Absolute Beginner’s Guide to eBay®, Fifth Edition

Chapter 11. What to Do Before You Sell

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Finding Items to Sell

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Picking the Right Category

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Setting the Right Price

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Letting Somebody Else Sell It for You

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Selling your first item on eBay can be a real rush—and a genuinely stressful experience. What’s the right price to set? What category should it go into? What do I do if it doesn’t sell—or if it does? As you gain more experience selling, you still run into a lot of these same issues. Pricing is always a guessing game, as is category placement. But as you sell more and more items on eBay, you run into a new issue: Where do you get more stuff to sell? ...