Auction Power Guide

Should I have lower prices on ebay than the same items sold via the webstore; should it be the other way around, or both about the same? GENUINE, SERIOUS answers only, please.

I completely disagree with rlecor (in a friendly way of course 😉 but you can price your goods at exactly the same price (if not cheaper, minus ebay’s fees of course) on ebay as your webstore. I do agree with rlecor when he/she says "shoppers there are really looking for a bargain".

Keeping in with that understanding, the best way to use ebay is to support your webstore. Offer an item for cost on ebay to attract visitors to your webstore. Have something ultra unique? Put it up for auction and use your webstore as the reference point.

There are so many ways you can go. Either way can be very successful or a waste of effort and time. Take a look at this…

http://www.StartMySmallBiz.com

This program has a TON of techniques and strategies for developing a successful ebay and/or webstore among some very unique ways of promoting your goods.

Good luck,

Tom

You may be trying to decide how to go ahead with your dreams of an online product sales business. Many times a new product seller is torn between creating an eBay store and setting up a web store on your own domain. Because many sellers get their feet wet by offering a few products on eBay, it’s easy to move smoothly into an eBay store, but is it the right choice for your business?

Positioning is Everything
The first thing to remember is that there isn’t anything magical about setting up an eBay store. Some have the idea that an eBay store gets better exposure online than other options. This just isn’t true. An eBay store only gets as much attention as you stir up for it.

eBay users, the people who do find your store, tend to be looking to pay as little as possible for whatever they want. If you’re looking to make a good profit on your products, a traditional web store is usually a better choice. People who find your web store are more likely to be looking for a good product, not just a bargain.

Financially Speaking.
There are costs involved in creating a presence on the web. When you use a Basic eBay Store, you pay the monthly $15.95* plus any insertion and final value fees. With a Watersweb Shop Kit Plus, you get started with one time license fee and a flat rate of $10 per month. You own your shopping cart and never pay any additional insertion or final value fees on your sales.

Let’s Compare Costs For A New Shop Owner.
If you sell 10 products a month for a full year, each valued at about $25 through an eBay store. You would have sold over $3,000 and paid $417 in costs. With Shop Kit Plus, you’re costs would only be $205.00.

Another Comparison.
The difference in fees gets more noticeable as you grow more successful. If you sell 100 products a month for a full year, each valued at about $25 through an eBay store. You would have sold over $30,000 and paid $2,599 in costs. With Shop Kit Plus, you would still only have paid $205.00 in costs. The only time your costs would increase is if you needed additional storage space, server resources or bandwidth. And then your additional costs are still fixed—instead of growing with each additional sale.

It’s Smart Business
It is better to start now with the big picture in mind. Starting a website now means that all of your time spent in promoting your business will have long term value. As you spread the word, you share your domain name and people will remember it.

With some simple search engine optimization tactics you’ll soon start to receive good traffic from the big search engines. At Watersweb Shops, we include several resources to our new store owners for learning how to market your site, optimize for the search engines and target the people who are looking for your product.

You Can Still Use eBay
Once you have your store ready to go, if you want to reach the eBay crowd, list a few items and put a link to your website in your About Me page. This can be a great option for selling your clearance items—that won’t eat up your profits.

*Ebay pricing accurate as of September 12, 2006

Michelle Waters
http://www.articlesbase.com/ecommerce-articles/ebay-store-vs-ecommerce-website-57219.html

In a world where information comes to you at the speed of light and can be gone just as quickly, where can you find dependability and a rock-solid reputation for service? As so many have done, you can go to eBay and become the next satisfied customer of Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com.

Web businesses sputter and fade like fireworks, but Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales , and their web store www.simplyusedphones.com, has proven to be a steady torch, lighting the way, whether you’re interested in 1 telephone or a complete telephone system for your office. This vendor of used phones and used phone systems has made their online business the heart of their success in providing used phone systems, and specifically on eBay over the past five years.

Ebay has given Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, a chance to really shine, as the brisk pace of sales and the glowing customer reviews have shown. Just take a look at some of the facts from their e-bay store!

1. Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, eBay ID SimplyUsedPhones, has over 1000 positive feedbacks and a 99.8% positive feedback score. For a company that services such a wide variety of people, this is very impressive. Their feedback describes a company that is quick to reply and very available to their customers.

2. Personal service! While the web has served to distance many vendors from their customers, Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com,

has become closer to their clients. Their 800 number is displayed in bold on their vendor page, and every customer is welcome to call in. You’ll never be just a number to Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales.

3. Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com,

also has made it their responsibility to keep their expenses low so they can keep their prices low as well. They do not seek to pad their expenses through exorbitant shipping.

4. If you take a look down their very long list of customer feed back, you hear the same things over and over again. Customers are impressed with the quality of speed and service that they have received and look forward to doing business with Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales again. In a market where sellers are notorious for flaking out, Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com, goes the extra mile to make sure that the customer is satisfied.

5. Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com, provides excellent goods and delivers as promised. This is something else that this company’s customers rave about. Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, is honest about their merchandise. Their top seller are the Merlin Bis phones, a model that’s been around for over 20 years due to its affordability and reliability.

6. Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, eBay ID simplyusedphones, entire set-up is one that comes across as professional and down to earth. Unlike other Ebay sellers, they have long experience with sales prior to getting started online, and they have transferred their good business practices over to the web.

7. Though it’s probably not a huge part in their online success, it certainly can’t hurt – Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales sends a Thank You note and candy with every box shipped. With a warm human touch, they reaffirm that the customer is a human and not a faceless number.

Over the past five years, Southern Cal Telecom Product Sales, www.simplyusedphones.com, has provided excellent customer service in every format, from storefront to internet marketplace. If their success on eBay is any indication, this company will continue to go far, no matter how the world changes.

Mark Allen
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/southern-cal-telecom-product-sales-finds-success-on-ebay-109917.html