How To Work From Home On eBay: Selling Electronics

How to work from home on eBay selling electronics is something that many people want to know. Just go to eBay’s main page and you will see some type of electronic item featured, whether it is a MP3 player, TV, iPod, or cell phone, there is sure to be something. Everyone seems to be selling electronics and making money: right?

Wrong! Everyone who is selling electronics on eBay is not making money. Some are. Some vendors are making a lot of money but they know what they are doing. Before jumping onto the selling of electronics bandwagon, have a good idea of what to do. Create a niche market for yourself and you too can make money with this. Here is the answer to the question of how to work from home on eBay selling electronics. Get selective about your product line and create a specialty market for your business. This is what is called a niche market.

How do you know what to sell? There is a page on eBay called the What’s Hot page. You can find it easily using the site map. On this page are 3 links. The first two are free. The third link is for a fee based service called Market Research. All of these services are useful and you should always take advantage of free market research when you can. The first link is for the Hot Items By Category List. Here is where you start to find what your niche can be. Let’s take consumer electronics for example. This category is too broad to be a niche market. Using the Hot List we can determine that super hot item categories are Car Electronics, Gadgets and Other Electronics, and Vintage Electronics. These are still pretty large categories so let’s limit them further using the list. Level three shows that car alarms are a super hot category in Car Electronics. If you take it to level four you will see that remote start/alarm combos are super hot. That is a great niche market for your electronics business. In the Gadgets and Other Electronics, level three shows voltage converters are super hot and AC-DC 12 volt is the super hot level four category. Are vintage electronics for you? Then you can see that reel to reel tape players are super hot, and level four shows that Pioneer Brand is really super hot. Using the Hot List By Category sheet is how to work from home on eBay selling electronics.

The next link is for a page called eBay pulse. This is updated daily and you should research this prior to making any inventory purchases. Using the same category as above, consumer electronics – car electronics, we see who our top 5 competitors are. The top 10 searched keywords are also listed with “alpine” being the number one. You will also see the top 10 most watched items in this category. Today you will see a 1200/1400 voltage converter listed. Good choice to sell, these are listed in the super hot category above. A search of vintage electronics will show that “jbl” and “pioneer” are in the top 10 keywords searched and Pioneer brands are in the top 10 most watched items. By using these two free links, we have enough information to set up a work from home on eBay electronics business.

The third link is Market Research. This is free to certain store owners but the rest of us have to pay for it. When starting out with your eBay electronics business, it may be a good idea to subscribe to this. Market Research gives you 90 days detailed market research on eBay items. This can be very helpful, as you want to have items that sell consistently month over month. If you were to stock inventory in a hot item, and a week later that item is now undesirable or the market is flooded, then you have a lot of inventory you cannot sell. Market Research is a way to help avoid this pitfall.

Hopefully, this has given you enough information to tell you how to work from home on eBay selling electronics. Do your research first and then start selling.

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How To Work From Home On eBay: The Art Of Feedback

How to work at home from eBay has many answers. Feedback is a very important part of having a successful eBay business. For many it is an overlooked item. Without a large amount of positive feedback, it will be difficult to make consistent sales. The art of feedback, getting positive feedback from customers and giving positive feedback are important aspects of your at home eBay business that should not be overlooked.

The art of feedback on eBay; how does it all work? In a perfect world when you sell an item on eBay, they buyer pays your promptly, you ship the item out, and the buyer receives the item and is happy with the purchase. They leave you positive feedback and you leave the buyer positive feedback and everyone is happy. In a perfect world, when you get stiffed by an unscrupulous buyer or seller you leave appropriate feedback so that others can be aware of this individual or business. That is what feedback was supposed to be used for; to accurately describe a buyer or sellers reputation as an eBay business entity. It has evolved into a completely different animal as we do not live in a perfect world.

What is feedback like in reality. You have buyers who use feedback to trash a sellers rating because they did not like the fact that the seller had to ask for payment more than once. You have buyers who try to force a seller into reshipping a damaged item without returning the original. You have people who have nothing better to do with their time than to cause trouble for others. It is not only the buyers who misuse the feedback forum. You have sellers who will try to force a buyer into paying for a damaged or item not received. Feedback is supposed to be important. It is your eBay reputation and a single negative remark can adversely affect your business. Look at my feedback for example. I have a rating of 45. Out of 45 sales and purchases, a single person was not happy. That dropped me to a 97.9% positive rating. A rating like this is too low to be considered for a PowerSeller. This particular person was offered a full refund upon return of the merchandise. They refused my offer and left the negative feedback instead. Yes it was their right to do so, however they did not mention the fact that I offered to make it right. I had to make sure I added that remark.

How do you manage feedback? The art of feedback management is important and it is an art. You as the seller should ask for feedback with every communication with the buyer. Not overtly, just a line stating that positive feedback has been left for you. Please leave feedback for me about this purchase. It is against eBay’s rules to ask for positive feedback as this is viewed as coercing the buyer. As a seller, you must regularly check your feedback ratings. Active selling requires active feedback monitoring. Always leave feedback for your buyers. When they pay you promptly and as soon as they receive the merchandise, leave positive feedback for them. Customer follow up is the best way to get positive feedback. You shipped the item, delivery confirmation has been made, now send the buyer an email asking them if everything is ok with the purchase. Assume if it is not, you will hear from them. However, if you get no response then leave positive feedback.

The Rules of feedback are changing. You used to be able to leave just a remark. In an effort to get feedback to what it was intended to be, there is a multiple rating for every purchase. Ratings are on a 5 star system for each of 5 categories: was the item as described, buyer/seller communication, shipping time; and shipping and handling charges. With more detail to the rating system perhaps it will become more accurate again. Part of how to work from home on eBay is managing your feedback.

David Jackson has been an affiliate marketer for 4 years. Essential information and powerful tools that will grow your Ebay empire can be found at
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