Lesson 14. What to Do Before You Sell

In this lesson, you learn what you need to do before you list an item for sale on eBay.

Prepping Your Item for Sale

Selling your first item on eBay can be a real rush—and a genuinely stressful experience. What’s the right price to set? What category should it go into? What do I do if it doesn’t sell—or if it does? As you gain more experience selling, you still run into a lot of these same issues; pricing, for example, is always a guessing game, as is category placement. You’ll get better at it over time, but you still need to make the same decisions.

You also have to prep your items for sale. That involves a lot of different activities:

• Make sure that the item exists, is at hand, and is complete (or as ...

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