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The newsletter for eBay users in the
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This latest issue is now also available online at
http://www.workwinners.com/newsletter/040114.htm
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In this issue:-
1. Important Announcement
2. Why eBay?
3. Use eBay's own training services
4. The Price is Right
5. Are you new to PCs?
6. Someone's auctioning what? Unusual items currently available
7. Finally
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Inspirational quote of the day
"A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all
you've got. Go for it!"
Lyn St. James
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Brian McGregor speaking - you receive the UK Internet Auction
Users Newsletter because you have bought from me or enquired
about my auction items on eBay or QXL.
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1. Important Announcement
When I started this newsletter last year I had assumed it would
grow slowly to perhaps a few hundred subscribers.
However, I have been totally overwhelmed by the interest in it,
and the number of readers we now have is way beyond anything I
had anticipated.
It has reached the point where I have had to review how I spend
my own time, and the following changes apply immediately to the
newsletter:
a) From today, the newsletter will concentrate solely on eBay
auctions. I used to cover some aspects of QXL auctions, but I
have decided that I cannot do justice to both eBay and QXL. The
newsletter is now renamed the
b) To reflect the growth in interest in eBay, the newsletter will
be issued every two weeks, rather than monthly as at present.
c) The newsletter may soon contain some limited third party
advertising, which is a way for me to earn some return for the
time I invest in the newsletter. Rest assured I will never allow
the level of such advertising to become annoying.
d) I have had to make some slight changes to the layout, to
prevent the newsletter from falling foul of some email protection
services. If you use any method of spam checking on your email,
and you wish to continue receiving the newsletter you may need to
include my email address in your safe list, whitelist or address
book.
I wish to thank you for staying with me, and I sincerely hope you
continue to find the contents of the newsletter to be both useful
and entertaining.
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2. Why eBay?
If you have ever communicated with me directly, you will know of
my enthusiasm for eBay.
If your desire is to work from home, eBay really is the ultimate
new-start opportunity.
I know of no other business format where you can put something up
for sale to millions of people without having to invest in a
shop, advertising or a web site: and sell it and be paid within
days. I know you have to pay to list your item on eBay, but this
starts at 20p for up to ten days exposure to those millions of
prospective customers.
You can test a product within days, and there are virtually no
limits as to what you can sell on eBay. When selling on eBay you
can get involved in any area in which you have an interest or
expertise.
Back in July 2003, I wrote an item for the newsletter based on
The Sunday Times article that week where they had attended the
annual eBay Live conference in
others.
The figures disclosed at that conference regarding the growth of
eBay from 2001 to 2002 were staggering:
eBay profits up from $90 million to $250 million
revenues up from $1.2 billion to $1.9 billion
eBay employee numbers up from 2,500 to 4,500
In the UK, membership grew 168% year on year
UK auction listings grew 109% year on year
On eBay, a used car is sold every 30 seconds, a computer game
every 8 seconds, a digital camera every minute. The company
estimated 150,000 people now make a full-time living selling on
eBay.
Today, there are 86 million registered eBay members worldwide.
The last published figure showed that 5.6 million of those were
in the
The company's current market value is $40 billion - or $11
billion more than Ford Motor Company!
eBay is that most unusual of creatures - a dot com business that
is making a profit, and thriving!
At home, eBay.co.uk is now the most visited ecommerce internet
site in the
1 ebay.co.uk
2 amazon.co.uk
3 tesco.com
4 ebay.com
5 shopping.yahoo.com
6 amazon.com
7 nectar.com
8 eshop.msn.com
9 virgin.co.uk
10 apple.com
So, the eBay name is already well known, is constantly promoted
and re-promoted by every new member and in every auction listing.
The great news is that eBay's eyes are firmly fixed on
international expansion - which is
good for us in
eBay
If you're in the market to make extra money, and you want to do
it through online auctions, then I can assure you with eBay you
have definitely selected the right partner.
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3. Use eBay's own training services
If you're new to eBay, there are thousands of people who offer
information on how to succeed on eBay. One of the best sources to
learn about basic tasks is eBay itself.
eBay have some excellent online tutorials which have sound and
vision.
It shows how to undertake fundamental tasks on eBay, such as -
How to buy
Selling your first item
How to browse and search for an item
etc
You will find all the details at the following page:
http://pages.ebay.co.uk/education/tours.html
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4. The Price is Right
A subscriber to the newsletter recently asked my opinion of an
auction support service they had come across.
It is called AuctionKeywords. In essence, this is a service which
supplies its subscribers with a regular list of the words which
buyers and bidders key into eBay search boxes. If you are
familiar with how eBay searching works, you will see immediately
how valuable this intelligence is.
If you're not sure why this information has such value, I'll try
and quickly explain it.
Most eBay buyers and bidders search for items they are interested
in by inputting one or more words into eBay's search box. eBay
takes these words, examines its database of auctions, and returns
those where the keyed-in words are contained in the auction
title.
So, if you KNEW which words were most popular with bidders and
buyers, you could make sure your auction titles contained those
words so that your auctions were returned more often from eBay
searches.
I hope that conveys it sufficiently well.
What I can tell my enquirer is that having knowledge of these
Keywords is a bit like knowing the result of the race before it
takes place. And, AuctionKeywords in my opinion is supplying a
highly valuable service.
However, what made my reader's request really interesting is that
AuctionKeyword's web site contains the following statement
"Auction Keyword's technology is so new, that as of the building
of this web site there is not another site like it!"
Well, I don't know when their web site was built, but there is
another service which provides similar information!
I should know - because it is mine!
As you may know I offer a service called the Keyword Selling
Service.
The Keyword Selling Service supplies its subscribers with a
regular list of the words which buyers and bidders key into eBay
search boxes. Sound familiar?
What I find really interesting is that my "competitors" charge up
to $47 per month for their service.
An annual subscription to my Keyword Selling Service works out at
less than £5 per month!
Maybe I am undercharging?
Anyway, if you want to learn more about the significance of
Keywords, you can read all about it here:
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5. Are you new to PCs?
From time to time I receive emails from people regarding some
problem or other they are having with their PC.
Although I'm not an expert, I try and help where I can.
What this brings to mind is that I'm as guilty as anyone of
assuming that people all have a similar level of PC knowledge. We
perhaps forget that we all have to start somewhwere with PCs.
If you're relatively new to working with PCs there is an
excellent club which I'm sure you'll find useful. It's called The
Newbie Club, and you can see what it has to offer here:
http://www.newbieclub.com/?your_reward
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6. Someone's auctioning what?
Unusual items currently available
Nothing surprises me when it comes to internet auctions. Amuse
yourself with some of these beauties ...
Just type the auction number into the Search Box on eBay.
Feeling peckish? Well, if you have a spare 50p, and you can hold
your hunger until the auction ends, you can be the proud owner of
a brand new Mars Bar. Take a look at auction 2979743986. I don't
want to appear to be a fuddy duddy, but some people really do
need to get a life!
OK, I'll be the first to admit I'm a wee bit sceptical about
Russell Grant and the others when it comes to foretelling the
future. But being able to tell me what's going to happen to
Archie, my King Charles Spaniel, well that WOULD be clever. It
seems it can be done, on auction 2979674271
I saw this, and completely misunderstood what the seller was
offering. I thought the great man had gone soft. Why would he
need curtains? To hide his modesty while showering in the desert?
To wrap round his rifle and protect it from snow or mud? What do
you think of when you see this auction title - 2373048681
Help! Can anyone explain to me why anyone would submit an auction
like this to eBay. It is so BAD it just HAS to be deliberate.
It's not just the spelling errors, but they'll do for now!
Perhaps it's Ali G in disguise? What do you think? 2979512837
Got a spare couple of million? Do you like motor racing? Then you
might be interested in getting involved with a team who want to
win Le Mans 24 Hours Race in 2005! By the way, don't bid on this
auction - even in fun - as the seller states that the successful
bidder will be responsible for eBay's Final Value Fee of around
£35,000! The auction is 2779745132
Disclaimer - I have no association with any of the sellers of the
above items.
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7. Finally
'The eBay Formula' is taking
What is 'The eBay Formula' I hear you asking? It is my latest
eBook, and it shows how to make
sales on
after time.
Thanks to all who have bought it - and, if you are one of these,
I hope it is proving to be of great value in developing your eBay
business.
If you don't have 'The eBay Formula', but you're thinking about
making 2004 the year in which you start to take eBay really
seriously, please take a look at how my eBook can help:-
http://www.workwinners.com/ebf/nloffer.htm
'The eBay Formula' is just one of my eBooks and Special Reports.
You can see them all at my web site:
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Lastly, thank you for continuing to take my newsletter - I hope
it gives you as much enjoyment to read, as it does me to write.
Regards
Brian McGregor
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