Making Money Using The Fixed Price Option On eBay

I am finding that I am having a lot more success making money online with eBay by using their “Fixed Price” feature rather than their “Auction” feature. The reason for this is with the auction feature the most time you have to sell your item is 7 days unless you want to pay extra for a 10-day auction. The reality is unless you do a lot of promoting, 7 days isn’t enough time to have enough people interested in buying your item find it.

Plus, if your item doesn’t sell you are out the fees it cost to list it and you have to list the it again, incurring more of those high eBay auction fees. With the “Fixed Price” option you only pay 50cents to list your item and you have 30 days for interested buyers to find your item. If it does sell list it again for another 50cents for another 30 days. 50cents surely beats the auction fees you have to pay for a 7-day auction.

What I do is list my artwork as “Fixed Price” Buy It Now and choose the “Good ‘Til Canceled” option. This way I can keep my items up as long as I want and every 30 days I will be charged the 50cent fee. But, this gives my buyers plenty of time to find my artwork. The is putting a price on the item that you will be happy with instead of starting out with a low price and hoping the bids will get up to the price you want.

Sure there’s a chance that if you use the auction option that the bids could go higher than what you would ask as a Fixed Price item, but it’s a bigger chance that your item won’t get but a few views because it will be lost in a flood of other items being listed everyday. Unless you already have a big fan base that will actively look for your items or, like I said before, do a lot of promoting, you may have to list your item several times before it is sold as an auction and you may not get the price you want unless you have a reserve and that’s another fee.

Like I said, for me the “Fixed Price” option has been working out pretty good for making money online with eBay, but it’s up to you to choose what works best for you.

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eBay Helps Me Make Money Online

On this blog I have talked a lot about niche marketing and affiliate marketing, but they are not the only things I’m using in my adventure to try to make money online. I also use eBay in my adventure.

As an artist I sell my art there and last week I was able to get two commissions due to auctions I have there, which will net me a little over $400. I have also sold prints of my artwork that have done at FinerWorks there.

If you’re trying to make money online you should try eBay if you haven’t. You don’t have to be an artist, you can sell books, old stuff you no longer want, just about anything you can think of. You can even use drop shipping to sell items and never have to see them or store them.

A lot of people buy cheap items from yard sales and flea markets and sell them for higher prices. eBay has made it easier for you to sell items there if you use the “Buy It Now” feature. You can sell as many of one item as you want, charging as much as you want and keep it up for 30 days for only a 35-cent insertion fee.

That means if you 50 digital cameras selling for $100 each you can list them as a “Buy It Now” for 30 days and just pay 35 cents if none of them sell. Even though you might have to pay a higher final value fee when you sell an item, at least if you don’t sell anything you’re only out 35 cents and not dollars.

With Christmas on the horizon now is a good time to try eBay with all those hungry buyers looking for a deal.

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Introduction To My Make Money Online Adventure

I want to take this time to welcome you to My Make Money Online Adventure blog. I have been through quite a few things trying to make money online, some good some not so good. When I first started out to make money online I tried a little site called eBay, maybe you’ve heard of it. I still use eBay to make money and with their affiliate program there is even more potential for making money with them. That is one of things I will be using and talking about on this blog.

I went on to try HYIPs (High Yield Investment Programs) which was bad. I made and lost money using them, but I think I lost more money then I made. All of these are scams and ponzie schemes. You can make money from them, but you have to know to get in and when to get out. I have done and still do PTCs (Paid To Click) and PTRs (Paid To Read). These don’t pay a whole lot for your activity. Anywhere from one to five cents for each ad you click or email you read. Where you make the most money here is getting active referrals and getting paid from their activities. You must also stay vigilant yourself, checking your email and the sites for activities you can do.

I have even tried Paid To Blog sites like PayPerPost, Blogvertise and SponsoredReviews. I made some very good money from these until the big Google slap down where they knocked everybody’s page rank for doing paid reviews. I still make a little money from Paid To Blog sites, but not near as much as I was.

I have learned a lot since I first dove into the make money online area and I am going to use what I learned to start another phase of my make money online quest. I will be diving into niche marketing as well as some other things and I will give you a blow-by-blow account of my efforts. My hope is to help you learn from my mistakes and from what I do that works. May this will help you with your own Make Money Online Adventure.

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