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Auctions InformationA Image Paints a Thousand Words and Creates Auction Euphor
by:
Mike Ralph
Ever since I sold-out
my 1st item on ebay I have been alcoholic to the site and I have steady
developed it as a supplementary source of financial gain
over the last two years. As I gained experience from listing items, I apace became aware that the inclusion of images in the listings was a major commerce point as buyers could virtually
see what they were purchase
and as such create a greater interest and desire inside
them which in turn led to greater commerce prices.
To sum it up in one sentance :
Pictures attract attention, help explain details and more significantly
stimulates desire which leads to Auction Euphoria.
Auction High spirits
is that process whereby the desire to own an item is that great that all logic goes out the window and the client rebids to ensure that they win it, thus increasing the commerce price.
This simple bit of noesis has allowed me to push my final commerce prices up on average between 10-30% and as such it amazes me that so many a listings do not include one image and simply type out the details in one long line of text (usually all in capitals!). I am not fretful however because this fact alone has allowed my auctions to stand out and do the money.
I started off mistreatment eBays add additional exposure service to include extra images in my listings which folk could use as a reference point and I found out the following :
1. Always do sure that the images is clean and of the actual item for sale, otherwise what is the point of including it? You wish find that poorly conferred images suggest that the merchandiser doesn't care and thence wish devalue the potential commerce cost of the item which is of no use to anyone.
2. Ne'er
use a stock photograph of the item for sale, with the increase in fraudulant transactions (especially on the higher value items) this wish serve to put the client off, once more serving to devalue your final commerce price. Taking a little extra time to get an actual photograpah shows yours buyers that you care and wish delight
them to you.
3. Wherever
possible use a digital camera, these are really easily accessable nowadays and comparatively
cheap and they produce fantabulous images. A digital camera
can as well be used but makes give a grainier picture. Remember the cost of the digital camera can be offset by the gain in final commerce prices.
4. Have nice lighting on your images a poorly lit images may as well not be there. Wherever
possible I take mine outside into the garden, put it onto a chair with white paper behind it and take advantage of the natural light. Its a few minutes activity that pays dividends in the end in cold hard cash!
5. Ne'er
simply use one image, always use at least two. I tend to use one images for every one of the details (or faults) that I mention in the listing. This illustrates what you are actually trying to describe and helps to prevent the alarming negative feedback of 'the item wasn't as described'.
Using the above meant my auctions stood out and I was considered to be true to my word by my buyers so more so that I have multiple return buyers and the Auction High spirits
effect is evident on my auctions as there on a regular basis
go for higher prices than similar items listed on eBay.
As I developed my auctions I complete that mistreatment eBays additional image service was Cost accounting
ME a large proportion of my profit so I looked into different route of deed my images on my listings. I as well complete that the format of the listings was another major factor. I wanted to use the additional images to illustrate a detail or fault but it was no use having the image at the bottom of the listing away from the description as per eBays standard approach.
So I did several research and knowing that the answer to my problems was Html to generate a example for my listings and allow me to pull my images into them without having to use eBays images service, sure it was still gonna cost me to host my own images but no wherever
near what eBay was charging me. Mistreatment this has meant that my eBay Listing Fees have born
by nearly 90%.
My buyers then started to ask me if they could use my templates and how they could include images on thier listings, proposal
which I always gave to them. I then definite
to put this proposal
together on a few webpages so that they could use it as a reference and to transfer
several of the templates that I have used in the past so that anyone can use them for FREE.
I hope that these simple bits of proposal
help you to take advantage of Auction Euphoria, and actually develop your profits from the amazing, and addictive, animal that is eBay auctions.
Just about the Author
Mike - Webmaster and eBay Power Seller.
Online Auction Trader
FREE eBay Commerce Templates, can be used by anyone you dont need to ask my permission to use them anyplace
you want.
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