Chapter 14

Increase Profits with Photography and Other Strategies

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Adding pictures to your listing

Bullet Taking picture-perfect images with a smartphone

Bullet Uploading your smartphone pictures to eBay

Bullet Letting others meet you on your Profile

You may be enjoying most of what eBay has to offer, and you’re probably having some good buying adventures. If you’re selling, you’re experiencing the excitement of making money. But there’s more.

Once you are on eBay for any length of time, you’ll notice that listings with good pictures are more attractive. By saying “good pictures,” I mean detailed photos taken by the seller of the actual item that’s up for sale. People don’t trust what they can’t see, and often just using stock photography doesn’t instill very much.

Although eBay requires you to have at least one photo of your item (at least 500 pixels on the longest side), the more images you add to your listing, the more it will be noticed.

In this chapter, you go to the head of the class by discovering some insider tips on how to enhance your listings with images and descriptive text. ...

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