GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE, SOLD! Welcome to the world of Auctions, One of the oldest processes of buying and selling in the world. It originates from the Latin word “autico” which means, to increase. The Webster’s dictionary defines auction as “public sale of the items to the highest bidder.” According to history the oldest recorded Auctions took place in Babylon in 500BC! These auctions were an annual event where women were sold for marriage, the beautiful ones would get the highest bids and the unfortunate ones had to pay a dowry to enter the bidding and thus would not fetch a good price. This was the only legal way of getting married!

Do you have an ebay store? If the answer is a yes read on. Do you know store items rarely comes up on searches on ebay website. So how will potential customers see your items? Google has come up with a great tool to boost your ebay listings and drive traffic to your ebay store. Google store connector is a tool which can extract products from ebay ( and also amazon, yahoo) and lets you upload it to Google base.

What does google base do? When customers search on google.com for products, your item comes on the top as product search results. They click on the link which takes them direct to your ebay store. Voila !! your sales from stores are high again.

Piggy BankEbay fees are hitting an all time high. With postage charge increase, and paypal fees and tough competition from asian sellers, ebay has ceased to be profitable medium for sellers. Sellers are looking for a viable alternative to ebay. Many are thinking about setting up a online ecommerce website , but wondering where the traffic will come from.

People who are trying to start an eBay business spend a great deal of time trying to figure out which items sell the best on eBay. Most of these people have elaborate systems for determining this information, and others purchase expensive courses that teach them how to find this information as well. None of that is necessary. Everything you need to know is right in front of you - on the eBay website!

Take a look at any category, and you will see the word 'hot' beside some items. These items are not marked as hot sellers randomly - there is a method to the madness! Items only get marked as hot when there have been more than thirty bids placed on the item. All you have to do is wonder around the eBay website for a while to find an item that will do well.

In February EBay lured a lot of sellers into opening shops by offering them more visibility on searches and fewer fees on standard auctions. Five months later EBay decided that it was not a good move and decided to decrease visibility on searches and almost tripled the EBay fee. Sellers in Australia, USA and Uk are not happy with this move.
There is a protest going on in these eBay websites against the store fee hike. People are filing petitions and some are creating innovative auctions. It needs to be seen that all this will have any effect on eBay.
EBay CEO Meg Whitman commented that "The marketplace has been overwhelmed with identical, often poorly-priced items that have diluted the magic of the eBay experience.” I can understand eBay pulling the plug on Store visibility, but cannot understand the logic of increasing the fees at the same time. EBay can do this because they are a monopoly.

It's probably fair to say that one of the key reasons why many auctions end unsuccessfully on eBay is because people have got their auction title WRONG.

With the eBay marketplace is becoming ever more over-crowded, it's now increasingly more important to create auction titles that work. You really do need to stand out from your rival eBay sellers.

So what does an auction title need to do?

Its most important job is to get people to click onto your auction. You can have the most amazing bargain in the world, or an absolutely fantastic and compelling advert, but if people never get that far then you'll never make sales. The first step in the buying process is for people to click onto your auctions.

Selling high-priced items such as ebay car auctions is getting more and more popular these days. In fact, according to ebay motors, a vehicle is sold every 10 seconds, a car part or accessories is sold every second. Over 10 million shoppers visit ebay motors every month looking to buy cars or car parts.

The reason why ebay car auctions are popular among ebay sellers is pretty obvious since the profits per sale are high. You only need to sell 1 to 2 cars on ebay motors each month to make a handsome profit.

So how do you find cars to sell on ebay motors? Basically I have used 2 ways.

Car Dealers

For many people, the first time they realized that there was such a thing as a person who will sell other people's items on the Internet was while watching The 40-Year Old Virgin. In that movie, one of the main characters owned a store from which she took the unwanted items that other people had and sold them on the world' hottest auction block.

In fact, this is a service that has been around for quite a while, as enterprising individuals saw an opportunity to offer a service that would require an element of expertise and could appeal to people by taking some time off their hands.

EBay continues to be all the rage these days, as people from all over the world supplement their incomes by finding buyers for what they might consider junk. EBay should no longer be thought of as a place to unload unwanted clutter to suckers for a profit, however. It is fast becoming a site where legitimate traders and collectors are enhancing their hobbies, where businesses are being grown, and where people of like interest can build relationships. EBay is not the only player on the Internet selling market, as rivals Yahoo Auctions and http://Amazon.com Marketplace also offer auction services. All three sites have the same items when it comes to top selling Internet markets, though, and these are listed here. These items are not just popular on auction sites, either; they can all be bought from their manufacturer or other people right on the Internet, often at lower prices than you would pay at your local store, even including the shipping.