Best length for ebay listing?

GibH

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Auctions I list for 7 days. I like to use buy it now for electronics, fees are 7% of the first $50 and 5% after that. Works out cheaper than the auction final value fee and I can usually get my money for it sooner.
 

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Ditto on 7 days. Best from Sunday to Sunday. Been selling for 7 yrs. :icon_thumright:
 

diggummup

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I do the same as cpendola, but I list on Mon. and Tues. sometimes also, starting/ending at 10pm EST. I use fixed price BIN for some items, nothing collectible though.
 

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I have been on ebay for a few years now and all mine are 7 days.....
 

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I've been selling for 13 years now and 7 is the magic number. I do 10 days on rare items but those are few and far between. If I have multiples of an item, find an average price and undercut it by a little and list it as a BIN.
 

creeper71

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I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...
 

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creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
 

diggummup

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WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
 

creeper71

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diggummup said:
WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
I didn't see this could you post the link so I can read? thanks
 

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7 days is all i use, Saturday or Sunday.
i have been using use.com for about 6 months, it looks nice and it's nice to be able to make the listings through out the week and list them when i want.
recently have been having issues with use.
i have all my saved templates ready to go and when i list them on ebay it shows the small pictures that you can click on at the bottom of the listing.
problem is it's showing every picture i have for the other listings.
until i can get this fixed, i will just be using the ebay picture loader.
any idea why it would do that?
 

diggummup

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creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
I didn't see this could you post the link so I can read? thanks
That is the link. What do you mean?
 

creeper71

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diggummup said:
creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
I didn't see this could you post the link so I can read? thanks
That is the link. What do you mean?
I just woke up when I wrote that... I didn;'t see the link..Sorry digs
 

diggummup

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creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
I didn't see this could you post the link so I can read? thanks
That is the link. What do you mean?
I just woke up when I wrote that... I didn;'t see the link..Sorry digs
Got up a little late for a Saturday didn't ya? No gs'ing yesterday?
 

creeper71

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diggummup said:
creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
creeper71 said:
diggummup said:
WIT said:
creeper71 said:
I see no one posted how to save you tons of money yet... I seen this in another post but don't feel like wading thru all the post to find it... anyways when you go to list your ebay item DO NOT USE EBAY AUCTION FORM.. Use www.use.com it is 100% free an don't need to sign up to use.. I tried it with a auction of mine an it only cost me thru ebay 35 cents with 8 pictures.

Ps if someone else can explain this better please do I am not good at explaining things...

Sometimes, depending on what you are listing, ebaY will let you list all 12 pics for free but most of the time it will cost you extra for any more than 1. The way to get around this is to upload your images to a site such as the one you posted and cheat them into your listing with some simple HTML tags. The photos show up in the body of the auction and it looks a lot more attractive. :icon_thumright:
Although the free templates are a big plus too when using USE.com, for those who may not know yet...

Posted February 28th, 2012 at 7:58 AM:
Starting in July, all sellers get FREE pictures—12 per listing—including free zoom and enlarge. Lots of great pictures translate to more sales, so get ready to load up!


All updates coming, some good some not so good- http://announcements.ebay.com/2012/02/2012-spring-seller-update/
I didn't see this could you post the link so I can read? thanks
That is the link. What do you mean?
I just woke up when I wrote that... I didn;'t see the link..Sorry digs
Got up a little late for a Saturday didn't ya? No gs'ing yesterday?
No sales I had to work missed a big sale with 146 dealers I was p'd
 

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