Ways Earn Money - EBay Stores - Tips and Tricks for New Owners

You might consider opening your own store on eBay, after you have sold a number of items on eBay via auctions (maybe just stuff that cluttered up your garage).

Such as Traffic Reports or the HTML Builder, you also gain access to certain tools, furthermore. See http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/storefees.html), and list items very cheaply as store inventory (for data on the currrent fee structure, obtain a permanent URL that you can use in advertising it, set the theme, stores have certain advantages: you can choose the name (as long as it is not taken yet).

So you will still have to run a number of auctions and include a link in them to drive traffic to your store, see http://pages.ebay.com/help/specialtysites/sif-in-search.html), and store inventory items generally do not appear in the main search (for details on this, there is a monthly fee (currently $15.99 for a basic store), first. There are also drawbacks in owning a store.

There are many knowledgeable and friendly people there! But this is the place to go with any of your questions, and you probably should first "lurk" without posting questions, you might not understand everything. Read Owen and Emma's Store Library (http://www.owenandemmadesigns.com/ebaystores.html) which contains numerous links to useful articles for store owners.Spend some time on the eBay stores discussion forum (http://forums.ebay.com/db2/forum.jspa?forumID=21). It is no fun for buyers to find a store that sells only 1 or 2 items. Prepare your photos and descriptions beforehand and then stock your store quickly. Which is hardly helpful, in their navigation menu. "Category 2" etc, i have actually come across stores that list "Category 1". Think carefully about the structure of your store categories (of which you have a limited number). "Tom's Corner" is much less memorable than "Tom's Vintage Beer Signs". Choose your store name carefully. But never could remember them for long, i have seen stores that sell anything from DVDs to used children's clothes to garden furniture. Vintage cameras or hand-crafted tea caddies, whether it be used books, you should not expect the world to beat a path to your eBay store the moment you open it.Here are a few tips to help the new or prospective owner of an eBay store:
Select a theme for your store, therefore.