1. Use Pictures to accentuate your Auction Items. There is a caveat here, however, slow loading Ads will lose viewers, so put some effort into creating images that are compressed and use thumbnail images for fast load times. All the images in an Ad should add up to under 50,000 bytes. See our How Tutorials: Image Compression, Make Thumbnails and then use our Ad Templates.

2. Be professional. Research your item and give an accurate and thorough description. Use nice fonts and colors in your Ad. Our members can use the WYSIWYG editor "What you see is what you get" editor to make all their attractive, eye catching Ads without knowing any HTML code. If you can use a simple word processor application, you can use this tool.

3. Selectin the right color combinations for your Ad is very important to create a buying mood. See this tutorial on colors.
4. Do your homework upfront. Use our member search tool to reseach the current pricing trends for your item at ebay. Use the data to determine a good staring price and reasonable reserve.

5. Use 10 day auctions instead of 7 Days to get in 2 weekends that attract the Recreational Bidders. Use our tutorials to Automate Auctions Submissions to always post at peak time cycles.

6. Be accommodating to your Bid Winners.

• Ask for good feedback and build relationships with your bidders. It will pay off in the long run.
• If you are new to auction selling, Give information to validate you credibility. Use an About Me Page and create a web page where you post a picture and a biography (Link it to Your About Me Page).
• Create an e-Auction Card to maintain a permanent web presence.
• Create professional Ads. Use our great templates. Don't forget to add links to both in your AD.
• ALWAYS accept reasonable return and refund requests.
• Members can use our Bidder Mail Form to collect valuable leads to bid on upcoming auctions.. Specialize in items the will win auction bids for under $100. You should pay an average of under $35 for this item. Always set your starting bid to a break even then add traceable shipping, insurance and handling (it's best to make this payable by the seller). Dutch auctions are an exception to this rule.

7. Accept chasiers checks, money orders and use credit card services to attract the most bidders with confirmed addresses. Paypal is a great service.Exception: When dealing with Non-US Buyers from countries who are not accepted by Paypal, accept only eChecks to your Paypal account. This method should also be used for Buyers with un-confirmed Paypal addresses. Check the Paypal site for details aboyut these free services.

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9. Follow-up on your sales using out Wining Bidders Packing Slip. Also, create a list of bidders contacts using our Bidder Mail Form integrated into your Ads.

10. Offer more options to your buyers. You might want to offer gift wrapping for special occasions or mailing options such as priority overnight shipping. All for an additional price of course. This options may be just the difference from your competitors to sway a bidder to your item.

11. Check the fees for ebay and paypal to determine how best to price shipping, handling and transaction fees. The fees will even differ if your item is from an non US paypal account. To avoid losing money use this 30 day trail software Fee FInder calculator from HammerTap Online Auction Software

If you're planning to sell your home via online auctions, there are some to do things to help you increase your chances of the highest profits attainable. Use the same great home seller tips the professionals use. I've located this Home Resource Site that offers A-Z tips and how to's to make it happen for you.