New Seller Education and Consulting Services from eBay Certified Providers

Selling on eBay is an easy and great way to make extra cash while cleaning out a garage or closet. All a new seller really needs to do is decide what to sell, take pictures and write a description about the item. No matter if an eBay member would like guided help or go it alone, Certified Providers can make the transition from buyer to seller quickly and easily.

If you have a new or beginner seller that would like to enlist the advice and help from experienced eBay sellers and consultants to guide you, then our Certified Providers can help. They can teach sellers how to sell effectively on eBay and perhaps even increase their eBay selling to full-time and start an online business.

Benefits:

• Learn what items sell on eBay
• Avoid common selling mistakes
• Self-paced learning environment
• Personalized advice
• Find the products buyers want and locate suppliers
• Set up your business properly

eBay Certified Providers can help sellers interested in getting started selling on eBay or learning how to be more successful. Look into -

The Queen of Auctions
WhatDoISell

We suggest you contact the Certified Provider directly and decide if they offer the right education and consulting service for you.

New eBay Certified Provider, B-Stock Solutions, Brings Unique Product Sourcing Opportunities to eBay Sellers

New eBay Certified Provider, B-Stock Solutions

The eBay Certified Provider Program is excited to offer sellers more inventory and product sourcing opportunities with the addition of B-Stock Solutions to the program.


B-Stock Solutions opens supply sources for smaller resellers, like eBay sellers, who have previously been unable to buy directly from Fortune 2000 retailers and manufacturers. eBay sellers can purchase direct from the large retailers, manufacturers and liquidators. With B-Stock, sellers can bypass purchasing through middlemen that paying extra fees or markups.

B-Stock understands the challenges an eBay seller encounters when trying to develop new, reliable sources of quality inventory. They help answer this challenge by delivering private auction marketplaces allowing registered eBay sellers to bid on inventory in lots/palettes, pay securely and arrange safe shipment. B-Stock creates a predictable, dependable source of supply for eBay sellers.

Features:

Categories:

• Consumer Electronics
• Clothing, Shoes & Accessories
• Home, Bed & Bath
• Cosmetics
• Media
• New categories added frequently

Inventory conditions include:

• Brand new overstock
• Out of season
• Returns
• Refurbished

Benefits:

• Buy liquidation inventory directly from large retailers and manufacturers
• Peace of mind in purchasing authentic inventory
• Purchased inventory can be shipped to eBay seller’s location or arrange to pick-up
• Alerted to new inventory opportunities

Founded in 2008, B-Stock Solutions creates private marketplaces for large retailers, manufacturers and liquidators enabling them to offer their inventory direct to eBay sellers.

Increase Sales and Reduce Labor Costs with Custom Development by JDT Technologies

eBay Certified Provider Spotlight

JDT Technologies provides consulting services and custom eBay programming to help high-volume sellers achieve the next level of success. JDT can integrate eBay and other channels listing and post auction processes with your inventory, sales order/fulfillment, CRM or accounting solution.

Features:

• Custom eBay operation software operating in real-time
• Connect eBay listings to your product data
• Accurately tie and track inventory across multiple channels (online and retail)
• Create an order fulfillment and shipment system for your business
• Connect eBay sales to your accounting system/software

Benefits:

• Stick to the platform of your choice
• Implement your business rules
• Increase revenue
• Decrease costs and inefficiencies
• Integrate with your internal or partner systems
• Increase sales and get a custom shipping calculator with a custom built checkout solution
• Create a custom solution from the ground up
• Create a solution to work with current eBay tools
• Create a solution to integrate with current retail business operational solutions

eBay sellers interested in having a custom solution built for their eBay, ecommerce and retail business can look into contacting JDT.

How to contact JDT Technologies for a free consultation

• Phone - 800-252-5519
• Email - info@jdttech.com
• Webform - http://www.jdttech.com/contact.html

Check out JDT Technologies work with eBay sellers and the success of their custom solutions for each unique business.

Seller Sourcebook Launches Support of eBay Multi-Variation Fixed Price Format

eBay Certified Solution Provider, Seller Sourcebook, now supports eBay’s Multi-Variation Fixed Price Listing Format.

Multi-variation Fixed Price listings allow sellers to include multiple variations of one product (such as color and size) in one low-cost, multi-quantity Fixed Price listing, and price each variation differently.

“We wanted to respond quickly to requests for support of listings with variations,” - Kristen Rice, Founder and CEO of Seller Sourcebook. “We strive to deliver a great listing experience and seamless support for our members.”

eBay sellers using Seller Sourcebook for listing, design and photo hosting now have the added luxury of saving time and money by condensing applicable listings into a Multi-Variation Fixed Price Format.

The variation option is the perfect solution for sellers who are listing items with multiple variations, such as different sizes and colors. Listing time and fees are reduced as the seller is able to place their items in one listing that encompasses all variations. For example, an eBay seller could create a listing to combine all the colors and sizes of their inventory of Lands' End Women's Fine Gauge Cotton Cardigans and charge $29.95 for regular sizes and $39.95 for plus sizes.

eBay sellers can revise their active listings to include multi-variations with Seller Sourcebook’s listing tool per eBay’s policies.

Founded in 2003, Seller Sourcebook provides an affordable eBay listing tool, image hosting and a large selection of attractive templates to assist sellers in creating professional listings on eBay.

Should You End an eBay Auction Early? by Vendio

Post taken from the Vendio blog, Vendable

Ending eBay Auctions Early

It’s a seller dilemma. A buyer emails and asks you to end your auction early and sell to them outright or for the bid they have placed on your item.

This actually occurs more frequently since the best offer option was added to eBay. Countless times I have seen sellers ask the question: “Do I end the Item early and sell?”. Experienced sellers will typically answer “no” as they know that the price is likely to climb in the last few minutes of bidding.

It does appear that newer sellers get these requests most often.

So, what is the best practice?

If there is interest in your item, it is likely that there will be more bidding and a higher realized price if you let the auction run its course. The downside is that you may end up not selling the item or not getting the price offered. However, in most cases, you’ll end up with more bids (money) if you wait it out.

So, how do I answer the inquiry?

To make it easier on yourself, compose a standard message that you keep on hand, which lets a buyer know you appreciate their inquiry, you hope they bid, but there are other folks interested in the item and it would not be fair to them to end the item early (or its your policy), etc. Be kind, but don’t encourage back and forth communication unless you do plan on selling to the buyer at a higher price (I was really hoping to get $30).

Many sellers would not recommend that you end your item early, but there are occasions where you may wish to end the item early and sell it.

If you do end your item early, you are still obligated to sell to the highest bidder, so make sure that the person who inquired is the highest bidder.

Happy Selling!

By Vendio

An eBay Certified Solutions Provider since 2004, Vendio provides an ecommerce solution for eBay sellers of all sizes. Vendio offers a series of applications which can be installed on a standalone basis or used to extend the functionality of the Vendio's eBay listing and inventory management solution.

eBay Workshop Jan 26th - "5 Tips to Prepare for a Successful 2010"

Workshop: 5 Tips to Prepare for a Successful 2010

Host: Lisa Suttora, Founder/CEO of WhatDoISell.com

Date: Jan 26th, Tuesday

Time: 11AM - Noon PST

Location: eBay Workshop Board

Description: The holiday selling rush is over and the new selling season has just begun. It is a great time to look at your 2009 selling and plan for your 2010 selling strategy. NOW is the time to review, plan and refresh your eBay business for a successful new year.

Please join Lisa Suttora, ecommerce strategist and Founder/CEO of WhatDoISell.com, as she shares her advice and insight on what you can do to prepare for a successful year selling on eBay.

Visit http://certifiedprovider.ebay.com/ to learn more about eBay Certified Providers and the services and solutions they offer to help eBay sellers.

The Importance of Trial Order Shipments when Testing a new Supplier by Worldwide Brands

Article by Worldwide Brands - this is a series of 14 blog posts providing information on how to find inventory and products to sell on eBay from wholesalers with Worldwide Brands and their Product Sourcing Tool for eBay.

Article #10 - Importance of the Trial Shipment

As a Seller on eBay, whether you are selling in an eBay Auction or through an eBay Store, we strongly recommend you place a ‘Trial Order’ from your wholesale supplier or drop shipper for each product you plan to sell before you put them item up on eBay. This is especially important if you are going to rely on drop shipping. There are many reasons for doing this:

1. You need to check the quality of the product your customers will receive.
2. You need to check the quality of the packaging.
3. You need to check that the wholesaler correctly inserts any marketing materials you are paying them to include with each shipment.
4. You need to check the delivery time for a shipment. [Remember eBay rewards those eBay Sellers who provide the best buying experience. Avoid those low score DSRs buy testing an order first.]

Some sellers may be concerned about ordering a test order. Remember, once you have inspected it for quality, you can repackage it and ship it from your inventory (so long as it has not been used in any way.) You will still be able to recover the cost of the item. If there is ever an out of stock situation, you will also be able to quickly supply the product from your own personal inventory to the customer.

With eBay selling you need to be confident you will provide a great buying experience for your customers. Rather than wait for customer complaints that may affect your DSR ratings with eBay, you should put the wholesaler to the test first.

One of the applications now available in Selling Manager Applications or eBay's App Store (check out your “My eBay" and look for a new tab labeled "Applications") is the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

The Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool contains a wholesaler database, education modules and education series called: “The Whole $ale.” This series has many chapters to coach eBay Sellers on best practices in working with wholesalers. Sign up for either eBay Selling Manager or eBay Selling Manager Pro and you can then access the Selling Manager Applications directory and the Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool.

Check out Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Tool for eBay today! A 7 Day Free Trial is available.

Worldwide Brands is an eBay Certified Service Provider, providing product sourcing access and information for eBay sellers. They are the publishers of an extensive directory of legitimate, fully-verified ecommerce wholesalers and manufacturers.