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Getting Started:
Experienced Online Sellers - For those who are familiar with online sales, feel free to get started right away. There are no membership fees to pay. You can let us host your auction images or copy and past them to your auction server or image hosting server such as Andale. You are free to use any image or item description from our site provided you are purchasing the items from us. If you need any assistance or have any questions, feel free to contact us. We have a tremendous amount of auction experience and want to help in any way we can. Also feel free to check out these powerful auction services to help maximize your sales!
New Online Sellers - If you are new to the world of online auctions, you are about to see what makes Jupiter Stand out from all other online wholesalers. We have helped many individuals become successful resellers who have had no experience prior to becoming a Jupiter Distributor. We are happy to work with you to help you get set up and start making money online within a few days. We will answer all your questions about selling online and help you avoid most of the major pitfalls that new sellers face without learning the hard way. Feel free to e-mail us with any questions.
Below is a list of Helpful Links to Get Your Business Up and Running In No-time!
Ebay Auction Management Service # 1:
Ink Frog is a powerful complete auction management tool which lists your auctions and manages completed auctions as well as host your images all for just $9.95 per month. Key features include all the features offered by Auctiva (below) plus the ability to schedule reoccurring listings for up to 3 months at the frequency and time of day of your choosing. A few clicks and you can have an item list as often as you want and when you want. This feature is not yet available on Auctiva Below which is why we feel that it's worth the monthly fee over Auctiva. Inkfrog also allows you to see not just how many hits your auction got, but what time of day and what day of week. This will allow you to tweak you scheduled listing times for maximum exposure and sales. Just click the image above to get started with your 2 week free trial.
Ebay Auction Management Service # 2:
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Set up a Free Ebay Auctions Account - Receiving over 1.5 billion page views per month, eBay is the ULTIMATE venue for selling virtually any goods and making huge profits. Click the Image Below to set up a free account with Ebay:
Set up a free Overstock Auctions Account - Overstock offers listing starting at $0.20 auction listings and has rapidly become the next Ebay with their intensive TV advertising. They also offer a free software package which you can download and use to manage and launch auctions.
Google Checkout is less expensive than Paypal and does not hold your money like Paypal. Payments received are instantly deposited into your checking or savings account. However you cannot use Google Checkout for your ebay auctions as ebay has banned Google Checkout because it is too big a threat to Paypal which ebay owns. However you can still offer it after the fact for customers looking for alternative payment options.
Get A PayPal Account - Paypal is now owned by Ebay and has become the most popular form of auction payment online. They offer a secure, cost effective way for sellers to accept credit card and electronic personal check payments from customers worldwide. Using Paypal cost you a fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction, but will help you sell far more than if you did not offer this feature. Many buyers will only buy from customers who accept this form of payment. Paypal also offers many useful seller tools to help increase your sales and your percentage of paying vs. non-paying customers. Just click on the link below to get your account set up. It just takes a few minutes and is the first thing you want to do before listing any auctions.
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Additional Guides and Information about selling Online:
Creating Auction Ads
Creating Dynamic ads that sell can mean the difference between auctions that end without bidders and sales success. Ads that are professional without being overly flashy and fake will inspire confidence in your bidders that they are dealing with a professional individual who will follow through with the transaction without complications. The best ads are informative and have lots of imagery. This is an impulse buy market so it's better to give too much information then to have the customer need to contact you before bidding giving them ample time to shop around or change there minds.
I like templates which have numerous pictures of an item and spell out it's many benefits. Don't be wordy; points and short lists work best. Most customers are surfing and don't want to stop to read a book.
Be colorful, informative and occasionally fun. Background colors and schemes really separate your auctions from the rest, but make sure your background isn't so busy that it detracts from the message or words. Your product image is the most important aspect and do not be afraid to Flash the wonderful price on the screen (If you are offering a wonderful price).
Next, make sure you have plenty of info about how the purchase will work. By this I mean, make sure you include your accepted payment methods, policies and shipping methods. If you offer discounts on shipping for quantities or multiple auction wins, let them know. If you have a return policy, state it clearly so that there is no confusion down the road.
Try not to sound untrusting. Nothing turns me as a buyer off more than to see an auction description which has "Don't buy if you aren't Serious", " I leave negative feedback for all non payers" or "payment must be received within 7 days!". These warnings are threatening and will not deter the non-payers but may deter the serious buyer who is looking for a smooth transaction without stringent guidelines from a hardcore seller who loves leaving negative feedback.
When is the Best Time to List Your Items on eBay?
The following Data is taken from auctionbytes. This is a great tool to determine what day and time to list your auction. Please note, now that ebay has made major changes, listing time and day of the week only affects regular auction style listings. For fixed price 30 day $0.35 listings, the time of day and day of the week have no affect on your sales anymore as your auction will not be more visible during the last few hours of the listing.
For Auction style listings:
Remember, when you list a 7 day auction at 2:00 PM EST on a Monday, it will end at that same time the following Monday. Since the most views and hits are in the last hour of an auction, it's vital to list at the correct time even if it cost you an extra $0.10 with ebay listing time (free if you use a listing software).
The Auctionbytes Article on Best Listing Times:
For the 6th consecutive time since we've run this survey, Sunday is the runaway favorite for ending eBay auctions. It's like guessing the outcome of the Tour de France for the past 6 years. What's interesting is how consistent the results have been since we've held this survey. Not only has Sunday been at least 3 times more popular than the second choice, but respondents have chosen the same TIME on Sunday in each of the last 6 surveys as well.
Best Day
It's nice to be able to scan back over 6 years of collected data and see a
consistency in the results. (7.4% of the respondents chose "Doesn't Matter.")
Best Time
The most popular ending times are still between 6pm and 12midnight Pacific
Standard Time (PST). 76% of all respondents selected that 6-hour block of time
to be best for ending an auction. 3% didn't think it mattered what time an
auction ended.
Best Day by Category
Sunday was still the choice for sellers across categories. There was some
variation in the choice for second place, with Monday being the runner-up in
three of the other categories. Saturday made a strong finish among sellers of
books, movies and CDs.
Additional Information about listing times and factors that influence the best time in a given week:
You may think that you should list your items on Saturday mornings because that is when you have the most free time or on Monday nights after 10:00 because the family is in bed and you finally have total concentration. You need to ask yourself just how many possible buyers will be at their computers at closing time. Especially when 10:00 p.m. on the West Coast is 1:00 a.m. on the East Coast. There are lots of possible buyers shopping at lunchtime during the week. But, because of the enormous amount of traffic at that time, you really cut down on the possibility of last-minute bidding if the bids are all in an internet traffic jam and can't get through at all.
The amount of bidders available at closing time is of utmost importance to your auction. Most of the bidding on any auction will occur in the first 24 hours (when it is listed as new) and on the last day (when is listed as ending today), with most people only looking at one of these two times. And, the bulk of the serious bidding will be in the last 5 minutes! An auction is truly at its best when two or more people fight over your item, and they may not be awake to do so at 1:00 in the morning.
When to list your items is best decided on actual sales histories of your particular items. Hardware and tools may get more male bidders who are looking on Saturday afternoon, and pokemon cards may get more attention from kids right after school. Etc. So, check the sales of completed items. You should be able to see a definite pattern for each type of item you plan to list. This is the first step.
If your item sells best on a weekday evening, now you need to see if there is also a second pattern. It sold best on Tuesday one week and Thursday the next week. Why? One big factor in evening sales now is "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" There are almost no bidders at their computers when this show is on television. This show happens to be moved around from week to week. On top of that, if it is on at 8:00 p.m., that means 8:00 p.m. on both coasts so West Coast seller has to work around 5:00 p.m. through 8:00 p.m., and the East Coast seller has to work around 8:00 p.m. through 11:00 p.m.
There are many more factors that come into play. Watch the weather forecasts for all parts of the country. If the East Coast is due for heavy rains, more possible bidders will be available at their computers instead of outside enjoying the spring or summer weather - and vice versa. If an area is in the middle of a terrible heat wave, they may be hiding inside at their computer instead of doing anything outside. Great weather is bad for sales. You may not want to have items close on Thanksgiving afternoon when most of the country is sitting down to a great meal - or in the evening on the day of a Presidential election. Contrary to this logic, Christmas morning may be a good time to have items close because many people don't have family with whom to share their day or they are not of a Christian faith. Those people would see this as a great time to sneak in a few bids. Other people may go shopping on Christmas afternoon to try to buy what they didn't receive for a gift!
Selling at the busiest time of the day will make your photos load slower. At any time, using a dial-up connection puts your auctions at risk since they will take longer to load. And, since most dial-up connections get lost often, there is always the chance that your photos will not load at all. When either happens, you will lose buyers. Some could bookmark your auction to try again later, but last-minute shoppers don't have time to come back. Cable modem or DSL will make everything you do on the internet at least 10 times faster - without disconnects. You only need to be have your photos not load during the last half hour of an auction once to know how important your internet connection is.
The real answer to when to list your items is it is totally relative….relative to as many factors as you can think of. You will need to do research on the past and try to foresee the future. Good luck on the latter.
Brief Overview To Selling Online
Welcome to the wonderful world of selling online. There is truly no greater market then the internet. Imagine selling an item you have at a yard sale, fleemarket or classified ad. You may expect to have a city of potential buyers and perhaps a few dozen lookers and if you are lucky, a single interested buyer. Now imaging a yard sale of Global Proportions. Imagine instead of your local community, you now have millions of potential buyers with hundreds of interested lookers and dozens of impulsive bidders vying for your item. This is the Nature of Ebay and other online auctions. Prices reach astronomical levels because demand is increased. But Ebay and other online marketplaces have evolved a lot since they started. The majority of items for sale are no longer family airlooms and used junk from someone's attic. Ebay has become a competitive forum for retail selling of new items from novelty gags to brand new luxury cars. This opens the door for real money to be made for individuals with virtually no experience in sales or computers. With great demand, you can create a portfolio of products such as those listed on Jupiter Wholesale's site which you can sell over and over again. You will make a tremendous profit not by making a few sales, but by making a volume of sales. Small profit times huge volume equals great income. Whether you are looking for a part time endeavor to make a few extra bucks or are a serious entrepreneur looking to make online sales your fulltime job, we can help. Most of out distributors with a little hard work and persistence can expect to make $100 profit-per-day, 7 days a week within the first 90 days. This is a great income but for the serious seller, it's just the beginning.
Selling online could not be easier. Since the inception of Ebay, hundreds of companies have sprung up to help the novice be successful from A to Z. Ebay has become a very user-friendly environment and auction management companies can help you create, list, organize and follow up on your auctions with a level of automation that allows many Distributors to spend only a few hours a week managing there business. And with JupiterWholesale to support you, you do not even have to stock, pack or ship your sales. We do it for you.
I hope you consider taking the next step to start a successful online business. There are no membership fees to get started with us or ebay and we are here to support you in any way we can.
Good Luck,
President of JupiterWholesale.com
Customer Testimonials:
Excelent Customer Service "My experience with Jupiter Wholesale has been outstanding!! Jupiter Wholesale is by far the best drop-shipper on the web. These guys answer any questions I have, and have even coached me along as I opened my own auction business. I have quit my full-time job and have Jupiter Wholesale to thank for it. Other drop-shippers require membership, drop shipping, and other fees. Mark is quick to respond with advice, often with an added sense of humor. This is the BEST customer service you can find on the web. I've never been so impressed with the speed, accuracy and fulfillment of an online store. Thanks Jupiter Wholesale for your commitment to the success of my business!!"
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