subject: Reduce Useless Costs When Selling Things On Ebay [print this page] When you start a small, home-based business on eBay you want to make the most of it. Yet, no matter how hard you try to lower the price of your listed items, there are some costs which just do not let you go lower. The best alternative to keep your prices to the minimum is to take a look at your expenses and cut off the useless ones. Here are some ideas which will help you reduce your prices, thus sell more items and make more money.
One of the easiest ways of saving money is to take a look at the shipping costs you have to include in the starting price. Most of the time, the shipping fees can be quite high, if you do not choose the appropriate means of transportation. Before rushing in and choosing priority mail as your default way of sending packages, you should take your time and study the United States Post Office offer and see which service works better for the kind of package you have to send to your clients. If you are clever enough to do this, you can lower your starting price even with $10-$15, depending on the size of your package.
When you think about the starting price, you should make sure that it is as low as possible. This not only will make clients bid on your product, but it will also lower the insertion fee you will have to pay. So, if you are thinking that the bidding for one item should start from $30, lower it with one cent and you can earn a dollar. A businessman should take advantage of each penny, if he wants to make money!
After you have solved this issue, you will have to find an alternative way of hosting your pictures. It is well known that the more pictures you have the more clients you attract, so that you will want to have more than one picture for each of the items you list. Yet, eBay charges 15 cents for each additional picture after the first one (which is free), so that you may be discouraged to put as many pictures as you want. To solve this problem, you can host your pictures on another server and pay $5 for an unlimited number of pictures. This will give an incredible boost to your business.
A good idea is to purchase your boxes and packaging supplies bulk or even to ask at your nearby store for boxes they no longer use. This will be of great help as you will have enough boxes for free and will not have to spend your money on them.
Remember, each penny matters, so do not spend money on useless things. It is easy to save money and put your business on track in a short period of time, if you give enough attention to these details.
by: R Vignesh Kumar
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