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If you’re reading this then there’s an excellent chance that you’re an experienced eBay seller.  Whether it’s selling items that you have laying around the house, have bought from yard sales, maybe sourced from wholesalers, made yourself or even misspelled ebay items that you’ve found and purchased using Missing-Auctions.com you’re pretty unusual.

Why ?  Because for every seller on eBay there are tens, maybe hundreds, of other people that either don’t use it at all or they only buy.  Just think of your own family and friends – how many of them use eBay to buy and how many of those also sell on eBay ?  Very few, I’ll bet.  That’s where eBay Trading Assistants can help – they sell other peoples items for a commission of the final sale price and it can be a lucrative business to be in, if done correctly.

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In the past I’ve posted about how to really annoy a buyer on eBay but the other day I received an email from someone who had bought four packets of genuine Canon ink cartridges from me that really wound me up.  The silly thing is that it’s not specifically the content of the email that annoyed me, more the way in which it was written which just goes to show how important the written word can be in business.  Here’s the email that the buyer sent to me after they’d clicked the Buy It Now button but before they (eventually) paid for the items despite immediate payment being required.

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If you have children who play computer games then you’ll be familiar with the cycle of wanting the latest game, playing it to death for a while and then losing all interest in it.  If this sounds familiar and you’re looking at what to sell on eBay then you could be sitting on a gold mine!  With a variety of computer consoles out on the market including Playstation, Wii, Nintendo, Xbox and GameCube and the price of new game constantly edging upwards, there’s a huge market of potential customers who want to get their hands on the latest games but don’t want to pay the high prices charged when they are first released.  Sure you can trade in the used games at a variety of high street stores but none will give you the price that you could by selling the used computer games on eBay.

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My wife recently replaced her trusty mountain bike with a newer shinier model (hope she doesn’t do that to me!) and it seemed obvious to list the old one on eBay.  What could be simpler ?  Well actually, even as a seasoned eBay user I nearly failed.  Twice !  I spent over one and a half hours doing battle with eBay until I eventually triumphed.  What was the problem ?  I bet you’ll never guess . . . read on to find out what tripped me up

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Ebays’ feedback system is at the heart of the way that the site works.  Without it there would be absolutely no way of knowing who you could trust and who you should avoid which is why it is crucial that buyers leave honest feedback for sellers that they’ve dealt with.

This was highlighted for me recently when a seller suggested that I rate them highly to avoid them losing their Top-Rated Seller status rather than rating them on their service.

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In my last article (‘How to avoid being scammed on eBay‘) I showed you the key things to check before bidding on an item to avoid to being scammed by an eBay seller.  Now, in this article, I want to show you the top five eBay tricks that unscrupulous eBay sellers use to seperate unwitting users from their cash.

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“C’mon Phil, all misspelled items on eBay are fakes aren’t they ?”  That’s how the email from Tom in Kentucky started.  This guy clearly didn’t believe that eBay sellers genuinely misspelled words, sometimes CRUCIAL words in their listings.  Instead he (wrongly) believed that they were selling fake items with the names deliberately but subtly misspelled to fool innocent buyers.

But is he right ?
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Just lately it seems to be that there are more and more people using sites like Missing-Auctions.com to find misspelled items on eBay.  Now I’m not complaining, it’s nice to be popular

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Following the launch of our Christmas competition to find the worst misspellings on eBay I’ve been asked by several people how I found the example that I used to illustrate the sort of misspellings that we’re looking for.

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One of the least exploited ways of making money on eBay is to buy misspelled eBay items with the intention of relisting them so that they sell for a higher price. This process is known as eBay arbitrage and can be an excellent way to make money as it does not require large quantities of stock to be held.   Read on for details of the tools you need and the steps to take to profit from other peoples eBay misspellings.

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