Auction site

Do you love to shop online? Isn’t it great to buy products from home where you never have to get in the car, fuel up, drive through traffic or stand in a long line to pay for your items? In fact, you can surf the Internet from the comfort of your home, make your purchase and still be in your jammies drinking coffee! How cool is that?

Internet marketing will be be offering the United States a different market place soon. This type of business will be an internet marketers dream come true. Strictly an all internet business that you work from home, it takes e-commerce to an all new level in worldwide global trading allowing you to cross international borders, different languages and other currencies.

All you have to do is purchase a business license and you are now in business. You will have your own personalized web site and you can begin to refer customers and earn commissions on the items that they purchase. These are your customers for life! The online auction that will has is not the same old type of auction that most folks are used to. Nope, this is a whole new business model. The person with the lowest unique bid wins the item. Yes, the lowest bid!

Sign up for your customers is free of charge and there is no fee to look around and kick the tires, but if they want to bid on an item, everything is done in credits which can be purchase in blocks.

Each time they bid, they are charged one credit. This is a small amount of money and it depends on the currency of the country that you are bidding from. For example, in Europe it is 50 cents. All products offered are well known brands, top quality items. Things that everyone is clamoring for, you know TV’s, cell phones, even automobiles! The winner is the customer having the lowest bid. You would be amazed at the prices these items go for!

This internet marketing platform has several different online shopping and auction options. The Unique Lowest Bid is just one. With Xpress, you can watch and follow along with your favorite items that begin at retail price and then decrease each and every time someone checks for a price. To check on the price will cost you one credit, of course. When you like the price you see on the item you want, just click buy now, and it is yours for that amount. Spiffy!

There is also a nifty auction called ZerO. This bad boy starts out with the item at retail price and then goes down with each person that looks in. To peek in will cost you one credit. When the item gets to zero, it is yours, for free! You can’t beat free, guys! This auction really heats up for the last ten dollars or so.

These internet marketing auctions create such excitement with shoppers it is hard to keep them away from their computers. Isn’t that what all internet marketers want in a home based business? What would you give for a customer that really, truly wanted to buy. Someone you never had to convince!

The time for action is now in the United States. Get involved, build a strong team and secure your future.

Denise Clarke is a retired Paramedic/Firefighter and is currently a successful internet marketer, writer and blogger. Visit her blogs at:

 eBay is great for shopping an item or selling your wares. While buying on eBay is free; sellers are charged for various services, many of which are optional. Since October of 1999, new sellers are required to keep a credit card number on file for monthly billing. Buying on eBay is simple. Find a product you like and bid on it.

Buying and selling on eBay is fun and easy and just like the commercial says you can get anything you want on eBay. Buying on eBay is free but sellers have to pay a basic listing or ‘insertion’ fee plus a commission (starting at 5.25 percent) based on the final selling price. Buying on eBay is safer now than it ever was. A proper charge back cannot be beat.

Buying on eBay is fun for both newbies, who are just getting started, and seasoned eBay buyers alike. Being new to eBay though, you might initially find yourself losing out those auctions as a buyer, and wondering what the seasoned buyers are up-to.

If you enter your maximum bid in the first instance you can forget about the auction until it ends. However, on the downside bidding early on an item, unfortunately can drive up the auction price as it shows there is an interest in the item. Bids attract bids and low prices attract bids! When potential buyers are looking through the listings, auctions that have 8 bids get more attention than auctions with 1 or none. When bidding on an item, you should bid the highest amount you are willing to pay. eBay places the bid in increments so you may not actually have to pay the highest amount.

Bidding in the last few moments of an auction is known as ’sniping’. This practice is frowned up by some eBayers but it is perfectly legitimate and within the rules; the highest bid always wins, no matter how late it is entered.

When buying and selling on eBay, PayPal is very desirable because it allows immediate payment after an auction is complete - no waiting for money orders to arrive in the mail, no bounced checks, etc, so PayPal is the most popular online currency. PayPal is actually owned by eBay and allows you to pay for your item instantly with a credit card or instant transfer from your bank account. It is very easy to use and you can usually just follow the instructions from your winning email that eBay sends to you in order to get started. PayPal is free to join. Your financial details are never shared with the seller and it allows you to send payment immediately.

Also PayPal allows you to accept buyers’ credit card and electronic check payments online. To keep eBay a safe place for both buyers and sellers, sellers who register after January 17, 2007 are required to offer either PayPal or a merchant account credit card as an accepted payment method for their items.

Everyone has stuff they can sell on eBay. But while buying on eBay is easy and pretty straight forward, selling on eBay takes a little more effort, creativity, and having some experience in marketing and auctions will take you a long long way. Keep in mind, every second of every day, eBay transacts $700 in new business. In 2007, eBay members transacted $14.87 billion in sales in 27 international markets, including the United States.

Everyone wants to earn considerable amounts of money by merely sitting at home. Well, making money on online auction while at home can definitely become a reality. Either way, if you use common sense, buying and selling on eBay can be both fun and profitable. So go and enjoy and discover what a positive experience buying and selling on eBay can be for you.

About more than a decade ago, a software engineer in California Silicon Valley wanted to use the internet as a trading system. He wrote the computer code on a long holiday within. It kicked off with just a few traders, but within a year thousands of auctions had been completed via eBay. The world was interested in eBay. It just grew and grew and it didn’t stop. What started off as a hobby with a trickle of users now has 150m registered users trading goods worth more than $40 billion in a year.

To make money online is a remarkable business. To date, online trading has turned into a cultural phenomenon. Those involved include collectors, students looking for a way to make a buck or two, aspiring entrepreneurs and some have even become millionaires. The online-auction firm has America as its most established market and has become an economy in its own right.

However, having an active user account in eBay and having bid or listed items within the past year will not always be making money you want. Sometimes, we need a little guidance. Derek Gehl has created a video to provide free eBay training. It is a three-part video aimed at helping online entrepreneurs to find their niche in the ever-evolving web and learn how to attract customers. All you have to do is sign up with a simple click and this video will guide you through the basic ins and outs of the trading on eBay.

It’s not as hard as you think.

 What you can do is sell things online on an online auction site.

So many people are viewing these sites every day, so it is an easy audience for you. You could be making some money within a few days. Think about all the things around your house you no longer use. You could literally be sitting on a gold mine. As they say ‘one persons’ junk is another person’s treasure is so true when it comes to online auction websites.

That old fridge downstairs will get some good dollars online. Or even the old couch or cupboards that you no longer use. Really - what’s the point of it sitting around your house if you are not using it. You could easily get some cash for it and then put this cash on your home loan or car loan or whatever.

Then you could branch out to finding stuff from yard sales and garage sales and sell the items you find online on some of the large online auction sites. You can make some great money doing this.

What about selling things at your local market? Usually it is very cheap to set up a stall and sell your things. What about having your own garage sale? A lot of local papers allow you to advertise for free for yards sales or at a discounted rate. You could easily make the cost of the ad back in the first sale.

As you can see there are plenty of ways to make fast cash and instead of going for the cash advance or the bank loan which will no doubt charge you a lot in interest - look to alternative solutions.

 What happens if a winning bidder fails to respond to your messages whether through personal email or eBay’s message system?

Be calm, don’t panic, and don’t assume the worst. There are a few reasons why this could happen. Maybe he is out of town, going for a vacation with his family, sick or admitted to hospital.

Step 1: If he doesn’t respond after 3 days he won the bid, send him an invoice to remind him to pay. Usually winning bidder will get a notification from eBay the moment he won. This invoice is an extra reminder to him.

Please don’t assume, accuse or threaten him, don’t say anything, just send him the invoice.

Step 2: If he doesn’t respond to your invoice after 3 days, send another invoice to remind him again.

This time include a message, “I have sent you two invoices and I haven’t heard from you yet. And there are other buyers who interested to purchase the product that you have won. If payment is not made within 3 days, your item will be relisted to eBay. I am going to file an unpaid dispute too.”

Step 3: If he fails to respond again after your second invoice, is time to take action. File an unpaid dispute against him. eBay will send an email message to both parties with address and phone number.

Send another message to him, “Since you didn’t respond, I have no choice but to file an unpaid dispute to eBay, seven days will be given to make the payment. Please take note a few unpaid dispute will cause your eBay account to be suspended.”

Most of the time, they will start to pay because now eBay is watching them.

Step 4: After seven days you have file your dispute, he still refuse to pay. You can close the dispute and get back your final value fee.

Step 5: Keep a record of non paying bidders; you don’t want to deal with them anymore in the future. You can block them from bidding your auction in the future. This will save you lots of time and headache.

Although non paying bidders will annoys you most of time, but to be a professional eBay seller you need to stay calm and deal with this professionally. Don’t send threaten email or angry words to them.

Hope this article helps.