| If you're at all familiar with eBay, you know that | | | | on and now there's so much competition on Sunday |
| some seller's listings always seem to end at a higher | | | | night, your item is likely to get lost in the shuffle. End |
| bid than other seller's listings. Do they have secret | | | | your auction on a Monday afternoon and you're likely |
| knowledge that gets them higher bids? In a way, | | | | to see your bid price soar. |
| they do. | | | | Secret Number 3 - Use the Gallery Option |
| There are some tried and true secrets that, when | | | | When listing your item to sell, eBay has a gallery |
| put into action, will allow you to sell your items for | | | | picture option. This means that a thumbnail photo of |
| more money than you would have if you didn't have | | | | your item will appear next to your listing description in |
| this knowledge. Below are 5 of the easiest ways to | | | | the website search results. If you want top dollar for |
| make sure that you sell your item for the best | | | | your item, use this option. |
| possible price. | | | | Secret Number 4 - Encourage Competitive Bidding |
| Secret Number 1 - Pictures, Pictures, Pictures! | | | | If you have a popular item for sale and you know a |
| I've seen it a million times. Someone has a valuable | | | | lot of people will be interested in it (such as the |
| item for sale but there's not a picture to be seen | | | | hottest toy of the year around Christmas time) start |
| anywhere in the auction description. That's a BIG | | | | the bidding out at $1. You can either put it at $1 with |
| problem. People like to see what they're buying and if | | | | no reserve or if you're not comfortable with that, list |
| you don't post any pictures, you're not going to be | | | | it at $1 with a reserve price of as low as you're |
| getting top-dollar for what you're selling. | | | | willing to sell the item for. |
| Whenever you list an item to sell, always include at | | | | Secret Number 5 - |
| least one picture. The more pictures you post, the | | | | Accept payment by credit card. People like |
| better. There's no such thing as too many pictures. | | | | convenience and if you want top dollar for your item, |
| Post as many as you can. | | | | you're going to want to accept credit cards. There |
| Secret Number 2 - End it on a Monday afternoon. It | | | | are a number of payment processing services on the |
| used to be that ending your auction on a Sunday | | | | web, like Paypal.com, who will allow you to process |
| night was your best bet. However, everyone caught | | | | payments via credit card. |