Auction Autopilot Blog

When you first began your eBay business, I’m guessing you used the basic eBay listing form to sell your first item.   However, if you are like me, as sales increased, you soon found that you needed a more powerful auction management system.  At that point, you probably subscribed to Turbo Lister, which is fine if you are only handling small volumes of merchandise.   However, if your business grows to the point that you are shipping several items a day from sales made on multiple websites, you need to consider a full featured auction management system.

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New eBay sellers often neglect to put enough effort into creating exciting and informative eBay listings.  They think all they need to do is throw up any old auction and visitors will not only come, but bid.  This is just not the case.  The look and feel of your eBay auctions has nearly as much to do with the amount of bids you get, as the item itself.

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Eventually you will find yourself with a problem that will need an answer or some expert guidance about buying and selling on eBay.  Before you contact eBay directly, you may want to consider checking out the eBay Answer Center first.

The eBay Answer Center is a member-to-member forum, where eBay members can ask questions, give answers, and share information about eBay.  The Center is arranged by topic and designed for fast questions and answers, rather than discussions.  Some of the topics include Bidding, Checkout, eBay Stores, Feedback, My eBay, PayPal, Technical issues, Turbo Lister and many more.

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Today, I am going to tell you about a technique you can use to accomplish three objectives, which are critical to “squeezing” the most money possible out of your online auctions.  I am going to show you a simple strategy you can use to:

1. Figure out the highest price your item is likely to get
2. Double the number of hits your auction receives
3. Instantly get “warm” buyers to view your auctions

Let me give you an example of how I use what I call the “Instant Page Views” strategy to accomplish these objectives.  Once you see how I do it, you will easily be able to incorporate this simple strategy into your own online auctions and make more money on eBay.

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How would you like to know, without any doubt, what sells on eBay?  What if eBay told you what they think will be the hottest sellers, in the coming season?  What if you could get a list of the items eBay was planning to feature on their front page?  Do you think you could make money on eBay, if you knew the eBay hot items, in advance?

Well, it isn’t really a question of ”if you could” make money, but rather a question of how much money you could make.  Once you know what sells on eBay, all you have to do is line up a reliable wholesale product source for the items, start selling them… and watch the balance of your PayPal account skyrocket.

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Today, I’m going to tell you about a strategy that can double or triple your eBay income.  This technique is so easy.  However,  very few eBay sellers use it, even though it takes so little  effort.  What is it?

Backend Sales!

Let me give you an example of something I did.  I  noticed there were several eBay sellers who were selling huge  lots of greeting cards.  In fact, when I first checked it out, there was a lot  of 1,000 cards available, with only two days left in the auction.  Guess what the high bid was?

$1.00!?

Can you believe it?  The final bid went a bit higher, but  not by much.  In the end, the bidder ended up with 1,000 greeting cards for less than a  penny a piece.

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I ran across a post on Phil Dunn’s eBay Marketing Blog that got me thinking again about the importance of having reliable sources for products that will allow you to turn a nice profit on your eBay auctions.  It is not easy to find a steady supply of top notch products you can aquire at low cost, but sell for a decent profit.  Phil recommends a service called SaleHoo and I heartily endorse his recommendation.

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