| One of the interesting things about selling on eBay is | | | | moved once again! The variation occurred not by the |
| that a tactic that works every time for one seller may | | | | week, but rather over longer periods of time. |
| not work as well, or even at all for another seller. | | | | Knowing how to make money selling on eBay requires |
| Those that know how to make money selling on eBay | | | | that you continually check every part of your auction |
| are continually checking their strategies. They are | | | | effort. Our suggestion is that you monitor your |
| always working to improve the performance of their | | | | successful auction rates carefully. We also suggest |
| eBay businesses. | | | | that you monitor sales prices for non-seasonal items |
| Many eBay experts provide information that speaks to | | | | very carefully as well. If either of these go down, |
| which day of the week to have your auction end. | | | | re-evaluate your auction ending days. (Of course you |
| Their goal is to achieve the best sales price and the | | | | should also double check the basics such as pictures, |
| highest number of sales. It is almost universally stated | | | | title and descriptions as well.) |
| that Sunday is the very best day for auctions to end. | | | | Monitoring performance can be done quite easily. It can |
| This is a time when the majority of purchasers are not | | | | be done by adding an extra listing or two with new |
| at work, and therefore can focus on competing for | | | | closing days and/or time. No matter which days are |
| your products. The resulting frenzy of activity will result | | | | best from that small sample, eliminate the days that did |
| in higher sales prices for your items. At least that is the | | | | not perform as well. Retest the days that did result in |
| theory that is presented. | | | | more sales and better prices. Narrow it down to the |
| We have tested almost everything you can do with | | | | day that actually produces the most sales and the |
| our products. Guess what? For us, at the time of the | | | | highest purchase prices for you. It is important to |
| testing, Thursdays were best! We had more items sell | | | | periodically check your results. It should become a part |
| during Thursday-ending auctions. We averaged a | | | | of your business routine. Don't wait for sales to crash |
| slightly higher overall sales price for those items. For us, | | | | before you start examining. |
| it was an all around better day to end our auctions for | | | | Knowing how to make money on eBay requires that |
| the products that were selling at that time. | | | | you maximize your sell-through rate AND the prices |
| We checked our results again later. Interestingly, we | | | | that you receive for your merchandise. By routinely |
| have also had the same items do better when the | | | | monitoring those two things, you are setting your eBay |
| auctions closed on Sundays in this follow up. We | | | | business up for success. |
| checked again a few weeks later. The best day had | | | | To your eBay success! |