Reply #5: Go to the ebay tutorials and do some reading [View All]

[Whoa_Nelly]

and the community group chats can be helpful. I think there's one for newbies.

Set up how you will receive payment (PayPal, check, personal check...wil you hold shipment until a check clears...things like that)

Either set a shipping amount or state you will provide shipping at end of auction. Or, after setting up your auction and pics, package the item, weigh it, and Post-It note it with item name and weight...there will always be someone who srites and askes for shipping cost (if not a set price...I weigh packaged item, use Bangor, Maine as set shipping point, and set a definite price for shipping.)

Decide if you will only ship w/in US, or will ship to Canada or Internationally (I ship only US and Canada, and add a couple of bucks for shipping to Canada)

Take decent pics, resize them, and DO use the click to enlarge feature. No real need to use a lot of the extras re: features, but I do like using a counter to see if I'm getting hits. The counter is a freebie choice when you set your auction page. You can change your listing if no one has bid up until the last 12 hours of auction.

ANSWER ALL EMAILS from potential bidders :-) eBay now has a feature for after the auction to send a boiler plate "You've won" email the the winner. I like having one of my own to use, and keep my eBay emails in a separate email folder with sub-folders such as PayPal rec'v'd, PayPal Sent, Winner Notification sent, Item Questions, My listed Items sold, Listed Items not sold, etc.

Good luck, take your time...and if you set up all you want to sell, all your auctions will end approximately at the smae time..that's a lot of emails, moeny delaing, and getting shipped all at once. I usually set it up to have just a few, with about 24 hours in between each group of auction postings, and state I ship on Wednesdays and Fridays...my choice just to make it easier to take all the packages into the post office. You can use other shipping such as UPS...check it all out on the eBay seller tutorials. :hi: