Welcome to Sales Observer  - a different type of assistance that helps you make real money from the Internet marketplace!

Sales Observer is not…

 ….a one page site that promises to sell you this `secret eBay formula` that will make you £100,000 in a month, so you will not find any pictures of big houses or private jets. That type of site has a sales pitch which has been written to seduce you into parting with your cash fast. You have only two options on those sites; click to buy, or click the back button. 

But, hey if you are looking for one of those sites we still want to help, so check out some of the ads on the left hand side of each page on our site and Good Luck!

But, if you sort of understand that running a eBay business can be very profitable but also time consuming and hard work… then..read on

Some info on ebay.

ebay has over 100 million members world wide and in excess of 1.5 million page views per week.

ebay.co.uk is the 9th most visited site in the UK and the 93 rd most popular site in the world.

That is 93rd out of millions!!!

There are thousands of ££££££ of sales completed in most categories every week. Some categories have sales in the hundreds of thousands of pounds.

That's a HUGE volume of traffic.

Are you ready to take full advantage of that traffic.

Sales Observer.com is here to help you do just that

We have numerous resources that can make running your business easier.We have done t

Suppliers from wholesalers to dropshippers

There are many suppliers that can help supply items to your eBay business. Drop shipping means that you can sell someone else’s products or items for no upfront fees, you simply sell the item and the drop shipper send the item to the customer. You keep all profits after covering the drop shipper’s sale price. i.e. a drop shipper is offering a LCD TV for £250 $500 you sell it on eBay for £325 $650 that means your profit is £75 just for listing the item on eBay and then sending the details to the drop shipper

If you going to be regular trader and you don't have any products of your own, i.e. you are currently in business. Then you are going to need to be buying items wholesale. That means you need good suppliers.

Remember eBay can be a price driven marketplace on most items. But unless you are already an established retailer it can be difficult to find reliable wholesale suppliers, and be able to compete with existing sellers on eBay. Again you need competitive suppliers

There are lots of companies/Websites/suppliers out there that willing to help .We have provided a list of great wholesale websites that happily deal with new or existing eBay businesses. These sites contain hundreds sometimes thousands of wholesalers, drop shippers (more on drop shippers in a moment) and suppliers we have provide the details on when the sites were set up. This is where the eBay power sellers source there goods

 

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Research KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

When starting any new venture it is essential to first research the market. There are 100s of sites offering how to sell on eBay guides.( in fact read the ads on the other pages)These range from the helpful to the useless. The SAS have a motto Perfect Planning Prevents P*ss Poor Performance, So before you spend any money on eBay listing fees.

Does it not make sense to do some research as to whether or not your product or service actual sells.

• How do i reduce my image costs?(ebay charges per image in a listing however you can avoid these fees quite easily,and ebay approves)
• How do i design my ebay shop to look different from the rest?
• How do improve my listings appearance?What are the best listing tools to use?
• How do i create repeat customers?
• Is there a auction site where i can reduce my listing fees to zero and only pay a small commission?

Do you think knowing the answers to the above questions could be of us to you???

There are tools that can help you determine the best time and days to sell any item on eBay. In any one category there can be 10 s if not 100s of sellers selling the same items services. However there are top sellers in each category. What separates them from the rest?

There are many variables that contribute to this ,Type of listing i.e. fixed price bid auctions etc, Time of day the auction ends, duration 1,3,5 7 or 10 days,

 

• What is the average price you can expect?
• What days does your product sell most on?
• What category creates the most sales?
• What is the success rate in terms of sales?
• What revenue does your product or service generate?
• What keywords do i need to include in my listing titles?

Click here to visit our Research pages

 

Other online auctions

Of course eBay is the daddy of all online auctions but there are other online auction sites out there. Some offer free auctions and a lower final value fee some offer a one off payment and a no extra fees.

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Ebay tools

There are 100s of eBay tools/resources to help increase productivity/cut costs of your eBay business.

From using hosted images to reducing listing costs by allowing you to have free images in your listing instead of paying per image to eBay. To eBay tools for listing to template design to increase overall sell through rate by having a better presentation. Listing software can help greatly reduce the time to create listing some of these programs have advanced automation built in.

 

Visit our ebay tools section here