTCopperhead]

Thanks Jan!

[DTCopperhead]

Cool HerMajesty, thank you for the suggestion.

[kodakfish]

Hi Dave welcome. You'll find on eBid social media advertising is very important so pin it FB it tweet it.


Very important you read the following from help> selling [or google may decide to ignore your auction on search ] :
48) Will you upload my items to Google Shopping?

eBid is an official Marketplace Partner of Google. We will upload your items to Google Shopping within minutes of you listing them if Google Shopping is available in your home country. Please also refer to the Google Shopping Restricted Products page and Google Shopping user guide section for more information.The criteria for upload are :
Auction with at least 3 days remaining & BuyNow available
OR
Auction with On First Bid & BuyNow available
OR
Fixed Price with at least 3 days remaining
OR
Fixed Price with Run Until Sold
All listings will require at least one photo image and have BuyNow Price above or equal to £1.00 ($1.33).
Google Shopping requires customers to provide a way for potential buyers to purchase the product through an online payment service. Therefore all listings will require at least one online payment option present. For example Paypal. Listings without at least one of these payment options will not be uploaded to Google Shopping.
Due to current policy restrictions at Google Shopping, eBid will not submit items that do not pass the following tests A, B or C.
A) Media (books/cd/dvd/blu-ray/video games)
1 - minimum) An ISBN/UPC/EAN/MPC is supplied to us.
B) Clothing
1 - minimum) A BRAND is supplied to us.
C) Items that could have been purchased in a shop in their lifetime and scanned at a checkout till
1 - ideal) A UPC/EAN/MPC and BRAND are supplied to us.
2 - good) A UPC/EAN/MPC is supplied to us.
3 - minimum) A BRAND is supplied to us, although we do not guarantee acceptance by Google in this case due to their strict policy criteria.
Items that come under D will require exemption from Google's Unique Product Identifier rules
D) Custom Made, One of a Kind, Vintage, Collectable, Comics with 17 digit UPC codes
Add the text EXEMPT (does not have to be uppercase) as your barcode.
Google uses your eBid Store Name at Google Products. If you don't have an eBid Store Name your eBid Username will be used.
Please ensure your Store Name/Username complies with Googles guidelines. Some guidelines are outlined below:
Enter the name of your store without any additional text. You do not need to include "Inc.," "Co.," "GmbH," etc.
Avoid unnecessary use of the following:
Promotional text (e.g. phone numbers, marketing messages, sale announcements, free shipping etc.);
Repeated and unnecessary use of punctuation, capitalization, or symbols (e.g., spelling your store name in ALL CAPS);
Copyright and trademark symbols;
Offensive or inappropriate language.
Note that Google Product Search truncates Store Names longer than 20 characters.
Here are some examples for Store Names rejected by Google recently:
ABC Storename Ltd
Abc Ebid Craft Supplies Ink And Pens
Storename Storename on eBid
1234st1234
storename_storename_couk
storename123456
Items in the Electronics, Books, and Media categories may not appear in Product Search if your listing does not include the necessary unique product identifiers, such as MPN, Brand, GTIN/UPC/EAN or ISBN.
The Title and Description must be in the language of the Google site your items are uploaded to. e.g. items uploaded to eBid France will be posted to Google France so must be in the French language.
Avoid placing full capital lettering throughout the title. Use sparingly with capital letters only at the beginning of a sentence or word. All capitals are not allowed. All symbols such as /"!(*#@]+ 1 etc, are not allowed. Never have anything in the first 250 characters of your description that refers to shipping or that says anything not directly related to describing your item.
If you should see 'iframe' in your listing description box this is likely to be due to Google seeing the input information as 'Cross Site Scripting (XSS)'.
Once items have been uploaded to Google Products we are reliant on Google to place the listings in the Searches. Google list items at their discretion and it is not always obvious why an item has not been included.
Please review below. If you feel changes are required, please close the auction/s and repost with the changes and hopefully the item/s will be submitted. We have no control but in the vast majority of cases items will be listed without a problem if they have a 'Buynow' feature and more than 48hrs to run.
Prohibited products - (This is not an exhaustive list and is subject to change at anytime by Google).
Affiliates, catalogued drop-shipping programs, and multi-level marketing: Posting is not permitted for the promotion of affiliate or pay-per-click links, products sold through a commission-based relationship, or sites that sell through cataloged third-party drop-shipping programs. This includes item pages that are made up almost entirely of advertisements, or pages where advertisements obstruct the view of the product. Posting is not permitted for the promotion of multi-level marketing (MLM) business products or for other businesses that recruit members and offer them rewards for recruiting others and/or selling services.
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Body parts: Posting is not permitted for the promotion of body parts or human remains.
Bulk marketing tools: The promotion of the following bulk marketing products is not permitted if the stated or implied use of these products is unsolicited spam:
Email lists that are not opt-in
Bulk email software
Bulk messaging
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Editorial Guidelines
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Be honest and factual.
Describe your message clearly and accurately.
Include relevant and complete information about your products with attributes.
In addition, make sure you:
Use Standard Spelling and Grammar. Avoid any repeated and unnecessary use of punctuation, capitalization or symbols. Don't use exclamation points in your product titles. The use of symbols, numbers, and letters should adhere to the true meaning of the symbol.
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Do not post wording in listing titles that may contravene Googles listing policies. For example it is our experience that Google do not like 'Free Shipping' in titles or descriptions.
Avoid offensive or inappropriate language.

[DTCopperhead]

Thanks Kodak!

[purplestevie]

If you are on facebook - one of the ebid groups to promote your listings
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2409...action_generic

[DTCopperhead]

Thanks @purplestevie. I'm checking that out now.

BTW, does anyone no how to get notifications when someone responds to your post? I can't find it. I've been manually looking, but it would be nice if it told me via e-mail or some other way.
Thanks!

[mrsandman]

​Sending you lots of luck