ebay Parent Panel

If it’s priced right it will sell. We hear that advice from selling a house, to a car to anything on EBAY.
Determining the right price for selling on EBAY is best done through completed listings in the advanced search. Through the complete listings, you learn the history of items similar to your item. You learn how they were listed, how they sold and much, much more.
Completed listings information is powerful for top EBAY sellers, believe me, it’s what the EBAY Money Makers are using.  Tristan, founder of TheEbayEntrepeneur.com, considers using the completed listing as his #1 selling tool. “Completed listing are a must-have for me. I faithfully use that feature on the EBAY mobile app when shopping for items to sell,” explained Windy, an EBAY Money Maker and blogger at WindyLou.com. …

Shipping on EBAY can be intimidating. Believe me, I’ve been intimidated. With the right tools you’ll be set to correctly asses the shipping costs for an item you intend to list.  Watch and listen to my EBAY shipping essentials.

You may already have many of these items. Do you? Many of them are reusable from items you have received in the mail. You’ll start looking at packages that you receive as potential shipping tools for future EBAY shipments! Have you recently received packaging materials that can be reused?
A good shipping scale is the most important. They are relatively inexpensive and can save you a lot of money if you appropriately pre-pack and weigh the package ahead of time.  I’ve learned that the hard way. I’ve previously assumed the weight was such and such, the buyer paid the shipping based on my …

The content was amazing! I asked a million questions. I came back from the EBAY Parent Panel Summit in San Jose, California pumped to sell my treasures on EBAY! I have bags of clothing, stacks of plates, boxes of shoes and boxes of old random AV cords that will make me money when I sell them all on EBAY!

Are you excited? Have something you’re anxious to get out of your house and bring cash into your pocket?
Disclosure: This post has been created in connection with my appointment as an EBAY Parent Panel Ambassador.

Ebay can not only help you make money, but help you be a smarter wife and mom!
A Smart Mama not only knows the resources available to help her, she uses them too!  Try any or all of these ways to be a Smarter Mama through EBAY!

Support your family’s finances by earning a few dollars, a few hundred or even a few thousand, by selling items you no longer need. Cleaning out the basement and hitting up garage sales and thrift stores, a Smart Mama can make her EBAY inventory. The PayPal account receiving your payments will soon fill with dollars and cents to use for family financial obligations or even a fun vacation! EBAY pro Tristan O’Brien shared his remarkable story in the Ebay Money Makers video. He could do it, so can you!
Memorabilia galore! You can find …

The greenest product is one that already exists. A pre-owned find has history. By bringing it home, you extend its useful life, keep it out of the landfill, and prevent the environmental impact of producing something new. – EBAY Green Team (green.ebay.com)

Had you realized how GREEN you can be by buying gently worn clothing?  Or that your closets and drawers are probably filled with clothing that can be sold to another family rather than tossed in the garbage & ending in a landfill?  As Smart Mamas we strive to live a greener, healthier lifestyle.  Using cleaning products with zero harmful chemicals, cloth diapers for the babies and reusable water containers on hot days, we each find methods to minimize our carbon footprint.
The recently launched EBAY Green page (green.ebay.com) is a marketplace and resource guide for moms (and dads) looking to be more GREEN.  As …

Would you throw away a 5 dollar bill?
I found one under my kitchen sink and my husband wanted me to throw it away.  You see the bill was in the form of 2 unopened Brita water filters. We were cleaning out the cabinets under the kitchen sink and found all sorts of things, like the random half-used bottle of window cleaner, ½ dozen sponges and a pair of ripped gloves.  Most importantly, I found two brand new packages of water filters to use with a Brita water pitcher – a pitcher we no longer use or even own. So what to do with these filters?  Guess what Tom’s immediate thought was?  Yep, throw them away, we don’t need them.   But I thought, I don’t know, these are brand new, there’s got to be someone who could use them.  That’s when my ebay lightbulb went on!  Yes, I …

eBay Lemonade Made by Tristan O’Brien – An eBay Money Maker Story
When all else fails, when you’ve lost your job, wife just gave birth and you’re essentially living in a new city with very limited support, what do you do?  Tristan O’Brien, of Westfield, Indiana, took his HUGE bowl of lemons and made a big glass of lemonade, eBay style of course!
If you take a moment and look around your home you will notice the many items you have are out of true desire not need.  Tristan did just that.  Along with his wife, he found numerous items, including an enormous big screen TV that wasn’t necessary in their home.  They took these items and listed them at auction on eBay.  They needed the money in their wallets more than hanging in their family room!
Before they knew it the items began to sell and sell – the …

Sequins are the latest fashion trend. Layering with sequins an easy way to glam-up a mom’s wardrobe. A stunning Baby Phat jacket was shown on the Today show as a way to be Sexier in Seconds….sequins were the top accessory for that! Time to dig out the sequins!

Trash or Treasure? – With tags or gently used, it’s ready for you to buy or sell!
Don’t have any sequin tops stashed in the back of your closet? Not all of us do. Before you pay near $100 for the Baby Phat jacket, you need to 1st check out eBay. Remember the old saying, “one person’s trash, is another person’s treasure.” Looking for a classic comeback fashion trend, like sequins, is perfect for the eBay shopper. While you may be 1st in line to buy a new sequin top, someone else might be anxious to get rid …

The Tech Drawer
Do you have that drawer with a million cables, connectors, old cell phones, cameras and more?  I do!  Exactly why are you keeping it all?  Wouldn’t you rather have a few dollars in your pocket and room in your drawer instead?  I know you do!
eBay has become synonymous as a go-to place for shoppers of technology.  Sometimes new and sometimes used, it is a large superstore of nearly every tech piece you may need.  This week I bought a new battery charger for my camera.  I had gone to a few local stores looking for one with no luck.  Discouraged that I wouldn’t find a replacement charger for my nearly new fancy camera I logged onto eBay Mobile in the parking lot of the electronics store, found a charger for ¼ of the price than I had expected, ordered …

eBay Photo Taking Guidelines to Help You be a Successful Seller
Our eBay 5 Item Challenge continues!  We have ransacked out closets and identified at least 5 still new or gently used items that are ready to find new homes!  Now what do we do?
At eBay on Location in Orlando I had the opportunity to listen to eBay legend Griff explain what to and not to do when photographing your items to sell.  He has seen it all.  He showed us examples of big time photo disasters where clothing items were poorly photographed.  Wrinkled shirts and button downs that looked blue but were supposed to be green according to the description were some of his examples.  It was a great reminder that even if you are a novice with a basic digital camera, there are important guidelines to follow to increase your chance for a successful eBay sale.
eBay Photo Taking Guidelines

Take pictures …

eBay is the online marketplace to sell your clothes! It’s the store you’ve always wanted that is simply waiting for you to add your inventory!

The eBay 5 Item Challenge
I’ve challenged you to enter your closet and pull out 5 items that can make you some money.  Our closets are typically full – full of items we rarely wear.  If you’re anything like me, there are maybe 5-6 shirts you tend to put on and maybe a 1/2 dozen pants.  The rest, well to be honest, is taking up space.  Pull out what you don’t need and get them into the hands of someone who does!

eBay On Location has provided an abundance of information to empower you and me to be profitable eBay Smart Mamas! I am here with the eBay Parent Panel learning exactly how to make it possible!
Right now I’m sitting in a session titled Listing Makeover! I just learned how photo size, clothing measurements and more can the difference between a sale and no sale.
The Smart Mama ebay Challenge
My challenge last month invited you to search through closets looking for those shirts, pants, dresses and more that you just don’t or never did wear. These gently used clothing items are ready to be freed from your closet to allow you to make some dollars – which of course you could then buy yourself some thing new (wink, wink!) Have you gone through your closet? What have you found?
Taking Questions!
Smart Mama’s using ebay …

I dare you.  I dare you to go into your child’s closet, or better yet your own, and find 5 pieces of clothing that either still have tags on them or essentially are brand new.  I’m thinking of those items that you bought and NEVER wore.  Maybe they were never worn because of style changes, size changes or because you forgot and now you just don’t need them anymore.
What’s a Smart Mama to do?  Take those 5 items and make a few dollars!  You deserve it!  By selling these pieces you can gain closet space and make some money to buy new pieces that you’ll actually wear!
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