Some auctions get hundreds of bids, but some go much more slowly, getting only a few bids or even none at all for days. Auctions are generally much slower during the summer months than they are in the winter – and sales on eBay are slowing each year, as more sellers than buyers sign up, hoping to get rich quick. There are a number of ways that you can take advantage of slower auctions to get the best price.
Wait to Bid
If you bid, then everyone can see you’re interested – …

You will often find yourself facing the choice of whether to pay a fixed price or keep on bidding. This choice might be presented to you in a single auction, or you might be choosing between different auctions of the different types. So should you use that ‘Buy it Now’ button or keep on trying to outbid everyone else? It’s all a question of weighing up the advantages and disadvantages.
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Buy it Now.
- The Advantages.
When you use Buy it Now, you know the asking price and you can take some …

Do you have trouble sometimes understanding when people talk about eBay? Don’t worry, some of the jargon is really obscure, and you can’t be expected to understand it until someone has told you what it means. Here is a little list of some of the most useful lingo to know, but you don’t need to memorise them – even the most common jargon is only used relatively rarely.

Words:
Bid: telling eBay’s system the maximum price you are prepared to pay for an item.
Dutch: an auction where more than one of an …

When you sell and buy items on eBay, you will get a chance to give and receive ‘feedback’.  The eBay feedback score is a rating system that allows eBay buyers and sellers to rate each other at the completion of a transaction.  Feedback may be rated as ‘positive’, ‘neutral’ or negative.  Along with the rating, the person leaving feedback can insert a comment based on how smoothly the transaction went during the buy and sell process. Here is an example:

The feedback score is cumulative, so that if you had 3 …