Provide good pictures and keywords in your listing. View the completed auctions selection for whatever item you plan on selling so you can see what sold and what didn't, then you can adjust your price, keywords and overall format to be similar to the successful ones. Also obviously you need to build up good feedback and get your paypal not limited to that 21 days bs.
What kind of product are you selling? Some tips work better for some niches over other niches. In general, make sure you definitely have good pictures (more than one!) and describe the product entirely. Use a lot of color. Use lots of keywords so that more people will be able to find you via multiple keywords. Think like the consumer. If you were looking for your product, what would you search for? Use those types of phrases in your listing.
Try and get some cheap yet popular products to sell. Provide excellent delivery and service and build up your rating.Its not rocket science!
a tip nobody has mentioned so far - always look to build your listing using a multi-listing template so you can add varied colours and styles
I would suggest that you purchase a store and take advantage of RSS feeds by getting your item listings posted to many social bookmarking or curated sites. Just simply hiring someone to post bad back links will not help you and will most certainly hurt you. I do this for store owners so if you need help let me know and contact me. You can purchase a basic eBay store for $191.40 which covers you for the year or you can pay $19.95 a month. Just make sure you get the RSS feed option with your store. Relying on eBay to send you traffic and sales will be the death of any new seller account, because why would eBay send you traffic for an item that they can send a top rated seller and actually make 50% more on the final value fees because the seller sells more of them and sells it at a higher price and more importantly has a reputation. You need to give yourself an edge over those types of top rated sellers that rely on only eBay for traffic by promoting your items all over.
Yep, the key is ranking high in eBay's Best Match search results since it is the default search. If you can get to number one (or at least to the top), you can increase your sales. You don't even need to have the lowest price in that case. Follow the advice in this thread and it should help.
