No inventory = no cash flow problem
Dropshipping is to sell the property without having in stock.
United States, more than 700.000 professionals experience in sales on eBay.In France they are just 15.240.Among these, there are vendors assistants, a market in full expansion .
With over 100 million items for sale every day and nearly 300 million members worldwide, eBay is the leading e-commerce.
Other than selling? Similar to yours have they already sold and at what price?
To answer these questions, do some research by looking at the completed listings.This can help you locate the value of your object among similar products.
If no comparable sales has been made recently, it may be that your object is very rare and then perhaps unsaleable ..
1. See what others are doing, especially those who made many sales and items with many bids already.You will not mistake you for inspiring style.
2. Put yourself in the shoes of the buyer: what will be put in the search engine and what will encourage them to buy your item (photos, description). When you make purchases on the Internet, what makes you buy an item?
3. Use keywords to help you appear in search engines, not just Ebay, but also in Google.Google very well the reference pages of Ebay, ie coffee table + 6 chairs.You have 55 characters for your ad.Use them in a relevant manner, avoiding unnecessary punctuation and superlatives such as "Splendid Table !!!".
Also avoid building brands and references to the detriment of the name of the object, eg SONY DSC-T200 recent.Prefer: Digital camera SONY DSC-T200
4 . Ask yourself if a single image is enough or if you gain to show your subject from different angles.
5. Be honest and accurate description.If the item is defective or signs of wear, say so (eg a stripe of 2 cm). The buyer knows that he buys one occasion that the trust will avoid disputes later.
You can set a reserve price is the lowest price which you are willing to sell the item.Buyers do not know the price and you do not have to sell if the reserve price has not been reached.
Or you can choose a classic fixed-price sales (Buy Now). This is possible only if you have 10 assessments a minimum (as buyer or seller) or by being named to payment by direct debit.
Delivery costs must include the cost of transportation and the price of the package (box, protective equipment, ...)
Delivery is recommended Colissimo, whose deadline is 48 for France and from 4 to 8 days for international.Rates are posted on the site Colissimo.
For an auction, no need to opt for a long run in that almost everything is played in your last minutes on Ebay.Choose from 5 to 7 days.This leaves time for buyers to locate your item and follow before making their proposal.
Try to complete the auction on Sunday evening between 20h and 23h, buyers are more available on weekends, especially Sunday night.Buyers wait until the last hour to raise prices.
Attention, sale ends at the exact time when it was put online.A sale ended at 1 am is not a winning strategy.
If you chose the option "buy it now", you are advised to choose an online 10 days.The longer your product is seen, the greater the chance of being purchased.
At the anniversary convention of eBay, held for ten years from the site of 23 to 25 June in California, professional sellers 11.000 constituted the bulk of participants who had traveled to San Jose for the occasion.A trifle, in light of 430.000 professionals that the auction site, live wholly or partially of their selling activity on the deck house.In France, they would be a few thousand, but exact statistics are jealously guarded.BtoC is that selling on eBay, despite constraints and reserves in respect of certain professionals, developed alongside or on Priceminister 2xMoinsCher.
An article in the World published in early July estimated the number of professional sellers on eBay France at present 2.000.A figure lower than that announced by Priceminister (3.000 professional sellers) for an equivalent number of users (about three million members). There the comparison ends, the direction eBay France does not wish to disclose figures.Petary Francis, director of the categories, simply states that all types of businesses are represented from TPE to Hewlett-Packard, the independent who started with the site through the local wholesaler
To better understand the mechanisms of this new sector, the simplest is to put in place the professional wishing to exercise their trade on a marketplace online.What variables influence the choice of one or more platforms? Market size, first.First observation : eBay is in this area, the only international platform through its 24 local websites and the opportunity to deal directly with foreign buyers and sellers.On 2xMoinsCher, international transactions are impossible, while on Priceminister, use is restricted to 18 countries outside France.
Understandably, eBay provides access to a huge market with 150 million users worldwide, and between 750 million and $ 1.4 billion of products offered for sale in 2004, according to estimates.In France alone, the value of transactions have increased by The World 160% in 2004 to 437 million euros, making it the European country where the growth of eBay is the most dynamic.A French four connects to eBay once a month.
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