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Do you Have eBay Seller or Buyer Accounts?

31 Responses (Add) | Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 7:13pm

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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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    June 3rd, 2008
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    360street

    May 30th, 2008
    at 12:16pm

    sorry but i was first hahaha!!!! finally

    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

    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 12:29pm

    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.

    cphellp

    May 30th, 2008
    at 4:22pm

    Woot! thats me Jarret coon

    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.

    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.

    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.

    cheekysteph19

    June 1st, 2008
    at 2:28am

    u are a dickhead get a life u geek

    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

    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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