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Building A List By Selling Ebooks On eBay

One of the people that I listen to faithfully when it comes to how to make some good money on eBay, is Terry Gibbs. This man knows what works — and he’s also wonderful about sharing his knowledge. This is an article that he wrote recently about how he builds a good marketing list by selling ebooks on eBay.

I hope you enjoy it and that it also helps you as much as it has me.

Have a great day —

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Building A List By Selling Ebooks On eBay

I have been selling ebooks on eBay in order to build a newsletter list. (I also make a few dollars on the deal.) Here’s a simple overview.

I wrote a simple ebook. About thirty pages of information. I list it on eBay for $9.97 each in buy-it-now auctions. I pay extra for featured plus and list 19 books in each auction. The insertion fee is $22.35 per listing.

Based on those costs if I sell three books I make money. I also get newsletter subscribers who buy my other products or products I recommend.

I’ve explained all this before and you should be familiar with the idea.

But, here’s the new twist. …

The simple ebook is generic. That means I can change the title and list it in different categories. This helps for two reasons.

1. I get larger exposure because I list in multiple categories without violating eBay’s rules about most relevant category.

And 2. The book seems more specific to the person reading the auction.

Think about the second one for a minute. I don’t want to tell you the title because I have been having problems with people ripping my stuff off, so I will use a made up example.

If you were restoring a 1973 Ford Pinto which would you be more likely to buy? A book about fixing Japanese cars, or a book about restoring Ford Pintos?

You’d buy the Pinto book. Do people restore Pintos? We will leave that for another day.

Terry Gibbs

For more information about using eBay to build newsletter lists including a case study just click the link below …

Click here for more information …

Selling Items With Low Demand And High Value

Elaine Smith is, in my opinion, the one person with the answers to those questions about the best way to sell items with low demand and high value.

This happens frequently when you are working on selling items that are rare, such as collectibles. Collectibles almost always will have a low demand on eBay and that creates a certain risk.

The risk is that you won’t get your item in front of enough buyers in order to get the true value of your item.

Some sellers will use a reserve to overcome that risk. And that is one way to handle that. And there is nothing wrong with it.

Elaine, however, uses an eBay store for those rare items. The listing fee is reasonable — only three cents per month per item — plus the monthly store fee.

When you first look at how an eBay store is put together, you would think that there is no way that buyers would see the items. Part of that reasoning is that it used to be that it would be your job to figure out how to drive traffic to your eBay store.

But now, that’s different.

eBay has changed it so that store listings are fed to the search engines and those listings will come up in searches that are done by prospective buyers who search on eBay and find few auction results.

So, why would you want to use this?

If you have only a few items a month that you would normally sell with a reserve, then you are probably better off to continue to list your items that way — with a reserve.

However, if you have dozens of such items to sell — or as some sellers have — hundreds of this kind of item — then selling through an eBay store would make more sense for you.

You can find out more about Elaine’s tips for selling eBay by going to her site.

Click here to learn more ….

Have a great day …..

A New eBay Scam To Avoid

Lately I have been getting a lot of emails telling me an item I bought on eBay has been shipped. These are for items I didn’t buy.

Here’s an example:

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Subject: Your eBay item has been shipped.

Message: I have shipped the following item to you. You should be receiving it shortly.

Item title: AMERICAN EAGLE ONYX MEN’S RING 10K $79
Web Address: (FAKE LINK TO EBAY VIEW ITEM PAGE HERE)
Item number: 5043587932
Seller User ID: jewelrypeople
Total: $79.00

Once your item arrives in satisfactory condition, please leave feedback for me. I will do the same for you. Thank you again!

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I removed the fake link above, but if you click on the real link in the email you are taken to a fake eBay login page. These scammers are hoping to create curiosity and steal your account.

There is a page on eBay that tells you what the URL for the login page for your country should look like at: http://pages.ebay.com/help/confidence/isgw-account-theft-spoof.html

Familiarize yourself with the real URL or bookmark a page on eBay and always login from your bookmark. Protect yourself by never logging in from a link in an email.

Want to learn more about Ebay — just click here to take the short quiz by Terry Gibbs.