quote:You can't sell what nobody ever sees.
Chelsea,
Find something you can sell at cost that sells well at ebay.
99 cent items sold at cost will be found. The idea isn't to make money at ebay, it's to find customers.
If you sell an item at cost at ebay; you get a future customer at your website as a free bonus.
Simple Example:
Sell a toothbrush for 99 cents with free shipping with an auction ending every 8 hours.
When you ship the item, email the buyer telling them it shipped and also tell them you sell toothpaste and a 100 other tooth care items at your website.
Give them a link and maybe a coupon or something for 20% off their first purchase from your website.
Add the buyer to your address book for future advertising email about your website.
You made no money selling that toothbrush at ebay, but every month you will have ~90 new potential customers for your website.
~1100 new customers every year.
If you sell stuff people want and you're customers are satisfied, they'll tell others.
So every year you could easily add 5000 new potential customers to your website just from this simple example.
Add in Google and Yahoo advertising and that number could double, triple or more in size.
It works, you just need to understand how as I just explained.
It's not an overnight solution; it takes time to build any business.
Buy.com is so successfull at driving customers away from ebay that it's actually starting to show up in ebays profit margin.
Ebay blames the economy; but they're a ship of fools in serious denial.