all right in this video you get to look over my shoulder as I walk you through
step by step how to list and sell something on eBay alright so let's get started
alright so I got this old iPhone 5 so this is like what few versions back
but this has a cracked screen and i actually have making or what is this
packing tape over it so it's just not in good shape at all but i'm gonna sell
this on eBay and i'm just kind of walk you through that process of how i list
it and just really how simple this is it is so simple okay so what you're going
to want to do is when you get your phone if you don't have the ebay app yet just
go to the app store and then you can go to the search box right here
search for that and then this is the eBay app here so you can just get that
and download it in my case I already have it so I'm just gonna open it up
okay so now that you're over here we can just kind of type in whatever item you
want to sell if you have a barcode if you have the box of the item you can
actually scan that with this barcode scanner to save yourself even more time
but in my case I'm just gonna go ahead and type in what I got here iPhone 5
let's just see and then we'll start Auto filling the different options here so
it's not a 5s it's a 5 it is black iPhone 5 16gb by black Verizon ok so I
can just select that and it's going to create a draft for me pull in all the
details and so if you're selling a more obscure item that isn't that common you
might not be able to do this you might need to manually enter in your title and
description but they have a lot of items in here that'll kind of pull that for you
now if you're selling a used item you don't really want to use a stock
photo it's a lot better if you use your own photos so I'm gonna go ahead and
just kind of pull in my own photos over here
so obviously I'm doing this on an iPhone it's going to be a little bit different
on an Android but I think you get the idea
so I'm just selecting the photos that I took of this phone and I'll just kind of
you can drag these around and I'm gonna put this one of the front screen showing
that it's on there so I just took a handful of pictures I took about 7
pictures of the phone more is always better than the last don't just take one
picture and I also took a picture of the cracked screen because this one has a
cracked screen and any kind of flaws or problems with the item you're selling
you want to make sure you have pictures of them and let the buyers know because
the worst thing you can do is not tell them and so anyway so we have a handful
of images here and we're going to click done on the photos this is our title
it's already kind of built in there nothing really to change there or
actually I will change I'm going to add that as a cracked screen like we're
gonna put this in the description but it doesn't hurt to add it other places as
well all right so do that say done category it already did that for us put
S in there condition we're gonna call this used and then
details we can add a few more details about it so in my case I'm not gonna
spend a lot of time because it's an iPhone and everybody pretty knows what
they're pretty much knows what they're going to get so we'll just come back out
of there details are done all right format in
price so this is what's great is that eBay tells you for most items where they
think you should price it and so they suggest starting your auction at 49
bucks in this case two similar items that's sold at a starting price between
40 and sixty-five dollars you know and you could do that sometimes I like to
price it lower than that to get more people bidding on it because the more
people who are bidding on it the more likely the one of them is to buy it and
to drive the price up so if you have ten people bidding on your item becomes a
little bit of emotional thing if you've ever been involved in an auction where
you really want to win and so that'll drive your price up a little bit versus
if you price it really really high fewer people are going to bid on it so you
probably won't get as high of a price in this case I'm gonna probably split the
difference and just go with like a $29 start price on this and then I'm also
going to add a Buy It Now price because I think these are fun so the Buy It Now
price is basically somebody can just bypass the entire auction and pay
whatever we want whatever our price is and they can walk
away with it right then and that's kind of a fun thing and sometimes it
surprises me so what I'm gonna do is based on here it's a similar item so
we're sold we're listed for between $60 and $99 so I'm gonna list a Buy It Now
price for $99 so if somebody wants it at that price they can just come and get it
and meanwhile I have the start price at $29 and starting prices you know you can
go with eBay's recommendation that's not at all gonna be bad but I typically tell
people whatever the start price is if set that wherever you would be happy to
sell this item so this item only sold if this phone sold for $5 I would not be happy
making you know going through the work to sell it for $5 but if it sells
for $29 it's worth my time and so I'm happy to do that so find that point for
yourself and that should be your starting price and then from here
shipping is just I typically just use what they have
built-in and just kind of go with that because if you have this hooked up
through PayPal which I recommend you do very strongly you can just print the
shipping right from PayPal throw it in your mailbox and just be done with it
it's really really simple and the way they set up shipping is that it's
calculated we just click over here real quick by default is calculated based on
where the buyers location is so it's going to be adjusted to every buyer
location and then also a really cool thing they started now to long ago is this
International shipping program where or their global shipping program they call
it where you can sell to anyone in the world but you don't have to ship outside
of the United States so if I sell this phone to somebody over in Europe I won't
need to ship it over to Europe I will just need to ship it to ebay hub that
might be in Virginia or something like that and that they will take care of
getting it over to Europe for the buyer so anyway so I recommend having that on
and pretty much it's leaving all this stuff as it is and then down here is the
preferences for payment and stuff like that and let's just flip over there real
quick and you definitely want to hook up a PayPal account so if you don't have
one you need to get a PayPal account it's just the gold standard for eBay
everybody uses it on here it's a- I don't think you have to do that but
you're gonna very few buyers are gonna work with you if you don't because
there's just a lot of protections for the buyers when they use PayPal and so
PayPal just makes the whole transaction process just safer and more convenient
for everybody people get paid instantly and the instances of fraud are pretty
much non-existent for most eBay transactions because everybody's using
PayPal versus if you are mailing checks or money orders so stuff like that
that's where it gets really shady and you might run into people trying to scam
you and stuff like that so pretty much use PayPal stay safe and that's the best
way to handle this so from here just hit continue and then it's just kind of
going through double check and everything it shows us here our listing
fees all this stuff is free I don't know the exact seller fee is I believe it's
let's click here I believe it's 10% or something like that
and I'm gonna show it on here or not anyway
yeah so it says your first 50 listings per month 10 percent
total amount of the sale so that's what you're gonna pay so if this sells for
$70 I'm gonna pay them 7 bucks and they also have an option here to auto relist
it so if it happens to not sell the first time they would automatically just
relist it again and do that up to 2 more times for me and so that's pretty much
it so I can click preview here and just double check make sure the pictures are
right and I'm not anything weird in there I can read over everything read
over the description and all the rules and then that's it and then I can click
list it and so I'm just gonna go ahead and click list it and there we go and it
says now your item is listed first sale so what we can do is I can view the list
and if I would like and now it's just sitting up here on eBay and so it shows
out there and then you know you will probably assuming you have notifications
turned on you should get notifications if somebody bids on it and when it sells
or anything like that but you can come over to this my eBay tab and from here
you can always kind of flip down to see the items that you are selling let's
just see what we got here so here's the one active item I have them selling and
it'll show you how many people are watching it and those are people who are
just kind of paying attention and wanted to see what's going on but haven't bid
and they'll also show you the number of people bidding on it as well and then
once this item sells then we can just kind of move on from there and I can
work through that process and show that to you and that is the listing process
alright so it is a few days later now and our items sold we end up selling for
$46 which isn't bad for a probably i don't know four-year-old phone with a cracked
screen so I will take it and so we got an email saying what sold you know
anytime a long while it's selling you can log into eBay and kind of see how
many bids are going on and things like that and so now that it's sold I want to
check and make sure that I actually got paid and I actually got an email about
this as well but we can just go here and click payment status there we go and
then you'll have this little thing here so the checkbox means that I believe it
means that it's sold and then this one this dollar sign means that it
was paid and then each one of these kind of happen as you progress through the
process so at this point my job is to print a shipping label so I can send it
but this is what's really really cool about this so we're going to select
print shipping label and I'm going to go ahead and log in here
and then we are now kind of logged in and our shipping label we're gonna just
do USPS I'm just gonna stick with everything they have here and you know
we have the total package weight in the dimensions and things like that and this
is all set by them so it is something that you might want to check to kind of
confirm but if it's a really common item like this you probably won't need to
worry about it so in my case you know I'm trusting that they know when an
iphone actually weighs and well and I just know from holding it that there's
no way it's going to weigh two pounds once I get in this package so they're
actually giving us a discount on shipping so the buyer paid nine
forty-five for shipping to get this shipped over and because you're doing
this through ebay you actually get a discount so you get to ship it even
cheaper and so what I'm gonna do now is just go ahead and purchase postage and
then that's going to create a postage label for me that I can just put on the
package and then I can literally throw this in my mailbox because its USPS and
I don't need to go to the UPS Store or anything like that and yeah so I can
throw this on my package throw in the mailbox and then I am done and so what
you'll see if we come over here we'll return to eBay we should see that it's
marked as shipped
there we go so yeah so now we have a little ship to box appearing and that is
pretty much all we need to do at this point leaving a review is something we
can do a little bit later once the whole transaction is complete but as you can
see it's just a very simple streamlined process and yeah they've just worked
really hard to make it really really easy to sell something so your homework
now is to go find something do you have a phone laying around let's go find that
and try to sell it or find something else and let's just give this a shot and
I want to see how it goes for you
on this channel we help you make more money
we help you save more money and we help you to give generously so if that's
something interesting you can hit that subscribe button hit the bell if you
want to hear from us as we create more content like this and a thumbs up would
be really appreciated as well if you enjoyed the video but that is all for
today have a great rest of your day and I will see you later
adios