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Make Money With eBay Guide

Free eBay Business Kit >> Learn to Sell on eBay

This article is intended to start your first ebay auction. This is page 1 of 7. Please leave us comments, questions, or success stories so that we can improve this guide.

Ready, Setup Your Auction and Submit!

You've read, researched, studied, gone through and completed the exercises and now you are ready to fill out your SYI Form – Sell Your Item Form. Congratulations…and you’re probably feeling it’s about time, too. Well so do we.

Let's get started! Here is what you do:

1. Go to eBay
2. Click on Sell
3. Login

Screen 1 – Sell Your Item: Choose a Selling Format

On this screen, you will be given the option of:

• Sell item at online auction
• Sell at a Fixed Price

You will select Sell item at online Auction. This allows for the item to be put up for bid, instead of you choosing a price and selling it only at that amount.

Click on the Continue Button

Screen 2 – Sell Your Item: Select Category

Here you will choose the best category to list your item under. This is to assist buyers in finding your item. It is a required field and can be a very helpful one.

If you are not sure you where your item will best fit, you will be prompted to enter keywords that will assist you to find a category. Enter your keywords and click on Search. EBay will match your keywords to categories. Another screen will appear listing category options. You can then choose which category is the closest match to your key words. Even if there is a category that seems a perfect fit from the beginning you may wish to try the category search just to see if there are other categories that you hadn't thought about that would work better, and to see the various categories that exist on eBay.

A second category option will also be given below the first. There is a fee for the second category. For these starting auctions, which are more for practice than anything, we suggest you pass on listing your item in a second category. After selecting a category, click on the Continue Button.

Screen 3 – Sell Your Item: Describe Your Item

This is the screen where you will be typing or copying and pasting in the title and item description that you created in the last lesson.

You can add a subtitle for an additional fee. You may want to write down what kind of subtitle you might want to use in the future, but we suggest on these learning auctions you do not use the subtitle option.

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