Beginner's Guide to Starting an eBay Business 2019 / 2020 | Step by Step Guide

Beginner's Guide to Starting an eBay Business 2019 / 2020

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1. What accounts to open. Ebay and PayPal, you do not need an eBay store to begin with. You do not need a PayPal business account to begin with,.

2. You are going to have limitations on your accounts if they are brand new, typically on eBay you’ll be limited to 10 items and/or $1000 just be aware of that. You can ask for increases once a month. Signing up for an eBay store will NOT increase your selling limits.

3. What items should you list for sale? Well because you are going to be limited to those 10 items and because your account will have 0 seller feedback, you want to list highly desirable items that sell fast! We tell new sellers to look around their house and try to find stuff like video games, consoles, electronics etc. those types of items have great demand on eBay and buyers will look past feedback if the deal is good enough.

4. How should you list your items? There’s two ways, but it now or auctions. 99% of our listings currently are listed as buy it now, we only run auctions when we want to clear out old inventory. That being said, when you first start out, auctions can be a good way to guarantee a sale instead of waiting around for a certain buyer, so your options are, list as an auction and take the risk of an item not selling for as much money as you’d like, or list as buy it now and wait. Again, if you list desirable items for a fair price they will sell as buy it now, so we’d suggest going that route to begin with.

5. How to research how much to list your item for. This is fairly easy, go to sold items on eBay, sort by recent sales and take a look at what’s sold. Then go to currently listed and see what your competition is, at the beginning you’ll need to ask less money because you’re not yet a trusted seller.

6. Feedback, so as I said before everyone starts with zero feedback, to get positive seller feedback you should list your items well, take good pics, ship fast and include a thank you note. While you’re doing that, buy some supplies on eBay from sellers with high feedback that will automatically leave you positive feedback, it won’t show as seller feedback but it does count toward your overall number.

7. Pictures and listing, make sure you’re taking clear pictures, you can use a phone, I’d suggest an iPhone, take your pics in square mode, adjust the brightness. Make sure your lighting is good, you can go to the dollar store and grab white poster board, that’s how we started.

8. Shipping. There are soooooo many shipping options on eBay, I could do an hour long video just on shipping, to make it super easy for beginners I’m going to keep it simple. First class mail, flat rate envelopes, flat rate boxes. Make sure your item fits and offer free shipping.

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[heckofathrifter]

YOU ARE AWSOMEFOR THIS!!! Ryan, Allie, Callie and Ben the amount of information that you share for FREE! Is great, Yes you do charge for the mentoring program and that you should. Everything CANT BE FREE but this video is going to be the move for so many people to become their own boss in the next 7 months. I am truly at Aww how you have opened up about Ebay and teaching others about become their own boss some I see down grade you but use your same ideas. SO I SAY YES CHARGE for the FAST KNOWLEDGE THAT PEOPLE WANT TO LEARN! Another one in the Vlog books THANKS AGAIN AND KEEP SHARING BEING YOUR TRUE SELVES

[zeeskee]

Not too many people can break down a beginner's guide to their viewers so accordingly, honestly or humorously, but you did just that. Thank you.

[andyhwell]

I like that he is no BS telling truth and giving HONEST pointers. Great vid for us starters.

[crownmaiden]

This is the best beginner's guide to start an eBay business. Thank you so much. I dreamed of doing this since I was 10, and since the pandemic hit, I was looking for some work I could do from home part-time and still be a stay at home mom. I just sold two things within a few days and am having a lot of fun! Thanks so much. I can't even tell you how much I appreciate all of this help. You've restored hope in me. Blessings to you in the days ahead!

[davidamsterdam]

Excellent, clear, concise, and very easy to follow video. I use to sell on Ebay many years ago, this was a great video on getting me back into it. What I appreciate the most besides the helpful information, is the no BS, vague repatitive promises, and super hype of all the money you can make at once. Thank you!

[sabrinamarie]

I have been a seller for over a year and still found this video helpful. Sometimes its good to be reminded of the simple things. Thank you for what you do.

[scottsizemore]

Without a doubt the Best video for Beginners that I have watched ! Everyone else spends 90% of the video showing their store ore business, rather than providing the beginner information the video is suppose to be on.. Definitely going to check into the mentoring class.

[jakez]

I appreciate this video! Honestly, as a new seller; I HATE selling on eBay! I took everyone’s advice and started out selling items that I knew would sell and did it as an auction to insure the items actually do sell. All auction items sell well under what they should because the algorithm suppresses my items and I end up losing money on the sales. I have maxed out on listings every week and then have to wait a week or more for the feedback to come back in before I can request a limit increase… Dealing with eBay as a new seller has been extremely frustrating! Having said that; THANK GOD for MERCARI!

[miafrench]

I love this video! Watching you and Alli is the reason I took the step to start listing on Ebay. Most videos skip the small things that we really need to know and leave you more confused than anything. I have found you to be honest and complete in the information you give without putting a price tag on it somewhere. I have learned so much just watching all your videos and they always seem very personable. Thanks for informing about all the fees to make sure you can actually make a profit after the fact. Yes shipping was the worst so I started with mostly shirts and then wow its so easy, now I will mail pretty much anything! Thanks so much for all you do! I'm actually having fun with my Ebay and hope to see it grow.

[duskbump]

Really helpful video... I started selling at the start of the summer, im at almost 2000 in sales with 87+ reviews. Your videos have been so much help. Being a classroom teacher this is a great 2nd job. I would love to take one of your classes in the future. Keep up the good content. :)

[EarlBalentine]

Avoid selling heaving inexpensive items. No wants to buy a heavy wood clock for $15 and pay $20 to ship it.

[elizabethhendriks]

OMG RYAN!! You just Totally helped a technodinasour (Me-57 year old nurse)!!! I do not know even basic things about how to take great pictures and you just holding your phone up and going through the basic steps of how to make the picture brighter on my iPhone was huge for me! I am so grateful you just gave this tip! So thank you so much I do not know how I even missed this particular video because I can see you put it out months ago..I usually binge watch you and Ally, But, nevertheless I am so excited and re-enthused to get started taking pictures today ( has been my least favorite thing to do because my pictures are horrid and things are slow to sell) I hope you have a great day and thanks again. Elizabeth from New Hampshire.

[samuelthecalled]

I've been selling on ebay since 2014 and I didnt know all this. Years later and still a beginner. Thanks.

[brianlutton]

I've watched a few beginner Ebay videos off and on for a couple of weeks now. I think this video hits on all of the major pain points for beginning resellers. You have just gained a new subscriber!

[jlopezomg]

Just started less than 3 weeks ago and I'm at $2, 536. Your videos have honestly helped a ton. Can't wait to start recording content. You guys are the GOAT.

[alanyates]

I learned so much watching this and I have been selling on eBay for 6 years.

[rebeccarowe]

Thank you so much, I am just starting out on Ebay and this video was so helpful. I’ve already had a scammer right off the bat with my first item. They wanted me to send the item to someone else in another location as well as include a gift card for $300+ and they would pay me the price of my item+ the $300+30 for gas+ $50 for something else, I forgot what that was but supposedly in all they would send me $505 dollars total. Needless to say, my momma didn’t raise no dummies and I told them that wasn’t possible and declined their offer. I will be watching more of your videos as I attempt to move forward with this project. Thank you for the great advice.

[vlab]

I haven't started selling on Ebay yet...but I'm so glad to have found you guys. Blessings in Jesus Name and Thank you!

[paulgully]

My wife and I are brand new to selling on eBay and we are finding your videos to be extremely helpful! Now we just have to start building our positive feedback. I really like the idea of always leaving a thank you note in each package. As we move forward, I think our biggest thing we need to learn is more about shipping.

[percentliving]

Thank you so much for being so willing to share your information with us. It is extremely helpful. Grateful for people like yourselves.This information has helped tremendously just listed my first item last weekend and did have somebody try to scam me as they could tell I was a new seller on eBay. But I knew not to ship the item and currently they have never paid for the item. I followed all the eBay instructions for the open case. I get to close it tomorrow and relist the item. Got excited to make my first sale but it didn’t feel like something wasn’t right about it. Too bad there’s so many scammers out there. But there’s more nice people like you guys to share your information with us!