penguins_dont_fly is a Volunteer Community Mentor
1 BEST ANSWER
Accepted Solutions
As a new seller, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the policies and procedures for selling. Start reading here:
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/index.html
Also ... familiarize yourself with the MBG:
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy....
I have said this to other new Sri Lankan sellers, and I will repeat myself now:
Whoever is selling you (and all the other) Sri Lankan sellers the "how to sell on eBay" class and services is not doing you any favors.
Auction style listings for common items will not increase your traffic or sales. In fact, buyers will be more likely to buy common items from the seller with the best overall (item+shipping) fixed price and shipping time.
If you have in demand items (or rare items that do not have an easily researched price) ... those types of items do well at auction. Collectors of those types of items will look at your other listings to see if you are selling anything similar. Buyers of those types of items are willing to bid and wait for their item.
For commodity and common items that have a price history, those items will draw buyers if the price, the shipping price and the shipping time are attractive to the buyer. Buyers will often look for similar commodity items to buy from the seller so that the buyer can get all of their items shipped at the same time.
Those buyers do NOT want to have to wait for an auction to end and they really don't want to pay high shipping charges for something that they can get locally quicker and cheaper. These buyers want to add all of their items to the cart, pay and get their items quickly.
Also, for commodity items, auctions only allow you to list a qty of 1 item and then have to relist the item to sell the next one a week or more later. A fixed price listing allows you to post multiple quantities in one listing. This way, buyers can purchase more than 1 of the item if they need more than one. SO, if you have more than one of the item to sell, you will be able to sell them quicker.
Price your items competitively ... stop losing money on penny auctions. An auction that ends at $0.20 with free shipping will put you in the negative immediately.
Even if the variable eBay and PayPal fees are a fraction of one cent, the fixed transaction fee from PayPal is 0.30 ... you are negative 10 cents right there...and then there are shipping costs.
And ... I just want to add ... PayPal in Sri Lanka is "send only". Sri Lanka sellers cannot receive payments. In order to be receiving payments, you must give false information to PayPal ... which is a violation of PayPal policy and can get your account shut down.
As a new seller, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the policies and procedures for selling. Start reading here:
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/index.html
Also ... familiarize yourself with the MBG:
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy/ebay-money-back-guarantee-policy....
I have said this to other new Sri Lankan sellers, and I will repeat myself now:
Whoever is selling you (and all the other) Sri Lankan sellers the "how to sell on eBay" class and services is not doing you any favors.
Auction style listings for common items will not increase your traffic or sales. In fact, buyers will be more likely to buy common items from the seller with the best overall (item+shipping) fixed price and shipping time.
If you have in demand items (or rare items that do not have an easily researched price) ... those types of items do well at auction. Collectors of those types of items will look at your other listings to see if you are selling anything similar. Buyers of those types of items are willing to bid and wait for their item.
For commodity and common items that have a price history, those items will draw buyers if the price, the shipping price and the shipping time are attractive to the buyer. Buyers will often look for similar commodity items to buy from the seller so that the buyer can get all of their items shipped at the same time.
Those buyers do NOT want to have to wait for an auction to end and they really don't want to pay high shipping charges for something that they can get locally quicker and cheaper. These buyers want to add all of their items to the cart, pay and get their items quickly.
Also, for commodity items, auctions only allow you to list a qty of 1 item and then have to relist the item to sell the next one a week or more later. A fixed price listing allows you to post multiple quantities in one listing. This way, buyers can purchase more than 1 of the item if they need more than one. SO, if you have more than one of the item to sell, you will be able to sell them quicker.
Price your items competitively ... stop losing money on penny auctions. An auction that ends at $0.20 with free shipping will put you in the negative immediately.
Even if the variable eBay and PayPal fees are a fraction of one cent, the fixed transaction fee from PayPal is 0.30 ... you are negative 10 cents right there...and then there are shipping costs.
And ... I just want to add ... PayPal in Sri Lanka is "send only". Sri Lanka sellers cannot receive payments. In order to be receiving payments, you must give false information to PayPal ... which is a violation of PayPal policy and can get your account shut down.
