| One of the big advantages of selling your products on | | | | between buyer feedback and seller feedback, you |
| eBay is that you can build up feedback. On your own | | | | have to do a deep search to find it. |
| website, a potential buyer has to take you and your | | | | Once you have gone on a buying spree of cheap |
| business on trust, especially if it is a new website. With | | | | products, you can begin listing your products to sell on |
| eBay, you can instill a sense of trust in your potential | | | | eBay. Do everything you possibly can to minimize the |
| customers by building up your feedback rating. | | | | amount of negative feedback that you pick up. You |
| One of the best pieces of advice given to eBayers is | | | | can't avoid it altogether, it is just not possible. There is |
| to have separate accounts for buying and selling. The | | | | always somebody who will leave totally unjustified |
| reason for this is simply that if you buy something, and | | | | negative feedback, even when you have gone out of |
| the seller turns out to be a blatant con man, you can | | | | your way to provide the best service you possibly can. |
| leave negative feedback without having the risk of the | | | | At least with eBay's system, you can leave your own |
| dishonest seller leaving retaliatory negative feedback | | | | comments on the feedback for everyone to see, if |
| just to spite you. He will probably still do this, of course, | | | | you have been given a negative feedback. |
| but the negative feedback will not go on your main | | | | By selling a lot of small items quickly, you will build up |
| selling account. | | | | your feedback as quickly as possible. This should give |
| The one exception to this otherwise inviolable rule is | | | | buyers confidence in you as a seller, and allow you to |
| when you are starting out as a seller. When you are | | | | sell more of your higher priced items. If you are selling |
| new and have no feedback, it is very hard to get | | | | in auction format, then you should notice a marked |
| buyers to trust you. This is something you have to build | | | | increase in sales, everything else being equal. Building |
| up from the bottom. By buying very cheap items on | | | | up good feedback can be one of the cornerstones of |
| eBay, you can very quickly build up a good number of | | | | building up a successful business on eBay. |
| positive feedbacks. Although there is a difference | | | | |