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Sutty5 writes: “Many discussions recently have focussed on having more than one eBay account. Ebay has no problems with this, as long as each account is kept in good standing. Following are five reasons for opening multiple accounts.”
Buyer Confidence. If you are selling goldfish bowls for example, which username do you think will give abuyer more confidence - “dave1234″ or “goldfishsupplies”? When selling in more than one category on a regular basis, having multiple accounts will allow you to target your audience with a higher precision.
Ebay Features. The ability to open more than one eBay Store. eBay only allows one store (or shop) per account. This is easily solved by having multiple accounts.
Feedback. Protect your feedback. If one transaction as a seller goes bad and you get negative feedback, it will not affect your sales as a whole as you’ll still have excellent feedback on your other accounts.
Cross-Promotion Connections. eBay allows you to cross-promote other sellers’ items within your listings. By using this feature, you can cross-promote your other accounts within your eBay listings to bring some much valued visibility.
eBay Arbitrage. Many sellers buy off of eBay in order to resell the item almost immediately. Having an account for selling only, will allow you to hide the items you’ve purchased with a separate account.
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Racketeering.Have one account to sell the item and use the other account to drie up the cost to make the other guy raise his base price and if he doesn’t then just cancel the auction and hence get the most money u possibly can out of it.Thx for reading.
i have to so say to you. i live dallas texas there has been a pitionwith over 400 people has signed to have places in resteraunts and other places such as stores to have places for motercycles,moterscooters,and o other sorts of bikelike vechels to have parking placement for them do you agree?
if you have a second ebay account can u bid on you’re own items so the first persons bid goes up because of thre maximin bid that they may have set? if so they kinda sucks for the buyer and they should record peoples IP addresses so they cant do that
Shill bidding - against eBay TOS. They claim they can even shut down your auction if a family member or roommate bid, even if their sole intent is to purchase the item.
RE He makes xlnt point about usernames. “Do you want to be Dave12345678910 or GoldFishSupplies… will allow you to target your audience with higher precision.” That idea should be carried on not just for your eBay but for your personal accounts as well. One centralized domain name forwarded to your profiles.
I dont have a Account but im sure that i will sometime soon. I think its a great idea to have more than 1 account if you sell alot of different things. These are some great tips.
i forgot all about this thing! i have 2 computers im using in 1 atm? the moniter is the screen for my laptop. my laptop screen broke so i got a moniter to connect it to haha
Well, I’ve never used ebay, was going to do once to buy something, found it on another site tough. And well, I never sell stuff. So I don’ thave much to say about this topic, but guess it would be a cool feature that you could actually link all your accounts into a main one, then you can controll all of them with one log in info, and then people can like see all you sub-accounts so see all the difrerent stuff you are selling. Or, even easier, maybe ebay should just let you set up more shops and end of the problem. :)
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31 Comments
360street
May 30th, 2008
at 12:16pm
cool
iAppleMUSIC
May 30th, 2008
at 12:16pm
1st!
360street
May 30th, 2008
at 12:16pm
sorry but i was first hahaha!!!! finally
allhailthemightyme
May 30th, 2008
at 12:17pm
first…
Themaster586
May 30th, 2008
at 12:17pm
lol
alecrocks261
May 30th, 2008
at 12:17pm
nice video
gotta love ebay
06sterling
May 30th, 2008
at 12:19pm
1st view, comment, and 5 star rating, good video
xXCuteBabyAngelxX
May 30th, 2008
at 12:19pm
xD Nice :]
06sterling
May 30th, 2008
at 12:19pm
aww man, lol yall are quick, lockergnome rules
gogh3tta
May 30th, 2008
at 12:23pm
Racketeering.Have one account to sell the item and use the other account to drie up the cost to make the other guy raise his base price and if he doesn’t then just cancel the auction and hence get the most money u possibly can out of it.Thx for reading.
milodbumb
May 30th, 2008
at 12:25pm
cool I may think about doing that or at least starting a new account.
tigrous4ever
May 30th, 2008
at 12:27pm
idiot
tigrous4ever
May 30th, 2008
at 12:29pm
I got banned for having 2 accounts
pinky315
May 30th, 2008
at 12:34pm
i have to so say to you. i live dallas texas there has been a pitionwith over 400 people has signed to have places in resteraunts and other places such as stores to have places for motercycles,moterscooters,and o other sorts of bikelike vechels to have parking placement for them do you agree?
pauldonald
May 30th, 2008
at 12:59pm
if you have a second ebay account can u bid on you’re own items so the first persons bid goes up because of thre maximin bid that they may have set? if so they kinda sucks for the buyer and they should record peoples IP addresses so they cant do that
ChristopherMast
May 30th, 2008
at 2:18pm
Shill bidding - against eBay TOS. They claim they can even shut down your auction if a family member or roommate bid, even if their sole intent is to purchase the item.
dacooter
May 30th, 2008
at 2:51pm
douche bag
cphellp
May 30th, 2008
at 4:22pm
Woot! thats me Jarret coon
cphellp
May 30th, 2008
at 4:29pm
I did to
Al
May 30th, 2008
at 8:27pm
After hearing so many nightmares with e-bay and pay pal non-sense, i only used e-bay once and only once.
bbvibrabb
May 30th, 2008
at 8:34pm
I have zero
Tribe3R
May 30th, 2008
at 11:10pm
i have zero as im 16 but my mum just has the one to sell curtains… how very… fun?
wizkid22
May 31st, 2008
at 12:27am
well it helped me through college
that is what she said
MyTmedia
May 31st, 2008
at 1:36am
RE He makes xlnt point about usernames. “Do you want to be Dave12345678910 or GoldFishSupplies… will allow you to target your audience with higher precision.” That idea should be carried on not just for your eBay but for your personal accounts as well. One centralized domain name forwarded to your profiles.
joelg88
May 31st, 2008
at 9:14am
I dont have a Account but im sure that i will sometime soon. I think its a great idea to have more than 1 account if you sell alot of different things. These are some great tips.
aimee
May 31st, 2008
at 11:15pm
i forgot all about this thing! i have 2 computers im using in 1 atm? the moniter is the screen for my laptop. my laptop screen broke so i got a moniter to connect it to haha
cheekysteph19
June 1st, 2008
at 2:28am
u are a dickhead get a life u geek
solarlight361
June 1st, 2008
at 1:23pm
this is random but i have to say, i LOVE your videos!!!!! your the COOLEST person on youtube ever!!!!! keep uploading vids!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mycatisbigfoot
June 1st, 2008
at 3:31pm
I dont have ebay im 14 so ya
roalgumo7
June 1st, 2008
at 6:44pm
Well, I’ve never used ebay, was going to do once to buy something, found it on another site tough. And well, I never sell stuff. So I don’ thave much to say about this topic, but guess it would be a cool feature that you could actually link all your accounts into a main one, then you can controll all of them with one log in info, and then people can like see all you sub-accounts so see all the difrerent stuff you are selling. Or, even easier, maybe ebay should just let you set up more shops and end of the problem. :)
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