Archive for December, 2005

How to Increase Your eBay Backend Sales

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

It shouldn’t be too hard to increase your eBay backend sales – because the chances are you currently aren’t making any! Backend sales are sales to customers who have already bought an item, also known as ‘up-selling’. These are usually easier sales to make than normal sales: in sales-speak, your existing customers are ‘warm leads’. […]

What Else Belongs on Your eBay Shipping Box?

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

The quickest answer I feel I should give to this question is this: not your handwriting! Scrawling addresses on boxes with a pen is extremely amateurish, and you shouldn’t do it. Print your own labels instead. But what should you put on them?
The buyer’s address: This might sound obvious, but you need to make sure […]

Should PayPal be Your Only eBay Payment Option?

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

You may have noticed that many sellers list PayPal as the only payment option they accept – they simply can’t be bothered cashing cheques and money orders, never mind any of the other strange ways some people want to pay. Like all things in life, though, PayPal has its advantages and disadvantages. Let’s take a […]