June 26th, 2007 
Jenny How Today I will address a question posted to me by Dede, the lucky devil, winner of lucky draw Orang Utan t-shirt. He sent me a list of eBay related questions, I am glad to share my experiences when possible in this dedicated post.
How do you get started in eBay? That was the first question on the list.
Get a unique ID and register yourself. This is pretty straightforward. After you registered with eBay your feedback is obviously zero. Eg. BuyMyMiniSkirts(0)
Try not to look like a total newbie, get some feedbacks for yourself. At least buyers can see from the feedback that you have been a good buyer yourself and pay on time. It just reflects what kind of service they can expect from you when they buy from you.
To collect your first few feedbacks buy something from eBay or get penny ebooks or just look for people who want to exchange feedbacks.
Well, personally, the last two is not recommended as buyers nowadays are getting pretty smart. They can check what you bought and if it is some penniless stuff or free feedback exchange, you are seen just like another new scammers out there, who uses these tactics to build feedbacks. So, do them with caution.
Start by buying something from eBay. You do get good bargain in eBay sometimes. To know how to detect a genuine seller from one who is not, that is a different question and we shall discuss that in detail with another post. But for now, maybe you want to buy from JennyHow *cough*
After getting your first feedback, you may try to start selling if you want. After all, practice makes perfect.
The advantage of being in an Asian country is that you can try your hands on local eBay site without the burden of fees. You can sell in ebay.com.my for a start or ebay.com.sg. Your experience is your best teacher.
By experiencing hands-on selling, you learnt a great many things like writing a catchy auction title, writing a good content description, how to call for action, how to communicate with buyers, how to ship your parcels, what is the correct postage to use, how to solve issues, where to find information, how to use HTML to design your listings and where to improve.
See, that can pretty teach you about blogging too, as the concept are very much the same. HTML allows you to learn WordPress script so much faster too. So, it pays to learn the basic as it can be applied everywhere where you have customers, and in the blog world, it is your readers.
Did I really do the above? Yes, I did. In fact, I sell in ebay.com.my for a start. After selling my brand new iron, i sold all my see-through halter tops, mini skirts, body hugging spaghetti strap tops and office jackets.
If they are worn before, I sold them as “USED†(don’t be surprised, people grab those, and they sell hotter than hot cakes).
If they were new, I sold them as “NEW†or “NEW WITH TAG†if is collecting dust in the wardrobe with the price tag still on.
I also sold them as “LIKE NEW†if they still smell and appear like fresh from the shopping mall.
I collected about 50 feedbacks until I decided to sell internationally. I built my goals, set my objectives and did not rush into things. There again, another thing you can learn for your blog and can be applied in every bit of your life – patience!
Until your next question…
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P/S: At the same time, I’d also like to apology to Doraemon and many people who sent me a message which I have not responded. The truth is, I have not received any single messages in my inbox. I am glad Iry and KaiWah sent me a message the second time in MyBlogLog. I hope you will too.
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Err, so what was the lesson to be learned here again?. Hmm, it is like a lesson for blogging, with a different title
In fact, many lessons in ebay can be used in blogging as well, like how to find a niche and where to find it down to communicating with the audiences.
The concept are the same whether you want to start an e-commerce site, blog, webstore, ebay – any business online or offline! It is a matter of how you apply them and how good you make use of them! Be sure to stay tuned for more!
Lesson of the day: USED mini skirts sell!
Yup, I guess that is the most important lesson..
USED mini skirts sell!
haiya i tot i could see a nice model or yourself wearing that miniskirt….
Hi Jenny,
Thanks for sharing your valuable ebay business experience.
I believe many still find the difficult part in Internet Business is to have something worthy for selling.
Best Wishes
Cool, may be I should get started with selling a mini skirt
Hi, Jenny.
This is a good article. Something that I have been looking for. Hope you will continue to share your eBay experiences with us.
That’s good. How about used underwears? Hahaha… any takers?
At first I thought you were too busy with ebay business… haha..
Hi Jenny,
thanks for sharing your ebay experiences.
I know who to look for in future if I need to go into this
Good Job & All the best to you…
Wah…nice sharing.
Maybe I should get started by selling my jeans perhaps.