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Tips On How to Buy Stuff for Cheap on eBay

So you want to buy cheap stuff on ebay? Tips on how to buy stuff for cheap on eBay Buying and selling on e-bay can save you money. It can also make you money if you learn to understand the concept. 1. Search for whatever item you want to bid on and click on sort (Price: Lowest First). 2. Mark those items to watch on your My eBay. 3. Watch items of interest until the last 5-10 minutes of auction. 4. Go to auction page and prepare proxy bid. Be cheap. Don't set proxy higher than you are willing to go. remember you will also pay shipping when you win the auction. Consider this as part of your total investment. 5. As late as you dare, click bid. 6. If you lose, try again on the next watched auction. 7. If you win, pay promptly. 8. Make sure you don't enter the wrong amount. Tips Never overbid on an item there are a lot of - if there's another item identically priced, bid only a little on the first, and push them both up at the same rate, until you are the winning bidder. If Continue Reading

Steps for setting up a business on ebay

Ted Corriher, a home, garden and farm equipment dealer in Newton, North Carolina, didn't know much about computers or the internet four years ago. He didn't even have a personal e-mail account. "I am computer illiterate," he says. "But all my friends were buying on eBay, and I didn't want to miss [out]." So he asked one of his employees to find out how he could sell his equipment on eBay. That was three years ago. Today, he sells about $100,000 worth of equipment on eBay every month, and his predominantly tractor-sales business has grown from $4 million to $10 million in annual sales. It's almost hard to believe this $3.27 billion online marketplace with a record 404 million listings as of the end of 2004 was Corriher's initial foray onto the internet. The opportunity to expand beyond a 300-mile radius from the doorstep of Corriher Implement Co., which his grandfather started in the 1850s, is part of what persuaded this 40-year-old to join a whopping 147 million registered users on Continue Reading