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Hardly a day goes by that I don’t get an email promising me a fast track to riches if I only buy someone’s handy-dandy ebook about selling information on eBay.

Can you really make money this way?

Sure you can. All you have to do is have information that’s of such value that people are willing to pay you $10, $20 or even $25 for it.

How do you get such information?

If you’re an expert in something, you can write what’s known as an ebook (electronic book that can be downloaded). The experts will tell you this is easy, especially if it’s an “how to” book. Oh, wait. You have to be sure that there’s a market for that subject. For example, you might be the world’s number one authority on training rabbits to race, but how many people care enough to shell out $15 or $18 to learn how to race rabbits?

You don’t have to be a great writer to do one of these ebooks if you truly are an expert on the subject. But you do have to be a pretty good copywriter. This is because no matter how valuable your book is, you must first write ad copy so powerful, buyers will be frothing at the mouth to buy it.

After you write your book, you will probably need a software program that can create a good-looking book cover. You will also need Adobe Acrobat to “distill” your pride and joy into a ebook that buyers can easily download. And, oh yes, you will need to create a Pay Pal account so that all those anxious buyers can give you their money.

What if you’re not an expert in something?

If you are not an expert on some subject, you can buy information for resale. That’s right, there is a whole bunch of folks out there who would be just tickled pink to sell you resale rights to their ebooks. The trick is knowing if the information can be sold a a profit to a specific market niche.

For example, you might find you can purchase resale rights to a book on family finances at a reasonable price. This sounds good because, gosh, there are a lot of families out there and they all have finances. But … how many books are already available on this subject and what do they sell for? With a little research, you might find there are dozens and dozens of books on this subject. However, with a little more research, you might find a better niche, say, finances for single Moms. Of course, you then have to find an ebook on the subject you can buy and resell.

You also have to determine whether or not the market has already been saturated. In other words, has the author already sold so many copies of that book on finances for single Moms that there just aren’t a lot of people left who would buy it. The best way to check this out is to do a search on eBay to see how many such books are being offered for sale and what they’re selling for.

You can make money selling information on eBay but I submit that it’s not as easy as some of those experts would have you believe.

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Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio, old time radio and family finances.

If you’re strongly considering ending an auction early, remember that cancelling auctions upsets buyers and upsets eBay! So before you do anything, read this article. There might be a better to way to get what you want.

Reason 1: “I Want to Change my Listing.”

If you just want to revise your listing, you don’t always need to end it. For listings that have more than 12 hours left to run and haven’t received any bids, you can revise almost everything. You can remove the Buy it Now price or reserve price, change the duration of the listing, or add listing upgrades.

If the listing already has one or more bids, you can still add upgrades or add to the description. You can add more pictures too. Once the listing gets into its last 12 hours, however, what you can do becomes far more limited even if it has no bids. You can only revise the description at this point.

It’s not a good idea to cancel one listing and ask bidders to bid on another listing for the same item instead. Chances are they’ll be annoyed with you and won’t bother.

Reason 2: “The Item is No Longer for Sale.”

Perhaps you sold the item to someone else, you lost it or it got broken. Whatever happened, if you no longer have the item to sell, you should remove your listing at once. In fact, this is just about the only situation when eBay allows you to. However, if you leave it to the last 12 hours, eBay will refuse to let you remove it, no matter what has happened. This might seem cruel, but keeps people from backing out in the last few hours because they want to try again for a better price.

If you still want to end your listing early, be very careful. The option you almost certainly want to choose is “Cancel bids and end listing early” rather then “Sell item to high bidder and end listing early.”. You’ll be asked to choose a reason why you ended the listing and then your bidders will be emailed to let them know what happened.

Note that ending a listing early because it looked like it wasn’t going to get a good price is against the rules and a very upset eBay could come after you for this.

Copyright 2006 J. Sheridan

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