I am going to open an EBay store as soon as I am back in one place with an internet I can rely on.
I will be using my 100% positive feedback ID and I am just playing around with the right store name for it.
I have always believed in using excellent templates for listings and I used to love making these myself, however my background magic program only work on the old windows operating systems.
I have used the EBay templates and don't really like any of them and find them too commonplace in the EBay listings to stand out well from the crowd. I think it is important to show a professional look, it helps people trust the seller if your auction looks beautifully presented.
Two years ago I trialed two companies that charged around $10. a month to use their auction templates, they were OK, not exactly what I wanted.
Last year I paid $50. to one company for the unlimited use of their auction templates for 12 months...they were good, but still not exactly what I wanted.
This week I have invested over 10 hours pouring over every EBay listing of auction templates and ordered around 40 assorted highly professional auction templates. I like variety because I colour and style harmonies the template to the listing. This takes time. I allow 20 minutes to make up every listing I insert on EBay so one listing per day is around three and a half hours work, and that is without finding photographing the item, replying to customers and posting items. So time management will be important once I get into the listing and selling.
At least I will own these templates and not have on going monthly or yearly fees and of course I could have managed with half a dozen templates quite easily...this is FUN however. Designing a good looking listing is like any other creative work, something to enjoy doing. When things cease to be enjoyable...I stop doing them. Which is why I do not sell on EBay 12 months of the year. As soon as I weary of it, I take a break...a long break. Then because I do it when I want to do it, while I am loving doing it, I believe this is why I maintain patience with customers and hold my 100% positive over 1000 happy customers, feedback.
I will be using my 100% positive feedback ID and I am just playing around with the right store name for it.
I have always believed in using excellent templates for listings and I used to love making these myself, however my background magic program only work on the old windows operating systems.
I have used the EBay templates and don't really like any of them and find them too commonplace in the EBay listings to stand out well from the crowd. I think it is important to show a professional look, it helps people trust the seller if your auction looks beautifully presented.
Two years ago I trialed two companies that charged around $10. a month to use their auction templates, they were OK, not exactly what I wanted.
Last year I paid $50. to one company for the unlimited use of their auction templates for 12 months...they were good, but still not exactly what I wanted.
This week I have invested over 10 hours pouring over every EBay listing of auction templates and ordered around 40 assorted highly professional auction templates. I like variety because I colour and style harmonies the template to the listing. This takes time. I allow 20 minutes to make up every listing I insert on EBay so one listing per day is around three and a half hours work, and that is without finding photographing the item, replying to customers and posting items. So time management will be important once I get into the listing and selling.
At least I will own these templates and not have on going monthly or yearly fees and of course I could have managed with half a dozen templates quite easily...this is FUN however. Designing a good looking listing is like any other creative work, something to enjoy doing. When things cease to be enjoyable...I stop doing them. Which is why I do not sell on EBay 12 months of the year. As soon as I weary of it, I take a break...a long break. Then because I do it when I want to do it, while I am loving doing it, I believe this is why I maintain patience with customers and hold my 100% positive over 1000 happy customers, feedback.
