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This is the concluding article of this series about selling on eBay

There are two other offers you can make to give a potential customer more confidence in you. Provide a phone number or physical address in the listing. This can have amazing effects, especially if you are selling high priced products.

One word of warning if you are starting out selling on eBay and think you can make a killing on sports and concert tickets. Don’t believe everything you read or hear on the media. On average, people lose money through buying tickets online at the correct price and selling them on eBay. If I buy Take That tickets for £75 in the UK, I will be lucky to sell them for £60 on eBay. It is a myth that everybody can make a fortune selling tickets on eBay. By the time the gig comes along, eBay is so full of these tickets that you can get them for 50% of the original price.

That comes from personal experience. I have made more money online by purchasing tickets on eBay at low prices and selling them the day before the concert with guaranteed next day delivery than buying in advance from a box office. Don’t always believe what the media tell you.

It's possible to complement your online business using eBay to sell your products. It expands your outlets and provides your brand name or website name with yet another means of getting better known. However, there are rules and pitfalls. Get to them.

Want additional information about using eBay? Go to “How to Use eBay for Buying Part I” and “How to Use eBay to Promote Your Website Part I.”