Welcome

This blog is dedicated to everyone who has thought about using eBay for clearing out their home clutter, buying hard to find items, obtaining the highest quality used goods for less or just as a side business.

You'll read about topics as diverse as using CSS in listings to make your items pop out to determining the best prices to sell your goods online. Over the course of the next few months, you'll get an introductory course on using eBay for fun, profit and saving money.

Always wanted to make more room in your apartment or house? Selling on eBay is a great way to rid yourself of some of that clutter! Remember, there are people who'd love many of the items you've grown tired of, and they will pay you for the pleasure of taking those items off of your hands.

Here are some of the topics to be discussed in coming weeks: searching eBay for the best prices to buy and how to see what the average selling price has been for items you want to sell have been; understanding the listing options; deciding between auction and fixed price listings; costs of using eBay and PayPal; and many more!

We'll even get started with links to eBay's instructions for setting up your account. Note: it is difficult to buy or sell when you don't have many reviews. In other words, a new seller should not sell anything expensive. In fact, you might find it worthwhile just to break even or make a few pennies on those early listings so you can get positive feedback. It is also good to buy on eBay at first since that's the fastest way to get reviews, even though the reviews as a buyer are tracked separately those reviews will show in your overall rating.

Here's an example link on setting up an eBay account by an eBay user. You'll find that much of eBay's "how to" information is user supplied. The eBay supplied instructions have much more to deal with eBay policies.

By the way, there are many types of items that are restricted (or banned) from resell, most for obvious reasons. Among them adult items, which must be listed in the Adults Only category and generally require an account with a track record of selling other items (an approval process is required) and virtual goods which are outright banned with the exception of goods created in the game Second Life.

More to come - enjoy eBaying and check out my growing store at Styles on the Sly. You can watch as I learn new things and make mistakes and enjoy that whole process, if schadenfreude gives you warm feelings of pleasure!