hi, im a Newbie

[craftedstorage]

hi all im a newbie to ebid now, hoping that we going to get some good sales as we are on other selling platforms.

[Mimistreasures2010]

Welcome to ebid. Do lots of advertising everywhere you go. Here'e to lots of sales to you.

[maplegin]

Welcome to ebid, hope you will carry on having good sales if you put a notwe in to your sales on other sites to tell them where you are it really does help.

[kreativebargains]

Welcome to eBid.

A couple of things that might help:

Open a store, you get five free as you are a Seller+, it will make your items easier to find and increase visibility.

After opening your store put the store link onto your signature, that will make it visible every time you post on the forums.

Your listings are RUS (Run Until Sold), these stay at the bottom of the eBid listings where they are less visible. Most successful sellers use 7-10 day listings with 10 auto reposts. With that they are instantly above any RUS listings in a search and will gradually rise to the top. You will only have to repost every 77 or 110 days.

As eBid is not as well known and therefore possibly less trusted, price can be a key to getting the sale over other sellers/sites. I always recommend selling 5% cheaper than eBay if you list there. With the lower selling fees you will still be 3% better off on FVF and in addition you have no relisting fees and lower fees on everything else. Every sale on eBid instead of eBay or Amazon is extra money in your pocket.

You need to remove the references to Amazon and eBay on your about me page.

Unlike eBay you can use other payment methods. I use Google and now get about 10% of my buyers using this payment method.

Most sales come from Google, so make the most of it. If you check #48 on this link http://uk.ebid.net/help_selling.php it has the details. You might need an exemption for Google Shopping.

Apart from that it is a case of being patient, you are new here with zero feedback (some sellers buy a few low value items to get some) so sales might not be instant, but you have good items at a good price, so you will sell, and as I said earlier, every sale on eBid is more money in your pocket instead of Amazon's or eBay's.

[darklisruthven]

Hello and welcome!

[suesjools]

Hi and welcome to eBid. Agree with the above. A few thoughts if you haven't already tried these:

1) Offer international shipping whenever possible to widen your potential customer base.
2) If seller+ use your 5 free stores to organize your items.
3) Use BIN prices whenever possible (in addition to auction style if desired) to ensure your items are uploaded to Google shopping.
4) Use Plug Your Auctions section of the forum (1x per 24 hours, delete/close old post before adding new one) to advertise your items for sale.
5) Use social media sites to advertise your listings.
6) Add a signature link to your forum posts so members can click to view your listings.
7) Check out the Help pages and Astral's FAQs page (info. about signature link on Astral's page), lots of good info. here.
8) Tell everyone you know and meet about eBid, including former customers on other sites.
9) Use MaO if it's your thing or offer combined shipping or similar to give buyers more incentive to purchase from you.
10) List as many items as possible to give buyers more choices.
11) Use 7-10 day listings instead of RUS to ensure your items move up searches.
12) Participate in the forums and eBid activities (as the monthly YDC charity auctions if it's your thing) so members get to know you.

Any questions just ask, we don't bite, well, not too hard anyhow.


Astral's Knowledge Base:

http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthread.ph...ries&highlight=

Good luck and best wishes for many sales to all,

[madelaine]

Welcome and http://www.mootango.webspace.virginmedia.com/ebidkb.htm

[craftedstorage]

thanks for the advice.
sales should come in soon
took a while on all other sites that we sell on