Archive for September, 2005

Looking for Ebay Auctions

Friday, September 30th, 2005

Storing your categories to make looking for e bay auctions in the future easier.

Currently, each month there are over 14 million people whom are looking for e bay auctions online in order to purchase goods and services without having to leave the comfort of their own home. If you are one of those shoppers looking for e bay auctions online then we have some great search tips to help you find exactly what you are looking for when starting your ebay experience.

When you begin to search for ebay and start looking for e bay auctions of your choice you should take advantage of ebay’s search features. These tools will make it easier on you when looking for e bay auctions. Some ebay shoppers like to use the search page while other shoppers like to use the browse feature.

Either way you slice it, looking for e bay auctions takes a bit of trial and error to get it just right for your preferences. Always be willing to attempt new techniques to help you find the exact products that you are looking for on ebay.

Bookmarking categories on ebay that interest you is also a great way to save information for when you decide to go looking for e bay auctions in the future. You can do this by using your browser tool and saving the particular ebay page in your bookmarks.

Otherwise, if you wanted to go looking for e bay auctions by saving your pages with your “My eBay page”, then

1. Click on the “My eBay” button at the top of the page.
2. Click the categories link.
3. Review the information that you see when looking for e bay auctions.
4. Delete any categories you do not want by clicking on the box and then the delete button.
5. You may add new categories to the list by clicking on the Add new Category link (upper right corner)
6. You can store up to four favorite categories that you can return to when looking for e bay auctions in the future.

Selling Salvage Products in the eBay Marketplace

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Buying items by the pallet to resell to the e Bay marketplace

Some product suppliers will purchase salvaged merchandise that is in such large quantities that they resell the items to you by the pallet that you can take and flood the e bay marketplace with. This type of transaction is often made by a ‘liquidator’ and you can go online to fine one nearest you.

This may not be the most secure way to find quality products to resell to the e Bay marketplace but if you are willing to take the risk then it just may be worth it. Often times you are rolling the dice when buying a pallet full of stuff because there is no guarantee of what quality is inside.

While you may loose money by selling some of those items to the e bay marketplace, you might also make that money back with other products from your pallets. The key is to make sure that the majority of stock from the liquidator has what you want to sell to the e Bay marketplace. This can only be done by working with one supplier for a few rounds and properly checking them out.

Here are a few tips of things to check out when looking for a liquidator:

1. Find out if they are selling to mostly flea markets. If this is the case then you may not want to buy these pallets because the quality may not exist. The e Bay marketplace is looking for both quantity and quality.

2. Find out how long the liquidator has been in business. Find out exactly where he gets his products from. If the company does not want to reveal its sources then you may not want to purchase these pallets for resell to the e Bay marketplace.

3. Last but not least, check for references. This is an obvious step in deciding to work with most anybody but a lot of people ignore it.

E bay marketplace fraud: How to fight it!

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Did you realize that online auctions top the National Consumer League’s list of scams perpetrated online? Although the E bay marketplace has a wonderful track record of 99% honest transactions, you still need to be savvy to the sort of criminal activity that does happen within the E bay marketplace and stay clear of fraud from both an Ebay seller and Ebay buyers.

Below is a list of three offenses that happen within the E bay marketplace community.

1. Bid Shielding: This is when a pre-organized group of Ebay bidders enter the E bay marketplace and team up to bid on a particular item, thus inflating the high bid to scare off real shoppers. At this point the lowest bidder (member of the scam) then has everyone else retract their bid and comes out winning the auction at a dishonest low price. If you sense that bid shielding is going on within the E bay marketplace then report them immediately.

2. Descriptions that are totally misleading or photos that are obviously fake: This is an E bay marketplace seller’s scam where the auctioneers falsely and unethically distort the description of the products they are selling. This criminal seller within the E bay marketplace will go as low as stealing photos from online to totally create a false product presentation. And when the buyer receives the shipment, it is always a lesser product that does not match the auction.

3. Shilling of Bids: This scam is perpetrated by the sellers of the E bay marketplace and is something that is hard to catch unless you were closely following the seller in question. Simply put, bid shilling is when a seller auctions off a product on the E bay marketplace and actually raises the bids himself in order to draw attention to it and have the price raised. How does one do this? They use multiple Ids or they enlist other separate bidders to enter the E bay marketplace and team up on the scam.