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HOW IT WORKS
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OUR
CUSTOMERS ONLY HAVE TO DO
2
THINGS
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1 — Bring their items to us, or have us pick them up.
And then…
2 — Simply go
home, relax, and wait for
the end of the
auction and the arrival of our check in their mail box.
WE
DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING WORK:
1.
Research the item & show our customer their items anticipated selling
price on eBay.
2.
Take lots of professional quality digital photographs of the item in our
professional photo studio so the item for sale makes a
good, clear and very appealing impression at auction
which is so necessary to attract the highest of bids.
3.
Write a totally honest, very appealing description of your item for the
auction listing.
4.
Maintain an active, up to date, selling account with eBay so that they
will accept the item for auction.
5.
Advance all required listing fees and final auction fees to eBay for our
seller.
6.
Our expert auctioneers use our special computer software to select the
best eBay auction category to list your item in to
achieve its maximum selling price. (eBay has a choice of
50,000 listing categories! If you pick the wrong one the
item can sell for a small fraction of its true value) No
guessing for us.
7.
eBay has several different types and formats of auctions that you must
choose from when selling your item. If you select the
wrong one your item might sell for a small fraction of
its true potential. This is a task for our fully
experienced auctioneer experts.
8.
Upload the auction listing and digital photographs to eBay for insertion,
and then select correctly from the many required choices
and options.
9.
List the auction with an gallery photo added to make the item stand out
for highest attraction and highest bids.
10.
Closely monitor the auctions progress while it’s running on eBay.
11.
Automatically relist the item for a 2nd auction (no extra charge to our
seller) if for some reason it does not sell during the
first auction.
12.
Answer all the received email questions about the item, its shipping,
etc. from actual bidders, potential bidders, and lots of
“tire kickers” while the auction is in progress.
13.
Protect our seller from any possible auction fraud or “unscrupulous”
buyers.
14.
Protect the sellers privacy so that no one who knows them, or knows the
item, knows who is actually selling the item.
15.
“Hand hold” many first time auction bidders and winners who don’t have a
clue what to do next.
16.
Notify
the winner that they have won, and how to make payment,
etc.
17.
Make
sure that the winner is not just some kid (a child of
any age 8 to 88) playing games.
18.
Collect the auction payment and shipping fees from the winning bidder and
process all transactions, PayPal transactions and other
forms of payment.
19.
Maintain an active, up to date, account with PayPal, and the major credit
card companies so that they will accept payment from the
winner and submit the auction payments to us.
20.
Advance all the required electronic payment processing fees to PayPal
and/or the credit card companies for the seller.
21.
Very carefully and professionally pack the item for a very secure and
safe journey.
22.
Physically ship the item to the winner.
23.
Pay the
freight charges to shipping carrier.
24.
Handle
any correspondence, or product complaints, from the
auction winner.
25.
Handle
any (real or fraudulent) claims about, missing parts,
shipping damage or items lost in transit.
26.
Post necessary eBay feedbacks about the transaction.
27.
Send our seller/consignor customer a check for their item.
Sound like a lot of work on our part? You bet it
is!
We do the work...
...you get the money
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Why Use AuctionStore.comTM
SELLING items on
eBay is a very intimidating, confusing, technical,
involved and a very time consuming process.
A seller has to:
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Study the process for
awhile to gain confidence about how the entire process
is done.
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Fill out the
forms, register, and set up an eBay sellers account.
·
Set
up an account with "Pay Pal" or other payment
processing services.
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Have
PayPal verify their home address, credit card, and
bank account .
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Research a reasonable selling price for the item being
auctioned.
·
Take
professional quality digital photographs of the item.
Photos good enough to tempt the bidders, and give
them enough confidence in the item to bid.
·
Design the look and feel of the actual auction
listing.
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Place
the photographs into the auction listing itself. A
nightmare for a novice.
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Write
an interesting and detailed description of the item.
·
Decide on which of the 50,000 eBay listing categories
they should choose to list their item in. Pick the
wrong category and they won't get anywhere near the
right price.
·
Decide on, and post, the terms for their auction.
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The
scary task of uploading and posting the auction on
eBay.
·
Monitor the auction process to receive and speedily
reply to the bidders, prospective bidders and the tire
kickers inquiries.
·
Make
sure the winner is not just some kid (a child of any
age 8 to 88) playing games.
·
Notify the winner that they have won, and how to make
payment, etc.
·
Work
with the winner to arrange payment through Pay Pal, or
credit cards, etc.
·
Professionally pack the item to avoid damage while in
transit.
·
Fill
out the shipping forms and Print the shipping label.
·
Take
the item to a shipper (UPS,
FedEx, U.S. Postal Service,
etc.) – often standing in long lines -- to send the
item to the winner.
·
Make
sure the item is actually delivered, or did not get
lost or damaged in transit.
·
Post
feedback for the winning bidder on eBay.
·
Pay
the eBay and PayPal etc. fees.
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And
all the time, they are trying to prevent themselves
from being scammed by an unscrupulous purchaser, a
process that they actually have no knowledge of how to
do.
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And
the horror really starts for the seller when the
auction winner claims that the item never arrived, or
arrived broken, or parts were missing, or it is not as
described in the listing, or they just don't like it.
It's enough to drive a novice to tears.
Whew!!!
(If sellers only sell a few items
occasionally, it's just not worth it.
And it's definitely not for the novice
or the "faint of heart").
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